Using Zabbix to monitor a bunch of sensors

[pdonker]

Hi. I make web applications that monitor sensors. I'd love to offload the "there is an issue and it needs to be resolved"-part to Zabbix. For that I need to send the sensor data to Zabbix so that I use it to delegate actions. Think of the following: a sensor is measuring light intensity in some environment. It sends me every 20 minutes the value for this. It also will send me immediately an alarm if it falls below a certain threshold. The application should be able to scale to thousands of sensors.

How can I "send" events to Zabbix? Is that even possible? And secondly: I guess if that's possible I can add devices on the fly as it also sends its own serial number.

Thank you,

Peter

[Glencoe]

While you cannot send events as events to Zabbix, you can send events as metrics (items) and then generate alarms from those metrics. This is how SNMP traps work, for example.

[jtnfoley]

I have lots of legacy industrial SCADA experience, but zero with Zabbix integration.
I know Zabbix supports MQTT broker for Internet of Things sensor support, and I've read case studies where mobile distributed sensor systems were instrumented (TV broadcast / satelite uplink trucks in France??? and a fleet of ships stand out in my memory!)
What protocols are supported by your DAQ hardware? How are you getting data from your sensors currently? Does the sensor or sensor amplifiers support SNMP (doubtful, in my experience) or something more scientific/industrial such as IoT protocols (MQTT, XMPP, et al) or industrial (Profibus, EtherNet/IP, Modbus, etc.)
Does your hardware support more commodity protocols that would be better supported by Zabbix? (JSON or XML over http, SOAP, etc.)

[Glencoe]

jtnfoley, on a side note, is OPC UA high on your list of industrial protocols?

[jtnfoley]

jtnfoley, on a side note, is OPC UA high on your list of industrial protocols?

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