Problem with Zabbix on Windows machines

[sid]

Hello,

I am installing Zabbix on a couple of servers with different OSs'. I seem to be successful on all except windows boxes. However, all my windows boxes show a "connection reset by peer" error.

I installed the newest Zabbix pre-compiled agent for Windows, v1.1. I checked the processes and zabbix_agentd is running. I checked ports, everything looks correct. I couldn't find an error log for the agents.

Does anybody have any idea what could be wrong? I am curious about one thing, the address of the PID file: PidFile=c:\Zabbix\zabbix_agentd.pid. However, I cannot seem to find any PID file. Is this just an address for allocation sake? Or is this a file that I actually have to put up myself?

Thanks for any help possible.

[dantheman]

Windows doesn't use the PID file.

Can you post your config file for the windows agents so we can see how you are setting them up?

[sid]

Here is the conf file i'm using:

# This is config file for zabbix_agentd
# To get more information about ZABBIX, go http://www.zabbix.com

############ GENERAL PARAMETERS #################

# List of comma delimited IP addresses (or hostnames) of ZABBIX servers.
# No spaces allowed. First entry is used for sending active checks.
# Note that hostnames must resolve hostname->IP address and
# IP address->hostname.

Server=<zabbixserver>

# Server port for sending active checks

#ServerPort=10051

# Unique hostname. Required for active checks.

Hostname=<agent_server>

# Listen port. Default is 10050

#ListenPort=10050

# IP address to bind agent
# If missing, bind to all available IPs

#ListenIP=127.0.0.1

# Number of pre-forked instances of zabbix_agentd.
# Default value is 5
# This parameter must be between 1 and 16

StartAgents=5

# How often refresh list of active checks. 2 minutes by default.

#RefreshActiveChecks=120

# Disable active checks. The agent will work in passive mode listening server.

#DisableActive=1

# Enable remote commands for ZABBIX agent. By default remote commands disabled.

EnableRemoteCommands=1

# Specifies debug level
# 0 - debug is not created
# 1 - critical information
# 2 - error information
# 3 - warnings (default)
# 4 - for debugging (produces lots of information)

DebugLevel=3

# Name of PID file

PidFile=c:\Zabbix\zabbix_agentd.PID

# Name of log file.
# If not set, syslog will be used

LogFile=c:\Zabbix\zabbix_agentd.log

# Spend no more than Timeout seconds on processing
# Must be between 1 and 30

Timeout=30

####### USER-DEFINED MONITORED PARAMETERS #######
# Format: UserParameter=<key>,<shell command>
# Note that shell command must not return empty string or EOL only
#UserParameter=system.test,who|wc -l
### Set of parameter for monitoring MySQL server (v3.23.42 and later)
### Change -u<username> and add -p<password> if required
#UserParameter=mysql.ping,mysqladmin -uroot ping|grep alive|wc -l
#UserParameter=mysql.uptime,mysqladmin -uroot status|cut -f2 -d":"|cut -f1 -d"T"
#UserParameter=mysql.threads,mysqladmin -uroot status|cut -f3 -d":"|cut -f1 -d"Q"
#UserParameter=mysql.questions,mysqladmin -uroot status|cut -f4 -d":"|cut -f1 -d"S"
#UserParameter=mysql.slowqueries,mysqladmin -uroot status|cut -f5 -d":"|cut -f1 -d"O"
#UserParameter=mysql.qps,mysqladmin -uroot status|cut -f9 -d":"
#UserParameter=mysql.version,mysql -V

[dantheman]

Was there no error log showing up at LogFile=c:\Zabbix\zabbix_agentd.log ?

Try opening up a command prompt, navigate to your zabbix agent directory and run zabbixw32 check-config that will tell you if it finds any errors with the config file.

[befortin]

Can you telnet your Zabbix client from the Zabbix server on port 10050?

[sid]

Here is the log:

[21-Jul-2006 08:29:19] *************** Log file opened ****************
[21-Jul-2006 08:29:19] Collector thread initialized successfully
[21-Jul-2006 08:29:19] Zabbix Win32 Agent started
[21-Jul-2006 08:29:19] Information: 1324 : Listen thread is Started.
[21-Jul-2006 08:29:19] Information: 1320 : Listen thread is Started.
[21-Jul-2006 08:29:19] Information: 1292 : Listen thread is Started.
[21-Jul-2006 08:29:19] Information: 1288 : Listen thread is Started.
[21-Jul-2006 08:29:19] Information: 2156 : Listen thread is Started.
[21-Jul-2006 08:29:19] Information: 2284 : Listen thread is Started.
[21-Jul-2006 08:29:19] Information: 2252 : Listen thread is Started.
[21-Jul-2006 08:29:19] Information: 2168 : Listen thread is Started.
[21-Jul-2006 08:29:19] Information: 1424 : Listen thread is Started.
[21-Jul-2006 08:29:19] Information: 2244 : Listen thread is Started.

When i try to telent, says :

$ telnet server 10050
Trying <IP Address>...
Connected to server.domain.com (<IP Address>).
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

Thanks for the help.

[ericb]

mine didnt work unitl i did the following on the agent conf

192.168.24.98 is the ip of the zabbix server
testserver is the name of the windows 2003 server


server=192.168.24.98
hostname=testserver


i found when i used the hostname rather than ip i got errors.
i found that if i didnt have the hostname bit in then eventlog monitoring didnt work

so for me it was important to use the ip of the server rather than the name and if you want the eventlog monitor to work add the hostname line with name.


and oh make sure you stop/start the agent if you make any changes to the agents conf

[sid]

that worked!!!!

i can't believe it was the IP address.

thank you all for the help.