I want to automate Zabbix server deployment and change default housekeeping parameters from bash script. I want to avoid doing it manualy from Web GUI.
Is there API or some other way to do it?
There is no API support for changing these parameters, but you can change them directly in the database, table config. See the parameters that start with hk_ at http://zabbix.org/wiki/Docs/DB_schema/3.0/config .
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Is there a way to create a problem metric in Dynatrace using a shell script that can be executed from the Linux server?
Here, Problem metric means,
Let's assume that we are using a shell script to check the status of deployed services on the Linux Server.
Then,
That Shell Script should be able to be called by Dynatrace
And, based on Shell Script's response, should be able to create Problem.
What do you mean by 'problem metric'?
You can create metrics via the Metric API and Problems via the Events API
You can call either endpoint from a shell script on linux. If there is a OneAgent on the system you could also use an extension.
I am using pyzabbix module to use the Zabbix API, but is there any way to login the Zabbix API without giving the username and password in Python script?
Like any API token which serves the purpose.
There are no API tokens or similar access methods in Zabbix currently.
There is not, but you should use an environment variable (see environment variable in python) to store the password/token anyway, in order to avoid having it inside the code in cleartext. The environment is visible to the user only, and is usually initialized from a protected file (0600 permission in unix style), or a masked CI/CD variable.
I am using Zabbix 5.4.7
There is a section API tokens under:
Administration -> General -> API tokens
can aws parameter store programatically push changes to the clients?
once the configuration value is changed in aws parameter store, how do we ensure all the clients are now using the latest configuration value?
Have a look here: Setting Up Notifications and Events for Systems Manager Parameters. Maybe you can have your applications listen to an SNS notification?
I have services configured to use the latest credentials so when they restart they pick up new ones. When all services have restarted I invalidate the old credentials in whatever system they were for.
I do this in a manual fashion, but using SNS to restart could work for me.
I'm writing an application which delivers data from remote devices over an HTTP API. These devices are on a mobile data connection and have limited resources.
I wish to receive custom monitoring data over the HTTP API, relying on the security model designed in the application, and push that data to Zabbix directly (or indirectly) from node.js. I do not wish to use Zabbix Agent on the remote devices.
I see that I can use zabbix_sender to send data to a Zabbix server containing a pre-configured host. This works great. I intend to deliver monitoring data over my custom API, and when received give this data to zabbix_sender inside the server network.
The problem is there are many devices in the field and more are being added all the time.
TL;DR:
When zabbix_sender provides a custom hostname which doesn't exist in Zabbix already, it fails.
I would like to auto-add discovered hosts, based upon new hostnames from zabbix_sender. How would I do this?
Also, extra respect if anyone can give examples of how to avoid zabbix_sender and send data directly from node.js to the Zabbix server. I mean: suggest an NPM package that you have experience using. (Update: Found working node.js package here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-zabbix-sender)
Zabbix configuration: I'm learning from Zabbix 2.4 installed in Docker, no custom configuration from this Dockerhub: https://hub.docker.com/r/zabbix/zabbix-2.4/
Probably the best would be to use the Zabbix API to create hosts directly.
Alternatively, you could set up an action and emulate active agent connection, which would make Zabbix create the host via the active agent auto-regstration.
You could also use low level discovery (LLD) to send in JSON, which would result in hosts/items being created, based on prototypes.
In all of these cases you have to wait for one minute (by default) for the hosts to appear in the Zabbix cache, then you can send the data.
Also note that Zabbix 2.4 is not supported anymore, it will receive no fixes - it is not a "long-term support" release.
I wish to know if its possible to post process traps and events that zabbix server would have received from zabbix agents . I am hoping there is some configuration which I don't know of .
Since you don't give more details, my assumption will be that you want to do something in case of a certain event. Most probably a trigger. Like a service went down or there are too many open connections. These can be handled by using zabbix's Actions to intercept an event.
The following operation depends on what you have to do, it can be a remote command (executed on remote agent) or a script executed by server.
The remote command is a straight forward concept working OOTB. Just follow the manual and howtos.
Running something on the server isn't there, but you can trick zabbix to do just that by using custom alert scripts, which are just scripts launched by the server process. Then create a send message operation that uses your custom alert script and off you go.