fping on zabbix_proxy permission denied

[saintxseiya]

Hi guys,

i have a problem with fping on the zabbix proxy.

i have some hosts taht should be monitored by the proxy and changed the monitoring server to the zabbix_proxy.

no i get the same fault as i had it times ago on the server itself.

 1173:20110706:173200.245 Host [172.21.100.10] /usr/bin/fping: [13] Permission
  1173:20110706:173200.246 Query [txnlev:1] [update items set status=3,lastclock
  1173:20110706:173201.248 /usr/bin/fping: [13] Permission denied

on the server i fixed it by changing the owner of the fping tool:

chown root:zabbix /usr/bin/fping
chmod 710 /usr/bin/fping
chmod ug+s /usr/bin/fping

This is not working for the proxy though!

Has anyone an idea and can help me?

Thank you!

[saintxseiya]

Anyway, this is not the most active community here.

So the solution was to setuid fping on the proxy allthough not necessary on the Zabbix Server itself:

chown root:zabbix /usr/bin/fping
chmod 710 /usr/bin/fping
chmod ug+s /usr/bin/fping
chmod 4755 /usr/bin/fping

the commands have to be in this order.

[Alexei]

fping is required only if you have any icmpping related checks like icmpping or icmppingsec. Otherwise you may not install it.