zabbix

Zabbix Plugin

Two-way integration with Zabbix which will acknowledge events in Zabbix when alerts are ack'ed or closed in the Alerta console.

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Installation

Clone the GitHub repo and run:

$ python setup.py install

Or, to install remotely from GitHub run:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/alerta/alerta-contrib.git#subdirectory=plugins/zabbix

Note: If Alerta is installed in a python virtual environment then plugins need to be installed into the same environment for Alerta to dynamically discover them.

Configuration

Add zabbix to the list of enabled PLUGINS in alertad.conf server configuration file and set plugin-specific variables either in the server configuration file or as environment variables.

PLUGINS = ['zabbix']

The below settings are configured with reasonable defaults:

ZABBIX_API_URL = 'http://localhost:10080'
ZABBIX_USER = 'Admin'
ZABBIX_PASSWORD = 'zabbix'

Multiple Zabbix Servers

If Alerta is aggregating alerts from multiple Zabbix servers then leave the ZABBIX_API_URL configuration setting undefined and instead, pass the base URL to the Zabbix Web frontend as an attribute to the alert, like so:

attributes.zabbixUrl=http://x.x.x.x

Troubleshooting

Restart Alerta API and confirm that the plugin has been loaded and enabled.

Set DEBUG=True in the alertad.conf configuration file and look for log entries similar to below:

DEBUG in __init__ [/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/alerta/plugins/__init__.py:48]: Server plugin 'zabbix' installed.
INFO in __init__ [/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/alerta/plugins/__init__.py:56]: Server plugin 'zabbix' enabled.
INFO in __init__ [/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/alerta/plugins/__init__.py:59]: All server plugins enabled: reject, zabbix

DEBUG in alerta_zabbix [/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/alerta_zabbix.py:49]: Zabbix: acknowledge (ack) event=test.alerta, resource=Zabbix server (eventId=39)
DEBUG in alerta_zabbix [/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/alerta_zabbix.py:57]: Zabbix: event.acknowledge() => {u'eventids': [u'39']}
DEBUG in alerta_zabbix [/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/alerta_zabbix.py:49]: Zabbix: acknowledge (closed) event=test.alerta, resource=Zabbix server (eventId=39)
DEBUG in alerta_zabbix [/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/alerta_zabbix.py:66]: Zabbix: event.acknowledge() => {u'eventids': [u'39']}

References

• Zabbix API Reference: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.2/manual/api/reference
• JSON RPC Specification: http://www.jsonrpc.org/specification
• PyZabbix: https://github.com/lukecyca/pyzabbix

License

Copyright (c) 2017 Nick Satterly. Available under the MIT License.