I should have looked harder for others with this issue, see http://www.zabbix.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=10
for the thread of others suffering this problem
Dear Zabbix Users,
First of all a note about our configuration:
We have heavily templated our zabbix usage such that no monitored host has any of their own items and instead all refer to items via their templates. Thus in the configuration->items screen for a hosts, one sees list of items such as "Template_App_Foo:Foo is running" etc. [Obviously this doesnt apply to web monitoring items as they cant be templated].
The reason I mention this first is that I expect it is pertinent to the main problem we have....
Looking in the manual it says that the parameter 'status' is special, to quote:
Example 7 - Server is unreachable
{zabbix.zabbix.com:status.last(0)}=2
Note: The ‘status’ is a special parameter which is calculated if and only if corresponding host has at least one parameter for monitoring. See description of ‘status’ for more details.
All our "Host status" items, which are defined inside the template 'Template_Linux' and thus listed as 'Template_Linux:Host status' for our monitored hosts always remains set to 'No data' which in turn prevents the main "Server is unreachable" trigger from working.
We've read up on the status parameter (see previous quote from manual) and it simply says as long as ONE parameter (item) is being returned for the host then this will be true as it means the host is up. However for us it remains stubbornly set as 'No data'.
We thought this may be related to our heavy use of templates so have removed the 'Host status' item from the Linux template and manually added it, as well as some other miscellaneous parameter, to one of our monitored hosts in the hope that this would let it start working again but to no avail.
So to the question
How when can i have huge amounts of data coming back from my hosts but my 'Host status' item, and in turn, its 'status' key, simply remain associated with 'no data'.
Help!??...
Thanks John
for the thread of others suffering this problem
Dear Zabbix Users,
First of all a note about our configuration:
We have heavily templated our zabbix usage such that no monitored host has any of their own items and instead all refer to items via their templates. Thus in the configuration->items screen for a hosts, one sees list of items such as "Template_App_Foo:Foo is running" etc. [Obviously this doesnt apply to web monitoring items as they cant be templated].
The reason I mention this first is that I expect it is pertinent to the main problem we have....
Looking in the manual it says that the parameter 'status' is special, to quote:
Example 7 - Server is unreachable
{zabbix.zabbix.com:status.last(0)}=2
Note: The ‘status’ is a special parameter which is calculated if and only if corresponding host has at least one parameter for monitoring. See description of ‘status’ for more details.
All our "Host status" items, which are defined inside the template 'Template_Linux' and thus listed as 'Template_Linux:Host status' for our monitored hosts always remains set to 'No data' which in turn prevents the main "Server is unreachable" trigger from working.
We've read up on the status parameter (see previous quote from manual) and it simply says as long as ONE parameter (item) is being returned for the host then this will be true as it means the host is up. However for us it remains stubbornly set as 'No data'.
We thought this may be related to our heavy use of templates so have removed the 'Host status' item from the Linux template and manually added it, as well as some other miscellaneous parameter, to one of our monitored hosts in the hope that this would let it start working again but to no avail.
So to the question
How when can i have huge amounts of data coming back from my hosts but my 'Host status' item, and in turn, its 'status' key, simply remain associated with 'no data'.
Help!??...
Thanks John
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