Problems with setting up Distributed Monitoring

[welkin]

I've set up two nodes a) and b)

a) Is the Master node and b) the slave node.

a) has nodeID 1 and b) has nodeID 2)

First i compiled both and setup the configs.
Second i ran

zabbix_server -n2 -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix-server.conf

on both hosts.

Then i configured the "Local Node" on Node a) with the ip e.g 192.168.1.1 and added b) as a "Remote Node" with the ip 192.168.1.2. Both ports are 10051.

I did the same on node b) but the otherway around --> configured "Local Node" with ip 192.168.1.2 and the "Master Node" with ip 192.168.1.1. Again with both ports set to 10051.

So far i think i've done nothing wrong. Switching beteween the nodes in the webinterface is no problem and both servers can telnet each other at port 10051.
BUT there is no data going from one machine to the other. I uses tcpdump on both machines and i can absolutly see no data except my pings and telnet tries.

I do see the

27524:20070629:150622 server #9 started [Node watcher. Node ID:2]

messages on both nodes (with different node id's of course).

Can someone point me to the right direction? I cannot find what i'm doing wrong.

greetings
welkin

[Alexei]

If you are on 32 bit systems, may I ask you to try the latest pre 1.4.2 build from www.zabbix.com/developers.php. Please report about any results.

[Niels]

I'm using two 32-bit Debian machines with today's pre 1.4.2. I'm not seeing any traffic between them, using "tcpdump port 10051".

[Alexei]

Try to add a host for monitoring a a child node and see if it starts sending of historical data, events and configuration changes.

[Niels]

I've added a host and an item to the remote node, but it never appears in its database. There's just no traffic at all, no matter what I add.