Agent Issues

[chutchins]

I am woking on a fresh install and first time with Zabbix, and I like the software but I have2 issues i've found so far.

1 Any advice on setting up the agent as a service in 2008 R2? I cant get it setup it runs but thats it

2 We have some "non standard" server configurations like a C drive is a removable drive and sys drive is g. When I try to run the agent it looks for the conf file on the c drive and it will never be there, ay Hints on how o fix?

3 I am sure I can find this, but I will ask away. I am going to have to monitor a specific process, I just wanted some advice on the verbage and which settings to choose? I have tried a few, but all fail.

[tchjts1]

I am woking on a fresh install and first time with Zabbix, and I like the software but I have2 issues i've found so far.

1 Any advice on setting up the agent as a service in 2008 R2? I cant get it setup it runs but thats it

2 We have some "non standard" server configurations like a C drive is a removable drive and sys drive is g. When I try to run the agent it looks for the conf file on the c drive and it will never be there, ay Hints on how o fix?

3 I am sure I can find this, but I will ask away. I am going to have to monitor a specific process, I just wanted some advice on the verbage and which settings to choose? I have tried a few, but all fail.

1. What does your zabbix_agentd.log report for errors?

2. If you are installing the agentd with a non-standard conf file location and have already installed it, first, uninstall it using this command: (change to the appropriate dir where your Zabbix binaries are)

c:\zabbix\[B]zabbix_agentd –u --uninstall [/B]

Now to re-install using a custom location, use this command: (This would assume you have your install binaries in g:\zabbix and are installing to g:\zabbix. zabbix_agentd.conf will also need to be in that dir to complete the install)

g:\zabbix\zabbix_agentd –i --install -c g:\zabbix\zabbix_agentd.conf

That installs the binaries and creates the Zabbix service. You can start the service through the control panel, or through this commandline:

g:\zabbix\zabbix_agentd –s --start -c g:\zabbix\zabbix_agentd.conf

Before you start the install, you have to have zabbix_agentd.conf in the directory you are specifying above (g:\zabbix) or wherver you want the conf file to be. I prefer to keep it in my zabbix directory. You will want some basic info in the conf file such as this: (Remove my comments before installing)

zabbix_agentd.conf

Server=12.34.56.78        [B]<-- IP address of your Zabbix App server[/B]
LogFile=g:/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.log  [B]<-- Where you want the log to be[/B]
DebugLevel=3            [B]<-- 3 will show errors, if any,  in your log[/B]
Hostname=myservername    [B]<-- whatever name you want, must exactly match in the Zabbix GUI[/B]

3. Do a forum search on the keyword typeperf and it will return some good examples of what you will need to do for monitoring a windows process using UserParameters.

[chutchins]

1. What does your zabbix_agentd.log report for errors?

2. If you are installing the agentd with a non-standard conf file location and have already installed it, first, uninstall it using this command: (change to the appropriate dir where your Zabbix binaries are)

c:\zabbix\[B]zabbix_agentd –u --uninstall [/B]

Now to re-install using a custom location, use this command: (This would assume you have your install binaries in g:\zabbix and are installing to g:\zabbix. zabbix_agentd.conf will also need to be in that dir to complete the install)

g:\zabbix\zabbix_agentd –i --install -c g:\zabbix\zabbix_agentd.conf

That installs the binaries and creates the Zabbix service. You can start the service through the control panel, or through this commandline:

g:\zabbix\zabbix_agentd –s --start -c g:\zabbix\zabbix_agentd.conf

Before you start the install, you have to have zabbix_agentd.conf in the directory you are specifying above (g:\zabbix) or wherver you want the conf file to be. I prefer to keep it in my zabbix directory. You will want some basic info in the conf file such as this: (Remove my comments before installing)

zabbix_agentd.conf

Server=12.34.56.78        [B]<-- IP address of your Zabbix App server[/B]
LogFile=g:/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.log  [B]<-- Where you want the log to be[/B]
DebugLevel=3            [B]<-- 3 will show errors, if any,  in your log[/B]
Hostname=myservername    [B]<-- whatever name you want, must exactly match in the Zabbix GUI[/B]

3. Do a forum search on the keyword typeperf and it will return some good examples of what you will need to do for monitoring a windows process using UserParameters.

That helped a ton. I am not sure what I did wrong as I basically did exactly what you did but removed it and added it back in and voila it works.