Host Status????

[Anil]

Hi,

Can someone please help, am i doing something wrong here?? I have setup a paramter to see if one of my machines (winxp) is reachable or not. I have added the following item:

Description: Host Status
Host: winxp
Type: Zabbix agent
Key: status
Update: 5 (for arguments sake)
Status: Monitored
Type of info: Numeric
Store value: As is

However a dash, i.e "-" is returned when i check the "lastest value" for this host.....it is not updated (i.e "0" or "2" is not returned), which in turn will not allow me to see if the host is reachable or not. Nothing is showing up in the zabbix_suckered.log file either.

[[JiF]Mike]

Just a shot in the dark here, but since it's XP, have you allowed access through XP's firewall for the agent? I'm assuming your getting no info from the monitored computer.

[cooper]

Is status supported in Win32? It is listed as a Zabbix Agent item, but not in the Win32 Specific, or the Supported Parameters by Platform Matrix at the bottom of this page.

Update:
The description of the status item is "This parameter is calculated internally by zabbix_suckerd. ZABBIX does not connect to an agent in order to calculate value of the "status". The parameter makes sense only in case if the host has at least one parameter for monitoring."

Are you monitoring any other items on this host or is this it? It sounds like you may just want to use an icmpping

[Anil]

Hi

Yes i am monitoring more than one parameter on his host and there is no firewall issues. I have also tried using icmpping but get no value back....it returns a "-" i.e dash aswell.

By the way, when using icmpping i have set the type to "simple check"

[Alexei]

The status changes only on host status change. Value of the status is not updated automatically after addition.

I hope these two facts explain everything.

[Anil]

how about icmpping....any idea, as to why the value isn't getting updated or why im gettin a "-" ???

[Alexei]

Was discussed several times already Check:

1. Presence of fping
2. Permissions of fping
3. The binary must have +s flag set
4. Parameter FpingLocation in zabbix_suckerd.conf

[Anil]

ok i dont understand why i need fping? - isn't that only required if i wanted to ping more than 1 host? At the moment i am only interested in pinging this 1 host....so i thought icmpping would have been sufficient

[Alexei]

fping is required!

ZABBIX relies on fping for all ICMP ping related operations.