I can't stop zabbix_agentd Solaris 10

[Epiliptik]

Hello,

I installed pre-compiled zabbix_agentd on solaris10 i can start the agent but when i want to stop the agent with "./zabbix_agentd stop" nothing happened but in the log file :

zabbix_agentd [20740]: File [/home/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.pid] exists and is locked. Is this process already running?
zabbix_agentd [20740]: ERROR: File [/home/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.pid] exists and is locked. Is this process already running?

I tried to change rights of zabbix_agentd.pid or the location in zabbix_agentd.conf but always the same problem...

[Davidus]

How are you trying to stop agent? What command are you exactly using?

[Epiliptik]

I tried with ./zabbix_agentd stop or ./zabbix_agentd restart but it doesn't work, obviously with "kill -9 pid" it works but it is not the goal...

[Davidus]

try
svcadm restart zabbix_agentd

or
svcadm disable zabbix_agentd
svcadm enable zabbix_agentd

[Epiliptik]

I got:

svcadm: Pattern zabbix_agentd doesn't match any instances

Apparently I need to add a xml file in /var/svc, do I need to create this xml file? Or is there a command to create it automaticaly?

[Davidus]

I`m using zabbix 1.8.4 on RHEL 5.5
The files I placed under init.d I found under directory /misc/init.d

[root@mons1 /]# ls -l /usr/zabbix-1.8.4/misc/init.d/redhat/8.0/
-rw-r--r-- 1 1001 1001 1724 Jan 4 2011 zabbix_agentd
-rw-r--r-- 1 1001 1001 1583 Jan 4 2011 zabbix_server

Which release of zabbix are you using?

[Epiliptik]

I'm using ZAbbix 1.8.8 on SOlaris 10, on solaris "svcadm" doesn't detect files in /etc/init.d!

I'm not sure but I think it doesn't work like RHEL, according to this link http://wikisec.free.fr/solaris/sysadm.html
in order to use "svcadm" i need to create a xml file: otherwise zabbix_agentd is not detected!

In order to install zabbix_agentd:
- I put binaries (zabbix_agentd, etc.) in /etc/init.d
- A copy of zabbix_agentd.conf (with my own parameters) in /etc/zabbix
- I created zabbix user, i gave the rights

and it works (i can monitor something but i can't stop the agent), did i miss something?

I'm not very familiar with solaris...

[Davidus]

It seems that zabbix binaries doesn’t come with files you need; in my case I found necessary files under zabbix-1.8.4/misc/init.d/redhat/8.0/
Therefore, you have to create those xml files by yourself; unfortunately, I`m not familiar with Solaris at all, everything I know about Solaris I know from google never used one in real life...

[Epiliptik]

I compared with zabbix_agentd on CentOS and there is the same problem if i don't use the script in: misc/init.d/redhat/8.0/zabbix_agentd

I think i confounded the script and the binary (same name^^)!

I can't start and stop it with the binary file in /usr/local/bin, i need to use the script!

Actually the script for Solaris is missing, i will try to create a simple script and it should works!