How to monitor Zabbix server?

[Bharathu]

Greetings to all,

Can anyone tell me how I can monitor the Solaris server on which I installed my zabbix server? Should I install a specific solaris agent for this? Or is it possible to to do it without installing the agent?

[relikwie]

Greetings to all,

Can anyone tell me how I can monitor the Solaris server on which I installed my zabbix server? Should I install a specific solaris agent for this? Or is it possible to to do it without installing the agent?

For as far as I know you need to installe the agent.
That is how I monitor the zabbix server.

[Bharathu]

Agent config settings?

Hi all,

Can you please tell me what should be the agent config settings? Below is a snap shot of my agent config file on the server (the same server on which zabbix_server is working). Should I give the specific IP address for both Server IP & host? Should I give the same IP for both these parameters?



# 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=127.0.0.1

# Server port for sending active checks

#ServerPort=10051

# Unique hostname. Required for active checks.

Hostname=127.0.0.1

# 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

# Enable remote commands for ZABBIX agent. By default remote commands disabled.

#EnableRemoteCommands=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=/var/tmp/zabbix_agentd.pid

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

LogFile=/tmp/zabbix_agentd.log

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

Timeout=3

####### USER-DEFINED MONITORED PARAMETERS #######
# Format: UserParameter=<key>,<shell command>
# Note that shell command must not return empty string or EOL only
#UserParameter=system.test,who|wc -l
### Set of parameter for monitoring MySQL server (v3.23.42 and later)
### Change -u<username> and add -p<password> if required
#UserParameter=mysql.ping,mysqladmin -uroot ping|grep alive|wc -l
#UserParameter=mysql.uptime,mysqladmin -uroot status|cut -f2 -d":"|cut -f1 -d"T"
#UserParameter=mysql.threads,mysqladmin -uroot status|cut -f3 -d":"|cut -f1 -d"Q"
#UserParameter=mysql.questions,mysqladmin -uroot status|cut -f4 -d":"|cut -f1 -d"S"
#UserParameter=mysql.slowqueries,mysqladmin -uroot status|cut -f5 -d":"|cut -f1 -d"O"
#UserParameter=mysql.qps,mysqladmin -uroot status|cut -f9 -d":"
#UserParameter=mysql.version,mysql -V

[Bharathu]

Problem Solved

Hi All,

I was able to solve the problem by making a few changes in the config file of agent program.


Here are the settings i used

Server=<zabbix server IP>

# Server port for sending active checks

#ServerPort=10051

# Unique hostname. Required for active checks.

Hostname=<zabbix server IP>

# Listen port. Default is 10050

#ListenPort=10050

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

#ListenIP=127.0.0.1
ListenIP=<zabbix server IP>

# 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

I hope this info will be helpful for others too.