testing agent/server

[sunadmn]

All I was going through the setup and I ma looking for a quick simple way to just test if the server can talk to the agent and vice versa, can anyone point me to a way of testing to make sure it works.

Thanks
-Stephen

[Alexei]

You may use utility zabbix_get. For example:

zabbix_get -s zabbix.company.com -k agent.ping

[sunadmn]

You may use utility zabbix_get. For example:

zabbix_get -s zabbix.company.com -k agent.ping

Thanks a million that was just what I was looking for.


-Stephen

[sunadmn]

Hmm I seem to be having some sort of issue here not sure where to go with this.



hwm06 ~ # zabbix_get -s newsfe19.phx -k agent.ping
Error: Connection reset by peer

Does the agent daemon log actions anywhere? I couldn't find a log file anywhere for it. Also do you have to have a User Param setup for ping to work on the agent box?


Thanks
-Stephen

[dantheman]

yes the agent will create a log file whereever it's configuration file tells it, there is a line available

logfile=/log_file_here

where you can tell it where to log events., you will likely also want to set

debuglevel=4

so that you will get all the information you can.

No you don't have to setup anything for agent.ping to work, it's built in to the agent.

[sunadmn]

That's odd Dan I had it setup to log to syslog yet notta was getting there I am confused. This is on a Gentoo install and not installed from portage rather from source and the box runs sysklogd any clue as to why it wasn't logging correctly?


-Stephen

[dantheman]

Umm not sure... I've only had it setup to log to a file.. maybe just give that a try to see if you get any info?

[sunadmn]

Directly to a file it seems fine, but I think there is an issue on the system level in regards to syslog. I would prefer to have it go to syslog since those are rotated automaticaly, but I guess I can figure something out.