Monitoring not "ping-able" Server

[docm]

Hi,

is it possible to monitor a not ping-able server that can only be reached via ssh?
the zabbix-agent also can not be installed (at this point of time)
is the agent needed to monitor a server ?

Greetings
Frank

[Alexei]

ZABBIX agent is not required. ZABBIX perfectly supports agentless monitoring.

[elkor]

if you DID want to install the agent though, there is nothing stopping you from constructing an SSH tunnel to encapsulate the data from the remote machine to the server. I plan on doing this with my IDS systems, you just have to change the port values in the agent's .conf file and the host attributes on the server then use SSH's port forwarding capability.