TELNET agent check

[Davidus]

Hello everyone
Zabbix 1.8.4 on RHEL 5.5

I`m trying to set up TELNET agent check.
Zabbix is not compiled with SSH. However, in my personal opinion, this has nothing to do with telnet.

Item configurations:

Type: TELNET agent
Key: item
User name: ****
Password: ****
Executed script: echo 1
Type of information: Numeric (unsigned)
Data type: Decimal


In zabbix_server.log can see following
Parameter [Test:item] is not supported, old status [0]

Anybody knows what can I do in order to resolve following issue?
Thanks in advance!!!

[Davidus]

Solved

I changed item key on telnet.run[172.30.XXX.XXX] and eventually it worked

However, really would like to know why it worked this way, cause according to manual it should be telnet.run[<unique short description>,<ip>,<port>,<encoding>]
And some folks simply name item key whatever they like to… is this kind of behavior somehow related on version of zabbix…

[nilesh]

TELNET Agent

Hi friends,

I have few questions:-
1) I want to monitor the CAS server connectivity with AD server; i.e. ADSSO service. I need to check the port 88. i want to check this without Agent.
Does TELNET Agent will help me.

2) I dont know, how to create that TELNET Agent item. I searched a lot for its description or details but not found.

Please help me, this is very urgent and critical for me. As i have a dead line or i will be on the line of death.

[Davidus]

To create TELNET agent item you have to change item type and feel up mandatory fields like key, user name, password, and so on.

I`m not sure that TELNET Agent will meet your need thought.

I would consider writing custom script, and using Zabbix trapper item with it. Let me explain how it works. Currently I`m monitoring variety of services/applications using this method (on linux/unix machines). Basically what I`m doing is, on my monitoring server, using cron I`m executing custom script (usually perl scripts) this script via SSH or via TELNET is connecting to remote server and executes command(s), output of executed command(s) I`m writing to file on my monitoring server. Pretty much simple so far next step is to parse file and send to zabbix server necessary information, here comes zabbix_sender which passes data to zabbix trapper item.

I`m not saying that this is one and only way to accomplish your goal, NO someone might know much easiest way... This is what I would do

[Davidus]

information on item configuration can be found here