Is very basic possible with Zabbix

[chebarbudo]

Hi all,

I'm gonna sound like the dumbest newbie with my question but after reading a few hours about SNMP monitoring, I still only have a very blurred vision of what I can do with all of this.

What brought me to all sorts of articles, wikipedia and product sites is the following need:
* I have a very small company
* We mostly maintain MS Windows clients (about 300 of all flavours)
* We mostly use Linux servers
* I would love my Windows clients to send periodical simple information packets like CPU usage, memory usage, disk usage etc to a server (preferably Linux) in order to store and query them (preferably with MySQL)
* I searched "open source windows snmp agent", "open source linux snmp server"

All I see is many pages with tons of features, like monitoring servers, databases, routers, applications, etc.
But I still don't see if I can do my (basic) job. Is it possible with Zabbix?

If I had to invent the wheel, I would do:
* setup a program on Windows clients configured to send info every x amount of time to eg. monitoring.mycompany.com:161.
* Install a program on my Linux server (monitiring.mycompany.com) that listens on port 161, reads this information and store them in a database
* Then I can identify workstation with overloaded ressources or those that have not been rebooted in a while, etc.

I swear that after reading the web for two hours, I still don't see if it's possible.
Do you know of any super simple howto that could help me do that kind of hello world job?

Thanks
Santiago

[gofree]

Im quite sure you can do it with zabbix - on zabbix side setup snmp trapper and send snmp traps from those hosts to it - with all the "do it your self problems" , or why can you use native way (?):

1. install zabbix agents on those box and use templates ( out of the box solution )
2. setup snmp on those boxes and use linux/windows snmp templates to query the data ( out of the box )

[chebarbudo]

Using the native way is exactly what I wanted to do.
But I couldn't find the Windows agents.
I must have been very tired the other day, I see them now in the download page.