Zabbix Virtual Appliance

[jthakrar]

Hi All,

I have created a Zabbix Virtual Appliance and is available at Mikoomi.com (http://www.mikoomi.com).
I intend to keep on improving the appliance and adding more "monitoring capabilities/agents" to it.
In this initial version here's what you get in the appliance -

- Zabbix 1.8 (with a small fix from 1.8.1 that fixes a bug in template import)
- Ubuntu LAMP 9.10 (Karmic)
- DB2 Express-C (Free DB2 edition) -for DB2 monitoring

The web-site had download for the appliance as well as flash videos for setup and configuration (which is minimal).

Some of the "enhancements" that I have done include a weekly maintenance that does MySQL datafile optimization, seperating the different tables into their own tablespaces, keeping all the binaries, configuration, log and other files under /home/zabbix.

Since this is in the US and the Virtual Appliance is about 3.7 GB, I think it might be easier to make it available "closer" to other sites, say in Europe.

Will appreciate any feedbck that you can provide regarding the appliance.

Thanks

Jayesh

[orionweb]

I'm sure this will help greatly noobs like myself getting started (who took ages to get it all 'working').

I might give it a try myself.

BTW the download link on your website is broken! http://www.mikoomi.com/downloads/Mikoomi-Virtual-Appliance/mikoomi.tar.gz

[jthakrar]

Sorry (to you and others), for the broken link - its a deliberate step.....

For the past 2 days I constantly had 2-3 people downloading the s/w and it was choking my network.....causing my phone and internet connectivity to be slowed down to 15 Kb/sec speed (I have a 1.5 MB DSL line).

I am trying to make the appliance available by bittorrent and DVD.

Give me a day or two and I shall have the bittorrent working......

Cheers,

Jayesh

[jthakrar]

Finally I have been able to find a place to host the appliance !

You can find it at ftp://ftp.mikoomi-downloads.com

You can download the files using zabbix / z@bb1x

I will appreciate any feedback that you can provide.....

Thanks for your patience,

Jayesh

[hispan1c]

Hi this is great! Thank you very much for this!!
:D

I have downloaded all the files (tar.gz.aa etc.)
How do i uncompress this on a windows machine ? Winrar and 7zip dont know how to handle it ?

[Poch01]

Ahh. Jayesh, you have another one like me!

poch

[jthakrar]

Hi Hispan1c,

Thanks to Poch01, here are some more details
(Somehow I assumed a little bit of Linux hands-on-experienc ;-)

Anyway here's what Poch01 went through -

First, Poch01 had problems in using/importing the appliance in VMWare player (I have not tried it so can't help you there). But I have tried the appliance in VMWare vSphere and VirtualBox.

Assuming that you copied all the files down and you are working on a Windows machine, you need to open a command window and combine all of them together as follows -

(the whole thing below is a single command !!!)

copy /b mikoomi.tar.gz.part-aa + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ab + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ac + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ad + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ae + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-af + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ag + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ah + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ai + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-aj + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ak + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-al + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-am + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-an + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ao + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ap + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-aq + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ar + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-as + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-at + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-au + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-av + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-aw + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ax + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ay + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-az + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ba + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-bb + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-bc + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-bd + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-be + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-bf + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-bg + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-bh + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-bi + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-bj + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-bk mikoomi.tar


Now reprocess that single file mikoomi.tar file with WinRAR again - it should give you 3 files - 2 files with OVF extension and one with .vmdk extension.

If you get this far, you can then use the Flash videos from here.

Note that there is a slight bug in the setup script of this initial release of my appliance.

That bug does not create the network interface file correctly resulting in the machine not being able to boot properly.

So I would suggest that you use the default DHCP configuration. If you want static IP, edit the network file and ensure that it looks something like this -

##############################################
# Thu Mar 4 21:43:05 CST 2010
# Created by Mikoomi based on user-input
##############################################

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.51.21
# network - this was empty before - need to set it to the user-input value.
# network
network 192.168.51.0
broadcast 192.168.51.255
gateway 192.168.51.254
dns-nameservers 192.168.51.254
##############################################

[hispan1c]

Thanks again, that worked perfectly. I will now try to import the virtual disk image into VMware Workstation 7 and VMware Server 2.0. Configure it, and i will report back to you.

[hispan1c]

A note for windows users :

you must name the file-extension .tar.gz otherwise winrar or 7zip wont process it correctly for some strange reason. So the correct command would be :

copy /b mikoomi.tar.gz.part-aa + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ab + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ac + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ad + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ae + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-af + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ag + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ah + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ai + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-aj + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ak + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-al + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-am + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-an + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ao + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ap + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-aq + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ar + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-as + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-at + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-au + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-av + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-aw + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ax + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ay + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-az + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-ba + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-bb + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-bc + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-bd + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-be + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-bf + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-bg + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-bh + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-bi + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-bj + mikoomi.tar.gz.part-bk mikoomi.tar.gz

[hispan1c]

Guess i was a bit too early, it was still uncompressing when i wrote my last messages. I got an error at the end saying that mikoomi.tar (or tar.gzip) is corrupt.

I am sure that i have downloaded all the files correctly. I will try to uncompress the files on my ubuntu laptop. I never uncompressed files in linux, but i guess its easy to find :)