Best way to monitor ip cameras!?

[MR.Cr8driver]

Hi all,
We have amount of windows servers which is monitored by zabbix agent 2.0.4.
Every server have amount of IP cameras connected to it. The question is, What is the best way to monitor those cameras?
- The servers located on a separate networks.
- Zabbix agent on active mode.

Regards

[MR.Cr8driver]

!!

No one can help me with this issue?
It seems easy to do that but i'm new with zabbix, so plz need someone to guid me.

[filipp.sudanov]

Can you give more details about what exactly you want to monitor on these cameras? To my knowledge it could be whatever between checking, if camera accepts http connection on port 80 and a camera, that has linux inside and might respond to snmp queries...

[MR.Cr8driver]

Thats right,the cameras accepting the http connection on port 80 and built on Linux OS.
I just wanna have a simple snmp checks but the problem is that i dont know how to do that via zabbix agent!?

Best Regards

[steveboyson]

Why not check the http status code of an JPG request to the cams and assure that it is 200 while the content-length is > 0 bytes?

[MR.Cr8driver]

Why not check the http status code of an JPG request to the cams and assure that it is 200 while the content-length is > 0 bytes?

Nice one Steve Boyson! but still have to add every single camera manually right? while the number of cameras ranging between 10 upp to 200 cameras in each of remote networks. any tips?

[steveboyson]

That sounds like LLD might be a proper solution.
See the manual for "low level discovery".

[MR.Cr8driver]

That sounds like LLD might be a proper solution.
See the manual for "low level discovery".

I have tried to use LLD to auto detect the cameras using snmp but i couldn't do that via zabbix agent.
i was thinking to follow this scenario :-
1- enable snmp in all cameras
2- use an userparameter to forward the snmp signals to zabbix server.
3- create a discovery rules "net.if.discovery" .
4- create an item prototype " i don't even know which one gonna use" to add all detected cameras.
5- link the item prototype to an template to get all informations that i need.

Correct me guys if i had something wrong.
thanks in advance

[filipp.sudanov]

Zabbix agent is more aimed to monitor a single maching on which it's running. It can check things around, e.g. with net.tcp.port[<ip>,port] key.
I would probably try to solve this with zabbix proxies. Via proxies the server would be able to make SNMP requests on these separate networks and make network discovery https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...discovery/rule
With the network discovery every camera on the network will be discovered as a separate host, that will have SNMP items.

Proxy can be installed along with agent on the same machine. Proxy requires a database, with a limited number of items, like it seems to be in your case, SQLite database works just fine, so the setup should be quite simple.

[veikko51]

Create a template

Hi! Can anybody help me with template creation? I have a MIB file, but dont have a linux computer to use template generators mentioned in the forum. Im windows user, but monitoring system is zabbix.

[guillermo874]

It's about monitoring the cameras through the zabbix agent but I still do not solve the problem can someone help me?