zabbix_agent (active) perf_counter does not work

[gelowe]

Switching to active checks so I can keep servers behind a firewall is not working. If I setup NAT port then do a regular check then perf_counter works. Is this by design? Is there another way around this, not being able to che perf_counter removes so many options for using zabbix as does the requirement for 2 way communications.

[ingus.vilnis]

Hi,

Can you double check if your active checks on agent side on that host are configured at all? Do you see incoming values for other active items?

Perf_counters should work also as active checks with no issues.

Best Regards,
Ingus

[eshcherbatyuk]

I had a similar problem. Some of Windows 2008 performance counters simply did not work. Actual reason was that 'information type' for them was numeric unsigned. Changed the type for numeric float and everything worked.

Hopefully, that might help.

Gene