icmpping not supported

[sebasjuh]

Hello,

I installed zabbix version 3.2.3 on Ubuntu 16.0.4 LTS by this manual;
click for manual

And zabbix is working and I can access it by the browser.
I created some triggers but the icmpping trigger doesn't work to warn me if a device is not reachable anymore.

When I open the trigger from an added host the status of the trigger is Unknown. With a red exclamation mark and that says:
Cannot evaluate expression: "Cannot evaluate function "servername:icmpping.max(#3)": item is not supported.".

What am I missing why icmpping is not working?

[kloczek]

fping not installed?

[sebasjuh]

Fping was not installed so I thought that would be the problem.
I installed fping on Ubuntu with the following command

sudo apt-get install fping

Restarted the server but I still got the same error.

And when I enter the command

fping (different serverip from my network)

I get the answer servip is alive.
So fping is working on my server.

I even removed the # for the fping location in the zabbix-server.conf file but that doesn't resolve the problem either.

[kloczek]

You need to have look in into zabbix server/proxy logs to have look what is going on (pinger is part of the server/proxy and all ICMP probes are fired from those points).

[sebasjuh]

Thanks the error in server log was that fping couldn't be find.
Problem was in zabbix server conf the fping folder was directed to /usr/sbin/fping and fping was installed in the location /usr/bin/fping.

I changed it in the zabbis server conf en now everything is working fine!

Thanks for your help.