Alarm clock for more than 3 sec

[coffeecat]

I want use zabbix instead nagios. I have a trouble, need help.

I have many server, each server need to ping it's master/slave,so it's different for each server,I want exec this command to easier for insted.

example:
In nagios I write in nrep.conf.
/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H 192.168.1.1 -p 5 -w 1,20% -c 2,20%

In zabbix I write:
UserParameter=nagios.check_ping,/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H 192.168.1.1 -p 5 -w 1,20% -c 2,20%

And use this for test:
/usr/local/zabbix/sbin/zabbix_agentd -c /usr/local/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf -t "nagios.check_ping"

I found exec this must less 3 sec,more than 3 sec just view "alarm clock"
Modify zabbix_agentd.conf of Timeout,but is not work.

for 3 sec (-p 3)
[root@localhost zabbix]# /usr/local/zabbix/sbin/zabbix_agentd -c /usr/local/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf -t "nagios.check_ping"
nagios.check_ping [t|PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.55 ms|rta=0.549000ms;1.000000;2.000000;0.000000 pl=0%;20;20;0]
for 4 sec (-p 4)
[root@localhost zabbix]# /usr/local/zabbix/sbin/zabbix_agentd -c /usr/local/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf -t "nagios.check_ping"
Alarm clock

[ghoz]

check the timeouts for your agent. looks like your nagios check take more time than the agent is willing to wait for.
on a related note if you have a lot of items that may take a long time, you should boost the number of agent processes as well. a check like this one, will block a process for the fill 4 seconds it needs...


you could also use some integrated check like net.tcp.port[<ip>,port] on your hosts. I don't think the icmpping tests work on the agent unfortunately

[coffeecat]

I set agent timeouts again ,set 15 or 60 ,but is not work. if zabbix_agent test is not ok,the server is not ok.

net.tcp.port is not good way for me, Becase I want check pingloss, is very useful for me.

Thank you anyway

[ghoz]

I'm sorry to insist, but did you change the timeout in the agent config file too ?

by default the agent will wait 3secs for the command to complete... the coincidence with your problem is troubling...