Creating Zabbix simple checks and the Zabbix trapper
In this recipe, we will go over two checks that can help you build some more customized setups. Zabbix simple checks provide you with an easy way to monitor some specific data, while the Zabbix trapper combines with the Zabbix sender to get data from your hosts into the server, providing you with some scripting options. Let’s get started.
Getting ready
To create these checks, we will need a Zabbix server and a Linux host to monitor. We can use the host with a Zabbix agent and SNMP monitoring from the previous recipes.
Note that we do not need the Zabbix agent for these checks.
How to do it…
As the name suggests, working with simple checks is quite simple. So, let’s get started.
Creating simple checks
We will create a simple check to monitor whether a service is running and accepting TCP connections on a certain port:
- To get this done, we will need to create a new host on the Zabbix...
