Website Monitoring

[innovot]

Greetings!

We have begun to use Zabbix and looking how we can set up a web scenario to monitor a website that is available on multiple hosts. Is there a way to copy the configuration from one hosts to another, or create the scenario against a template and then assign that to each host ?

[jan.garaj]

Is your site available only with one domain name (e.g. site.com)
or
you have available also backends domain names (e.g backend1.site.com, backednX.site.com, ...)?

[innovot]

Same domain name but served through multiple front-ends connecting to multiple back-ends.

[jan.garaj]

OK. You can't use standard Zabbix web monitoring, because webs are checked on Zabbix server only (you can't execute web check on agent).

However you can use also Zabbix agent, but you have to configure item type as Zabbix agent active and then you can use these keys:

web.page.get[host,<path>,<port>]
web.page.perf[host,<path>,<port>]
net.tcp.service[service,<ip>,<port>]
net.tcp.service.perf[service,<ip>,<port>]

Reference:

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/config/items/itemtypes/zabbix_agent

[innovot]

OK. It appears more limiting in the capabilities we are comparing against OpenNMS which is the other software we are evaluating. Will file an enhancement request as it would be very useful to be able to create a web scenario against a template.

[jan.garaj]

IMHO it works fine. I sketched Zabbix concept for standard loadbalanced solution.

[innovot]

Will have a try and see how far I get. As new web sites are will need to see how to use the API to automatically add them. Thanks.

[jan.garaj]

Check blogpost about Zabbix API for webcheck provisioning:

http://www.digmia.sk/pages/posts/using-zabbix-api-for-webcheck-provisioning-47.html