Linux - Zabbix ICMP Ping Monitor

Hi,

I'm dealing with some outages on my linux server and I need to monitor it from another network via Zabbix. I just want to perform a simple ping test of server availability. Can you advise how to set up ping monitoring on Zabbix? Thanks

REPLY

Hello,

A simple test of server availability using a ping application from Zabbix monitoring could be solved as follows:

How to create a zabbix application for ping?

Configuration - Hosts

Host - Applications - Create application - Name StatusHost7

Host7 - Items - Create application - Name ping
- Name ICMP ping
- Type: Simple check
- Key: icmpping
- Type of information: Numeric
- Update interval: 15s
- History storage period: Storage period 1w
- Trend storage period: Storage period 1w
- Show value: Service state
- Applications: StatusHost7

How do I view data?

Monitoring - Latest data - Host7 - ICMP ping - Graph

PS: The following types of ping measurements can also be added to items:
- Name: ICMP loss
- Key: icmppingloss
+
- Name: ICMP response time
- Key: icmppingsec

PS2: You need to have fping installed - apt install fping