Need help/suggestions on hosts behind firewall
I've got zabbix up and running, but I need some help on which would be the best way to go about configuring it for my needs. This is the current setup I have:
Zabbix server sits in my office behind an ipcop linux firewall on a dsl line. I have a few other sites I need to monitor which are also behind ipcop firewalls on dsl lines. I can currently monitor the firewalls themselves with zabbix and simple checks no problem.
Here's where I'm stuck: How do I monitor the server(s) and workstations behind the firewalls? I do have full access to the firewalls so setting up port forwarding and the likes is not an issue. But since they are on dsl lines with dynamic ips (I use dyndns.org service), how do I indicate seperate hosts for technically the same address?
Unfortunately setting up a zabbix server at each location is not an option at this stage.
All I can think of so far is that I'd have to have just 1 host (the firewall) and multiple items which represent each computer/server behind the firewall and then have port forwarding for each pc. e.g.
"pc 1" - icmpping, 700
"pc 2" - icmpping, 701
"pc 3" - icmpping, 702
(rough example, just indicating what I mean with different ports but same host)
Is there another way to do this?
Zabbix server sits in my office behind an ipcop linux firewall on a dsl line. I have a few other sites I need to monitor which are also behind ipcop firewalls on dsl lines. I can currently monitor the firewalls themselves with zabbix and simple checks no problem.
Here's where I'm stuck: How do I monitor the server(s) and workstations behind the firewalls? I do have full access to the firewalls so setting up port forwarding and the likes is not an issue. But since they are on dsl lines with dynamic ips (I use dyndns.org service), how do I indicate seperate hosts for technically the same address?
Unfortunately setting up a zabbix server at each location is not an option at this stage.
All I can think of so far is that I'd have to have just 1 host (the firewall) and multiple items which represent each computer/server behind the firewall and then have port forwarding for each pc. e.g.
"pc 1" - icmpping, 700
"pc 2" - icmpping, 701
"pc 3" - icmpping, 702
(rough example, just indicating what I mean with different ports but same host)
Is there another way to do this?
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