[1.4.4] zabbix_server doesn't crash, but no longer collects data

[sdwilders]

I'm still up and running! Made it through the night - a first.

I'm actually running 1.5 beta if that makes any difference to you infinity005? I know I shouldn't really run the beta but I love the new dashboard and a few other things so can't really take a step back now!

I'll be adding quite a lot of new hosts over the next few weeks so it'll certainly be tested thoroughly, will keep you updated.

[sdwilders]

Sorry, should have said - I'm not sure if the patch is certified for 1.5. I manually made the changes to the source code and recompiled.

Still running though! (though a phrase regarding chickens and eggs springs to mind...)

[Alexei]

Correct patch is here

Please ignore the original patch. It was incorrectly created. I fixed it in the original message, it is attached here as well.

Apologies for this.

[bbrendon]

Alexei- I used the patch from SVN. I didn't see you message until after I brought out the svn browser.

sdwilders- I'm assuming you're running 1.5 from svn and not the official beta?

Maybe if I was creating a new zabbix install I would start with 1.5, but I'm afraid I'll waste too much time running after bugs and monitoring may go down because of bugs. I already had enough downtime in the past month with the last issue.

Re- 1.4.5 trapper patch:
It seems to be working since I've switched to 1.4.5

[sdwilders]

I'm using the nightly build of 1.5 that was available when I downloaded it. At the time it was simply that I had nothing to lose in doing this because 1.4.4 was useless to me with the active check problem. As it is, 1.5 is very good - there are a few issues (such as not being able to create or modify templates, and a javascript error when hovering over a count on the dashboard) but nothing that stops me using it.

Just to keep you updated - ever since I manually made the changes detailed in the patch my system has been up and running. 26 hours of continuous operation looks good to me.

[sdwilders]

Update

Just wanted to report back that since the patch my server has been running continuously without problem for the last 7 days. I am now monitoring 5169 items on 212 hosts - all being received from active agents (except zabbix agent on localhost).

Everything looks good but will let you know how it copes with the few thousand hosts we'll be adding over the next few weeks.

[morabito]

Just wanted to report back that since the patch my server has been running continuously without problem for the last 7 days. I am now monitoring 5169 items on 212 hosts - all being received from active agents (except zabbix agent on localhost).

Everything looks good but will let you know how it copes with the few thousand hosts we'll be adding over the next few weeks.

How Nice !!!
Im still on 1.4.4 Im a little scared to upgrade to 1.4.5, Im noob on zabbix.
How did you backup your existing zabbix database and the configuration files (PHP and Zabbix Binaries)
Any help is appreciated

This is my first time, since everything is running good (Im monitoring 15 machines so far).

Please let me know.

Thank You!

[ulukay]

hm, i'm running ZABBIX 1.4.5 and i got the same problem
after some time the zabbix server stops collecting some data and eats 100% cpu time.
the queue of items goes up (last time i had ~400 "ZABBIX agent" items outstanding for more than 5 minutes)
so i killed the zabbix process and restarted it. the outstanding 400 Zabbix agent items immediately began to decrease and now remain at 0.
had this issue multiple times, i think it had something to do with wrong DNS entries and hosts being unavailable for some time.

i'm using zabbix 1.4.5 on a fully up to date debian etch with a mysql database