Public ip address - agent active

[kamilalek1]

How can you use zabbix to check what public ip address the active agent has?

The pubic ip address of the active agent changes every 24-48 hours

[ripperSK]

Of course you can

# cat /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d/userparameter_WAN.IP.address.conf
# get current WAN IP address
UserParameter=WAN.IP.address,curl -s ipinfo.io/ip

and add the item:

[av123412]

This works very well thank you, just stumbled across this. I know this thread is old but how would we build a trigger to alert us on if the IP changes? Would the trigger just look at a simple diff then if true alert?

[rtime]

Hello, how can you do the same with a windows active client?

[rtime]

(Invoke-WebRequest -uri "http://ifconfig.me/ip" -UseBasicParsing).Content;

ps command gives me what I want, but how can I make a zabbix item out of this

[ripperSK]

rtime you just need to replicate the same thing under Windows as I advised to do under Linux - of course with PowerShell ...

create a file

C:\zabbix\zabbix_agentd.d\userparameter_WAN.IP.add ress.conf

or with similar path in your zabbix agent installation.

userparameter_WAN.IP.address.conf file contents would be:

UserParameter=WAN.IP.address,C:\zabbix\get_wan_IP.ps1

C:\zabbix\get_wan_IP.ps1 file contents would be:

(Invoke-WebRequest -uri "http://ifconfig.me/ip" -UseBasicParsing).Content

if that does not work - try to wrap it up with CMD / BAT file - but I think it should.

PowerShell execution policy needs to be adjusted for the execution of that .ps1 file to work correctly.

Item creation in zabbix Web interface should be the same as posted above.

[rtime]

only the cmd/bat file worked with the following content:

Powershell.exe -executionpolicy remotesigned -File  "c:\Program Files\Zabbix Agent 2\get_wan_IP.ps1"

on the other hand made such an ugly entry in zabbix:

C:\Windows\system32>Powershell.exe -executionpolicy remotesigned -File "c:\Program Files\Zabbix Agent 2\get_wan_IP.ps1"

XX.XXX.X.XX(wan_ip)

could this be niced somehow so that only the ip address is visible?

[ripperSK]

I think you forgot to put something into that PowerShell script as my test case works OK by echoing only the WAN IP:

C:\tmp>type get_wan_ip.ps1
(Invoke-WebRequest -uri "http://ifconfig.me/ip" -UseBasicParsing).Content

C:\tmp>type get_wan_ip.bat
@echo off
powershell.exe -executionpolicy remotesigned -File C:\tmp\get_wan_ip.ps1

C:\tmp>get_wan_ip.bat
1xx.2xx.1xx.7x

note1: command type works like Linux cat - echoes content of that file to the console
note2: my WAN IP is redacted - you don't need to know that

also.. you're asking Linux Sysadmin to help out with PowerShell - I'm not good with that scripting language