Zabbix to Monitor Windows Updates

[talkinggoat]

I am attempting to get Zabbix 2.2-1+percise to monitor a Windows server. Currently, the server is behind a NAT and is set to actively send information to the server. One of my primary interests was to use Zabbix to monitor Windows updates, on servers and workstations. I found a handful of posts suggesting I create an active key, wua.getnumupdates[], which I created and set to active...



However, after a couple seconds, the item goes from active to not supported, as shown above.

In the agent log, it shows

8180:20140422:173117.359 End of collect_perfstat()
  7104:20140422:173117.665 for key [wua.getnumupdates] received value [ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED]
  7104:20140422:173117.667 In process_value() key:'sbs-server:wua.getnumupdates' value:'ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED'
  7104:20140422:173117.667 In send_buffer() host:'9x.xxx.xx.x8' port:10051 values:0/1000
  7104:20140422:173117.668 End of send_buffer():SUCCEED
  7104:20140422:173117.669 buffer: new element 0
  7104:20140422:173117.669 End of process_value():SUCCEED
  7104:20140422:173117.670 active check "wua.getnumupdates" is not supported
  7104:20140422:173117.671 End of process_active_checks()

I have inserted this into the config file for the agent:

UserParameter=wua.getnumupdates,%systemroot%\system32\cscript.exe /nologo c:\zabbix\wu\getnumupdates.vbs

...and this is the script, in the zabbix\wu folder:

Set updateSession = CreateObject("Microsoft.Update.Session")
Set updateSearcher = updateSession.CreateupdateSearcher()
Set searchResult = updateSearcher.Search("IsInstalled=0 and Type='Software'")
WScript.Echo searchResult.Updates.Count

I have tested the script and it returns a result in about 12 seconds, but it doesn't seem like I've configured something correctly, because it doesn't want to work on the Zabbix server... Does anyone have any ideas?

[Jelena]

Please correct zabbix_agentd.conf to Timeout=10

Detailed information is available here:

https://www.zabbix.com/wiki/howto/monitor/os/windows/wua-win32

[StarDestroyer]

FYI - I just posted version to Monitor Windows Update using a Zabbix Trap. This uses VB.net and has the code built into it that sends the data to the server (a la zabbix_sender).