Update Interval not working

[tamws]

Dear all,

I've just installed a Zabbix 1.1.1 into a FC4 system. I created a simple host template with an item that do simple icmppingsec.

After that I created some hosts and link with that template, the ping works fine.

Then I want to set the update interval of this template's icmppingsec item to 300s. It is set to 300s in the database correctly! However from the Monitoring->Latest Data->Graph->500 last values history, I still found that the ping runs for every 1 minute.

Am I missing something? Or is it a bug?


Thanks,
Vincent

[tamws]

Update to the problem

Dear all,

I have some update to my problem, I tried these but the problem still happen
- I tried to replace the 1.1.1 server with 1.1
- I tried to use IP address and hostname for the host records
- I tried to set the fping in both rights: -rwsr-xr-x and -rwsr-x---
- the item is a simple ping test, no remote agent

Anyone kind to tell me he has used 1.1 and can set the update interval to work properly?


Thanks,
Vincent

[Alexei]

Update interval is ignored for the "special" items: icmpping and icmppingsec.

[tamws]

Hi Alexei,

Thanks for your reply!

Does it means all these "simple checks" that not using the agent cannot set with update intervals?

Is there any reasons for this setup and do you think it will change to response to the update intervals setting in the future?


Thanks!!
Vincent

[Alexei]

Does it means all these "simple checks" that not using the agent cannot set with update intervals?

Is there any reasons for this setup and do you think it will change to response to the update intervals setting in the future?

No, it is for icmpping and icmppingsec only! This is because it relies on external program fping, so the refresh interval cannot be controlled on per item level.

[Andreas Bollhalder]

Hello Alexei

No, it is for icmpping and icmppingsec only! This is because it relies on external program fping, so the refresh interval cannot be controlled on per item level.

Does this still apply to 1.4.2 ? Then how does it interfer with the "PingerFrequency" in the server configuration file ? I have been trying to get an interval for icmpping of 30s. In the latest data, I see that Zabbix collects every ~68s a value for it. Is this correct ?

Andreas

[Andreas Bollhalder]

[Solved]

I have uncommented "PingerFrequency=30" in the server configuration and now the icmpping interval is about ~38s. It seems, that the default is 60s instead of 30s as statet in the documentation.

Andreas