Web monitoring question

[jbillma]

We have a Windows 7 workstation, outside our network but on a consumer-grade Internet connection, from which we are doing user testing of our website. What I'd like to do is run Zabbix on this workstation to do web monitoring, either as a standalone server or reporting back to our existing (1.8.2) installation. Yes, I know I can do web monitoring directly from the server in our existing installation, but because our Zabbix server (running on RHEL) is within our network, it's not going to give me the user-level view I'm wanting for this particular monitored item.

What would I need to accomplish this? Can Zabbix run as a server in Windows 7? If so, what would I need to install on this machine to make this happen? If not, can I do web monitoring from a Windows 7 agent reporting back to the server? If it were up to me, I'd just put a secondary Zabbix server or proxy on a fresh Linux install in that environment and be done with it, but I'm pretty much stuck with Windows for this task. Thanks for any help you can provide.

[alixen]

Hi,

Zabbix server will not run on Windows 7.
Only Unix/Linux OS are supported.

I am not a windows expert but this is how I would try to do it:
Install zabbix agent on Windows 7
Install some command line HTTP client on Windows 7. AFAIK, wget and curl exist for Windows.
Configure some UserParameter that call wget or curl.
Call those UserParameter from your Zabbix server.

Hope this helps
Alixen

[jbillma]

Alixen,

That helps immensely, thanks. I've already installed curl on this system, anticipating such a solution. Can I execute perl scripts via the Zabbix agent in Windows the way I would with *nix agents? That seems to be the way to do it, at least to this ol' Linux hack.

Thanks,
Jeff

[alixen]

Can I execute perl scripts via the Zabbix agent in Windows the way I would with *nix agents? That seems to be the way to do it, at least to this ol' Linux hack.

Yes, we have used some Perl scripts to collect data on Windows machines.

Regards,
Alixen