Monitoring uucpover ax25 network

[teleneko]

Hi,

I am going to deploy a network monitoring system for an ax25 network wich uses uucp to provide e-mail service with extremely low bandwith. As it is a very strange environment I can not use directly any monitoring application. My idea is choose an open source application with a good core and databse support and web interface and use an alternative way to perfom checks and fill in the database.
Regarding to getting informatin the best I have found is a plugin for nagios that allows to send information throw smtp, in my case bsmtp. It is used to monitor system under a firewall. Does exist this possibility with zabbix?
In relation with other characteristics related with nagios I think the harly unique difference is that the database support is better and direct in zabbix while in nagios "it is a kind of trick". What are your opinions?

Thanks in advance.

PS: If you wonder why about this strange network the answer is that this is the network of a non profit organization to provide health services in remot places.

[Alexei]

How it work?

Could you please explain briefly how the Nagios plugin works. Who receives SMTP messages sent by the plugin?

[teleneko]

Re: How it works?

You can see it here naplax.sourceforge.net/REL.html. I know that this case is very strange and the unique possibility to have sth realy usefull for this organisation is that someone has develop a progrma to allow monitoring host under a firewall.

The code is very simple and knowing how to get information from the agent and how to store it in the database, maintaining the time reference, it coeld be easy (well I only has to learn perl ;-)).

Thanks.