Unofficial Zabbix FAQ

Welcome to the unofficial zabbix FAQ. Please try to keep things in structure and add a lot Have fun.

Installation

UNIX

- Question:

• How to compile Serverpart of zabbix ?
  • --with-mysql or --with-pgsql. --with-net-snmp is optional.

- Problem Indicator:

• checking for gcc... no
  checking for cc... cc

• make sure PATH includes gcc (echo $PATH, Look for where you're GCC / CC compiler is located in the path string, if not export/setenv PATH=$PATH:/path/to/gcc. Otherwise you don't have GCC installed.

- Problem Indicator:

• libmysqlclient.so, not found

• check if ldconfig referce to your mysql lib dir. If necessary add it to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig after you modified it.

- Problem Indicator:

•     Compile error when using make on Solaris.

• Use the gmake package to compile not make.

General behavior

- Problem Indicator:

•  Images cannot be displayed. Just small .png icon appears. 

• Compile php with gd support.

Config

Alerting

- Question:

• is there an example sms script ?

  • another example script is located here /SmsScriptExample

• How to create WinPopUps as Alerts

  • Little example Script from sf forum /WinPopUpExample

- Problem Indicator:

•  custom script aint get executed.

• make sure AlertScriptsPath in zabbix_suckerd.conf is directed to your custom scripts diretory.

Hosts

- Question:

• After adding a host it becomes unreachable. zabbix is running on both sides.
  • Another application is using port 10000 (e.g. webmin, netbackup). Run netstat -a or sockstat -4 depending on your os to see what is listening on port 10000. As an solution u may use another port in zabbix_agentd.conf as in gui (Hosts) also. After changing and restarting zabbix_agentd, verify zabbix is listening by telnet to port 10000.

  • Server, in zabbix_agentd.conf must be the zabbix_suckerd servers ip.

  • A Firewall may avoid connecting to server. make sure suckerd server can connect through the firewall.

Items

- Problem Indicator:

•  icmpping becomes unsupported

• icmpping needs to be installed.

• compare FpingLocation from zabbix_suckerd.conf with fping location in system.

• make sure fping is executable for user zabbix.

Triggers

- General Note:

• Example triggers are found here http://www.zabbix.com/manual_config_triggers.php paste your expressions below for enhancement.

Performance issues

- Hint:

• Zabbix Will run better is you compile it as static, i am currently monitoring about 700 servers and adding 30 a day, so far so good.