Distributed Remote Monitor Collector

[mboreback]

Hi,

This is my first draft of a proposal for building redundant distributed monitor collector that is platform independent and extendable to add in new monitoring capabilities.

I am thinking of create an independent project for this but as I am a new user of the Zabbix solution and think it is a good solid base that could be extended with more functionality, I decided to post my first alpha alpha draft heare to get som comments.


Regards Max

[Alexei]

This is very interesting idea. It was even semi-implemented in the past when we had support of proxy-agent, e.g. super agent which was capable of processing data from other agents and report data back to ZABBIX server.

We had no clean design at that point that's why the functionality has been removed.

Currently, in order to achive what you described, you may use distributed monitoring which would 100% satisfy your needs.

[mboreback]

The distributed server looks very promesing.

By providing a collector it is possible to remote monitor other systems without requirements of an agent.

The agent base require more work during implementation and maintenance, compared to remote monitoring.

And also deployment speed is much higher if nothing has to be rolled out except the distributed monitor.

So I asume if the distributed monitor can be platform independent, we could use the nativ functionality of the platform to collect data from windows via wmi.

[NOB]

Hi,

I agree with the idea.

However, there is already a partial WMI-Gateway for Nagios implemented.
It waits for WMI requests on port 80, requests the data from the specified
host by WMI and then sends the result back.
This can be used with ZABBIX, too, I guess or adapted to send
ZABBIX responses back !

I thought today: Why not use two agents on the same system.
The normal agent for the host and another one collecting
data via WMI and send the results back to ZABBIX, e.g. with
calling zabbix_sender.

The possibilities are endless.

Regards,

Norbert.