One of the things I wanted to check in looking at Zabbix was how hard it would be to use the Nagios plugins I wrote/modified for monitoring ESX 3i in Zabbix.
It turns out that they are usable pretty much as is though there is a minor modification that needs to be made on how they accept/expect parameters. There are however a couple of ways to approach setting them up. Zabbix supports maintaining a couple of different kinds of data for external checks (as well as in general). These include:
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Float
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Integer
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Text
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Log
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Character
The Nagios plugins I ‘m concerned in looking at will probably work with either the Log type or Integer. The external check “Item” type is just that a check. In and of itself it doesn’t make anything happen in terms of alerting or notifications. For that we need to set up “Triggers.” I’ll cover setting up an Item using Log type data in this post.
Continue reading Creating Monitoring Items in Zabbix for Nagios plugins – part 1 (Log data)
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