Server gets no values after upgrade to 1.8

[tuo]

Hello,

I just upgraded to 1.8, from the 1.6 distro version found in the debian package.

DB update worked, compiling the binaries worked, the frontend is running, everything "seems" to be fine...but:

The server recieves no new values whatsoever.

Web tests no longer work.

Passive tests (snmp / ping) no longer work.

Basically, the frontend is running, but it seems the server has problems.

When I fire up the server-binaries, the following appears in the log:

4329:20100204:144440.258 server #0 started [Watchdog]
4352:20100204:144440.418 server #16 started [Poller for unreachable hosts. SNMP:YES]
4358:20100204:144440.465 server #19 started [Discoverer. SNMP:YES]
No log handling enabled - turning on stderr logging
snmp_build: unknown failuresnmp_build: unknown failuresnmp_build: unknown failuresnmp_build: unknown failuresnmp_build: unknown failuresnmp_build: unknown failuresnmp_build: unknown failuresnmp_build: unknown failure/usr/sbin/zabbix_server [4331]: ERROR: Configuration buffer is too small. Please increase CacheSize parameter.
4329:20100204:144440.803 One child process died (PID:4331). Exiting ...
4329:20100204:144442.877 Syncing history data...
4329:20100204:144442.896 Syncing history data...done.
4329:20100204:144442.896 Syncing trends data...
4329:20100204:144442.928 Syncing trends data...done.

The server processes keep running and appear in top, but nothing happens.

Both the snmp_build and the config-warnung bug me.

First: in my config file, there is no CacheSize parameter. Do I have an outdated config file?

Second: the snmp-errors, do they stop the server from running?

Third: 4329:20100204:144440.803 One child process died (PID:4331). Exiting ... <= Does this mean the whole server exits? The processes themselves keep running.

Fourth: No log handling enabled - turning on stderr logging <= Where do I enable this?

These four points lead me to the conclusion that somehow, something went wrong with the update on the server part.

I searched the forum but couldn't find a similar case.

Does anybody have a tip for me? I actually don't want to revert the installation back to 1.6

best regards and thanks in advance

tuo

[tuo]

I got a bit further. As it seemed, my config file was outdated.

I replaced it with the template file from 1.8, configured database access etc., and now the server starts up fine, no apparent errors in the log....but still gets no values, performs no web checks etc.

Anything I can look after to track the problem down?

best regards

Ulrik

[tuo]

I solved the problem.

My syslog showed me that a zabbix_server segfaulted. With this info, I found this post:

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14933&highlight=zabbix_server+segfault

my db_cache was segfaulting.

I removed the # from the configcachesize-parameter in the config, and increased the size to 16m, restarted the server, now it works.

I am looking forward to zabbix 1.8 Drag'n'drop-Map-editing here I come