Make icmpping items Agent-based...

[makini]

Hi,

As far as I know from the docs and forums, all icmpping items (icmppingsec, icmppingloss) are Simple checks and made from the Server.
Might it be a good idea to optionally make those run from an Agent too? Or is there some logic behind such a design decision?

It's highly necessary under a distributed setup we have and is quite a burden to setup as external items with a script.

[Doomshammer]

Hi,
Might it be a good idea to optionally make those run from an Agent too?

I absolutelly sign this request. I would love to see agents being able to send icmpping[] requests, so that we can monitor the same host from different locations.

[danrog]

Until something is built-in you could just create a system.run item

system.run["ping -c1 host | grep seq=1 | sed -r 's/.*time=(.*) ms/\1/'"]

You could also make it into a UserParameter as well. If you have fping installed every where you can use that too.

[makini]

Sure - all valid options

Until something is built-in you could just create a system.run item

system.run["ping -c1 host | grep seq=1 | sed -r 's/.*time=(.*) ms/\1/'"]

You could also make it into a UserParameter as well. If you have fping installed every where you can use that too.

Both are valid options here, sure. It can of course be set up in many different ways. The question is about facilitating it into the Agent and if there actually was some rationale behind implementing it this way initially. So far, no one (authorized) says this will be ever added or even considered...

[ShivaS]

Hi,

As far as I know from the docs and forums, all icmpping items (icmppingsec, icmppingloss) are Simple checks and made from the Server.
Might it be a good idea to optionally make those run from an Agent too? Or is there some logic behind such a design decision?

It's highly necessary under a distributed setup we have and is quite a burden to setup as external items with a script.

I second that! ICMP is a basic thing for every monitoring solution and built-in implementation of it would really really make our lives easier!