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**marcelein** · 07-04-2008, 14:07

hi Hichhiker and thanks for the scripts and the templates
i got some communication errors between the sender and the zabbix server i think:
when i start the shellscript zabbix_sender.sh
it returns me

Code:

test: 18: ==: unexpected operator
send:0; failed:1; total: 1

my hostname in the zabbix_agentd.conf ist set to localhost because i want to monitor the apache of my zabbix server

mod_status ist availible and reachable via lynx http://localhost/server-status

i extendet the view:

Code:

<IfModule mod_status.c>
ExtendedStatus On
<Location /server-status>

is this recommended? (without this i got the same error with zabbix_sender.sh)

in my zabbix interface i only got the controller data "1" for my apache

**Hichhiker** · 07-04-2008, 18:01

Originally posted by marcelein

hi Hichhiker and thanks for the scripts and the templates
i got some communication errors between the sender and the zabbix server i think:
when i start the shellscript zabbix_sender.sh
it returns me

Code:

test: 18: ==: unexpected operator
send:0; failed:1; total: 1

This seems like a zabbix_sender script error. What OS are you running under? I think the problem is that the script is asking for /bin/sh even though it is expecting bash - something that is not an issue on many Linux machines but is not true on many other *nix's - so, change top line of the script to #!/bin/bash and see if this helps.

Originally posted by marcelein

my hostname in the zabbix_agentd.conf ist set to localhost because i want to monitor the apache of my zabbix server

Unless your zabbix server is listed as host "localhost", hostname should be set to host name in the zabbix config - which, btw, I just noticed may not deal well with spaces :-/ - so you may need to rename your "Zabbix Server" to Zabbix_Server or something.

Originally posted by marcelein

mod_status ist availible and reachable via lynx http://localhost/server-status

i extendet the view:

Code:

<IfModule mod_status.c>
ExtendedStatus On
<Location /server-status>

is this recommended? (without this i got the same error with zabbix_sender.sh)

in my zabbix interface i only got the controller data "1" for my apache

Not sure about the extended view, forgot if that is enabled or not.

Controller data will be always 1, thats normal as controller "data" item simply triggers active sending of data to the zabbix server. Once you get everything working, you will get other data in there.

-HH

**marcelein** · 07-04-2008, 20:34

thanks for your fast response, Hichhiker

i run zabbix server/agent/interface on ubuntu 7.10 server
i will check bash tomorrow at work
i think my hostname is something like zabbix-ubuntu if bash won't help i test it with this host

its just a testing environment before im going to install all that stuff on a non virtual machine. so i think i wont get in trouble with hostnames anymore..

**marcelein** · 08-04-2008, 09:36

bash helped to work this unexpected error out,
but the thing with the hostname doesnt helped me
i still got:

Code:

send:0; failed:1; total: 1

and no latest data on my apache items

some snippets from my zabbix_agentd.conf (what is this zabbix_agent.conf for?)

Code:

Server=127.0.0.1
Hostname=ubuntu-zabbix
#.....
UserParameter=apache.all,/home/zabbix/apache.pl http://localhost

**marcelein** · 08-04-2008, 10:21

i finally noticed that there is a differance between the hostname in the zabbix web interface and the hostname of my machine
but there is still a

Code:

failed: 1;

when i run zabbix_sender.sh
BUT
im receiving data, in an 60sec interval
i think this is because i set

Code:

RefreshActiveChecks=60

, in my zabbix_agentd.conf

**Hichhiker** · 08-04-2008, 16:45

Actually the way this is set up is the frequency of data updates is controlled via the "Controller" item. Whatever you set that update interval to is what everything is updated at.

As far as "Failed:1" - are you running zabbix_sender.sh by itself? That script is designed to send an item of data back to the zabbix server but it requires a bunch of command line arguments. Really you should not need it as the main "apache.pl" script calls it

Also, I am going to edit the original post and replace the download files. I fixed the bash issue, but the big change is that I added a parameter that gets a much more usefull version of "Req per sec" parameter (original version only gets average req per sec from time apache was started, new value is calculated on check by check basis. To upgrade you should be able to simply replace the file and re-import the template.

**marcelein** · 09-04-2008, 14:02

ohh sorry you are right i executed zabbix_sender.sh by myself to test it

**marcelein** · 10-04-2008, 23:48

i think someone sould port this solution to lighttpd or is it compatible?
does anybody know if there is a differance between lighttpd server status and apache server status?
maybe i will test that tomorrow at work and probably port that scripts to lighttpd if its not to difficult

**Hichhiker** · 11-04-2008, 00:54

Originally posted by marcelein

i think someone sould port this solution to lighttpd or is it compatible?
does anybody know if there is a differance between lighttpd server status and apache server status?
maybe i will test that tomorrow at work and probably port that scripts to lighttpd if its not to difficult

As I do not use lighttp that 'someone' would not be me, but as long as you can get the data somehow in text form from lighttp - you can send it to zabbix using this method. All you have to do is re-write apache.pl script to scrape from new source.

-HH

**marcelein** · 21-05-2008, 08:22

got little errors in my zabbix_server.log default log level:

Code:

 32682:20080521:081519 Type of received value [] is not suitable for [apache.total_accesses@server01]
 32693:20080521:081519 Type of received value [] is not suitable for [apache.dyn_hitspersec@server01]
 32691:20080521:081519 Type of received value [] is not suitable for [apache.total_kbytes@server01]
 32686:20080521:081519 Type of received value [] is not suitable for [apache.cpuload@server01]
 32682:20080521:081519 Type of received value [] is not suitable for [apache.reqpersec@server01]
 32693:20080521:081519 Type of received value [] is not suitable for [apache.bytespersec@server01]
 32691:20080521:081519 Type of received value [] is not suitable for [apache.bytesperreq@server01]
 32686:20080521:081519 Type of received value [] is not suitable for [apache.busyservers@server01]
 32683:20080521:081519 Type of received value [] is not suitable for [apache.idleservers@server01]

my configuration is zabbix-1.4.5 server on the monitor host and
agentd_host:~ # /usr/local/sbin/zabbix_agentd -V
ZABBIX Agent (daemon) v1.4.5 (25 March 2008)

acutally iam recieving data from this agent so everything is correctly configurated except apache monitor.

i didnt tryed to test another type like int because i wanne have accurate data as usual

thx for support!

**Hichhiker** · 21-05-2008, 16:41

Originally posted by marcelein

Code:

32682:20080521:081519 Type of received value [] is not suitable for [apache.total_accesses@server01]
32693:20080521:081519 Type of received value [] is not suitable for [apache.dyn_hitspersec@server01]

The [] in the error message seems to tell me that the sender is sending blank values - so I would check that mod_status is installed and configured correctly. Try just hitting the URL yourself and see if you get all the data. Cant parse it if data is not there :-)

See the first post on some hints on how to enable mod_status

-HH

**marcelein** · 21-05-2008, 16:50

DIDNT-MATTER:/etc/apache2 # cat mod_status.conf
#
# Allow server status reports generated by mod_status,
# with the URL of http://servername/server-status
#
# see http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.2/mod/mod_status.html
#
<IfModule mod_status.c>
<Location /server-status>
SetHandler server-status
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from localhost
</Location>
</IfModule>

mod_status is up and running i checked that
maybe its another issue and has nothing in common with your scripts.
zabbix Template_Linux "Apache is running" item show me that apache is not running but i can access it via http

btw. sorry for spammin your nice apache post..

with kind regards

**Hichhiker** · 21-05-2008, 18:11

Originally posted by marcelein

mod_status is up and running i checked that

a simple way to check if it is running AND if it is accessible via the apache.pl script is via something like:

Code:

wget -O-  http://localhost/server-status?auto 2>/dev/null

Your output should look like this:

Code:

Total Accesses: 982163
Total kBytes: 14389672
CPULoad: .0231971
Uptime: 278268
ReqPerSec: 3.52956
BytesPerSec: 52952.6
BytesPerReq: 15002.6
BusyWorkers: 4
IdleWorkers: 14
Scoreboard: __CW__......._.._._._._._.._....C.__.....C._....................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Originally posted by marcelein

maybe its another issue and has nothing in common with your scripts.
zabbix Template_Linux "Apache is running" item show me that apache is not running but i can access it via http

IIRC, Template_Linux "Apache is running" checks for number of processes of httpd - if it is not seeing that, its an issue, but should not be directly connected with this.

Originally posted by marcelein

btw. sorry for spammin your nice apache post..

hey, no worries, thats what this forum is for.

-HH

**marcelein** · 28-05-2008, 12:46

Originally posted by Hichhiker

a simple way to check if it is running AND if it is accessible via the apache.pl script is via something like:

Code:

wget -O-  http://localhost/server-status?auto 2>/dev/null

-HH

gives me nothing back when i execute that

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