Help with Zabbix Discovery

[dpeterson]

Hello all, I am very new to Zabbix, but I have been configuring hosts and web monitoring with no issues thanks to great documentation.

My issue is I am not able to configure Zabbix Discovery to monitor filesystems on a given host. I have through the entire Discovery documentation and I think I have found where I am having my issue.

When issuing the following command "sudo zabbix_get -s <host> -p <port> -k vfs.fs.discovery" I am getting no output. From my understanding I should receive an output that is a JSON data structure.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[ArtemK]

Hello,

you are running zabbix_get on your zabbix server, which is configured as zabbix server on target system, right? Are other items works, for example "agent.ping"?

Make sure, that agent config contains right server address.

[dpeterson]

~$ /usr/bin/zabbix_get -V
Zabbix get v2.0.11 (revision 42526) (12 February 2014)
Compilation time: Feb 12 2014 11:14:31


I am able to receive information for the agent running on this server. But I am not able to receive any info via "vfs.fs.discovery".

In the Zabbix UI I am receiving an error that says "Not supported by Zabbix agent". Here is the info on the agent I have installed:

zabbix20-agent.x86_64 2.0.11-1.el6 @epel

[aib]

If you don't mind, show, please, the results of this commands

[zabbix_server]# zabbix_get -s <host> -k agent.ping
[zabbix_server]# zabbix_get -s <host> -k vfs.fs.discovery
[zabbix_server]# zabbix_get -s <host> -k net.if.discovery

[dpeterson]

Those recommended commands did not work for me. All of them returned an error. I was able to get the "vfs.fs.discovery" command to work by doing the following:

zabbixserver:~$ zabbix_agentd -t vfs.fs.discovery
vfs.fs.discovery                              [s|{
      "data":[
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"rootfs"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/proc",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"proc"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/sys",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"sysfs"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/dev",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"devtmpfs"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/dev\/pts",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"devpts"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/dev\/shm",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"tmpfs"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"ext4"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/proc\/bus\/usb",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"usbfs"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/boot",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"ext4"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/sort",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"ext4"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/d424",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"ext4"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/proc\/sys\/fs\/binfmt_misc",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"binfmt_misc"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/var\/lib\/nfs\/rpc_pipefs",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"rpc_pipefs"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/mxhome",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"nfs"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/mxgit",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"nfs"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/mxapp",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"nfs4"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/mxout",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"nfs4"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/mxmodel",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"nfs4"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/stage",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"nfs4"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/members",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"nfs4"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/mem_archive",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"nfs4"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/output1",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"nfs4"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/stat1",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"nfs4"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/misc",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"autofs"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/net",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"autofs"},
        {
                "{#FSNAME}":"\/contactstage",
                "{#FSTYPE}":"nfs4"}]}] 

[aib]

I don't want to offend you, I just need the correct information from that command, may be including the content of zabbix_agent.log file from the <host>

If you can get any data from agent itself and cannot get any data from zabbix server, it can be a network issue/firewall issue/selinux issue/etc.

Please, be more specific when you say " did not work for me" - give a little bit more information

[dpeterson]

I don't want to offend you, I just need the correct information from that command, may be including the content of zabbix_agent.log file from the <host>

If you can get any data from agent itself and cannot get any data from zabbix server, it can be a network issue/firewall issue/selinux issue/etc.

Please, be more specific when you say " did not work for me" - give a little bit more information

No offense taken Aib. I should have been more clear in my post. There is no error, the command simply does not return any result.

However, I am now getting data. My issue was not having any regular expressions defined. :-) Thank you for the willingness to help!

[aib]

Good for you!
I'm happy that you solved your problem by yourself.