fping6 error

[ItTech]

Hello,
I'm new in Zabbix, and I have experienced an error that drives me crazy.
I've tried both Hyper-V and VmWare virtual machines, but I always get the same error.
I need to check some computer and server using the ICMP template (a simple ping), I can't install an agent on the clients at this time.
But in the "Triggers" page of my client I always get this error "fping failed: "/usr/sbin/fping6: can't create raw socket (must run as root?) : Operation not permitted"

I cannot understand what should I do, can you help me?

Thank you

[EnigmA-X]

What you should do, is actually read the documentation

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/config/items/itemtypes/simple_checks

5.3 ICMP pings

Zabbix uses external utility fping for processing of ICMP pings.

The utility is not part of Zabbix distribution and has to be additionally installed. If the utility is missing, has wrong permissions or its location does not match the location set in the Zabbix server configuration file ('FpingLocation' parameter), ICMP pings (icmpping, icmppingloss, icmppingsec) will not be processed.

fping must be executable by the user Zabbix daemons run as and setuid root. Run these commands as user root in order to set up correct permissions:

shell> chown root:zabbix /usr/sbin/fping
shell> chmod 4710 /usr/sbin/fping

Please let us know if this fixes your issue...

[ItTech]

Hello,
I've tried the solution you quoted, but it didn't works, I still get the same error.
I've also tried to run the commands for "/usr/sbin/fping6".

Is it possible to run the zabbix service as "root" user, as the message says?

[tchjts1]

Does yours look like this?

# ls -l /usr/sbin/fping
-rws--x---. 1 root zabbix 37079 Nov 10  2010 /usr/sbin/fping

[ItTech]

Hi!

Here's the output of the command "ls -l /usr/sbin/fping"

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root zabbix 31400 Jan 31 2013 /usr/sbin/fping

The command "ls -l /usr/sbin/fping6" give me the same output.

[aib]

Take a look on article describes "sticky bit permissions"

And then compare the output of your command

-rw[B]x[/B]rwxrwx 1 root zabbix 31400 Jan 31 2013 /usr/sbin/fping

and the output from tchjts1

-rw[B]s[/B]--x---. 1 root zabbix 37079 Nov 10  2010 /usr/sbin/fping

Then read again the instruction about command

chmod 4710 /usr/sbin/fping

Tell us how it works.

[whizzy42]

Fping 6

The only way I got it to work on the 2.2 appliance was by running the chmod commands on /usr/sbin/fping6

I'd already tried the:
chown root:zabbix /usr/sbin/fping
chmod 4710 /usr/sbin/fping

and even after a reboot the ICMP pings still threw up an error on the console.

Ran again on the fping6 and everything then started to work

Might help somebody else.

[rafael.macedo2]

Fping

Hi,

I have the same problem in zabbix 2.4 appliance with opensuse, and the command work for me:

chown root:zabbixs /usr/sbin/fping
chmod 4710 /usr/sbin/fping

Note the group of zabbix server is zabbixs.

[rferreira]

Hi,

I have the same problem in zabbix 2.4 appliance with opensuse, and the command work for me:

chown root:zabbixs /usr/sbin/fping
chmod 4710 /usr/sbin/fping

Note the group of zabbix server is zabbixs.

Correct answer!!

Why the appliance images are not coming with this fixed? It's only needed to add these commands to suse studio startup script. The download page still refers to appliance images as "pre-configured for trouble free deployment".

Thank-you anyway!

[Husabuse]

Hi,

I have the same problem in zabbix 2.4 appliance with opensuse, and the command work for me:

chown root:zabbixs /usr/sbin/fping
chmod 4710 /usr/sbin/fping

Note the group of zabbix server is zabbixs.

MUCH appreciated, I simply cannot believe how this can be let through on the prepackaged appliances.

This is the core issue why I constantly just get fed up with fiddly linux software, I just haven't got the time to deal with it.

Thanks mate, now I can use my icmp template.