Remote bandwidth monitor

[bluelinq]

Let me see if I can explain this properly. We monitor Win servers remotely using Active Agents and we should be able to query snmp values from the firewall. The question is can we use an agent as some sort of relay agent too?

So, if we monitor server A, can server A query the firewall with SNMP for bandwidth usage and somehow pass the value to the server for a different Host like a host called "Firewall" or something like that?

Regards,

Paul

[Tenzer]

You would have to set up another Zabbix agent on the Windows box then, running on a different port. I don't think that you can have two hosts using the same IP/port combination.

[NOB]

Hi Paul

Let me see if I can explain this properly. We monitor Win servers remotely using Active Agents and we should be able to query snmp values from the firewall. The question is can we use an agent as some sort of relay agent too?

So, if we monitor server A, can server A query the firewall with SNMP for bandwidth usage and somehow pass the value to the server for a different Host like a host called "Firewall" or something like that?

Regards,

Paul

AFAIR there is a version of zabbix_sender for Windows, too.

So what can you do with it ?
Write a script to query the SNMP values from the firewall and run it on
server A.
This can be done by either using a scheduled task or as a
(scheduled) user parameter from the ZABBIX server.

You can use zabbix_sender in the script to send events like "OK"
or "Error", etc. to the ZABBIX-Server for the host called "Firewall".

I have never used zabbix_sender on Windows, yet.

You can create a host called "Firewall" and define some items of type Trapper.
You use those names as the item to send.

Hope this helps

Regards

Norbert.