Ubuntu 7 & Zabbix

[nickp]

Hi all

I'm trying to setup a monitoring solution for our customers, so i went looking for some solutions, and found that Zabbix is the thing we need. I'm a windows administrator with basic linux knowledge so bare me i'm trying to get the best of both worlds...

Now this is what i have done until now

Installed a LAMP version of Ubuntu 7
Updated everything
installed libsnmp-dev (took me a while to find that...)

Did this:

apt-get install binutils cpp fetchmail flex gcc libarchive-zip-perl libc6-dev libcompress-zlib-perl libdb4.3-dev libpcre3 libpopt-dev linux-kernel-headers lynx m4 make ncftp nmap openssl perl perl-modules unzip zip zlib1g-dev autoconf automake1.9 libtool bison autotools-dev g++

To make sure i got most of the things, based on the howtoforge installdoc
Also this

apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient15-dev

Followed the zabbix installation doc without any errors, took the beta version. Started zabbix_Server. But i just can't get to the zabbix website.

Anybody that could help me a hand, i'm gonna contribute wherever i can,this is keeping me busy for almost 3 days..

Thx in advance

[nickp]

/var/www

Okay, i'm a litle further now... copied the /frontends/php to /var/www and it runs smoothly i think...

I get the Zabbix server is runnin 0, according to some posts here it's go to do something with the php in safe mode, so i'm just gonna ignore that for now.

Tried also the new version, but got that loop bug, changed it according the patches. But still not fixed..

I addes 2 devices a firewall and a windows 2003 server, strange thing is that none of the graphs events etc.. works....

So maybe the zabbix server is really not running?

checked it with service zabbix status, but it says unrecognized service..

anybody?

[nickp]

graphs

In the graphs i get No data...

[Rudolf]

The running zabbix's I always check with "ps aux | grep zabbix"
For the graphics, check if gd and php-gd are installed
I suppose you checked the config files? On my Fedora 5 it's /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
If you have a firewall, is the default port 10051 open? Or 10050? Check .conf
You modified include/db.inc.php on the web server with the correct user/pass for mysql?

[nickp]

Hi

thx for the response. I finally got it working on my debian server. Localhost is monitorred perfectly.

Only my windows server isn't, do you know if i have to change something on the firewall settings on the debian server?

Linux n00b here

Always get the message: connection reset by peer.

[nickp]

SNMP devices give me a timeout...

[Villain]

I gave up on monitoring snmp because I couldn't understand the whole OID things that I kept reading about.

However, if possible, use php or some other scripting language to do some of the monitoring. You can then use Zabbix to read the results of those scripts using custom user items. We do this for monitoring servers that are critical and cannot have extra services running on them, as well as to monitor switches and routers.

As for installing the monitoring client on your Windows boxes, make sure you edit the configuration file and change the location of the temp and log files. I think it should read something like:

c:\temp\tempfile

and

c:\temp\logfile

I ran into problems getting the service to install and run until I made those changes.

[nickp]

Well on debian zabbix works like a charm, long live aptitude..

First i had 1.1.3 then with changing /etc/apt/sources.list to use the unstable branche
apt-get update apt-get upgrade and voilà upgraded to the new version

I still believe it's a firewall thing, localhost is monitored perfectly but the winbox and the firewall not.

I have a small doc i wrote for internal purposes, if you want i can mail it to you for a zabbix setup under debian. It's sightly different then on a Ubuntu.

Nick