Does anyone know how to use Zabbix to discover unmanaged clients?

[DougEFresh]

Does anyone know how to use Zabbix to discover unmanaged clients?

I would like to use the Discovery feature to scan an IP range and report back to me via email what clients do not have Zabbix installed.

Has anyone done this before? And if so, how did you set it up?

Thanks in advance!

[vintagegamingsystems]

Make a discovery rule then make a action for the discovery rule

It is difficult to explain in a forum but here is the link to official zabbix site for network discovery.

I will try to explain a little bit.

You make a discovery rule that finds the machines by the system.uname. (You really could use any key but this is what I use for my machines.

You then make an action that will add them to your hosts. It is under Actions-->Discovery(drop down menu on the right side of the page). The next page is where you define what conditions and operations you would like to do when upon discovery. It will use the value stored in the system.uname key when it discovered the host as the conditional value. So if the uname is Linux (followed by a bunch of other information) you search by received value is "like" Linux. All the information is in the link. There is a real world example in there that works great.

Once you have the action out there adding hosts to Zabbix, when Zabbix finds a host without an agent it will show up as unreachable. That way you know if it has an agent installed on it or not. You can then push an agent its way. You could even use Puppet to do so. Or you will at least know if it is down.

Here is a link.

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/discovery/network_discovery/rule

If you have issues, just let me know. I wrote a tutorial for where I work and it took 9 pages of very verbose explanation for how to get this to work. So look at the tutorial that is written in the link first.