Monitoring the zabbix queue

[oliverm]

Hi,

What do i need to monitor or which folder do i need to monitor if I want to have a 2nd zabbix server monitor the number of items in the queues on our primary zabbix server ?

Olly

[Tenzer]

You just need a zabbix agent on the primary server, and then you add the primary server on the secondary one. Then you just create a zabbix agent item with "zabbix[queue]" as the query string. The output of that is the amount of items in the queue.

[oliverm]

Ah, great, thanks.

I was also thinking of monitoring the zabbix server with a monitoring package that isn't zabbix so that we can make sure that whatever problem is affecting the primary server doesnt also affect the secondary server.

If I wanted to monitor the zabbix box using something else, and therefor not be able to use the zabbix[queue] item, what would i need to look at?

Are the queues in a directory somewhere or are they DB based ?

Olly

[Tenzer]

All Zabbix information is stored in the database. All files are basically static with exception of the configuration files of course.

I guess you could monitor if the Zabbix server's TCP port is in the listening state, to make sure that zabbix_server is running. Otherwise you would need some sort of script which logs into your primary Zabbix server with for instance SSH and checks if there are some zabbix_server processes running.

[tof233]

Hello,
I'm trying to monitor Zabbix Queue of Zbx_serv1 (Zabbix 1.8.4), as shown in manual: http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/...nternal_checks

I added the item zabbix[queue] (Zabbix Agent, numeric/Decimal) on Zbx_serv1 but It says it's not supported.

Here is the log of Zbx_serv1 Zabbix agentd:

19186:20110117:115118.553 Requested [zabbix[queue]]
19186:20110117:115118.553 Sending back [ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED]

Do you have an idea of the origin of this problem?

I'm also looking for a Zabbix performance template but didn't find it (not in default ones)

[JBo]

Hi,

I added the item zabbix[queue] (Zabbix Agent, numeric/Decimal) on Zbx_serv1 but It says it's not supported.

Do you have an idea of the origin of this problem?

Yes.

Replace "Zabbix Agent" by "Zabbix internal" in item type configuration.

Hope this helps
JBo

[tof233]

Thank you JBo

As I didn't find a Zabbix server template, I will try to create a new one.

[tof233]

And here is the template:

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?p=78919#post78919

[ke_sheng_jie]

Seems to only monitor local server

From my testing, since this is an internal item, zabbix[queue] only monitors the local Zabbix server's queue, not the remote one.

Anyone else been able to monitor the queue from another Zabbix server?

[ke_sheng_jie]

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