netload* values "stuck"

[charles]

Hi All

I have a host who's netload* values seem to have stuck at the same value. Latest values shows this as being updated, but the value never changes. I see nothing in the zabbix_agentd.log.

Any ideas how to troubleshoot this?

thanks
charles

[Alexei]

Check content of file /tmp/zabbix_agentd.tmp on a monitored host. The file must contains periodically (1sec) changed values for some metrics. Check permissions of the file as well, must be read-write permissions for user zabbix.

[charles]

Check content of file /tmp/zabbix_agentd.tmp on a monitored host. The file must contains periodically (1sec) changed values for some metrics. Check permissions of the file as well, must be read-write permissions for user zabbix.

Spot on! And I feel foolish for not noticing some things now :0

There was both a /tmp/zabbix_agentd.tmp (owned by zabbix) and /tmp/zabbix_agentd.tmp2 owned by a different user. Thats when I noticed zabbix_agentd was not running as zabbix. I stopped it, removed the tmp files and restarted and all is well.

So i guess the box crashed and my customer started it as a regular user.

thanks!
charles