New item created to test log. Never get anything in last_data

[dthacker]

Version: Zabbix 2.4
Goal: Trigger an alert when the string "Failed connection attempt to Mediator" (case sensitive) is written to /var/log/messages. Currently getting written to once a minute.

I've create an item with this key: log[/var/log/messages,Failed connection attempt to Mediator]

I've created a trigger with this expression: {devhttpl02:log[/var/log/messages,Failed connection attempt to Mediator].nodata(300)}=0

I've verified that both the item and the trigger are enabled.

How could I fix or debug the item?

TIA

Dave

[joshuamcdo]

Did you enable debugging ?

Assuming you set this up on a client and not the server.

In the /etc/zabbix_agentd.conf

DebugLevel=4

J