Confused about 'normal' zabbix agent and zapcat

[yatesco]

Hi all,

I have a standard install (Ubuntu Lucid) of 1.8.1 which is monitoring a number of Linux machines on port 10050 (which was the default). Everything is working hunky dory

Now I am interested in monitoring my Tomcat servers (which are running on those Linux boxen) and also the apps inside that. Googling points to zapcat, so I followed the howto: http://www.kjkoster.org/zapcat/Tomcat_How_To.html but all of the Java and Tomcat items were marked as 'not supported' by the agent. I turned them back on and they would go off.

I then noticed that the zapcat documentation mentioned 10052 (as oppose to 10050) - changing the agent port to 10052 in the host config now means I have lots of lovely JMX information coming through, but all of the old information is now in grey!

I am missing a piece - do I need both the zabbix-agent installed on one port and the zapcat on another port? Should they both listen on the same port (won't they clash?).

Am I supposed to create two host configs - one for the zabbix agent on 10050 and one for the zapcat agent on 10052?

Many thanks for your help - I am *this* close to getting all of this configured just the way I need it - this is the last piece of the puzzle

Col

[Tenzer]

Zapcat and Zabbix Agent are supposed to run a two separate clients, so they should run on different ports and exist as separate entities in Zabbix.

[yatesco]

Zapcat and Zabbix Agent are supposed to run a two separate clients, so they should run on different ports and exist as separate entities in Zabbix.

OK - that makes sense - many thanks

Are there any other solutions that allow me to check JMX through the zabbix agent? I know about the solutions involving dumping JMX values into a text file and having the zabbix agent interrogate that, but I am too lazy

Col

[jthakrar]

Yes, check out the Java JVM agent from Mikoomi.

http://www.mikoomi.com/index.php/products/jvm-monitoring-agent

[bashman]

Is it possible to use Zapcat and Agent listening on the same 10050 port?.

I want to have just one host in Zabbix, but it's not possible to have two ports on the same host.

[bashman]

In Jboss is possible using twiddle.sh locally through the Agent.