Active monitoring b0rken in VMWare appliance

[modonnell]

Note that the SuSE system image as delivered in this VMWare snapshot:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/zabbix/files/ZABBIX%20Latest%20Stable/1.8.2/zabbix-1.8.2.vmx.tar.gz/download

...apparently has the firewall enabled such that active monitoring fails ie. when agents try to contact the server to report status (instead of being polled by the server) the connection is blocked. In my case (since we're on a secured LAN) all I did to enable such connections was to disable the firewall, thus:

chkconfig SuSEfirewall2_setup off

chkconfig SuSEfirewall2_init off

...and I then rebooted.

[richlv]

hey, it's not broken, it's secure ;)

_and_ it's documented at http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/manual/installation/appliance#firewall

[modonnell]

Stupid me; I thought the document accessed via this URL:

http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/complete

...might actually be Complete Zabbix 1.8 Documentation. >-/

So I downloaded it and I've been using that local copy as it's much faster than having to continually re-fetch doc pages from the Zabbix WWW site. And, of course, the document I'm using mentions nothing about this "helpful" firewall matter...

[richlv]

So I downloaded it and I've been using that local copy as it's much faster than having to continually re-fetch doc pages from the Zabbix WWW site. And, of course, the document I'm using mentions nothing about this "helpful" firewall matter...

ahh, thanks for reporting that - should be fixed now.
anyway, if you downloaded it, your copy might be out of date anyway, especially regarding new things (like this appliance documentation)