zabbix_sender - fustrated newbie

[mdsuser]

Hi,

I am trying to use zabbix_sender on our zabbix server. The syntax I've tried using are:

(where m-prodmon-001 is the name of the zabbix server, rob.test is the key)

zabbix_sender -z serveripadddress -p 10051 -s m-prodmon-001 -k rob.test -o 1
zabbix_sender -z m-prodmon-001 -p 10051 -s m-prodmon-001 -k rob.test -o 1
zabbix_sender -z localhost -p 10051 -s m-prodmon-001 -k rob.test -o 1
zabbix_sender -z localhost -p 10051 -s localhost -k rob.test -o 1

all return the same terse error message:

Info from server: "Processed 0 Failed 1 Total 1 Seconds spent 0.000944"
sent: 1; skipped: 0; total: 1

Any help or suggestions offered would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[globifrosch]

have you looked at the logs from zabbix-server? it will tell you most of the time what is wrong with the data sent (wrong data type, etc.)