SNMP monitoring disks and physical memory

[vmcelwain]

Here's the question: Working great, using SNMP to try to stay as light weight as possible for now. I may pay for some support on getting the agent working for windows clients but for now SNMP is working. FYI...the web monitoring is also rock solid and I may need some assistance tweaking.

Now to my question:

SNMP is treating system memory as a physical disk and sending alerts about "Free disk space is less than 20% on volume Physical Memory". Now I'm not running a RAM disk, ah the good old days, and I'm not totally upset that it's classifying the memory as a physical disk. What I'm wondering is there a way to essentially put in a statement that would exclude or remove "Physical Memory" as a disk?

Thanks....it's been less than one week since I've setup the server so I'm pretty happy at this point.

[tchjts1]

.. I may pay for some support on getting the agent working for windows clients but for now SNMP is working.

Zabbix agent works quite fine on Windows hosts out-of-the-box. Why would you need to pay for support to get that working?

[vmcelwain]

Only issue I have had is that my zabbix server sits outside the environment but there is a vpn tunnel. Plus the two options for host or ip didn't seem obvious. Is the zabbix server ip goong in both or is one the ip of the agent? It looked simple enough but I think it has to do with the gateway between the server and the host. Snmp works because I just setup the ip manual and made sure the service was configured correct. The same thing might work for zabbix client. Thoughts? Is there a setting on the client to specify allow requests from all ip? Maybe if I put in the gateway ip for the zabbix server instead of the real ip it would accept the traffic.

[tchjts1]

Only issue I have had is that my zabbix server sits outside the environment but there is a vpn tunnel. Plus the two options for host or ip didn't seem obvious. Is the zabbix server ip goong in both or is one the ip of the agent? It looked simple enough but I think it has to do with the gateway between the server and the host. Snmp works because I just setup the ip manual and made sure the service was configured correct. The same thing might work for zabbix client. Thoughts? Is there a setting on the client to specify allow requests from all ip? Maybe if I put in the gateway ip for the zabbix server instead of the real ip it would accept the traffic.

If your hosts can see the Zabbix server DNS or IP address, you could use Active agent items. In that case, the hosts would do a push to the Zabbix server instead of the Zabbix server doing a pull from your hosts

The two options for using Host or IP in host configuration means how do you want Zabbix server to communicate to your host... either by it's DNS name or it's IP address.

Here is a link to the Zabbix Wiki on agents (In case you haven't found it yet)

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/concepts/agent

It is also helpful to know what version of Zabbix you are using.

[vmcelwain]

so i'm running 2.0.8, I read the thread but what I'm confused about is with the client install the field active server. Is that the host that the client is installed on or should that be the zabbix server?

[vmcelwain]

does anyone have an idea on the memory being considered a physical disk via SNMP?

[tchjts1]

but what I'm confused about is with the client install the field active server. Is that the host that the client is installed on or should that be the zabbix server?

Huh? where do you see a field "active server"? Do you mean in zabbix_agentd.conf, the field "ServerActive"? Please use the correct syntax so as not to confuse us.

ServerActive= would be the IP or DNS of your Zabbix App server.

[tchjts1]

does anyone have an idea on the memory being considered a physical disk via SNMP?

Exactly what item is being used to get that information? Is it from a stock template or did you import a template from the community somewhere?

You would have to show us the item so we could give you an educated answer.

[vmcelwain]

you know, the tone is why I've come to despise my own community. So when you install the agent on a windows box you click next and accept this thing called an agreement statement. Then you see this windows that asks for the IP address of your zabbix server and the port that it wants to talk to it on.

Then there is this box at the bottom of the window that says active server and has this big empty spot next to it.

What I'm really finding hilarious is that your focusing on the agent....try being condescending about the SNMP issue. Honestly at this point I don't care but it was a simple question.

[tchjts1]

What I'm really finding hilarious is that your focusing on the agent....try being condescending about the SNMP issue. Honestly at this point I don't care but it was a simple question.

I wasn't being condescending in the least. I was trying to be helpful. Zabbix configurations use a lot of very similarly named parameters, therefor it is important to be accurate when you are trying to describe your problem.

Maybe someone else will give you a hand. Good luck on your issue.

[vmcelwain]

Good news on the agent front, here is the scenario

Zabbix Server (10.0.1.x)

IPSec P2P VPN

Monitored Host (192.168.0.x)
-Even though they can ping each other the traffic is routed through the gateway of the firewall. So when the host is pinged it looks like it's coming from 192.168.0.1 not 10.0.1.x. I simply put the gateway in the config for the expected server and it's working like a charm.

Nice to know for setups where they are monitoring remote servers etc.