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Bug#613636: zabbix-server-mysql: Discovery hosts by ping fails

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Stefano Callegari

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Feb 16, 2011, 5:30:03 AM2/16/11
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Package: zabbix-server-mysql
Version: 1:1.8.2-1squeeze2
Severity: normal

As showed in /var/log/zabbix-server/zabbix_server.log,
zabbix server looking for fping in /usr/sbin/fping

25052:20110216:110223.217 At least one of '/usr/sbin/fping', '/usr/sbin/fping6' must exist. Both are missing in the system.

whereas

root@cogest:/var/log/zabbix-server# whereis fping
fping: /usr/bin/fping /usr/share/man/man8/fping.8.gz

Thanks

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers squeeze-updates
APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages zabbix-server-mysql depends on:
ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups
ii dbconfig-common 1.8.46 common framework for packaging dat
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy
ii fping 2.4b2-to-ipv6-16.1 sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.21.0-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii libiksemel3 1.2-4 C library for the Jabber IM platfo
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.23-7 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libmysqlclient16 5.1.49-3 MySQL database client library
ii libopenipmi0 2.0.16-1.2 Intelligent Platform Management In
ii libsnmp15 5.4.3~dfsg-2 SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr
ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages zabbix-server-mysql recommends:
ii mysql-server 5.1.49-3 MySQL database server (metapackage
ii mysql-server-5.1 [mysql-ser 5.1.49-3 MySQL database server binaries and
ii snmpd 5.4.3~dfsg-2 SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr

Versions of packages zabbix-server-mysql suggests:
ii logrotate 3.7.8-6 Log rotation utility
ii zabbix-frontend-php 1:1.8.2-1squeeze2 network monitoring solution - PHP

-- debconf information:
zabbix-server-mysql/upgrade-error: abort
zabbix-server-mysql/dbconfig-reinstall: false
zabbix-server-mysql/upgrade-backup: true
zabbix-server-mysql/missing-db-package-error: abort
zabbix-server-mysql/mysql/admin-user: root
zabbix-server-mysql/remote/port:
zabbix-server-mysql/remote/host:
zabbix-server-mysql/db/dbname: zabbix
zabbix-server-mysql/dbconfig-remove:
zabbix-server-mysql/db/app-user: zabbix
zabbix-server-mysql/database-type: mysql
zabbix-server-mysql/internal/skip-preseed: false
zabbix-server-mysql/remove-error: abort
zabbix-server-mysql/server:
zabbix-server-mysql/remote/newhost:
zabbix-server-mysql/purge: false
zabbix-server-mysql/internal/reconfiguring: false
zabbix-server-mysql/install-error: abort
zabbix-server-mysql/passwords-do-not-match:
* zabbix-server-mysql/dbconfig-install: true
zabbix-server-mysql/mysql/method: unix socket
zabbix-server-mysql/dbconfig-upgrade: true

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Christoph Haas

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Feb 16, 2011, 4:10:02 PM2/16/11
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What does

grep fping /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf

tell on our system? By default the FPingLocation and FPing6Location
settings should just be commented out. I have just checked my Squeeze
test system and I have /usr/sbin/fping which is a symlink to
/usr/bin/fping which is the binary that Zabbix needs.

...Christoph
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Krzysztof Gajdemski

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Jun 3, 2011, 11:10:02 AM6/3/11
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16.02.2011, 21:59:24, Christoph Haas wrote:
> tell on our system? By default the FPingLocation and FPing6Location
> settings should just be commented out. I have just checked my Squeeze
> test system and I have /usr/sbin/fping which is a symlink to
> /usr/bin/fping which is the binary that Zabbix needs.

Since version "2.4b2-to-ipv6-16" of fping package (version shipped with
Squeeze is even more recent) the symlinks to /usr/sbin have been removed
(see bug #377732). Thus all Zabbix tests based on fping will fail unless
fping location is altered in zabbix_server.conf by user. It should be a
new Debian default IMHO.

Regards,

k.
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Christoph Haas

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Jun 5, 2011, 5:20:01 AM6/5/11
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On 03.06.2011 16:55, Krzysztof Gajdemski wrote:
> 16.02.2011, 21:59:24, Christoph Haas wrote:
>> tell on our system? By default the FPingLocation and FPing6Location
>> settings should just be commented out. I have just checked my Squeeze
>> test system and I have /usr/sbin/fping which is a symlink to
>> /usr/bin/fping which is the binary that Zabbix needs.
>
> Since version "2.4b2-to-ipv6-16" of fping package (version shipped with
> Squeeze is even more recent) the symlinks to /usr/sbin have been removed
> (see bug #377732). Thus all Zabbix tests based on fping will fail unless
> fping location is altered in zabbix_server.conf by user. It should be a
> new Debian default IMHO.

Thanks for the bug report. I accidentally came across this issue last
week and wondered what happened. This clears it up. I don't know how to
fix it for Squeeze but I'll update it in unstable.

Cheers
Christoph

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