Zabbix Agent2 active on Windows smart.disk,get

[jinu]

Hi Folks

I have installed Zabbix agent2 active on a windows 10 system. I also installed smartmon tools on the PC and included that in the PATH so that i can run smartctl from path

However after starting the agent i see the following errors in the log

2021/04/13 10:54:06.071806 check 'smart.disk.get' is not supported: Failed to execute smartctl: Command execution failed: exit status 1.
2021/04/13 10:55:06.062569 check 'smart.disk.get' is not supported: Failed to scan for devices: Cannot unmarshal JSON: invalid character '\'' looking for beginning of value..
2021/04/13 10:56:06.085848 check 'smart.disk.get' is not supported: Failed to scan for devices: Cannot unmarshal JSON: invalid character '\'' looking for beginning of value..
2021/04/13 10:57:06.096647 check 'smart.disk.get' is not supported: Failed to scan for devices: Cannot unmarshal JSON: invalid character '\'' looking for beginning of value..

Any ideas how to fix this ?

EDIT 1: There was one more weird issue after i installed the agent2 version 5.6.3. It refused to start saying cannot find configuration file zabbix_agent2.win.conf. When i checked the folder i did not find the file only the zabbix_agent2.conf file was there so i copied the same file and renamed it as zabbix_agent2.win.conf and it started working. I getting most of the data on the Zabbix server, just the smart.disk is not working

EDIT 2: I did some more test and figured out what is causing the problem, i cant figure out a solution for the same.

The issue is that the agent is not able to execute with admin privileges. When i test the agent in a command window using the command

zabbix_agentd -t smart.drive.get

I get the same error "Failed to execute smartctl: Command execution failed: exit status 1."

If i run the same command from a Admin command window it works fine.

To resolve this i tried running the zabbix_agent2 service using a local admin id, but still get the same error. No idea what more i can do to fix this

Any ideas, troubleshooting steps are welcome

EDIT 3: Ok some more testing
- I know zabbix_agent2 is running with admin privileges because the logfile created is done with owner as administrator group and within program files which would require admin privileges
- smartctl works fine and gets disk data irrespective of whether i run the command in admin command window or regular command window

[jinu]

Hi

Can anybody help on this issue ?

[satanasdiabolo]

Hello,

I have the same error.
When running

zabbix-agent2 -t smart.disk.get

in a normal powershell prompt I've got this error.
When running the same command in an administrative powershell prompt, I've got a JSON output.

Is there any solution to run zabbix-agent2 as an admin ?

[Dr-primo]

Any solution to this problem?

[vagner.dias]

Any solution to this problem?

Hi Dr-Primo. I had this issue and just fixed it.

check here >>> https://git.zabbix.com/projects/ZBX/..._agent2_active

The article says that you need to Install the Zabbix agent 2 and >>>> Smartmontools 7.1. <<<<

Just look for this tool on google and install it. This will create a bunch of links on the start menu. One of those links will install the smartD service on windows and this service will make everything work for you.

Cheers

[JoseAugusto]

Hi,
I resolved just paste Plugins.Smart.Path="C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin\smartctl.exe" in zabbix_agent2.conf.
Reboot zabbix agent.

[leewp14]

Hi,
I resolved just paste Plugins.Smart.Path="C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin\smartctl.exe" in zabbix_agent2.conf.
Reboot zabbix agent.

Makes no sense (since smartctl is in path and it's the default value), but it works. Thanks a lot. Have a nice day!
No need to install daemon/service or whatsoever. Just have to add this path in agent config.

[pax0707]

For me, it added itself to user, not system.
Manually adding it to system fixed it.