Zabbix agent use ICMP for host availability

[pb19382]

Currently dashboard only displays host availability if using zabbix agent. Some host can't use agent, and only respond to ICMP. Adding the ability to set host "available" to be "green" in a dashboard with "Template Module ICMP Ping" would make usage by new users much easier to adopt.

Currently i'm using ICMP for my hosts but the dashboard is misleading as they are "unknown" for availability and no widgets will report "available" as far as other "items" are concerned.

[pabloarg]

Same case when only use active Items for host.
This function would be great.

EDIT:
Maybe a new function to define an item as "availability" from status. If item fails or gets bad data N times, host status goes unknown

[pb19382]

Maybe an overhaul of the "availability" trait such that we can toggle it "off" with triggers... that would allow any active or passive test to take the host down. I'm trying to build a custom UI to display host "availability" based on "problems" so I can see at a quick glance rather than use the widgets provided because "active" agents don't show up as "available".

[pabloarg]

simple workaround (but only if not firewall blocking): In active templates, define one item as passive (agent.ping is maybe the best option).

Edit: Of course, this only works with agent. Is not for ping, SNMP, etc.

[Giacomo]

Hi!

It's not clear to me.
Do I've to use a standard agent?
Could you please explain in details this workaround?
Thanks!

[highpeak]

I'm just discovering this shortcoming myself. I was trying to build a custom dashboard to show host availability - we only use ICMP for over 4,000 hosts. I assume the Zabbix team don't troll these forums for feature requests that often, so is there somewhere we can place more formal requests?

[Hamardaban]

For my own needs, I made changes in the frontend code that output the ICMP state. If you are interested, I can post patches (but without a good description).

[highpeak]

That's very cool, I'd be interested in the patched (still valid for 5.2?). Do Zabbix take pull requests!?

[Hamardaban]

Posted with a small description https://www.zabbix.com/forum/zabbix-...tus-of-a-hosts

[bitmeup]

For those that might care about a code-based solution, check my other post on zabbix forum

This also serves a reminder when I inevitably come back here from Google search