Smokeping replacement?

[abjornson]

One other question - default behavior of the "real" smokeping sends 20 pings in 5 minutes.

It seems like since timeout is limited to 30 seconds in the zabbix server config, it wouldn't be possible to replicate this...correct?

[adg]

Moved server

I've moved to a new server, and update Zabbix to 2.4.5 on Ubuntu LTS 14

The config has been moved, however, the script doesn't work on the new server.

I get a timeout issue, however, the timeout value in zabbix_server.conf matches the working one, at 30 seconds.

user@monitoring:/usr/lib/zabbix/externalscripts$ ./zbxsmokepingprimary 127.0.0.1 6 1000 68 127.0.0.1
fping -b 68 -c 6 -q -p 1000 127.0.0.1
zabbix_sender [9665]: Warning: timeout while executing operation
zabbix_sender [9917]: Warning: timeout while executing operation
zabbix_sender [10082]: Warning: timeout while executing operation

Anyone had a similar issue?

[ApolloDS]

Hi adg,
It seems that the zabbix_sender cannot send the data to the zabbix server.
I have everything running with 2.4.5 on LTS 14.04.

Maybe you see more when you enable debugging in the script?

[mbsit]

I don't know you have my version or modified one but in the script you have to set IP of new zabbix server:

...
#!/bin/bash
# Where is your zabbix server
ZBXSERVER=127.0.0.1 <-
...

[ursal]

Hi!
Made some changes is script on my Ubuntu 14.04, zabbix 2.2.2
Quotes on Hostname variable for hostnames with spaces and grep "failed: 1" instead of "Failed 1", because of different zabbix output format

$ZBXSENDER -z $ZBXSERVER -p 10051 -s "$HOSTNAME" -k SmokePingLoss -o ${tab[0]} -v | grep "failed: 1"



You can also use
#!/bin/bash
# show all command before execution
#set -x #echo on
for command execution debugging

[midnight_man]

Hi guys,

I still cant make this template working. I have both templates and scripts which are here in this thread.

I changed timeout in server config to 12ms
Edit IP in script
edit fping path to usr/bin/fping

maybe need edit path for zabbix sender? ( I have zabbix 3.2)

still NO DATA in graph

thanks

[sles]

Hello!

Just found this thread.
I don't think script and template here is smokeping replacement-
smokeping shows you not only min/average/max delay , it really shows each ping, main advantage of smokeping is how it graphically displays data.
Could you tell me is it really possible to replace smokeping ?

Thank you!

[pkowal]

Just in case anyone needs to use fping to gather information longer than 30 seconds in zabbix 3.x (which is the max value for zabbix external script timeout).

Create bash script as a wrapper to spawn a child process:

exec zbxsmokeping "$@" &

Don't forget to close stdout and stderr in zbxsmokeping before launching fping:

exec 1>&-
exec 2>&-

This should make the wrapper exit instantly, and trapper collect the data.

[cserf]

Zabbix 4.0.0

What variable is to be used in Primary Smoke Indicator to properly indicate the name of monitored host in zabbix:
When using host.host:
zbxsmokepingprimary[{$PRIMARYIP},6,1000,68,{HOST.HOST}]
zabbix shows the items
PrimaryLatencyAvg, PrimaryLatencyMaxPrimaryLatencyMin,PrimaryLoss
as unsupported and comment is ' Value "-v" of type "string" is not suitable for value type "Numeric (float)" '

When I put HOST.NAME or something different it shows all items supported but no data on graph

using shell command
./zbxsmokepingprimary 192.168.1.10 6 1000 68 NameOfHostInZabbix
works perfectly - puts data to the graph

Rafal