Monitoring named

[renzo]

Hi all,

Is zabbix capable of monitoring availability of the named service?
Not only through a ICMP ping, but rather looking for the service
on the local client machine?

/Renzo

[Alexei]

Crontab job?

ZABBIX does not suport this natively.

I would suggest creating a crontab job which would run a script checking availability of DNS. If DNS is up and running, send (zabbix_sender) 1 to ZABBIX server (zabbix_trapperd), 0 - otherwise.

I do not recommend using the script as a User Parameter because this may lead to frequent timeout situations.

[renzo]

How?

Hi again,

How can i implemented that?

I mean, how can i send a 1 to the server, if not through the UserParamter?

/Renzo

[Alexei]

Very briefly:

Use zabbix_sender. The binary sends data to ZABBIX server.

Run also zabbix_trapperd (server side) which will receive the data, process it and put into the database.

[renzo]

Documentation...

Where can i find the documentation for zabbix_sender?

/Renzo

[Alexei]

ZABBIX Manual

PDF version of the ZABBIX Manual contains information about all binaries. The Manual is part of ZABBIX v1.0 distribution.

Also you may run ./zabbix_sender --help to get list of its command line parameters.