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Zabbix: is it possible to monitor arbitrary string variable?

We are using Zabbix for services monitoring. There are some essential monitoring configured. I want to have timeline of version strings of my service along with this monitorings. That would give me opportunity to see that upgrading to this version altered overall error-count. Is it possible? ...

Tool for parsing smtp logs that finds bounces

Our web application sends e-mails. We have lots of users, and we get lots of bounces. For example, user changes company and his company e-mail is no longer valid. To find bounces, I parse smtp log file with log parser. Some bounces are great, like 550+#[email protected]. There is [email protected] in bounce. But som...

How to integrate .NET and Zabbix?

I have a .NET app that must send data to a Zabbix server. How to do that? ...

active directory monitoring

I want to develop a monitoring tool to monitor active directory like (solar wind,op manager etc). For this purpose,I have chosen Zabbix(an open source tool) to monitor AD and provide me real time values so that i can plot those results on my Front-end. To monitor any process/service by zabbix, i need to provide its complete path to zabbi...

Does Nagios have an API that can control targets?

In Zabbix, there is a well documented (although in Draft status) API for instantiating targets and controlling them. Does such an API exist in Nagios? The need for this is a cloud-based implementation. I would like to be able to scale monitoring targets dynamically so that on Monday it would be monitoring 10 targets and Tuesday it w...

Looking for a more efficient (and portable) way to obtain (numeric) file permissions in unix

Short background: I need to monitor the permissions on a unix file (a directory) with ZABBIX to see if/when they change. ZABBIX doesn't have any built in like vfs.file.mode[xxxx] for this, so I had to roll my own UserParameter, with a numeric type. What I do so far, is use ls -l | cut -c 2-10 to get the rwxr-xr-xpart, and then use sed t...