connection problem between agent and server

[6-MarViN]

Hello,

I have a zabbix server and GUI on localhost. the monitoring of my server works perfectly. However I have another machine i would like to monitor too. I've installed the agent on it and configured it according to the Manual. Unfortunatly I get this error in the logs:

Get active checks error: cannot connect to [server_ip:server_port] [connection refused].

I've been through this forum already looking for answers, however none of it helped. nearly all my settings are default except hostname, which i changed according to the name in the GUI, and Server, which has been changed to the ip of the machine my server is on.

Could you help me plz?

Thanks

[Davidus]

Well first of all check your firewall settings if any
ports 10051(zabbix server) and 10050(zabbix agent) should be open
Also check your agent configurations (for linux) http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/.../zabbix_agentd

[Superkikim]

Hi,

I'm having the same trouble.

required ports are open, I can connect with telnet on them, no problem. But I dont' get any data on the server, nor do I have a green Z icon. This icon is still gray.

My situation is the following:

Server:

Ubuntu 10.10 Server
Zabbix server installed through zabbix-server-mysql package. Version 1.8.2
Zabbix agent installed through zabbix-agent package: Version 1.8.2

Currently, only one remote server has the agent installed:

Debian 5.0.8, kernel 2.6.26-2-686
Zabbix agent installed through zabbix-agent package: Version 1.4.6

Both hosts show the same behavior on the server (or no behavior at all for instance) I don't really know what to do next. It's quite frustrating.

Any help is welcome.

[6-MarViN]

Actually it was a firewall problem. Thank you very much.

[Superkikim]

well doesn't seem to be my case...

Can you elaborate what the issue was and how you fixed it ? please ?