Monitoring a connectivity to a remote IP from Zabbix Agent

[sabari]

Hi All

I need to monitor if a remote IP is reachable from a set of hosts which are running zabbix agents. I followed the steps given below

1, Created the below powershell script on the host running zabbix agent

param (
[string]$ipAddress
)

function Test-Ping {
param (
[string]$target
)
$ping = New-Object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
$reply = $ping.Send($target)
if ($reply.Status -eq 'Success') {
return 0
} else {
return 1
}
}

$result = Test-Ping $ipAddress
Write-Output $result

2. Created a user parameter in zabbix_agent2.conf

UserParameter=ping_monitor[*],powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "path\to\ping_monitor.ps1" $1

The code runs fine from the host if I pass the IP address as argument

3. Created item in zabbix UI with the key ping_monitor[{IP_ADDRESS}]
4. Zabbix started collecting data with 0s as value.
5. To check failure, deleted the route to the remote IP from the host and was waiting for the value of 1 instead there was no update for the particular item. The powershell script if ran inside from the host, returns 1 without any issue
6. Went to the item again and clicked the Test while the route was down and it instead of returning 1, it says ZBX_TCP_READ() timed out.
7. Tried increasing the Timeout value to 15 in zabbix_agent2.conf

Am I missing something here? It would be great if some one can assist me on this.

Regards
Sabari

[Hamardaban]

This may be interesting for you

https://github.com/Semiadmin/zbx-win-agent-ping

[epizarro]

use system.run[Test-Connection ....]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/test-connection