Zabbix 1.4 - host group "Windows Servers" not displayed

[Maximum]

Hi,

I can not see the group "Windows servers" under "configuration/hosts/host groups" but when I try to create it I get the message: Group 'Windows servers' already exists.

I do not know what casued the group to disappear or if it ever was shown in the first place.

What I have done:
1.fresh install of zabbix 1.4 on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server edition Kernel 2.6.15-26-server #1 SMP
2. installed the windows client on a windows XP 32-bit SP2 machine
3. activated auto-discovery in zabbix and it found my host
4. activated the default action "Auto discovery, Windows servers."
5. tailed the zabbix server log and when the auto discovery again reached my XP machines IP the zabbix server process died.
6. I took a closer look on the action "auto discovery, windows servers" and saw that it would add the discovered host to the "windows servers" group.
7. I looked at "configuration/hosts/host groups" and could not see the "windows servers" group there.
8. I tried to add the above group and received: Group 'Windows servers' already exists.

Im running Mysql btw..

Any Ideas ?

Best regards /Maximum

[paulojbe]

I'm having the same problem with same setup. Anybody has idea of how can I fix this?

[Andreas Bollhalder]

I did have the same problem. Then I looked into the mysql log, where I had an error message about the innodb database files. I stopped mysql and zabbix-server, deleted the innodb database files and after start of zabbix-server and mysql, I had all entries in the host group. Don't know if that works for you too.

But this couldn't be the right solution...

Andreas

[paulojbe]

What log files did you look at?

[Alexei]

Thanks for reporting this. A patch is attached.

[tronite]

Hi,

I can not see the group "Windows servers" under "configuration/hosts/host groups" but when I try to create it I get the message: Group 'Windows servers' already exists.

I do not know what casued the group to disappear or if it ever was shown in the first place.

What I have done:
1.fresh install of zabbix 1.4 on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server edition Kernel 2.6.15-26-server #1 SMP
2. installed the windows client on a windows XP 32-bit SP2 machine
3. activated auto-discovery in zabbix and it found my host
4. activated the default action "Auto discovery, Windows servers."
5. tailed the zabbix server log and when the auto discovery again reached my XP machines IP the zabbix server process died.
6. I took a closer look on the action "auto discovery, windows servers" and saw that it would add the discovered host to the "windows servers" group.
7. I looked at "configuration/hosts/host groups" and could not see the "windows servers" group there.
8. I tried to add the above group and received: Group 'Windows servers' already exists.

Im running Mysql btw..

Any Ideas ?

Best regards /Maximum

Try upgrading your kernel to 2.6.21.4

[Maximum]

Thank you Alexei

The patch worked perfectly for me.

Best regards /Maximum

[zombiehunter]

how?

The patch worked perfectly for me.

Best regards /Maximum

how do you apply the patch?

[paulojbe]

I have the same doubt.

[paulojbe]

I did this:

cd /usr/src/zabbix-1.4/
patch -p0 < /home/admin/perm.patch

Seems to work.

[zombiehunter]

thanks- ill try that

[zombiehunter]

I still cant get the patch to work-

cd /var/www/include (after copying the patch there)

patch -p0 < ./perm.patch

got this response-

netprobe:/var/www/include# patch -p0 < ./perm.patch
can't find file to patch at input line 5
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|Index: ChangeLog
|================================================= ==================
|--- ChangeLog (revision 4258)
|+++ ChangeLog (working copy)
--------------------------
File to patch: perm.inc.php
patching file perm.inc.php
Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file perm.inc.php.rej
can't find file to patch at input line 16
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|Index: frontends/php/include/perm.inc.php
|================================================= ==================
|--- frontends/php/include/perm.inc.php (revision 4257)
|+++ frontends/php/include/perm.inc.php (working copy)
--------------------------
File to patch:


this is the contents of my rej file (after I moved the patch to /home/zabbix and tried to reapply)

***************
*** 281,287 ****
$group_data['permission'] = $nodes[$group_data['nodeid']]['permission'];
}

- $processed[$group_data['permission']] = true;

if(eval('return ('.$group_data["permission"].' '.perm_mode2comparator($perm_mode).' '.$perm.')? 0 : 1;'))
continue;
--- 281,288 ----
$group_data['permission'] = $nodes[$group_data['nodeid']]['permission'];
}

+ // $processed[$group_data['permission']] = true;
+ $processed[$group_data['groupid']] = true;

if(eval('return ('.$group_data["permission"].' '.perm_mode2comparator($perm_mode).' '.$perm.')? 0 : 1;'))
continue;



what am i doing wrong?

[Andreas Bollhalder]

Or read the patch

• Go to the "include" directory"
• Open the file "perm.inc.php"
• Go to line 281
• Search the line below with "$processed[$group_data['permission']] = true;" (I think it's the line 284)
• Change the 'permission' to 'groupid'.

Andreas

[zombiehunter]

That never even occurred to me. I'm not a coder, 99% of the businesses we deal with re windows based and although ive dabbled with linux for a few years, i'm not fluent enough yet. Don't think i've ever 'read' a patch before.
I'll give that a shot.
thanks!