Host monitoring via ICMP

[mvoltolini]

Good morning, everyone,

I am a new Zabbix user and I am starting to take my first steps with this software. In the installation I am testing I have successfully managed to establish the connection between the Zabbix Server instance and two clients using the agent.
I have configured a host that I need to keep monitored via ICMP because I don't have the ability to install the agent on the machine.

Following some tutorials I did this:

1. Verified that fping was updated to the latest version
2. changed the property of fping with chown root:zabbix /usr/bin/fping
3. added to the Zabbix server configuration file StartPingers=10 and FpingLocation=/usr/bin/fping
4. restarted zabbix via systemctl restart zabbix-server (I also did a reboot of the VM)

After adding the ICMP template and saving the host however, I cannot display any data.


What am I doing wrong?

[Blevar]

What does Latest data tab say for said host? Is there any error displayed near the item?

[jean-louis.abegg]

Watch out for firewall rules too.
You could realise tests from the cli of your zabbix, to check if 192.168.1.50 respond to your echo icmp.
fping 192.168.1.50