zabbix distributed env. not displaying latest values

[crashdummyMCH]

I am not sure if this is how zabbix is suppose to work or not. Here is my problem:

have a simple 2 node distributed setup:
node1 = master
node2 = child

when viewing from node1 hosts monitored by node2 the latest data section of the monitoring does not show last check or last value. The graphs, however, do show historical information.

When viewing from node2 hsots monitored by node2 the latest data section of the monitoring does show the last check and last value.

Is this how it's suppose to work or is there something wrong with the distributed setup?

[Niels]

The feature you're looking for -- showing latest data -- was added some time after 1.4.2, so an update will probably solve the problem.

[c00l.wave]

I got the same problem on a new 1.6.2 setup on both servers. I can see graphs on both nodes but no "latest values" of the remote node.

[ataylo13]

From what I can tell it is by design that latest data is not sent to master node.

[c00l.wave]

Maybe I misunderstood how the distributed monitoring works, but I thought all data would be transferred to the master node every 10 seconds and stored in a local copy? Or are all values fetched from slave nodes only on demand when I request charts etc.?

If all values are synchronized every 10 seconds I should be able to read the last data I received under "Latest Values" because the data is as local as the data of any other host? How does it chart data if I don't have any local values?

[ataylo13]

It is sending the data at whatever intervals, but latest data (from what I can tell) is not coming from the history table. I have seen modifications to the zabbix source that "turns on" sending latest data.

[RobertS]

Latest Data comes from "items" (what I see in the PHP). I suppose the zabbix_server writes this data when he receive it form a host, but not if the history data comes from an other node. Is this a bug or per design?

[ataylo13]

From what I can tell from other posts on the subject that it is by design.

[RobertS]

1.6.3 now shows the latest data:

:: Other Improvements and Bug Fixes
Distributed monitoring: added update of Last check and Last value fields