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mconigliaro
12-08-2005, 23:42
i saw this in the changelog today for alpha12:
"support of monitoring of W32 Event Logs: eventlog[Applications/Security/System] (Alexei)"
i tried adding the "eventlog[Security]" key on one of my windows hosts, but i got a "Not supported by ZABBIX agent" error, even though i installed the windows agent that came with alpha12.
has anyone gotten this to work?
Check the following:
1. Eventlog[Security] is defined as an active check
2. It has Type of Information "Log"
mconigliaro
15-08-2005, 15:44
ok, ive done this. so far, i only get a "Not supported by ZABBIX agent" error.
ok, ive done this. so far, i only get a "Not supported by ZABBIX agent" error.
It is impossible! Please, define eventlog[Security] as active check, i.e. having type "ZABBIX Agent (active)"
mconigliaro
15-08-2005, 17:30
ive attached a screenshot of the error.
i was hoping that maybe i forgot to upgrade the agent, but version[zabbix_agent] seems to be returning '1.1alpha12.'
I see. Ignore this message. ZABBIX server does not clear error message (yet) in case of recovery. Will be fixed.
mconigliaro
15-08-2005, 19:32
well, there might be something else going on. i see new events in the windows event log, but they're not getting into zabbix for whatever reason. when i look at the 'latest data' section for this server, i dont see any data for this check.
im not getting any errors but no new events are being recorded in zabbix.
any suggestions how to fix this problem?
my system reports no errors, but no data is collected.
maybe the next alpha will bring the solution ....
Dude - i think i had the same problem. When ever the agent ran it would kill the trapper process, and take down the server. The item in the configuration where it has "Eventlog[System]" is case sensitive. Whenever I ahd the capital E on Eventlog it would crash, change them all to eventlog and it stopped crashing. Start zabbix with 20 process's so you can see lots of them, run a ps -A, and when you start the agent it kills them.
Also make sure you get the latest agent, theres a problem with the one that shipped with alpha12, when it checked the system log it would crash on the agent side. www.zabbix.com/downloads
Hope this helps.