1. Zabbix API and related tools - How to interface with Zabbix- Takanori Suzuki

4. Zabbix proxy stop sending data bug patch

5. Disk monitoring improvement patch for LVM

8. distributed monitoring with centralised WEB administration

9. server software for many Un*x

10. native high performance agents for almost all famous OS

11. agent-less monitoring

12. web-based interface

13. etc…

14. Zabbix API

16. Zabbix API enables us to control Zabbix by program.

19. Non official command line tools are available.

20. Mobile phone applications for Zabbix are released

22. Libraries for API, easy to use from perl, php, ruby and python.

24. Enables controlking Zabbix by command line and interactive shell

25. Installable by Ruby gem

28. By redirecting Zabbix commands, it returns result. $ echo get host|./zabcon.rb hostid,host 10017,Zabbix Server $ echo 'get item hostids=10017'|./zabcon.rb itemid,description,key_ 18435,Ping to the server (TCP),agent.ping 18436,Version of zabbix_agent(d) running,agent.version 18438,Maximum number of opened files,kernel.maxfiles 18439,Maximum number of processes,kernel.maxproc … ...

31. Let's go to the demo!

32. Using Zabbix API //get auth id $ curl -d '{"auth":null,"method":"user.authenticate","id":1,"params":{"password":"zabbix","user":"api_user"},"jsonrpc":"2.0"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json-rpc" http://localhost/zabbix185/api_jsonrpc.php //get item in "Zabbix Server" $ curl -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"item.get","params":{"output":"shorten","host":"Zabbix Server","limit":0},"auth":"PUT_HERE_AUTH_ID","id":1}' -H "Content-Type: application/json-rpc" http://localhost/zabbix185/api_jsonrpc.php

35. Ruby: http://trac.red-tux.net/wiki/zbx_api

36. Python: https://github.com/gescheit/scripts/tree/master/zabbix/

37. Perl: https://github.com/mikeda/ZabbixAPI

40. Zabbix web interface access functions without JSON, but directly access same functions.

41. If Zabbix web frontend is installed, we can use it by including 'include/config.inc.php' .

43. Other useful way to interface with Zabbix

46. Zabbix Sender protocol

47. Zabbix Agent (Active) protocol

57. Questions

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