James Wells
15-06-2005, 01:26
Greetings,
I was recently asked to get some real monitoring in place for my Lab systems and decided to go with Zabbix. I had played with Zabbix at home and found the power to be more than sufficient for my needs. I set up a small Gentoo server to act as the DB and Zabbix server, and set about trying to get the agents installed.
First issue I ran into was the lack of a RedHat RPM for the Zabbix agents, I ended up getting around this by compiling it on my Gentoo workstation, and I suspect this may be what's causing me problems.
The agents are all running 1.1Alpha10 agents, and are all recieving requests from the server correctly, however, due to the way the firewalling works, the agents are unable to load process_active_checks. Not worried about that just yet, though it too may be a source of my issues.
The issues that I am having are ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED messages for certain basic / key information I need to monitor, specifically;
1. disk_*_ops* --- I have double / tripple checked the configs for these and as far as I can tell they are correct. All of my machines are using generic SCSI interfaces so my configs are disk_*_ops*[sda]. Obviously the * have the correct values such as read and 15.
2. netload* --- These are actually the defaults that come in the host.unix template. All of my machines use ETH0 + Loopback only and I have removed the references to netload*[eth1]
Any help to resolve these issues would be greatly appreciated.
PS. The servers I am trying to monitor are stripped down RedHat ES2.1 servers running an old 2.4 kernel whereas the agents were compiled on a fairly up-to-date Gentoo (Unstable Branch) workstation running 2.6 kernel.
I was recently asked to get some real monitoring in place for my Lab systems and decided to go with Zabbix. I had played with Zabbix at home and found the power to be more than sufficient for my needs. I set up a small Gentoo server to act as the DB and Zabbix server, and set about trying to get the agents installed.
First issue I ran into was the lack of a RedHat RPM for the Zabbix agents, I ended up getting around this by compiling it on my Gentoo workstation, and I suspect this may be what's causing me problems.
The agents are all running 1.1Alpha10 agents, and are all recieving requests from the server correctly, however, due to the way the firewalling works, the agents are unable to load process_active_checks. Not worried about that just yet, though it too may be a source of my issues.
The issues that I am having are ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED messages for certain basic / key information I need to monitor, specifically;
1. disk_*_ops* --- I have double / tripple checked the configs for these and as far as I can tell they are correct. All of my machines are using generic SCSI interfaces so my configs are disk_*_ops*[sda]. Obviously the * have the correct values such as read and 15.
2. netload* --- These are actually the defaults that come in the host.unix template. All of my machines use ETH0 + Loopback only and I have removed the references to netload*[eth1]
Any help to resolve these issues would be greatly appreciated.
PS. The servers I am trying to monitor are stripped down RedHat ES2.1 servers running an old 2.4 kernel whereas the agents were compiled on a fairly up-to-date Gentoo (Unstable Branch) workstation running 2.6 kernel.