Items: agent active / passive ?

[NOB]

Hi,

in my simple mind I thought, that all checks (items) I can request from
remote (passive) should also be possible locally by the agent (active).
However, when I change, e.g., the check for disk free on drive e: (Windows)
from "agent" to "agent (active)" no data are send.

Is this expected or is it a bug in 1.3.5 (beta) ?

Does it correspond to the problem with "zabbix_agentd -t arg"
on Windows (1.3.5) which is described in this thread

Of course, this is not valid the other way around, i.e. some active checks
can not be done remote (like logfile watching).

In order to avoid overloading our server, we need to do as much as local
checks as possible.

Regards,

Norbert.

[Alexei]

1.3.5 had serious issues with processing of active and not only active checks. It is already fixed. Please wait for 1.3.6.

[NOB]

Oh, I see.

The problem was the hostname.
The Windows agent installer sets the hostname to, say, "server".
But in the DB on the server it's name is "server.xxx.org".
Once fixed in the agent config, the value for vfs.fs.size[e:,free]
send the correct value (about 7GB) for the correct server !

On the other hand, the 'eventlog[application]' active check on the
same server now shows (in the Web-Interface) exactly the same value as
the last entry for the free size of drive "e:" i.e. about 7 GB.

If this is corrected in the next beta, too, fine.

BTW: There is a bug in frontends/php/history.php on line 404:
Index "priority" undefined (or so).
I changed "priority" to "severity" but am not sure whether this is OK.

Regards,

Norbert.