Simple ping time check of a server

[hrlmec]

I'm having a very difficult time with Zabbix.

I finally got Zabbix installed. I installed 1.6 on a Solaris 10 server.

I setup a host, and an item to ping a server and get the ping time. (key icmppingsec, which I believe is used to get the ping times)

The dashboard shows this:
Status of ZABBIX

Parameter Value Details
ZABBIX server is running Yes -
Number of hosts (monitored/not monitored/templates) 3 2 / 0 / 1
Number of items (monitored/disabled/not supported) 1 1 / 0 / 0
Number of triggers (enabled/disabled)[true/unknown/false] 1 1 / 0 [0 / 0 / 1]
Number of users (online) 2 1
Required server performance, new values per second 0.0333 -

3 hosts, 2 being monitored, 1 being a template. 1 item and that item is being monitored. 1 trigger and that trigger is enabled.

The status above leads me to believe things are configured correctly.

When I go to "latest data" I get the following:

Host down image Description Last check Last value Change History
<servernamechanged> image - other - (1 Items)
host-pingtime 25 Sep 16:00:28 0 ms

I can run fping from the zabbix server to the server I am trying to check as the zabbix user and it returns actual ping times. The times vary from 15ms to 35ms.

Any idea why a simple ping test always return 0ms when it's definitely not 0ms?

[Tenzer]

Zabbix uses fping in order to ping hosts, so check if the fping path found in your zabbix_server.conf matches up with the actual path on your server, and also check that the user Zabbix server runs as, has rights to use fping.

[hrlmec]

Yep. Checked that (many times actually). The path is correct and the permissions are correct. I can use fping as the zabbix user and the config file points to the right place.

[hrlmec]

Found it.

The fping I have installed has no -S option and I had set the SourceIP value in the config file. Once I removed the SourceIP setting in zabbix_server.conf, the ping worked fine.

[EvilShadow]

Thanks for workaround with SourceIP. Question to Alexei - what version of fping do you use? E.g. the only available on Gentoo 2.4_beta2-r1 does not have an option '-S'.