Zabbix ICMP Ping still works?

[georged7]

Hello everyone,

I have installed Zabbix latest server (version 6.2) and testing it to see if I can monitor some hosts via ICMP simple check with Ping, I have setup the host properly, enabled the permissions for fping, verified everything and I can see that the hosts was only pinged 3 times by Zabbix... as seeing on the image attached, the server has been running for at least 1 day and the data has not updated, nor increased, any suggestions how to make it update? Ping the hosts? Thank you

[cyber]

How do you get "only 3 times" from that pic? "Latest data 3" means there is data for 3 items... You should maybe click on that link and check the real data... ?

[Michał Czerniakiewicz]

ICMP simple checks are still part of basic functionality in current version. Please try to follow this step by step tutorial(https://techexpert.tips/zabbix/zabbix-icmp-ping-monitor), check your setup and let us know if helps you.

[ELIAS HARO]

Hello,

I have version 6.4, I just started with Zabbix and I like it a lot, but I followed the steps in the link indicated by Michal Czerniakiewicz, followed the steps one by one and it doesn't work for me, is it different in 6.4?

Thank you all,

[msteenblok]

Hi,
I also just started with Zabbix yesterday, version 6.4.0, and the first thing I tried was to setup and ICMP ping. It turns out that there is a known bug in 6.4 that makes the ICMP ping difficult to setup - see bug report https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-22105.
In order to get it working I had to go to Data collection - Hosts - click on items link in host list - then in items list, click on 3 dots and select Configuration-Item, then set the host interface. I had to do this for all three (ICMP loss, ICMP ping, and ICMP response time).
Hope this helps.

[ELIAS HARO]

Hello,
Correct, that's how it worked for me, msteenblok, thanks for the help.
Greetings,