monitoring not ethernet devices

[jolypas]

Hello

I would like to monitor some wireless devices which are not ethernet nor snmp ...

These devices are providing data such as temperature, humidity, battery level , etc ... and I can format these data with an unique ID extracted from a database.

I can create items one by one on a server using UserParameter and shell script but I would like to make theses devices independant from this server and trigger the datas.

questions
1) is it possible to create such devices (hosts) without ip adresses ? I tried to use zabbix_sender with a host name but it failed from server side

2) if not, is it possible to use 2 arguments in a shell script (example : DeviceId and dataname) instead of only one in order to have a unique script for all devices ?

Thanks

[jamesNJ]

You can create a new host and use 127.0.0.1 port 10050 (default zabbix agent on the zabbix server). Then you can use simple, zabbix agent, external checks, etc. to collect data. I didn't try this, but for each of this hosts you could probably set up trap types and then use zabbix_sender with -s to differentiate the host names to register the data under.

[jolypas]

Hello
It works fine using zabbix trapper on the server & zabbix_sender

Now I would like to use it also from raspberry but I cannot find zabbix_sender for raspberry (I just found zabbix_agent)

Do you know if we can get zabbix_sender for raspberry architecture ?

Thanks

[jamesNJ]

I do not know anything about that architecture, but the source to zabbix exists and likely if you have a development toolchain for the rpi you could build it yourself.

[jolypas]

hello

thanks for your help

I tried this first but I did not success to compile zabbix on raspebrry despite some recommandations in forums

Anyway, I transfered the file to process to a server with zabbix_sender available (using scp) and use it remotely (using ssh) with the rigth certificates.

This is not the best way but it works for the moment

Regards