Custom Checks

[Villain]

I have some special commands that I run to verify a custom service is running on one of our servers. These commands are all contained in a script and they return a specific value. We made this value match the 1 and 0 input that Zabbix looks for to ensure a service is running or not.

Is there a way to add this as a check that the Zabbix agent will look for? We are using 1.1.7 for our version at the moment, but will be able to move to 1.3.x or 1.4 (when it's ready) at any time.

Right now, I have triggers and alerts defined, but Zabbix Agent doesn't support the check that we're looking at, so those triggers and alerts don't function. However, once we have the item setup correctly, we should be fine.

Is there a tutorial or something that can show us how to do this?

--EDIT:

I did get active checks to work, so I think we have it figured out. However, a guide or something similar would definately help.

[VeryNewbie]

I have a similar problem:

First of all, im using passive checks. As a test, I want Zabbix to monitor a simple file. If the file is = 0 --> Zabbix will show green and if the file is = 1 --> Zabbix will show red.

how can I do it?
can someone help me?

[VeryNewbie]

Villain, can you tell me how did you do that? or how can I do what I asked on the last reply?

Thanks

[VeryNewbie]

After I tried to make a trigger to do this, zabbix server was down

[VeryNewbie]

any ideas?

[Villain]

My apologies, I have been away for a few days and not able to get into the forums. I will do some looking into your request and see if I can find something.