How to monitor pings performed from a remote computer?

[penguinfan]

Hi,

I was wondering what your recommended solution would be to monitoring pings from a Windows 10 VM in my environment. The Windows VM runs a piece of software that interacts with nodes within different segregated networks in our building. We would like to monitor that the VM has healthy networking connections to support the software.

I monitor the Windows VM using a Zabbix agent already, but the Windows VM has a few NIC ports in use. I would like to monitor that these network adapters can each ping destinations within their subnet. Can Adapter A ping 192.168.33.123 ? Can Adapter B ping 10.100.0.253? Can Adapter C ping 10.10.10.10? Etc. If not, the agent or a script notifies Zabbix and alarms that Windows "Ethernet#" can not ping its destination X.X.X.X or more generally, Windows VM can not ping X.X.X.X.

How would you guys do it?

[markfree]

What kind of software does your Windows VM runs that interacts with nodes?
Is it possible for this software to output a log of some sort?
Have you thought about making a script to ping your nodes and output a report?

Zabbix could read that log/report and point you the status.
Or, maybe you could run "system.run" key to ping those nodes.

[Semiadmin]

Hi, penguinfan.
I don't think you really need a strong condition like "ping -S <nic_address> <some_ip>". Just use "ping <some_ip>" and trust a routing table.
Such a test, by the way, will be closer to reality. In this case, you may try this solution:

https://share.zabbix.com/operating-systems/windows/template-for-icmp-ping-test-from-the-zabbix-windows-agent