Another fping problem...

[McCall]

Hi Folks,

I have looked around the forums and found a few problems with people getting fping to return data, I have followed everything I can find but still can't seem to get it working!

Fping location is /usr/bin/fping, but there is also a symlink in /usr/sbin/fping
I have changed to /usr/bin/fping location in /etc/zabbix_server.conf
I have run the following on the binary:

chown root:zabbix /usr/bin/fping
chmod 710 /usr/bin/fping
chmod ug+s /usr/bin/fping

The version of fping I am using supports the -S option.

I still get a flat "0" data line to a host I know is reachable from my command line.

Can anyone help please?

[McCall]

I am still having this problem... does anyone have any clues for me please?

[richlv]

chmod 4750

[cgroothius]

I am also having the exact same issue...get a 0 flat line to a host that I am able to ping from the command line...i have configured per the manual and have also chmod per this post with the same results..anyone have any other suggestions r was this post ever resolved??
Thaks
Colin

[richlv]

did you try 'su - zabbix' and running the exact sudo line for fping launching ? any errors displayed that way ?

[cgroothius]

what might that "exact sudo line" be?

thanks
C.

[richlv]

ahh, i mixed up with other commands, just plain fping line
as you have a different system, it might be useful to list all things you have checked :

1. fping location in zabbix_server.conf (including server restarting after config change);
2. fping permissions;
3. whether you can use fping as 'su - zabbix';
4. whether you have source address set for zabbix server and whether your copy of fping supports -S flag in that case.

and maybe something else i have forgotten

[cgroothius]

location of fping.

^[[A[zabbix@zabbix etc]$ locate fping
/usr/sbin/fping
/usr/sbin/fping6
/usr/share/doc/fping-2.4b2
/usr/share/doc/fping-2.4b2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/fping-2.4b2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fping-2.4b2/README
/usr/share/man/man8/fping.8.gz
[zabbix@zabbix etc]$


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Is source IP set in zabbix_server.conf. No.

# Listen port for trapper. Default port number is 10051. This parameter
# must be between 1024 and 32767

ListenPort=10051

# Source IP address for outgouing connections
#SourceIP=

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Does fping support -S? No

[zabbix@zabbix etc]$ fping -S 192.168.20.20
fping: invalid option -- 'S'

but you imply its irrelevant as sourceip is not set in zabbix_server.conf right??

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I carried out these instructions.

chown root:zabbix /usr/sbin/fping
chmod 710 /usr/sbin/fping
chmod ug+s /usr/sbin/fping

stop/start. No Change
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chmod 4750 /usr/sbin/fping

stop/start. No Change
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Can I run as zabbix user...yep

[zabbix@zabbix etc]$ fping 192.168.20.20
192.168.20.20 is alive

[cgroothius]

Version of fping is

Package fping-2.4b2-8.fc9.i386 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
[root@zabbix sbin]#

C.

[richlv]

at a quick glance, it seems ok.
have you tried setting zabbix server debug to 4 and observing the logfile when fping check fails ?

[cgroothius]

I have not...I'm new to the app but I sure will.

Thanks (again)

Colin.

[cgroothius]

OK I set debug=4 in zabbix_server.conf.

I still see no entries for that host in the log. Am I missing something? The manual states that all simple checks accept 2 parameters. I had NO parameters appended to my icmppingsec . WhenI added per the manual, then I got the following in the log.

3801:20090303:095858 Too many parameters in [icmppingsec,192.168.20.20,0]
3801:20090303:095858 Parameter [icmppingsec,192.168.20.20,0] is not supported by agent on host [MOL DB] Old status [0]

Which is something at least :O)

So I guess I have 2 outstanding questions. Does the simple check icmppingsec need parameters and if not how do we change the manual to reflect this?


Lastly, I read in the forums about setting "the port" to 0 for such simple checks. Is this at the host level where we would usually have port 10050 for agent monitored hosts?

Regardles of all of these thhings I have tried I STILL cannot return a value.

Thanks.
Again.
Colin.

[richlv]

not sure about the parameters. could you provide full item configuration then ?

[cgroothius]

Hope this is right...

[richlv]

try setting type to numeric (float). and, of course, increasing period - 5 seconds is damn often, you'll overload the server soon