Force Active mode

[Villain]

Is there a way to force the agent into active mode? I have it running on a couple of webservers that are behind a load balancer. To ensure that the servers themselves are working properly, I would like the agent to contact the server, instead of having to open more ports on the load balancer.

I set the DisableActive= flag to 0, which I thought would force it active, but that has not worked so far. Is there a better way to do this?

Thank you.

[dantheman]

you set that in the item configuration, chagne the type from Zabbix Agent to Zabbix Agent (active)

[Villain]

I've done that, and still do not get a connection to the clients.

Example:

Description: CPU Load - 15 minute avg
Type: Zabbix agent (active)
Key: system.cpu.load[,avg1]
Type of Information: Numeric (float)
Units: <blank>
Use Multiplier: Do not User
Update (in sec): 30
Keep history: 90
Keep trends (days): 365
Status: Monitored
Store Value: As is
Applications: -none-

I'm not finding anything that would stop the service from talking to the server. We're running version 1.1 (Will likely upgrade later this week to 1.1.2).

[dantheman]

Do you have the "hostname=" configured in the agent's configuration file? that value will need to match what you named the host in zabbix.

[Villain]

I just fixed the hostname=

It was set to the name of the server, so I guess that would explain that part. I did a killall zabbix_agentd, then restarted the agent, and still no data coming through, though.

Is there anything else that I could be missing?

[dantheman]

it might take a few minutes... ummm the agent has to start up.. get the list of items that it needs to send and then start the schedule... I know that there is a time set to how often it refreshes that list of active checks that it does... I don't remember what the default is...

The next piece would be to set the debuglevel=4 on the agent and then restart it like you did, and then check the agent log file and see what is happening.

[Villain]

nevermind, I found it, problem with our loadbalancer not letting the traffic through. Thanks for the help, I got data flowing now!

[dantheman]

Not a problem, glad you got it going.