External Websites Monitoring

[uday]

Using Zabbix I can monitor my intranet websites very easily, but monitoring external websites I am having difficulties. I want to monitor just simple HTTP uptime.

For example : How do I monitor if HTTP is working on www.google.com ?

Thanks in advance

[BDiE8VNy]

There are several ways to achieve this. One way might be to use Simple checks.
Keep in mind to configure the http_proxy / https_proxy environment variable(s) if necessary.

[uday]

External Websites Monitoring

Thanks BDiE8VNy,

But, where do I set http_proxy / https_proxy environment variable(s).

If I understand correctly it should be something like this but where to set ?
http_proxy=http://proxy_ip: proxy_port.
https_proxy=http://proxy_ip: proxy_port.

Sorry... I am still new to Zabbix 2.0 the reason for above basic question.

[BDiE8VNy]

There are several ways to achieve this.
I do it this way:

[root@example ~]# sed -n 17,23p /etc/init.d/zabbix-server 

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# Source sysconfig
. /etc/sysconfig/zabbix

[root@example ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/zabbix 
HTTP_PROXY=http://http-proxy.example.com:8080/
HTTPS_PROXY=$HTTP_PROXY

http_proxy=$HTTP_PROXY
https_proxy=$HTTPS_PROXY

export        \
  HTTP_PROXY  \
  HTTPS_PROXY \
  http_proxy  \
  https_proxy
[root@example ~]#

Doing it this way needs the init script to be modified every time after an update of the Zabbix Server has been done.