Trying to understand zabbix_sender

[tchjts1]

Ultimately, we want to use zabbix_sender to send metrics collected by nmon back into zabbix.

In the meantime I am just trying to do a simple zabbix_sender commandline test from the zabbix server to the zabbix server, but it keeps returning a failed status. I also have the server log debug level set to 4, but nothing is being populated into the log regarding the sender routine.

Here is the commandline I am running:
zabbix_sender -z 127.0.0.1 -p 10051 -s dlzaba03 -k db.connections -o 43
sent: 0; failed: 1; total: 1

I have also tried "localhost" in lieu of 127.0.0.1, with the same failed results.

What am I missing here and what is the easiest way to do a zabbix-sender test?

[flunschi]

Hi,

I could image of two reasons:
1) Your server does not listen at socket 127.0.0.1.10051 or
2) At your server there is no item with key "db.connections" defined for host "dlzaba03" of type zabbix_trapper.

If you add option "-v" when executing zabbix_sender you might get some hint why it fails.