Problem with new agentd on clients

[zabbix_admin12]

I am a long term user of zabbix (Using in productions environments -pre 1.0 version) and this product in my opinion is the best out there.

I run zabbix on Redhat ES3 (2.4 kernel) and ES4 (2.6 kernel). My Zabbix server is on ES4 and currently is version 1.6.

Since my upgrade from 1.0 I have had a few problems and thought I would bounce them off everybody before I revert my clients to the 1.0 Agentd daemon.

Problem that I have.
I have built the client agentd's from version 1.3 and 1.6 and when used, many of the items are seen as "not supported" for the clients. If I leave the zabbix server at 1.6 and change out the client agents to binaries I built for version 1.0 all values work again. Below I have included the list of items for each version so that you can see what is supported and not support. Let me know if any one else has seen this problem and found a resolution (otherwise I will just set up my client with older agent version). Thanks for any input and thanks for the developer for creating such a fine product.

Supported items for agentd 1.6 client redhat ES4
memory[buffers] Active
memory[cached] Active
cksum[/etc/inetd.conf] Not supported
cksum[/etc/passwd] Not supported
cksum[/etc/services] Not supported
cksum[/usr/bin/ssh] Not supported
cksum[/usr/sbin/sshd] Not supported
cksum[/vmlinuz] Not supported
check_service[smtp] Not supported
diskfree[/] Not supported
memory[free] Active
inodefree[/] Not supported
swap[free] Active
system[uname] Active
system[hostname] Active
status Active
system[uptime] Active
netloadin15[eth0] Not supported
netloadin15[eth1] Not supported
netloadin1[eth1] Not supported
netloadin5[eth1] Not supported
netloadin15[lo] Not supported
kern[maxfiles] Active
kern[maxproc] Not supported
mysql[ping] Not supported
mysql[slowqueries] Not supported
mysql[threads] Not supported
mysql[qps] Not supported
mysql[uptime] Not supported
version[mysql] Not supported
io[disk_rblk] Active
io[disk_wblk] Active
io[disk_rio] Active
io[disk_io] Active
io[disk_wio] Active
system[proccount] Active
system[procrunning] Active
proc_cnt[httpd] Not supported
proc_cnt[mysqld] Not supported
proc_cnt[sshd] Not supported
proc_cnt[syslogd] Not supported
proc_cnt[zabbix_agentd] Not supported
system[users] Active
disk_write_ops15[hda] Not supported
disk_write_ops1[hda] Not supported
disk_write_ops5[hda] Not supported
disk_write_ops15[hdb] Not supported
disk_write_ops1[hdb] Not supported
disk_write_ops5[hdb] Not supported
netloadout15[eth0] Not supported
netloadout15[eth1] Not supported
netloadout1[eth1] Not supported
netloadout5[eth1] Not supported
netloadout15[lo] Not supported
ping Not supported
system[procload] Active
memory[shared] Active
filesize[/var/log/syslog] Not supported
check_service[ssh] Not supported
sensor[temp2] Not supported
sensor[temp3] Not supported
sensor[temp1] Not supported
disktotal[/] Not supported
memory[total] Active
inodetotal[/] Not supported
swap[total] Active
diskused[/] Not supported
version[zabbix_agent] Active
net[listen_80] Not supported

Supported items for agentd 1.0 client redhat ES4
memory[buffers] Active
memory[cached] Active
cksum[/etc/passwd] Active
cksum[/etc/services] Active
cksum[/usr/bin/ssh] Active
cksum[/usr/sbin/sshd] Active
cksum[/vmlinuz] Not supported
check_service[smtp] Active
diskfree[/] Active
diskfree[/home] Active
diskfree[/opt] Active
diskfree[/tmp] Active
diskfree[/usr] Active
diskfree[/var] Active
memory[free] Active
inodefree[/] Active
inodefree[/home] Active
inodefree[/opt] Active
inodefree[/tmp] Active
inodefree[/usr] Active
swap[free] Active
check_service[ftp] Active
system[uname] Active
system[hostname] Active
status Active
system[uptime] Active
check_service[imap] Active
netloadin15[eth0] Active
netloadin1[eth0] Active
netloadin5[eth0] Active
netloadin15[eth1] Active
netloadin1[eth1] Active
netloadin5[eth1] Active
netloadin15[lo] Active
netloadin1[lo] Active
netloadin5[lo] Active
mapserver1 Active
kern[maxfiles] Not supported
kern[maxproc] Not supported
check_service[nntp] Active
io[disk_rblk] Active
io[disk_wblk] Active
io[disk_rio] Active
io[disk_io] Active
io[disk_wio] Active
system[proccount] Active
system[procrunning] Active
proc_cnt[httpd] Active
proc_cnt[inetd] Active
proc_cnt[mysqld] Active
proc_cnt[sshd] Active
proc_cnt[syslogd] Active
proc_cnt[zabbix_agentd] Active
proc_cnt[zabbix_suckerd] Active
proc_cnt[zabbix_trapperd] Active
system[users] Active
disk_write_ops15[hda] Not supported
disk_write_ops1[hda] Not supported
disk_write_ops5[hda] Not supported
disk_write_ops15[hdb] Not supported
disk_write_ops1[hdb] Not supported
disk_write_ops5[hdb] Not supported
netloadout15[eth0] Active
netloadout1[eth0] Active
netloadout5[eth0] Active
netloadout15[eth1] Active
netloadout1[eth1] Active
netloadout5[eth1] Active
netloadout15[lo] Active
netloadout1[lo] Active
netloadout5[lo] Active
ping Active
check_service[pop] Active
system[procload] Active
system[procload15] Active
system[procload5] Active
memory[shared] Active
filesize[/var/log/syslog] Not supported
check_service[ssh] Active
net[listen_23] Active
sensor[temp2] Not supported
sensor[temp3] Not supported
sensor[temp1] Not supported
disktotal[/] Active
disktotal[/home] Active
disktotal[/opt] Active
disktotal[/tmp] Active
disktotal[/usr] Active
memory[total] Active
inodetotal[/] Active
inodetotal[/home] Active
inodetotal[/opt] Active
inodetotal[/tmp] Active
inodetotal[/usr] Active
swap[total] Active
diskused[/] Active
diskused[/home] Active
diskused[/opt] Active
diskused[/tmp] Active
diskused[/usr] Active
diskused[/var] Active
version[zabbix_agent] Active
check_service[http] Active
net[listen_80] Active

[James Wells]

Greetings,

Looking at your list, it appears that your problem is that you are trying to use the old style item keys. Many of those keys have been completely replaced by the new style keys. And the ones that are still active are in the process of being replaced. For example; cksum[/etc/services] has been changed to vfs.file.cksum[/etc/services]

Before you revert the agents, you might want to check what the new keys are for the ones that are no longer active.

EDIT: New keys are listed at ZABBIX Agent

[zabbix_admin12]

Thanks James for the reply. I think it pointed me in the right direction.

I changed both ports so that 10051 and 10050 back to the old values 10001 and 10051 ( create a lot of perl scripts that use sender/trapper service). I found an error in agentd and it was not changed to 10001 so the active checks failed. I restarted the logs and the error I saw went away and I could see

get_active_checks: host[192.168.100.35] port[10001]
009536:20070319:151329 Sending [ZBX_GET_ACTIVE_CHECKS
utility.knowledgewhere.com
]

So that looks good but I still don't see any of the items for the newer agent.
IE vfs.fs.size[fs <,mode>]

I also check the zabbix user to make sure it could cat files in the /proc directory and that seems fine.

Is there something I need to do to see the new items for an upgraded client in the zabbix gui?

Thanks a lot

[zabbix_admin12]

templates

I looked through the templates and non of them use the new keys (IE net.if.in[if bytes]. This may be the problem as I continued to use templates as I did in the past (Host.Unix)

Is it correct that I have to create my own template for the functionality in the new agents? There are no pre-builts to save time?


I did try deleting a client with the new agents then readding it with no template but then there are no items listed for that host. I will try creating my own template but this is much more time consuming than having a template with all the new checks that I can disable at will.

Is this what everyone else had to do?

Thanks

[James Wells]

Is this what everyone else had to do?

Pretty much. In fact, I created my own data.sql, that contains just the users, their rights, user groups, and help data. From there I use the UI to create my templates and hosts. I found that in the long run it saves me a great deal of time and energy that way.