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  • X4V1
    Junior Member
    • Mar 2024
    • 9

    #1

    Deduct host availability from active agent

    Hello,

    I setup Zabbix server and installed Zabbix agent 2 on some hosts then configured host in the UI.
    On hosts, I just configured:
    - Server=<Zabbix Server IP>
    - ServerActive=<Zabbix Server IP>
    - Hostname=<A name for the host to monitor>
    Everything else was left untouched.

    Host config looks like this:
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    If I check in Monitoring > Hosts and hover the availability icon (ZBX):
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    Here I don't understand why the status of "192.168.0.124:10050" stays "Unknwon".

    Is it normal when using the active agent ?

    I'm trying to understand that because I can see that all hosts does not have a availability status:
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    So I checked the documentation and I found this:
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    So I have 2 questions:
    1. Why the status of "192.168.0.124:10050" (in Monitor>Hosts) stays "unknown"
    2. How can I fix the host availability visible in the dashboard (widget) ? In the documentation is says
      Active checks are considered unavailable when the active check heartbeat is older than 2 x HeartbeatFrequency seconds.
      . How can I deduct the availability on the dashboard in a similar way? In my head it's kind of simple: active agent is sending data => available. If not data received for 2 heartbeat => not available.
  • cyber
    Senior Member
    Zabbix Certified SpecialistZabbix Certified Professional
    • Dec 2006
    • 4807

    #2
    Status unknown is there as you probably have no "passive" items added to that host.
    Cannot say anything about that widget...

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