Web scenarios not creating host items

[wax66]

Running Ubuntu 10.10 server,
mysql 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.10,
apache 2.2.14-5ubuntu8.4,
Zabbix Server v1.8.5 (revision 19050)

This is pretty much a fresh install, but let me give you some basic steps I did to get to this point.

Installed the system, installed pre-reqs, installed zabbix 1.8.1 through apt-get.

Compiled 1.8.5 with
./configure --enable-server --with-mysql --with-net-snmp --with-jabber --with-libcurl --enable-agent

Installed the binaries manually from the src/* directories, overwriting the apt-get ones.
Installed the current front-end and changed the zabbix.conf.php to a symbolic link to /etc/zabbix/dbconfig.conf (some weird Ubuntu configuration).

Everything works at this point, with one exception. Web checks do not create Items in the host so that I can create triggers off them.

I thought, "Okay, this must be due to missing db parts, since I didn't upgrade the db at all from 1.8.1's config."

So I dropped the db, re-created it, and executed the .sql files in schema/ and then the data and images sql files in data/.

Everything works again, with the same exception. The web checks still don't create items in the host.

I can add web checks, see them checking, look at the graphs, etc, but no items show up in the items table of the database;

For example:

mysql> select * from httpstep;
+------------+------------+--------+----+-----------------------+---------+-------+----------+--------------+
| httpstepid | httptestid | name   | no | url                   | timeout | posts | required | status_codes |
+------------+------------+--------+----+-----------------------+---------+-------+----------+--------------+
|          1 |          1 | Google |  1 | http://www.google.com |      15 |       |          | 200          |
+------------+------------+--------+----+-----------------------+---------+-------+----------+--------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from httpstep;
+------------+------------+--------+----+-----------------------+---------+-------+----------+--------------+
| httpstepid | httptestid | name   | no | url                   | timeout | posts | required | status_codes |
+------------+------------+--------+----+-----------------------+---------+-------+----------+--------------+
|          1 |          1 | Google |  1 | http://www.google.com |      15 |       |          | 200          |
+------------+------------+--------+----+-----------------------+---------+-------+----------+--------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from items where description like "%Google%";
Empty set (0.02 sec)

mysql>

Am I either missing something, such as a change? I did notice "[ZBX-3414] expressions for triggers with web items are marked as error in trigger wizard", but can't tell if that means that web test items are gone or not.

Anyways... any help would be appreciated.
-Ron

[untergeek]

I don't know what to tell you. I just added some of my own WebScenarios on 1.8.5 and they are working just fine.

[wax66]

Attempt 2: Same result

Okay, so I tried everything from scratch with a new CentOS 5.6 VM, and sadly I got the same result. A new web scenario is still not creating items in the associated hosts's item list.

New configuration:
CentOS release 5.6 (Final)
mysql-server.x86_64 5.0.77-4.el5_5.5
httpd.x86_64 2.2.3-45.el5.centos.1
Zabbix Server v1.8.5 (revision 19050)

All CentOS repo RPMs with the exception of iksemel 1.3.1

Here's my install script, which doesn't include the manual steps (obviously).

VERSION="1.8.5"

yum install zlib-devel mysql-devel glibc-devel curl-devel gcc automake mysql libidn-devel openssl-devel net-snmp-devel rpm-devel OpenIPMI-devel mysql-server php-bcmath php-gd php-mysql php-mbstring

mkdir rpms
cd rpms

wget http://packages.sw.be/iksemel/iksemel-1.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
wget http://packages.sw.be/iksemel/iksemel-1.3-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
wget http://packages.sw.be/iksemel/iksemel-devel-1.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
wget http://packages.sw.be/iksemel/iksemel-devel-1.3-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

rpm -i *.rpm

cd ..

mkdir zabbix
cd zabbix

wget "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/zabbix/zabbix-${VERSION}.tar.gz?download"
tar -zxvf zabbix-${VERSION}.tar.gz

cd zabbix-${VERSION}

./configure --enable-server --with-mysql --with-net-snmp --with-jabber --with-libcurl --with-openipmi --enable-agent --with-ldap

make install

cd ..

groupadd -g 166 zabbix
useradd -m -s /bin/bash -g 166 -u 166 zabbix

service mysqld start

# Accept all default values and set the root pw
mysql_secure_installation

echo "Sleeping 5..."
sleep 5

mysql -uroot -pmypassword < sql/create-db.sql
mysql -uroot -pmypassword zabbix < zabbix-1.8.5/create/schema/mysql.sql
mysql -uroot -pmypassword zabbix < zabbix-1.8.5/create/data/data.sql
mysql -uroot -pmypassword zabbix < zabbix-1.8.5/create/data/images_mysql.sql

mkdir /etc/zabbix
mkdir -p /home/zabbix/logs
cp zabbix-1.8.5/misc/conf/{zabbix_server.conf,zabbix_agentd.conf} /etc/zabbix/

chmod -R 660 /etc/zabbix
chmod 770 /etc/zabbix
chown -R zabbix:zabbix /etc/zabbix /home/zabbix

cp init.d/* /etc/init.d/

cp -R zabbix-${VERSION}/frontends/php/* /var/www/html/


# In php.ini, be sure to:
# Set these values:
# date.timezone = America/New_York
# memory_limit = 256M
# post_max_size = 32M
# upload_max_filesize = 16M
# max_execution_time = 600
# max_input_time = 600


# Final Steps
chkconfig zabbix_server on
chkconfig zabbix_agent on
chkconfig httpd on

As you can see, it's pretty generic, nothing too special.

The web checks work fine, I get graphs, etc.

Any ideas?
-Ron

[untergeek]

I'm so sorry. I misunderstood.

They pretty much stopped putting the web items in the "Latest Data" several point versions back, perhaps even with 1.8.0.

To view latest data for Web items, you need to go to Monitoring -> Web and select the proper group & host.

To make triggers, you still need to go to the proper trigger page for the host, and you can browse those items in the trigger UI still. They will show up there when you go to add them, just not in the hosts's regular "Latest Data" page.

[wax66]

Ahhhh! Thank you!

The last version I had ran at my previous job was 1.8.4, but of course that was an upgrade and I may not have even added any web checks after that point, so that clears things up.

Thanks a ton, untergeek!
-Ron