Automating interactions with Zabbix (Raymond Kuiper / 12-02-2015)

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NLZGG bijeenkomst - 12 feb. 2015---

Raymond Kuiper

Automating interactions with

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quick introduction

Raymond Kuiper

“I do something with computers”

(Fanatical) Zabbix user since 2006

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sysadmins <3 automation

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the sysadmin vs monitoring

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automation in Zabbix

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how to automate via the API?

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API bash script using Curl

Pros:

Seems nice and easy at first

You can show off your mad coding skills

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API bash script using Curl

Cons:

No object awareness

Honestly, it's a PITA

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Develop an API based tool

Pros:

Perfect solution to your problem

Highly efficient code

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Develop an API based tool

Cons:

Takes time and effort to develop (and debug) a fitting solution

Not very flexible unless you invest heavily in development (monolithic)

Gets very complex, very fast. You might need a developer to maintain it

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Use a CLI tool (Zabcon and friends)

Pros:

Can be used in shell scripts

Can be used quickly, no need for direct API code

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Use a CLI tool (Zabcon and friends)

Cons:

Learning a new CLI language

Limited to the functionality the developer thought was useful

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my solution?

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*nix The IT swiss army knife

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*nix The IT swiss army knife

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

― Aristotle

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Introducing:the Zabbix Gnomes

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Zabbix Gnomes

https://github.com/q1x/zabbix­gnomes

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Zabbix Gnomes

user@localhost$ ./zghostfinder.py ­­helpusage: zghostfinder.py [­h] [­u USERNAME] [­p PASSWORD]

[­a API] [­­no­verify] [­c CONFIG] [­n] [­e] hostgroup

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Zabbix Gnomes

 ~/.zbx.conf

 [Zabbix API] username=johndoe password=verysecretpassword api=https://zabbix.mycompany.com/path/to/zabbix/frontend/ no_verify=true

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Zabbix Gnomes

user@localhost$ ./zghostfinder.py 'Linux Servers'

WakizashiKodachiKatana

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Zabbix Gnomes

user@localhost$ ./zhgraphfinder.py ­e Kodachi

568:Network traffic on eth0555:CPU jumps556:CPU load557:CPU utilization558:Swap usage569:Disk space usage /560:Memory usage

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Zabbix Gnomes

user@localhost$ ./zgetgraph.py ­f graph.png 557

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Zabbix Gnomes

Making them work together

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Zabbix Gnomes

#!/bin/bash# This scripts downloads the 'CPU utilisation' # graphs for a group of Zabbix hosts.## Find hosts in group 'Linux Servers'for host in $(./zghostfinder.py 'Linux Servers'); do

# Get Graphid graphid=$(./zhgraphfinder.py ­e $host | \grep 'CPU utilization' | cut ­d ':' ­f 1)

# Download graph./zgetgraph.py ­f $host.png $graphid

done 

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Questions?

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Zabbix Events

Zabbix Professional Training13-17 april 2015

http://www.zabbix.com/training.php

Zabbix Conference 201511-12 september 2015

http://www.zabbix.com/lv/newsletters/2015/newsletter_january_15.html