Zabbix nodata / no agent response

[SoulGod]

I found a problem today, when one of our hosts broke down.
The Machines running on the vmware host were stuck in a "powered on but not working"-state, so it responded to ping but could not connect to it.

And since we "only" monitored it through ICMPPing in zabbix, we didn't get any warnings.

So I've been spending the last hours trying to build a alarm around this.
My plan was to put in an agent.nodata function, but I can't get it to work.

Basically - I want to get an alarm if an agent doesn't send data within 5 minutes. Also - I want to get an alarm if an zabbix-agent isn't running on a machine.

Currently (let's name the machine Server1), Server1 has the Zabbix agent installed but disabled under Services. It shows up as red in the dashboard (since it's turned off), but no alarm goes off.

Please advice!!

[nobodysu]

Server1 has the Zabbix agent installed but disabled under Services.

Well, basically you need to get it working first. Then assign machine's IP or DNS in zabbix 'Host' screen and add 'Template App Zabbix Agent' to this host.

[SoulGod]

Well, basically you need to get it working first. Then assign machine's IP or DNS in zabbix 'Host' screen and add 'Template App Zabbix Agent' to this host.

The agent is installed and working already.