You should have been following the instructions located here:

http://observium.org/docs/unix_agent/

Those are the instructions I follow, and have the unix agent working quite wonderfully.

Based on what you described, “placing the Observium-agent and bind application in /usr/lib/Observium-agent/local” it would seem you didn’t follow the correct installation document, as “observium_agent” is to be installed in /usr/bin. You also don’t indicate whether you did the appropriate components with xinetd, that would similarly cause issues. Finally, inside the device properties on your observium server, you need to indicate the telnet port (36602) on the appropriate agent page, as well as enable the unix_agent function on the modules page. It’s really a much better idea to enable that only on a device-by-device basis as opposed to global enablement in the config.php file.

Also, it’s worth changing directly to the /usr/lib/observium_agent/local directory and executing each script manually, this will determine if all the dependencies for each script are actually installed. For example, I use the ntpd monitoring script on my servers, and I don’t always have php installed on every server… so when I run the ./ntpd script, it kicks out an error that php isn’t installed. Duh, “apt-get php5-cli”, then I run the ntpd script again, and now I have valid data. 

I personally use nsd and unbound for authoritative and client lookups respectively instead of bind, so don’t have any experience with that bind script specifically. Maybe also try some of the other information gathering modules (dpkg, hddtemp, raspberrypi, etc., as appropriate) and see if those are also gathering information and being displayed on the server information page.

…Ron

Guys,

We’ve installed the Unix-Agent today on a DNS server in the hope of have Observium monitor bind.

We’ve followed what documentation we could fine placing the Observium-agent and bind application in /usr/lib/Observium-agent/local and chmod –x all files

We’ve tested via telnet on 36602 from the Observium machine and it returns the data however Observium does not report any application after polling the server.

We have enabled the unix-agent in the config.php.

Tia.

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