Web monitoring not working

[JustinM]

Hi folks,

I have successfully installed Zabbix server and agent 1.4.1 on Ubuntu 7.04.

Monitoring of the local agent is working fine and the web monitoring is not working. Initially I compiled Zabbix without the --with-libcurs option, so I re-compiled it hoping that this would fix the problem, but it hasn't.

When I look at the Web monitoring screen, it says that the Last Check was "01 Jan 10:00:00" and the State is "Idle till 01 Jan 10:00:00".

I have setup the web monitoring correctly as I had previously been testing the Zabbix vmware appliance and was able to get everything running. I am now trying to set it up on the physical (as opposed to virtual) machine.

Does anybody have any thoughts on why it is not running or how I might diagnose the problem?

Thanks,
Justin.

[aalexanderr]

Hi folks,

I have successfully installed Zabbix server and agent 1.4.1 on Ubuntu 7.04.

Does anybody have any thoughts on why it is not running or how I might diagnose the problem?

Thanks,
Justin.

Need more info: cat /tmp/zabbix_server.log

[JustinM]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the reply. I didn't realise the location of the log file.

Things were a bit strange because the first time I started zabbix_server, the little zabbix startup banner appeared in the log file but never again.
While I was looking into things, I decided to amend the /etc/init.d/zabbix-server file to start zabbix under the zabbix user.

Things were still a bit strange (it was often refusing to restart) so I decided to reboot the machine (a very bad Windows habit I must confess) but things started working fine after the reboot. Perhaps it was some sort of permissions issue.

All monitoring seems to be working fine now.

Thanks again,
Justin.

[aalexanderr]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the reply. I didn't realise the location of the log file.

You can find it like this:
#find / -name zabbix_server.log
Usually you can find log file in /tmp
If you can't find this file it looks like a bit strange...
#ps -aux | grep zabbix_server
Find you zabbix_server bin file and find zabbix_server.conf file & run:
#zabbix_server -c zabbix_server.conf
#cat /tmp/zabbix_server.log
or
#less /tmp/zabbix_server.log

Things were a bit strange because the first time I started zabbix_server, the little zabbix startup banner appeared in the log file but never again.
While I was looking into things, I decided to amend the /etc/init.d/zabbix-server file to start zabbix under the zabbix user.

#ps -aux | grep zabbix_server:
zabbix xxx x x x x x zabbix_server:..............