fping failed: xx.xx.xx.xx: Address family for hostname not supported

[SCSI]

I have 200 host being monitored using icmpping simple check. For some reason, more than half of the host is getting "fping failed: xx.xx.xx.xx: Address family for hostname not supported". I can ping and fping the hosts that are having the issues in terminal. I checked and re-applied the permissions for /usr/bin/fping.

Is there any thing I should check?

[SBO]

Hi,

Did you do the following commands ?

chown root:zabbix /usr/sbin/fping
chmod 4710 /usr/sbin/fping
chmod ug+s /usr/sbin/fping

When you do a

su - zabbix - s /bin/bash

can you use fping ?

[SCSI]

Thanks for your reply. Yes was able to use fping when I had the issue. The cause was probably when I imported all of the host. I noticed that the hosts that had issues was missing triggers from the template that is assigned to them during import. Also, the hosts with issues had their agent interface non-removable (remove was greyed out).

I created an XML import file with all devices.

I managed to fix all hosts by cloning each host, deleting the old host, and then adding the clone. After I did that, the missing triggers was there and the agent interface was removable.