system.cpu.switches ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED

[alexander.rozhkov]

Hello!

I'm getting UNSUPPORTED response on some "system" items, ex system.cpu.switches

What's wrong ?

[sbin]$ ./zabbix_agent -c zabbix_agentd.conf -t system.cpu.switches
system.cpu.switches [m|ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED]

[sbin]$ ./zabbix_agent -V
ZABBIX Agent v1.4.6 (23 July 2008)
Compilation time: Jul 17 2009 15:22:57

[sbin]$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)) #1 SMP Fri Jun 20 02:36:16 EDT 2008



Thanks
Alexander


P.S Here is the list of not supported items:
system.run[echo test] [m|ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED]
kernel.maxproc [m|ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED]
vfs.dev.read[sda,operations] [m|ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED]
vfs.dev.write[sda,sectors] [m|ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED]
net.tcp.listen[80] [m|ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED]
system.cpu.switches [m|ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED]

[zetho]

Hey,

I have the same problem.
Being honest , I've installed zabbix mainly because it does not have to have port 161 open for monitoring system.cpu.switches via snmp/udp . What I get so far is :

1.
[root@123]# zabbix_agentd -V
ZABBIX Agent (daemon) v1.6.5 (revision 7442) (3 April 2009)
Compilation time: Jul 28 2009 16:07:57

2. [root@123]# zabbix_agent -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf -t system.cpu.switches
system.cpu.switches [m|ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED]

Help please

[v.rusinov]

According to zabbix docs system.cpu.switches, kernel.maxproc & net.tcp.listen are only supported on FreeBSD & Solaris. You may need to write you own items and UserParams.

system.run requires EnableRemoteCommands=1 in conf.

for vfs.dev.{read,write} you probably need to check what modes are supported on linux.

[zetho]

Thank you for the response,
it's always some kind of solution to write my own item and I think I'll do it.

regards
WZ

[zetho]

What "key" should I type in adding SNMPv2 item to monitor cpu context switches ?

regards

[tchjts1]

Context switching on Windows machines are easily monitored through Zabbix using performance counters. No need to write anything.

[zetho]

I did not ask about monitoring context switches on Windows machine.

I'd like to monitor context switches on a linux box via SNMP , but there's OID and key (while creating new item) that I don't know.

Any clues ?