Zabbix Queue.

[Vanyuan]

Halo,

I am still getting to know zabbix, and running version 1.1.5. I have a question regarding queues:

Currently there are approximately 800 items in my "ZABBIX agent" queue. I created my first action to notify me when a specific server goes down and powered the machine down.

Even after more than 10 minutes of waiting I have still not received an email. (a Media type has been set for the account)

What I noted is the large amount of items in the queue. Does this have anything to do with the notification not having been sent yet?

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

Vanyuan.

[swaterhouse]

The reason your not getting the notification is likely due to the number of items in the queue. Try restarting the zabbix_server process to see if that helps. If not has it ever worked or is this a new deployment? If new double check that the ip address and ports that you specified in the zabbix_agent.conf and zabbix_server.conf files are correct. Is there a firewall blocking ports?

Scott

[James Wells]

Greetings,

In addition to Scott's comments, I would recommend, disabling all hosts, save one, then increase the log level in the Zabbix Agent and the Zabbix Server and see what the logs indicate.

[Vanyuan]

Thank You.

Alo Guys,

A short note to personally thank Scott, as well as James. My problem was my init script which didn't remove the pid file.

The web interface was still functioning normal and I was under the impression that all was fine. Perhaps ti's a good idea to get some (any) sort of indicator that will check if the zabbix server is running and display a green light if all's well and red if the zabbix server is not started in the web interface? Just an idea.

Thanks again guys.

Warmest Regards.

Vanyuan.

[James Wells]

Perhaps ti's a good idea to get some (any) sort of indicator that will check if the zabbix server is running and display a green light if all's well and red if the zabbix server is not started in the web interface? Just an idea.

Actually I posted a PATCH a couple months ago that improves the way the UI reports on server status. This patch also has the ability to display the server status at the top of each page in the zabbix UI. The patch was written for 1.1.2, but should be easily merged into 1.1.6. I actually created it for a situation very similar to what you saw.

[Vanyuan]

Perfect!

I will absolutely have a look at it.

V.