Watching the watcher

[windigo]

Hello all,

New to Zabbix, but I have it working monitoring about 20 devices, Mikrotik routers, Motorola Canopy, and several Ubuntu Virtual Machines. In fact my Zabbix server is on a VM.

My question is the following : My Zabbix server is remotely located via microwave link. Is there a quick and simple check that can be done to confirm that the Zabbix server process(es) is(are) running ? I don't want to setup another Zabbix machine for this since the pc I'll be using for monitoring the server is an Alix board with 256mb ram, so I don't have much to play with as to ram & cpu.

I'm looking for a quick check, telnet, shell command via ssh, maybe even snmp just to confirm that the Zabbix processes are up.

Thanks

[windigo]

watching the watcher

Hello again to all,

After much googling, found one way of doing it via snmp

In /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf add a line such as :

CODE:
proc zabbix_server
/CODE

to query :

CODE:
snmpget -v1 -c your-community-name your-ip-or-fqdn .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.2.1.5.1
/CODE

Will give you the number of zabbix_server processes


For complete article :

URL:

http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/10/mini-howto-2-system-monitoring-via.html

/URL

Hope this may be of use to someone