Zabbix sender help please

[fisher]

I having trouble using zabbix_sender. My script produces a data file like:

- openvz.values[101,kmemsize,held] 5026985
- openvz.values[101,kmemsize,maxheld] 9245019
- openvz.values[101,kmemsize,barrier] 115201800
- openvz.values[101,kmemsize,limit] 115201800
- openvz.values[101,kmemsize,failcnt] 0
- openvz.values[101,lockedpages,held] 0
- openvz.values[101,lockedpages,maxheld] 0
- openvz.values[101,lockedpages,barrier] 256

...and so on. If I am right the dash at the begining means the zabbix_sender use the hostname found in the config file:

zabbix_sender -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf -z 172.16.8.254 -i "${SENDERFILE}"

The sender says:

zabbix_sender [17335]: DEBUG: Answer [{
"response":"success",
"info":"Processed 0 Failed 250 Total 250 Seconds spent 0.001421"}]
Info from server: "Processed 0 Failed 250 Total 250 Seconds spent 0.001421"

My keys created like this:

openvz.values[101,kmemsize,failcnt]

http://kepfeltoltes.hu/view/111221/yy_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.png

Not all the keys are created (yet) but all refused to be processed.

I can not see any related trouble in the server log and would not increase the debug level yet due the amount of debug it would produce. I believe I made a basic mistake, please advise.

[bcarpio]

Wrong format

Looks like your format might be off here is an example from a mongo template we/I use. The format is:

<zabbix_name_in_gui> <key_name> <data_value>

mongo-server repl_member_attention_state_count 0
mongo-server repl_member_attention_state_info empty
mongo-server oplog.rs_count Object
mongo-server mongoDB_plugin_data_collection_time 0
mongo-server mongoDB_plugin_version 0.3
mongo-server mongoDB_plugin_checksum a7609ec8dac0f044a6ab5aab9604f4f8
mongo-server opcounters_command 4839633


Here is how one of the items looks in the gui



Also make sure your key "Type of information" is set properly the values which give text should state "Text" etc..

[fisher]

The only difference I can see is your keys are it.is.a.key.name format instead the mine it.is[a,key,name]. It would be the problem?

[bcarpio]

No space

I am not sure if the [] creates a problem It shouldn't but I don't see a server name value in your output data file I just see "-" so maybe you did that just because you didn't want to expose the hostname? But the first field must match the hostname in the gui make sure to double check that.. Then I'd try and remove the [] just to see what happens.

[fisher]

Regarding the docs: http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/.../zabbix_sender

"Dash in the input data indicates that hostname also should be used from the same configuration file."

the dash should not be a problem. I use the config file value to eliminate the possibility of any typo I will create a key.name.parameters keys to see if it helps.

[bcarpio]

Ah I didn't know that...

Oh great, I didn't know that about the "-" so thats good, let me know what happens without the []

[fisher]

Seems the problem is elsewhere. I have changed the keys to dotted and no luck not even when I try to load the values from the command line:

# zabbix_sender -vv -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf -k openvz.values.101.kmemsize.held -o 5024364
zabbix_sender [15162]: DEBUG: Answer [{
"response":"success",
"info":"Processed 0 Failed 1 Total 1 Seconds spent 0.000023"}]
Info from server: "Processed 0 Failed 1 Total 1 Seconds spent 0.000023"
sent: 1; skipped: 0; total: 1

I have created the key "openvz.values.101.kmemsize.held" zabbix trapper type.

[vlturner]

Take a look at my perl script

This uses the perl zabbix sender api.

http://www.zabbix.org/wiki/User:Vlturner

This is very strait forward code.

[zabbix_zen]

"info":"Processed 0 Failed 1 Total 1 Seconds spent 0.000023"}]

fisher,
those errors are most frequently due to host, item name, or item type mismatch between the data sent and the way that host or item is setup on the Server.

I agree the error description per se doesn't help,
hopefully Zabbix SIA can improve this in Zabbix 2.0.
Please check it thoroughly.

[fisher]

I got the solution. I made the mistake, the allowed hosts field was not set but it must. However the zabbix server should have been logged an error but it did not so I got no any indication about the nature of the actual problem.

[Abhiram_Cloud4c]

facing same issue with zabbi agent active

hi fisher,

could you please let me know who the issues was solved.

i have configured active items in zabbix web....i am manually trying to push the data from zabbix proxy to zabbix app server using zabbix sender but facing the below error.

[root@cloudpro zabbix]# zabbix_sender -z 127.0.0.1 -s abhiram_test -k icmppingsec -o 0.13
info from server: "processed: 0; failed: 1; total: 1; seconds spent: 0.000341"
sent: 1; skipped: 0; total: 1

127.0.0.1 dummy ip.