A little feedback

[nslm]

First up, Zabbix seems to be really good, a little rough around the edges in places but generally really good.

Personally I'd like to see global "Applications", so I can stack my templates and build templates out of templates without getting "conflicts".

In addition: a comment from one of our Windows Admins...

"Points to note for Zabbix developers:

Even though you install the service and tell it use a config file other than the default you cannot simply start the service. You have to use the line

zabbix_agentd.exe --config <location_of_config_file> --start

and to top it you have to use

zabbix_agentd.exe --config <location_of_config_file> --stop

We never put conf files in the root of a system drive so you can't treat Zabbix as a normal Windows service. I can't see the point in the --config option when you install the service if the service doesn't actually us the info - weird."

[cstackpole]

Wait...I am not entirely certain I understand.
You are unable to run the zabbix agent as a service under Windows with the configuration file in a location other then c:\ ?

If that is the case, then I think there may have been a problem when you installed the agent. I do not know what you did, but I can tell you what I have done for my 30+ Windows boxes using agent 1.4.4.

I prefer to keep everything about the zabbix agent in one place. So I create a c:\zabbix folder. I copy the precompiled 1.4.4 binaries (agent.exe, get, and sender) to this location as well as a very small zabbix_agentd.conf file

Server=zabbixserver.domain.com
Hostname=Windowsbox
StartAgents=5
DebugLevel=3
LogFile=c:\zabbix\zabbix_agentd.log
Timeout=3

Next, from the command line I just type:

c:\zabbix\zabbix_agentd.exe --config c:\zabbix\zabbix_agentd.conf --install

From there its just a simple start->control panel->admin tools->services->zabbix->right click and start.

Its works as expected for me on XP pro, 2k, 2k3, and even on 64bit windows (using the 64bit zabbix agent). Maybe I misunderstand what you are trying to do?

Have fun!