Zabbix active check traffic

[Plepple]

Hey!

My conundrum is as follows... I have a Zabbix (2.2) server and agent up and running. The server does all kinds of passive check on the agent -- everything here is working as intended. The problem is that I want to do active checks, but I have no idea how to even begin. I want to monitor the agent's up and down traffic actively, but I don't even know where to start.

I have created two items, one for the monitoring of traffic up, one for down, both are set as Zabbix agent (active). I added these as graphs, but I see nothing.

The host is a Windows machine, and it has the server IP configured, ServerActive with the same IP, its local hostname, and RefreshActiveChecks=60.

If I need some additional script in the agent's config, how could I go about knowing what they are?

[Atsushi]

Do you not block traffic from agent to server?
That port no is 10051 by default.
Please check iptables or other firewalls setting on Zabbix server.

[tchjts1]

A couple of things here:

1. If you have a Windows host and you have attached Template OS Windows to it, Zabbix is pre-configured to do low level discovery of your interfaces (as well as filesystems) and will automatically create the graphs for traffic In and Out. This is done through discovery rules in the template.

2. Note that when a template is attached to a server, it can take up to an hour for the discovery rules to initially run.

3. You say your host is Windows, but the two items you show are not interfaces for Windows. eth0 is a Linux interface.

You can read more about low level discovery here: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...evel_discovery

[aib]

My Windows machine has autodiscovered Network Interfaces Items and they look like:

net.if.in[Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller]

I agree that net.if.in[eth0] looks more LINUXish