Extending Zabbix agent

[zkrapavickas]

Hello,
is there any plans to expand Zabbix Agent functionality beyond simple OS API calls. Like curl, odbc and other popular libs ?

[muratkoc]

Hi,

Why do you need them hardcoded in agent?

[zkrapavickas]

What other choices exists:
1) use remote execute - this one is huge security threat, as there is no authentification between agent and server.
2) agent side configuration - like adding custom counters into agent configuration file, but it's not that easy when you have more then 200 servers.

Also in process check is less system resources consuming then out of process execution, it's actualy not the case when you have for example 5 checks in a minute, but what if you have 20 in a second.

[muratkoc]

What other choices exists:
1) use remote execute - this one is huge security threat, as there is no authentification between agent and server.

Since there is no auth between agent and server is it pointless to hardcode the other functions in agent?

2) agent side configuration - like adding custom counters into agent configuration file, but it's not that easy when you have more then 200 servers.

I wrote a zabbix installer script, it downloads necessary packages and checks all the processes, services on the installed agent and adopts all the user parameters and plugins.

You can write one and distribute it with parallel ssh tools.

Also in process check is less system resources consuming then out of process execution, it's actualy not the case when you have for example 5 checks in a minute, but what if you have 20 in a second.

Modern hardwares can easily process 20 checks/sec or more. I think that is not a problem.