Zabbix templates

This repository provides a set of templates which offers the alternative set of templates to supplied by Zabbix.

On master branch is last stable version of the templates. Please report eny found issues or bugs.

Development of the next version of the templates is done on devel branch.

If you have some changes for those templates please submit PR against devel.

Table of Contents

• Changelog
  • 1.0.4
• List of templates
• Notes and Guidlines
• Copyright

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  Changelog:

  1.0.4 (2018-06-11)

• The first version tagged in git repo to stamp state of templates and tools and to provide better tracking changes by using git command
• The development of the next versions of the templates will continue on devel branch. When all changes are ready devel branch will be merged to master one. It will be way better for those who have interested enough tested template.
• Recent changes
  • All templates:
  • change all graphs resolution to 1200x300
  • ICMP
  • Screens:
    • new NET::ICMP
  • MIB
  • changed all description OID trees URLs to http://www.oidview.com/mibs/ based (http://support.ipmonitor.com seems no longer available)
  • IF-MIB
    • Applications:
    • the new prototype for all interfaces LLD prototype items IF-MIB::interfaces::{#IFDESCR}
    • LLDs:
    • new interfaces LLD discovery[{#IFDESCR},IF-MIB::ifDescr,{#IFOPERSTATUS},IF-MIB::ifOperStatus] and added filter to remove from the list all interfaces with ifOperStatus=Down state. Switch from {#SNMPVALUE} to {#IFDESCR} as macro indexing all prototype items
    • Screens:
    • new:
      • IF-MIB::ifHCOctets
      • IF-MIB::ifOctets
  • SNMPv2-MIB
    • Applications:
    • rename mib-2.system to SNMPv2-MIB::system and mib-2.system.snmp to '''SNMPv2-MIB::snmp''' to use matching MIB naming conventoion
    • Items:
    • changed units in update interval from number of seconds to number of m/h/d
    • Graphs:
    • new normal graph SNMPv2-MIB::snmpPkts with SNMPv2-MIB::snmp{in,Out}Pkts OIDs presenting rate of SNMP requests/replies
  • OS Linux
  • Items:
    • added MEM:: items descriptions
    • fixed NET::segments retransmitted item use new sed regexp in this item s/\( *\)\(.*\) segments retransmitted*/\2/ p/
  • Triggers:
    • fixed typo in name: s/SYS:uname changed/SYS::uname changed/
    • rename "Lack of free memory" to MEM::free {ITEM.LASTVALUE}
    • use diff()=1 function (instead change() and str()) in triggers:
    • HW::devices list has been changed
    • HW::CPU info has changed
  • OS Solaris
  • Triggers:
    • fixed typo in trigger name s/SYS:uname changed/SYS::uname changed/
    • added MEM::free {ITEM.LASTVALUE}
  • OS Windows
  • Triggers:
    • rename trigger to the same name as it is in other OS templates s/Host information was changed/SYS:uname changed/
    • rename "Lack of free memory" to MEM::free {ITEM.LASTVALUE}
  • Service MySQL
  • Applications:
    • new:
    • SVC::MySQL::cfg for all read configuration parameters
    • SVC::MySQL::Com for all Com_* metrics
    • SVC::MySQL::DB::{#DB} prototype for all per database metrics
    • SVC::MySQL::innodb for all innodb storage engine metrics
    • SVC::MySQL::threads for all treads related metrics
  • Graphs:
    • new SVC::MySQL::threads with Threads_cached, Threads_connected and Threads_running metrics
  • Items:
    • new max_allowed_packet - the maximum size of one packet or any generated/intermediate string
    • new show_compatibility_56 - show is MySQL engine running in MySQL 5.6 compatibility mode is ON/OFF
    • new Threads_cached - the number of threads in the thread cache
    • mew Threads_running - the number of threads that are not sleeping
    • rewrite most of the items SQL queries to use uppercase SQL keywords and lowercase for table names and row names (this will cause problems with imprt new template b ut I need to standarize thuis before first officially announced release of the templates)
  • Screens:
    • new SVC::MySQL::threads which combines SVC::MySQL::threads graph and Connections simple graph
  • Triggers:
    • new SVC::MySQL::version has been changed (severity: Not classified)
    • new SVC::MySQL::cfg::show_compatibility_56=ON (severity: High, because this template requires show_compatibility_56=OFF)
  • Service Zabbix Proxy
  • Applications:
    • new SVC::Zabbix Proxy::proc
  • Graphs:
    • updated:
    • SVC::zabbix_proxy::process busy %
    • SVC::zabbix_proxy::data gathering process busy %
  • Items:
    • new:
    • proc::busy::configuration syncer
    • proc::busy::data sender
    • proc::busy::heartbeat sender
    • proc::busy::ipmi manager
    • proc::busy::ipmi poller
    • proc::busy::java poller
    • proc::busy::snmp trapper
    • wcache::index::pfree
    • delete items which have been by mistake copied from Service Zabbix Server template
    • wcache::text::free
    • wcache::text::total
    • wcache::text::used
    • move Processes:: items to SVC::Zabbix Proxy::proc Application
    • rename all Processes::$4::$2 to proc::$4::$2 and remove quotes on all those items second key parameter (to allow easy migration from standard "Template App Zabbix Proxy" template)
  • Triggers:
    • new:
    • SVC::zabbix_proxy::configuration syncer >=75% busy
    • SVC::zabbix_proxy::data sender >=75% busy
    • SVC::zabbix_proxy::heartbeat sender >=75% busy
    • SVC::zabbix_proxy::ipmi manager >=75% busy
    • SVC::zabbix_proxy::ipmi poller >=75% busy
    • SVC::zabbix_proxy::java poller >=75% busy
    • SVC::zabbix_proxy::snmp trapper >=75% busy
    • SVC::zabbix_proxy::vmware collector >=75% busy
  • Service Zabbix Server
  • Applications:
    • new:
    • SVC::Zabbix Server::rcache::buffer
    • SVC::Zabbix Server::vcache::buffer
    • SVC::Zabbix Server::vcache::cache
    • SVC::Zabbix Server::wcache::history
    • SVC::Zabbix Server::wcache::trend
    • SVC::Zabbix Server::wcache::values
    • rename SVC::Zabbix Server::process::busy to SVC::Zabbix Server::proc
  • Graphs:
    • updated SVC::zabbix_server::process busy %
    • new SVC::zabbix_server::preprocessing queue
  • Items:
    • added all items descriptions
    • new:
      • proc::busy::alert manager %
      • proc::busy::escalator %
      • proc::busy::ipmi manager %
      • proc::busy::ipmi poller %
      • proc::busy::java poller %
      • proc::busy::preprocessing manager %
      • proc::busy::preprocessing worker %
      • proc::busy::proxy poller %
      • proc::busy::snmp trapper poller %
      • proc::busy::task manager %
      • proc::busy::timer %
      • proc::busy::vmware collector %
      • triggers
      • queue::preprocessing
    • remove items::queued (it duplicates information provided by queue::* items)
    • removed quotes around processes names to make migration from standard zabbix template easier
    • rename all process:: items to ```proc::``` (keep it in sync with proxy template)
    • rename Uptime to uptime
    • Triggers:
      • new:
      • SVC::zabbix_server::alert manager processes >=75% busy
      • SVC::zabbix_server::escalator processes >=75% busy
      • SVC::zabbix_server::ipmi manager processes >=75% busy
      • SVC::zabbix_server::ipmi poller processes >=75% busy
      • SVC::zabbix_server::java poller processes >=75% busy
      • SVC::zabbix_server::preprocessing manager processes >=75% busy
      • SVC::zabbix_server::preprocessing worker processes >=75% busy
      • SVC::zabbix_server::proxy poller processes >=75% busy
      • SVC::zabbix_server::snmp trapper processes >=75% busy
      • SVC::zabbix_server::task manager processes >=75% busy
      • SVC::zabbix_server::timer processes >=75% busy
      • SVC::zabbix_server::vmware collector processes >=75% busy
  • Service Nginx
  • new template

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    List of templates:

• ICMP
• MIB
  • F5-BIGIP-LOCAL-MIB
  • F5-BIGIP-SYSTEM-MIB
  • IF-MIB
  • IP-MIB
  • SNMP-MPD-MIB
  • SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB
  • SNMPv2-MIB
  • SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB
  • UDP-MIB
• OS Linux
• OS Solaris
• OS Windows
• SNMP Devices
  • BIG-IP 5000
  • DSL-3782
• Service Apache
• Service MySQL
• Service Nginx
• Service Zabbix Agent
• Service Zabbix Proxy
• Service Zabbix Server

Notes and Guidelines:

• Each template has own version tag which is the copy of the whole zabbix-templates package version tag in which last changes has released
• Each template in the description field has the last modification date and internal version
• If it is something which needs to be done to use those templates it is described in each template within description notes
• Naming convention for the items names, applications and triggers must adhere naming convention using 2-4 letter abbreviations:

  <CLASS>::<Name>
  <CLASS>::<SUBCLASS>::<Name>

  Items Examples:

  HW::CPU
  MEM::Total Memory
  NET::ICMP::Loss
  NTP::WTS::Clock Frequency Adjustment

  Above provide a parseable name, allowing us to distinguish between and categorise those objects. Such convention allows to handle use the pattern in alarming layer allowing on define actions. For example, send all trigger with SYS:: in the beginning name of the template to exact team. Such pattern is possible to use as part of the general interface on communication with external services.

• Do not use {HOSTNAME} macros in triggers. In web frontend from Monitoring -> Triggers table has "host" column with the host name of the the active trigger. Repeating second time this hos name in the trigger name it is waste of space on the web page.
• All zabbix agent items should be specified as zabbix agent (active) items.
• All graphs resolution needs to be 1200x300.
• All SNMP items should be as SNMPv2 and {$SNMP_COMMUNITY} as SNMP read community name.

Reason of use in all templates the same graphs resolution, item types and SNMP protocol version and community name is to provide easy way to change those settings across all templates is someone may need this.

Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Tomasz Kłoczko kloczek@fedoraproject.org

This program is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2.