Configured host has no items

[pseudorand]

I've just installed Zabbix on gentoo. I added localhost as a host, but when I select it under Items, there are no items to select.

- I'm on zabbix1.1_alpha7
- I've confirmed that both zabbix-server and zabbix-agentd are running and listening on *:10051 and *:10050 with netstat -lp. Frontend also confirms that the server is running.
- Neither program's log files have any error messages, just start and stop messages.
- Localhost is confired as Zabbix agent

I can add bogus servers with fake IPs just fine, so the fact that the server is in the list doesn't mean anything. How do I go about figuring out if the server is really connected to the agent?

[primos]

You have to add Items from template.

Go to configuration, hosts, click to change host and select template and click "add items from Template"

, you could then link host:template (many hosts to one template) and edit only template(works in alpha12 gui).

[pseudorand]

Thanks, that sort of worked. I've linked my host to Host.Unix. When I select it under Items, I still don't see any Items though. I also don't see any data in in View or Reports. Any more hints?

[mbobkiewicz]

Ran into the same problem with a12. Finally ended up opening a template in a second browser tab and copying over the items to my hosts. As long as this would only be an alpha issue, I don´t worry.

[elkor]

you have to do it twice.

add a host (you can say use items from hosts template but it doesn't seem to have any effect here).

when it's in the list, click change. THEN select a host that you want to use as a template and click "add items from template". This won't link it, as I understand that linking is still very much broken at the moment, but it will populate the host object with the desired properties.

hope this helps