Monitoring unit .timer

[Greg94]

Hi Everyone,

I have got a general question about creating a proper item and trigger for monitoring e.g certbot.timer which there is Ubuntu system.
I found a few solution to that, but unfortunately doensn't work.

I want to monitor service certbot.timer that check this timer is up.

Have you got any ideas?

BR,
Greg

[cyber]

• Greg94 commented
  Today, 14:35
  Ok and what's next? Could you provide me what exactly have item and trigger for it ?

Oh come on... little reading of docs does not hurt anyone... besides, there is no conditions defined for trigger

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/config/triggers

[Greg94]

Hi,
Yes, you're right. Thank you.

Regards

[Greg94]

I want to add, I use with Zabbix in version 7.0.21.

[PavelZ]

If you want to monitor the certbot, wouldn't it be easier to check the end result the certificate expiration time? Zabbix already has a template for this.

[Greg94]

Hi,
No, I want to monitor a service (certbot.timer).

[cyber]

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/7.0/en/manual/config/items/itemtypes/zabbix_agent/zabbix_agent2#systemd.unit.info

systemd.unit.info[certbot.timer] (agent2 is required)

[Greg94]

Ok and what's next? Could you provide me what exactly have item and trigger for it ?

[troffasky]

Doesn't return much useful information unfortunately, presumably this is why it is not part of factory template.

# zabbix_agent2 -t systemd.unit.info[certbot.timer]
systemd.unit.info[certbot.timer] [s|active]

[cyber]

Doesn't return much useful information unfortunately, presumably this is why it is not part of factory template.

# zabbix_agent2 -t systemd.unit.info[certbot.timer]
systemd.unit.info[certbot.timer] [s|active]

What do you mean "factory template"? "Linux by agent"? There is no services monitoring at all... and what is useful? Active state should show, that thing is working? No? Wasn't that the main question?
Even tho... if such timer/service is not present IMHO it should not return "inactive"..
But you can also use systemd.unit.get.... for some more info...

[cyber]

• Greg94 commented
  Today, 14:35
  Ok and what's next? Could you provide me what exactly have item and trigger for it ?

Oh come on... little reading of docs does not hurt anyone... besides, there is no conditions defined for trigger

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/config/triggers

[Greg94]

Hi,
Yes, you're right. Thank you.

Regards

[troffasky]

What do you mean "factory template"? "Linux by agent"? There is no services monitoring at all...

The official templates shipped with Zabbix. The Systemd template does not reference timers.

and what is useful? Active state should show, that thing is working? No? Wasn't that the main question?

"Active" is returned when a timer exists and is enabled; more useful would be exit status, did it actually run within the scheduled time range.

Even tho... if such timer/service is not present IMHO it should not return "inactive"..

Yep :-(