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I am looking to send a few items to zabbix using Zabbix-Sender function of pyzabbix. As a test I am running the below code - 

from pyzabbix import ZabbixMetric, ZabbixSender, ZabbixResponse
metrics = []
m= ZabbixMetric('mme01', 'TEST', 20)
metrics.append(m)
ZabbixSender('10.46.224.5').send(metrics)

I made this snippet after reading the document - https://py-zabbix.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sender.html

When I run the snippet I get the error - 

AttributeError: 'ConnectionRefusedError' object has no attribute 'msg'

I have verified IP connectivity

Can Anyone help ?

rfguy
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  • I decided to bypass the module - pyzabbix and decided to use the raw zabbix sender utility. Works great. – rfguy Dec 13 '18 at 19:42

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there is a mess in modules names.

it seems you call 'other' pyzabbix module who has not needed methods. first, remove all zabbix-related modules: pip list | grep zabbix; pip uninstall ...

and then install pyzabbix: pip install py-zabbix.

this should help.

UPDATED: I dug deeper and figured out that the AttributeError: 'ConnectionRefusedError' object has no attribute 'msg' exception caused by old module version bug, which has been fixed here. update it with pip or manually.

new bug I have faced is [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known caused by socket lib and can be fixed pointing to zabbix server/proxy IP address instead of DNS name

Vladimir Morozov
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I decided to bypass the module - pyzabbix and decided to use the raw zabbix sender utility. Works great.

For other folks my solution relies on a file with values that need to be sent to zabbix.

Sample file - 

"mme01" TEST 1544729668 44

The use the utility - 

/opt/zabbix-proxy/bin/zabbix_sender -vv -z 10.43.X.X -T  -i mme_file.txt

Replace with path of your zabbix_sender and the zabbix server IP.

rfguy
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I had the same issue on some machines of mine. At that time I refactored my code to use zabbix_sender and it worked great.

After some time I found out the issue was related to pip repository corruption. I ended up reinstalling all the packages with this option:

pip install --ignore-installed <package>

apparently the issue was fixed, but I still have no idea why it occurred on some manchines and not in anothers.

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