How to check if active hosts are alive

[trindadekaio]

hey guys

i'm using zabbix to monitor a bunch of remote windows hosts. basically i have some proccess and services that i want to be informed if they are not running.

so, as they are remote hosts, i'm using active checks to do the job

the problem is, i'm struggling to discover when the agent is offline or not, all my hosts are using ADSL connections with dynamic public ip address.

i was imagining if there is some way to dynamically update the agent address, so i can configure just one passive item to check if the host is alive or not.
or is there any other way to get this working?

[batchenr]

hey guys

i'm using zabbix to monitor a bunch of remote windows hosts. basically i have some proccess and services that i want to be informed if they are not running.

so, as they are remote hosts, i'm using active checks to do the job

the problem is, i'm struggling to discover when the agent is offline or not, all my hosts are using ADSL connections with dynamic public ip address.

i was imagining if there is some way to dynamically update the agent address, so i can configure just one passive item to check if the host is alive or not.
or is there any other way to get this working?

i gusee you can make a macro IPADDR and update it as you need and make an item that will check with this macro {IPADDR}

[trindadekaio]

i gusee you can make a macro IPADDR and update it as you need and make an item that will check with this macro {IPADDR}

hey man, thanks for the reply...

tried to get this working as you said but, even then i must update de macro manually, no?

trying to find a way to automatically update the macro, but without success yet

[pockettanker]

If I understand you correctly, DnyamicDNS is what you need. Most Internet providers supply own DynamicDNS service for their clients. Anyway you can search in Internet for such service or configure your own DNS-server to support dynamic zone updates.

PS. sorry for my English