On 12/17/2011 01:25 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >>> Do Zabbix or Zenoss allow for this sort of testing that Nagios has? > OK, thanks. I'll dig more into passive checks > I think its the active tests you are looking for ( tests run from the zabbix-server rather than on the agent ). Easy one to start with is the web tests, where the zabbix-server can go through a series of mouse-clicks and test for content on each 'step', resulting in a pass/fail. quite handy to be able to throw those together in seconds. I remember having to use www::mechanize and webrat etc to write a httpclient in order to achieve this on nagios - KB