All ICMP Items "not supported"

[scdickey]

Hello all...hoping this is a quick fix but I have spent/wasted hours at this point trying to resolve unsuccessfully...brand new to zabbix as of yesterday...

System is up and running and appears to be healthy.
I am trying to simply ping devices, track some latency/etc and alert if device is down. I have added hosts using both agent and snmp interfaces, tried with one or the other as well. I am using the Template ICMP Ping for each host which I see includes 3 items and 3 associated triggers. I do have snmp interface graphs working

All items have a status of "Not supported". When I initially add the host/template the status shows enabled but then at some point changes to "Not supported" (see attached image)

I went through the problem and resolution of fixing the permissions on the /usr/sbin/fping and I no longer see any log complaints about that.

linux-qvvt:~ # ls -l /usr/sbin/fp*
-rws--x--- 1 root zabbix 31312 Sep 27 2013 /usr/sbin/fping
-rws--x--- 1 root zabbix 31312 Sep 27 2013 /usr/sbin/fping6

I have downloaded the vmware appliance yesterday and have running on VMWare WIndows Workstation. No problem. As part of my troubleshooting I have applied the updates using the following:
zypper ref
zypper up

[scdickey]

I never figured this out....apparently it has something to do with the appliance. I went ahead and installed zabbix on 2 other ubuntu 14.04 LTS serversystems using the apt-get method and neither had this issue.