win32 agent stability?

[edeus]

Hello,

Thank you for the excellent product. It saves a lot of time in management.

Unfortunately while the unix agent is great, I have been finding the win32 agent terribly unstable. It works for maybe a month and then starts going crazy.

One server is dropping connections to the port, I had another server having various 100% cpu use problems.

Is there any word on development in the area of win32 agent? It has been requested a few times to get the item's naming in line with the unix agent.

Thanks for all the hard work, it is really appreciated.

[ruckus37]

Same problem here, only option I have is to restart the zabbix agent every night (maybe a bit much but does not harm anything).

[rvillaca]

I had the same problem, but i start to clean the zabbix temp files in the windows\temp dir. It solves the problem for me.

Rodrigo

[edeus]

I had the same problem, but i start to clean the zabbix temp files in the windows\temp dir. It solves the problem for me.

Rodrigo

Thanks for the tip! Although I cannot find any files that seem created by zabbix. Do you know the naming convention?

[rvillaca]

Thanks for the tip! Although I cannot find any files that seem created by zabbix. Do you know the naming convention?

The file naming is like zbx????.tmp.

[mquigley]

New .NET Agent for Windows

I have developed a new agent for Windows in C#. It requires the .NET framework version 2.0 to be installed. We've been running it for about a month now in one of our testing environments, and so far it's running very well.

I'm planning on open-sourcing it in the coming weeks.

I've also got a Java agent, which can be plugged into various kinds of Java applications and frameworks. With SNMP, operating system and now application agents, Zabbix can be used to monitor an entire service stack.

The Java agent will be open-sourced at the same time.

If it's welcome, I'll post an announcement here when the time comes.

[edeus]

That sounds really exciting, I wonder if it would ever be supported by Zabbix mainstream?

[mquigley]

That sounds really exciting, I wonder if it would ever be supported by Zabbix mainstream?

I have no idea how these agents will be received by the Zabbix team. I'm not expecting the Zabbix team to take over their development. I plan to continue to grow and enhance them based on my real world needs. If others would like to contribute patches or suggestions, I'll be happy to consider them.

I guess we'll just have to wait and find out how it goes once I'm able to officially release the software. No matter what, the agents will be made available. The Windows agent will probably be released under the GPL. The Java agent framework will be released under the LGPL.

Some of the concepts deviate from the existing Zabbix agents. The Zabbix/J Java agent embraces a fairly different philosophy from the other Zabbix agents. For the applications we're monitoring, the approach works great. For others, it may not.

It seems to me that Zabbix is primarily focused on monitoring IT-level infrastructure--network devices and operating systems. I'm currently employing Zabbix to collect metrics from an entire application stack--not just from an IT perspective, but in order to correlate information all the way up into the application and even into the business domain.

I suppose I should start another thread about this once I've got the website up and the releases ready. I'm hoping to get that done in the next few weeks.

[malcontent]

That's wonderful news. I for one would like to take a look at your code so that I could try my hand at coding one in Ruby or Python. An agent written in a scripting language would be very easy to extend with additional funtionality.

I have no idea how these agents will be received by the Zabbix team. I'm not expecting the Zabbix team to take over their development. I plan to continue to grow and enhance them based on my real world needs. If others would like to contribute patches or suggestions, I'll be happy to consider them.

I guess we'll just have to wait and find out how it goes once I'm able to officially release the software. No matter what, the agents will be made available. The Windows agent will probably be released under the GPL. The Java agent framework will be released under the LGPL.

Some of the concepts deviate from the existing Zabbix agents. The Zabbix/J Java agent embraces a fairly different philosophy from the other Zabbix agents. For the applications we're monitoring, the approach works great. For others, it may not.

It seems to me that Zabbix is primarily focused on monitoring IT-level infrastructure--network devices and operating systems. I'm currently employing Zabbix to collect metrics from an entire application stack--not just from an IT perspective, but in order to correlate information all the way up into the application and even into the business domain.

I suppose I should start another thread about this once I've got the website up and the releases ready. I'm hoping to get that done in the next few weeks.