I need help to monitoring ICMP from an Agent to an external host.

[GalaxyNax]

Hello,

I need help sending pings to Google's IP address (8.8.8.8) and recording the response time in milliseconds. I've considered the following setup: UserParameter=test[*],fping -e 8.8.8.8 | awk '{ print $4 }' | tr -d '('. When I test this, I get the following result: 'sudo zabbix_agent2 -t test[a] test[a] [s|8.8.8.8 is alive 14.7 ms)'. However, this value is not a floating-point number, which prevents me from monitoring it correctly in Zabbix. When I create the response time item as an active agent, it doesn't collect any data and remains in a 'No Data' state. Can you help me resolve this?"

[cyber]

For extracting data from returned values, there's "preprocessing". https://www.zabbix.com/documentation.../preprocessing
Why it does not work as active check... too many options, too little info... Some mistake in agent config for example... ServerActive not set? or issues with FW-s...

[LenR]

Isn't that just an item like icmppingsec[8.8.8.8,2,60,24,60,avg] ?

[cyber]

Isn't that just an item like icmppingsec[8.8.8.8,2,60,24,60,avg] ?

not really, as icmppingsec is simple check and not a agent item. Thus executed in different place. server/proxy vs agent.

[LenR]

Something is wrong with your script if it’s returning more than 14.7

[GalaxyNax]

Thanks everybody for your help.

I solve it. with this way:

I create a userprametter in the agent:

UserParameter=icmp.ping[*],ping -q -c4 -W2 $1 >/dev/null 2>&1;echo $?
UserParameter=icmp.pingloss[*],ping -q -c4 -W2 $1 | grep "packet loss" | cut -d "," -f3 | sed 's/ \(.*\)%.*/\1/'
UserParameter=icmp.pingsec[*],ping -q -c4 -W2 $1 | grep "min/avg" | cut -d "=" -f2 | sed 's/.*\/\(.*\)\/.*\/.*/\1/'

[alexandret]

Same for Windows Agent.
UserParameter=icmppingsec[*], powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy bypass -Command "Test-Connection -ComputerName $1 -Count 4 | Measure-Object ResponseTime -Average | ForEach-Object { '{0:N5}' -f ($_.Average / 1000) -replace ',', '.'}"