system.run ( ping ) is not running

[mbuyukkarakas]

Hello all,

I would like to use zabbix agent system.run function to ping or curl some external addresses.

like : zabbix_get -s 10.8.7.100 -p 10050 -k 'system.run[ping www.cnn.com]' or zabbix_get -s 10.8.9.143 -p 10050 -k 'system.run[curl www.cnn.com 80]'

zabbix_get -s 10.8.7.100 -p 10050 -k 'system.run[ping cnn.com]'
ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED: Timeout while executing a shell script.

First, system.run[ping] is never running. Neither at Linux or Windows.
Second, system.run[curl] is ok at Linux. But I couldnt found similar utiliy for Windows.

I changed timeout value to the limit but it's still the same problem.

Is it poss
I believe its a usefull feature for measuring some connectivity problems. Anybody can help to solve this please ?

Thank you.
Mehmet

[Atsushi]

If you use system.run[] to ping on Linux, try specifying the number of times. If you do not specify the number of times, the ping command will continue to check many times.

ex.
zabbix_get -s 10.8.7.100 -p 10050 -k 'system.run[ping -c 2 cnn.com]'

[mbuyukkarakas]

Thank you Atsushi. Actually this is not what I want to achive. The problem is that Zabbix agent is never running this command for network related commands at Windows. Maybe this is a basic path problem or something else. I dont know yet.