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  • hardtofi
    Member
    • Jan 2008
    • 32

    #1

    zabbix_serverd silently stopped taking data

    Hi

    I have a minor Zabbix set up:
    ZABBIX server is running Yes
    Number of hosts (monitored/not monitored/templates/deleted) 64(37/1/26/0)
    Number of items (monitored/disabled/not supported)[trapper] 2076(1812/0/264)[30]
    Number of triggers (enabled/disabled)[true/unknown/false] 845(845/0)[11/312/522]
    Number of events 163076
    Number of alerts 2261

    I was looking around at some values today when I saw that they hadn't been updated for a while. Strange. I looked at the config, all items where supported, all where being monitored still no data for several days (the weekend).

    I checked the zabbix_serverd. It was running alright, the load was a bit high, around 7 on a dual Xeon 2.8 GHz with 6 GB of ram, with only zabbix and mysql running. I tried sending the values in question manually with zabbix_sender from the server in question and got after about 5s:
    zabbix_sender [7654]: Warning: Timeout while executing operation
    sent: 0; failed: 1; total: 1

    Wierd. Looked in the zabbix_server log (running with DebugLevel=2) and the last things there where:
    2537:20080415:015102 JABBER: disconnecting
    2547:20080415:113736 Error doing curl_easy_perform [server returned nothing (no headers, no data)]

    which doesn't seems severe at all. So I tried killing zabbix_serverd and starting it again. And now everything worked just fine.

    And now I ask myself, wtf was that!? Should I expect the server to just stop accepting commands randomly? When looking at the queue after the restart I sometimes have some in there under "ZABBIX agent" but they disapear if I do a refresh of the page so nothing alarming.

    Does anyone have any hints or help to offer? Should I make a cronjob that kills and starts the server if it fails to push data? Was this a freak once in a lifetime thing, or is this common?
  • xs-
    Senior Member
    Zabbix Certified Specialist
    • Dec 2007
    • 393

    #2
    Are you running 1.4.5 or a lower version?

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    • hardtofi
      Member
      • Jan 2008
      • 32

      #3
      Originally posted by xs-
      Are you running 1.4.5 or a lower version?
      Sorry, forgot to paste that. I'm running v1.4.4, do you think it'd be worth upgrading so (hopefully) close to 1.6?

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      • bbrendon
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2005
        • 870

        #4
        Yes. There are a few serious bugs fixed in 1.4.5.
        Unofficial Zabbix Expert
        Blog, Corporate Site

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        • xs-
          Senior Member
          Zabbix Certified Specialist
          • Dec 2007
          • 393

          #5
          The exact problem you described has been experienced by ppl using 1.4.4 and lower. This is fixed in 1.4.5
          At least upgrade the zabbix_server binaries, which would fix your problem.
          You dont really need to (but could ofcourse) upgrade agents and web interface.

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          • hardtofi
            Member
            • Jan 2008
            • 32

            #6
            Ah, thanks both of you!

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