statsallowip not working

[Gerd Mueller]

Hi forum,

I need to monitor the zabbix server status with a third party tool. Configuring statsallowip as documented here https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...s/remote_stats doesn't work. zabbix_get gets me always following errors:

zabbix_get -s my.servers.address -k "zabbix.stats"
zabbix_get [3520239]: Get value error: ZBX_TCP_READ() failed: [104] Connection reset by peer
zabbix_get [3520239]: Check access restrictions in Zabbix agent configuration

Anyone any idea?

Thanks Gerd

[Hamardaban]

The zabbix_get accesses the zabbix_agent, therefore, the agent configuration must have "connection permission" = address in the "Server" list in the agent configuration.
Next, the agent requests data from the server from its own address, and the server will give them only to the allowed addresses from the "StatsAllowedIP" list
I recommend using the full syntax when requesting a key to avoid confusion. zabbix.stats[<ip>,<port>,queue,<from>,<to>] https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...s/zabbix_agent

If you request statistics directly from the server (not through an agent) by another zabbix server, then other keys work (zabbix[stats,<ip>,<port>]) . And in this case, the connection permission is taken only from the "StatsAllowedIP".

[Gerd Mueller]

Ah, that helps. I thought I could query the server directly. Thanks

I will use this way now.