Zabbit monitor remote mysql host

[paddyosullivan]

I installed zabbix-release_4.4-1+bionic_all.deb

Rather than using a local mysql I have installed the server mysql on a remote database.

I have a database server and I would like to monitor it however it constantly says mysql is down which it is not. Even when I run the following I get this output (on zabbix server)

zabbix_agentd -t "mysql.version."
mysql.version. [m|ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED] [Unsupported item key.]


I have created a .my.cnf in /etc/zabbix and also the userparams_mysql.conf file (on the zabbix server)

my .mycnf file looks like this

[client]
user=zbx_user
password=secretPw
host=cool.remote-db-server.com

[mysql]
user=zbx_user
password=secretPw
host=cool.remote-db-server.com

[mysqladmin]
user=zbx_user
password=secretPw
host=cool.remote-db-server.com

and zabbix_agentd.d/userparameter_mysql.conf is as follows

# For all the following commands HOME should be set to the directory that has .my.cnf file with password information.

#

# Flexible parameter to grab global variables. On the frontend side, use keys like mysql.status[Com_insert].

# Key syntax is mysql.status[variable].

UserParameter=mysql.status[*],echo "show global status where Variable_name='$1';" | HOME=/etc/zabbix mysql -N | awk '{print $$2}' # My line

#

# Flexible parameter to determine database or table size. On the frontend side, use keys like mysql.size[zabbix,history,data].

# Key syntax is mysql.size[<database>,<table>,<type>].

# Database may be a database name or "all". Default is "all".

# Table may be a table name or "all". Default is "all".

# Type may be "data", "index", "free" or "both". Both is a sum of data and index. Default is "both".

# Database is mandatory if a table is specified. Type may be specified always.

# Returns value in bytes.

# 'sum' on data_length or index_length alone needed when we are getting this information for whole database instead of a single table

UserParameter=mysql.size[*],echo "select sum($(case "$3" in both|"") echo "data_length+index_length";; data|index) echo "$3_length";; free) echo "data_free";; esac)) from information_schema.tables$([[$

#

#Default below

#UserParameter=mysql.ping,HOME=/etc/zabbix mysqladmin ping | grep -c alive

UserParameter=mysql.ping,HOME=/etc/zabbix mysqladmin -s ping | grep -c alive || true

#

#My line

UserParameter=mysql.uptime,HOME=/etc/zabbix mysqladmin status | cut -f2 -d ":" | cut -f1 -d "T" | tr -d " "

UserParameter=mysql.threads,HOME=/etc/zabbix mysqladmin status | cut -f3 -d ":" | cut -f1 -d "Q" | tr -d " "

UserParameter=mysql.questions,HOME=/etc/zabbix mysqladmin status | cut -f4 -d ":"|cut -f1 -d "S" | tr -d " "

UserParameter=mysql.slowqueries,HOME=/etc/zabbix mysqladmin status | cut -f5 -d ":" | cut -f1 -d "O" | tr -d " "

UserParameter=mysql.qps,HOME=/etc/zabbix mysqladmin status | cut -f9 -d ":" | tr -d " "

UserParameter=mysql.version,mysql -V

[tim.mooney]

zabbix_agentd -t "mysql.version."
mysql.version. [m|ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED] [Unsupported item key.]

You can query the agentd using '-p' to get it to print all of the items it knows about, so what does 'zabbix_agentd -p | egrep -i mysql' show? Does it show a bunch of item keys that match the item keys you've defined?

[paddyosullivan]

Yeah it seems that it prints out everything that I have defined in the zabbix_agentd.d/userparameter_mysql.conf file but it does not report these things back to the server for some reason - the server is always reporting that mysql is down.