Monitoring VPNs via zabbix-proxy

[skygge]

Hi!

I have 1 Zabbix Server in headquarters and 10 Zabbix Proxies in branch offices across my country. I want to use these proxies for monitoring VPNs state between branch offices and individual labs connected to these offices. There will be in total over 200 various vpn connections.

I set up host named "City1-Lab11-VPN", monitored by City1-Proxy, then I added items: "simple check icmpping" and "simple check icmppingsec" but it doesn't work, I got item values=0. This method works only in two cities, in all others not. Strange. I have the same zabbix version installed everywhere (1,8).

I logged onto City1-Proxy, su - zabbix, ping and fping works and returns correct values.
As a result I have dozen of alerts about unavailable vpn connections but in fact they are ok.

So my question is: how to monitor vpn connection using zabbix-proxy instead icmpping? Or: Why this method is working with one proxy and not with others? Configurations are the same, installed using the same install script...

Thanks,
Skygge

[exkg]

... and FPING ? Have you in all proxies ? Is FPING usable by 'zabbix' user ? What say your log file ?



[]s,
Luciano

[skygge]

yes, fping works also, as I wrote above.

Logs (debuglevel=4):

19544:20100108:143435.521 In process_pinger_hosts()
19544:20100108:143435.521 In add_pinger_host() addr=192.168.25.1
19544:20100108:143435.521 In do_ping(hosts_count:1)
19544:20100108:143435.521 In process_ping() [hosts_count:1]
19544:20100108:143435.521 /tmp/zabbix_server_19544.pinger
19544:20100108:143435.521 /usr/sbin/fping -q -C3 -S192.168.60.2 2>&1 </tmp/zabbix_server_19544.pinger
19544:20100108:143435.525 Update IP [/usr/sbin/fping: invalid option -- S]
19544:20100108:143435.525 Update IP [Usage: /usr/sbin/fping [options] [targets...]]
19544:20100108:143435.525 Update IP [ -b n amount of ping data to send, in bytes (default 56)]
19544:20100108:143435.525 Update IP [ -c n count of pings to send to each target (default 3)]
19544:20100108:143435.526 Update IP [ (ex. /usr/sbin/fping -g 192.168.1.0 192.168.1.255 or /usr/sbin/fping -g 192.168.1.0/24)]
19544:20100108:143435.526 Update IP [ -i n interval between sending ping packets (in millisec) (default 25)]
19544:20100108:143435.526 Update IP [ -l loop sending pings forever]
19544:20100108:143435.526 Update IP [ -m ping multiple interfaces on target host]
19544:20100108:143435.526 Update IP [ -p n interval between ping packets to one target (in millisec)]
19544:20100108:143435.526 Update IP [ (in looping and counting modes, default 1000)]
19544:20100108:143435.526 Update IP [ -q quiet (don't show per-target/per-ping results)]
19544:20100108:143435.527 End of process_ping()
19544:20100108:143435.527 End of do_ping():SUCCEED
19527:20100108:143435.548 Poller #0 spent 0.000300 seconds while updating 0 values. Sleeping for 5 seconds

192.168.60.2 - zabbix_proxy IP.

I think the problem is here:
19544:20100108:143435.521 /usr/sbin/fping -q -C3 -S192.168.60.2 2>&1 </tmp/zabbix_server_19544.pinger
19544:20100108:143435.525 Update IP [/usr/sbin/fping: invalid option -- S]


Where to change it?

Best regadrs,
Skygge

[skygge]

OK, I got it.
Solution: do not touch "SourceIP" parameter in the config file

Thanks!!

[exkg]

Great ....