[Debian]Traffic monitoring not supported ?

[SOaD!]

Hi,

I'm using Zabbix agentd on FreeBSD without any problem, but there's something wrong with Debian.

I installed Zabbix agentd 1.6.5 through the packages (apt-get) and everything went fine.
Zabbix agentd is starting and running fine.
I added the machine to a group and made some monitoring on it (memory, cpu load) which are correctly reported.

But when I add the incoming or outgoing network traffic item, it is marked as 'not supported by the Zabbix agent'.

The interfaces on the machines are these :
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet
eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet

the items are these :
Incoming traffic on interface eth0:0 net.if.in[eth0:0,bytes]
Outgoing traffic on interface eth0 net.if.out[eth0,bytes]

They are copied from the Template_Linux template

I have a second Debian install with the same problem.

I think I'm doing something wrong but I didn't find anything.




If someone can point me my mistake,
Thanks in advance,

Bastien Semene

[SOaD!]

I just tested directly on the machine :
prox1$ /usr/sbin/zabbix_agentd -t "system.cpu.load[all,avg1]"
system.cpu.load[all,avg1] [d|0.000000]
prox1$ /usr/sbin/zabbix_agentd -t "net.if.out[eth0,bytes]"
net.if.out[eth0,bytes] [u|3696526042]

So I'm lost. cpu load is reported correctly, why is it not working for net.if ?

[SOaD!]

Ok I logged as Zabbix user and the results changed :

zabbix@prox1:/$ /usr/sbin/zabbix_agentd -t "system.cpu.load[all,avg1]"
system.cpu.load[all,avg1] [d|0.000000]
zabbix@prox1:/$ /usr/sbin/zabbix_agentd -t "net.if.out[eth0,bytes]"
net.if.out[eth0,bytes] [m|ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED]

I don't know how zabbix agentd grab the informations but I think the solution is somewhere there.

[Kai-Kai]

Have you tried to compile the agentd from sources ?

I compiled my own Zabbix on Debian last version and I monitore network traffic whithout any problem... perhaps could you try this ?
compiling the agent is very simple :

./configure --prefix=/path/you/want/to/install --enable-agent
make install

cp misc/conf/zabbix_agent* /path/you/want/to/install/etc
chown -R zabbixuser:zabbixgroup /path/you/want/to/install

And it should work fine...