icmppingsec and fping with problem

[chuckfabbri]

Hi,

I recently upgraded my Zabbix server from 1.8.10 to 2.0.2 release.
Everything worked fine including apllying the mysql patch.

I installed fping from the Ubuntu repository and changed the FPingLocation as recommended ( from /usr/sbin/fping to /usr/bin/fping...)

I applyed the chown and chmod 4710 commands to the fping binary but it not work.

I updated the zabbix_server.conf file to the new location of fping...

the server log keeps telling:

fping failed: "/bin/sh: Can't open /usr/sbin/fping"

It seems that although I informed zabbix of the correct fping location it doesn't accepts this update...?

Any ideas for help?

Thanks,

[cslaughter]

I had a similar issue, I had to stop the zabbix-server process and restart it to get the changes to take.

[chuckfabbri]

Help

Dear cslaughter,

Thansk for the tip.

I already had stoppped and started the server and it didn't work.

What I did was to remove the fping program installed from the repository, download one newer version, fping 3.4 and install it.

Then I mv the binary to /usr/sbin/ and chown and chmoded correctly.

I restarted the server and finally it worked perfectly.

Once gain thanks.

[Zev]

Hi.

I had the same promlem. So I made for myself an instruction.

check fping path in /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
chown root:zabbix /usr/sbin/fping
chmod ug+s /usr/sbin/fping
set data type float (in items)
set multiplier to 1000 (in items)

After this all works on my server.
Hope it helps.