agentless monitoring

[stevew]

I need to be able to monitor web sites by testing a defined page for some text value but the servers WONT be running the zabbix agent/agentd and will be specified by url, not IP, for example

www.test.com index.html "Site is working"

I cant find a way to do this if the target isnt running an agent (and it wont be as they will be shared hsoting servers out of my direct control)

Likewise I would like to test for active SMTP (and POP too) running.

Is there a way to set this up in Zabbix?

[pdwalker]

There are several ways you could do this, but the easiest way I can think of is to run a zabbix agent on the zabbix server. You could define a user parameter that checks for the information you ask for:

UserParameter=website.ok, curl -s 'http://website/index.html' | grep -c "Site is Working"

I like this method as I can check for specific content being returned from the webserver, such as a dynamically generated page.


You could also consider simple checks which have specific tests for smtp, pop, http: http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/co...ems_simple.php

These checks don't require an agent.


Hope that helps.

- Paul