Ping a Router / Switch on Zabbix 2.0

[jeffusher]

Hi guys,

Previously on Zabbix 1.8 I was able to have an iccmping job set up to just simply ping any switch or router via an IP address.

Under Zabbiz 2.0 I can't seem to do this simple task as the ping check now has an extra field for "Host Interface" which needs to be assigned to an Agent, an SNMP port etc etc.

It's a switch or router, it does not have an agent. All I want to do is ping it and get back a response. I am unable to do this as the host interface is a required field and can't be left blank.

Any ideas on how to just do a simple ping to a device on Zabbix 2 would be most appreciated.

Regards

Jeff

[michelis]

Hi,

I'm facing a similar problem. If you find a solution can you post it here?

Greetz
Tobias

[frater]

Linux:

UserParameter=net.ping[*], ping -c1 -W3 $1 2>/dev/null | grep -c '1 received'

Windows:

UserParameter=net.ping[*], ping -n 1 -w 1 "$1" 2>null | find  /i "TTL=" /c

[frater]

The previous answer was for a Windows or Linux agent....
Of course you can still use it on the zabbix server as it's probably running an agent as well....

In the past I wrote a more informative external script to test packetloss which I'm using for each host. It takes an IP as parameter

cat /usr/local/sbin/packetloss

#!/bin/bash
PACKETLOSS=`ping -q -c5 -i0.3 -w4 ${1} | grep transmitted | grep -Eo '[0-9%]* packet loss' | tr -cd '0-9'`
[ -z "${PACKETLOSS}" ] && PACKETLOSS=100

echo "${PACKETLOSS}"

cd /etc/zabbix/externalscripts
ln -s /usr/local/sbin/packetloss

[michelis]

When you don't see the value of 'Host interface' try to remove the zabbix.conf.php. After I did that everything works fine for me.

Greetz
Tobias