Disabling Active Checks??

[Bharathu]

Greetings to all,


Can anyone tell me how I can disable the active checks on my windows agent? Here is the snap of my zabbix_agentd.conf

I am able to monitor my windows agent very well using the server polling method but somehow in my zabbix_agentd.log file i always have the error

[28-Mar-2007 11:27:20] Active checks [Cannot connect to [10.239.18.61:10051] [No error]]

The configuration file is as follows

# This is config file for zabbix_agentd
# To get more information about ZABBIX, go http://www.zabbix.com

############ GENERAL PARAMETERS #################

# List of comma delimited IP addresses (or hostnames) of ZABBIX Servers.
# No spaces allowed. First entry is used for sending active checks.
# Note that hostnames must resolve hostname - IP address and
# IP address - hostname.

Server=10.239.18.61

# Server port for sending active checks

#ServerPort=10051

# Unique hostname. Required for active checks.

#Hostname=10.239.52.22

# Listen port. Default is 10050

ListenPort=10050

# IP address to bind agent
# If missing, bind to all available IPs

#ListenIP=127.0.0.1

# Number of pre-forked instances of zabbix_agentd.
# Default value is 5
# This parameter must be between 1 and 16

StartAgents=5

# How often refresh list of active checks. 2 minutes by default.

#RefreshActiveChecks=120

# Disable active checks. The agent will work in passive mode listening server.

DisableActive=1

# Specifies debug level
# 0 - debug is not created
# 1 - critical information
# 2 - error information
# 3 - warnings (default)
# 4 - for debugging (produces lots of information)

DebugLevel=3

# Name of PID file

PidFile=C:\Program Files/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.pid

# Name of log file.
# If not set, syslog will be used

LogFile=C:\Program Files/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.log

# Spend no more than Timeout seconds on processing
# Must be between 1 and 30

Timeout=3

##### Experimental options. Use with care ! #####

# Get rid of sockets in TIME_WAIT state
# This will set socket option SO_LINGER

# NoTimeWait=1

##### End of experimental options

####### USER-DEFINED MONITORED PARAMETERS #######
# Format: "UserParameter='key','shell command'"
# Note that shell command must not return empty string or EOL only

UserParameter=mysql.version,mysql -V

[bobster]

TIME_WAIT solution: what version does this refer to?

Does anyone know which version Bharathu was referring to here?

In our shop, we're running 1.1.6 (server & whatever agent that came with the official release) and there is always monstrous number of ports on each server left open - over a hundred - on every monitored windows box that has the agent running.

Was wondering if its safe to try 'the experimental' agent parameter described above or if it has ugly side effects that others have noticed...

Thanks in advance for any feedback....

--B

[Bharathu]

@ bobster

sorry for delayed response..i was out of action for last 1 month due to some hectic work...

i was using version 1.1.6

so far i was not able to fix the issue that was getting reported in the agent.log file.... the server polling is working well...but at the same time i still keep getting this message in the log file as shown below.


[04-Jun-2007 14:38:42] Active checks [Cannot connect to [10.239.18.61:10051] [No error]]