zabbix_sender trapper items and passively monitored box

[Henry78]

I'm kinda glad my first posts get moderated. So if this is a question too silly, just dump it.

I think this is a silly question, because I'm sure Zabbix has a solution for this that I just didn't find yet, so please help me: I'm sending results from a backups script to a trapper item my Zabbix server. Now I want to do this on a server with only passive checks. There zabbix_sender can't be used to send to the Server.

How do i send data to trapper items on a passively monitored box that can't zabbix_send to the Zabbix server?

I appreciate any tips and help!

[Henry78]

Thank you for pointing this out, splitek. I was aware of that, but still read again throught the linked (and other) documents. I still don't get how to do it.

What's the best practice to send script result to zabbix server, that's not reacable by the client (passive mode)?

[Henry78]

Thank you splitek for your answers! I'd like to elaborate, especially as there seems no in depth information in the forums or the docs, explaining these option. Plesase correct me, where I might be wrong.

Can you install agent? If so you can use agent (in active mode).

Hope I understood this correctly: in this scenario, Zabbix would trigger the batch run. (This is not what I want.)

Can you save zabbix sender in folder? If so, use: zabbix sender.

In my use case, the server isn't reachable from the monitored host, so Zabbix Sender is *not* an alternative(?).

Also you can use trapper protocol without sender but in that configuration you must write script that will mimic zabbix sender (take care of errors etc.)

To send custom responses, the server has to be reachable from the monitored box, right? (Then it's not an alternative for my use case).

If your backup software has web interface you can use http agent to read data from it.

Didn't think of this, maybe 'cause in my use case i don't have any interface to the backup software to query status/last run.

Slowly but surely I come to the conclusion I should just try to open the port for a simple solution, to continue using trapper and zabbix_sender.