Zabbix disk space monitoring using active agent in linux server

Question

Zabbix server is giving same value for all linux servers upon disk space monitoring using Zabbix Active Agents. I am using Zabbix server 3.2. Please help.

Solution

Most likely your agents are misconfigured - check the agent configuration file, parameter Hostname. This is the host which will get the value. The value of this configuration parameter must match the host name - not IP, not DNS. In this case, it sounds as if you have one or more agents sending data with various Hostname values.

Looks like it was template that was misconfigured - the item was passive, not active.

Comments

[user427751]

Hi @kubanczyk, Here is what I have: Name: File Systems: Free disk space on / (percentage), Last Check: 2018-03-23 19:49:36. Last Value: 51.8%. All values are same in all hosts. I was supposed to receive different values.

[Naveed Abbas]

The key names are like vfs.fs.blabla please tell those. And. Please. Edit. All. Of. It. Into. Your. Question.

[Richlv]

Hmm, in that case please add info on what values you are getting and what you are expecting.

[user427751]

Hi @Richlv, Here is what I have: Name: File Systems: Free disk space on / (percentage), Last Check: 2018-03-23 19:49:36. Last Value: 51.8%. All values are same in all hosts. I was supposed to receive different values.

[Richlv]

What's the item type for that item? Is it "Zabbix agent" by any chance, and is it maybe reporting diskspace on the Zabbix server?

[user427751]

Hi @Richlv , It is actually "Zabbix agent" on item type.

[Richlv]

Your configuration is broken. "Zabbix agent" is the passive type. Most likely it is querying the same IP address/DNS name, as set in your hosts in the interface. If you really want to use active items, change it to "Zabbix agent (active)" in the template.

[user427751]

Hi @Richlv, That works. Thank you so much for your help.