Using PHP Network WeatherMap with Zabbix

[mschedrin]

Weathermap plugin which uses zabbix API https://bitbucket.org/mschedrin/weat...-zabbix-plugin

[Burps]

Hello,

• 1st point
  I've successfully setup Weathermap in zabbix, and wanted to sum up the necessary steps, for everyone : here is my process (2015-02-25) :
  Debian Wheezy
  Zabbix 2.4.3
  
  

  wget http://network-weathermap.com/files/php-weathermap-0.97c.zip
  unzip php-weathermap-0.97c.zip
  cp -rp weathermap/ /usr/share/zabbix/
  cd /usr/share/zabbix/weathermap/
  # Verify
  php check.php
  # 2 "PHP Strict Standards" errors, not serious apparently
  # Check if a weathermap.png was created in http://1.2.3.4/zabbix/weathermap/weathermap.png
  
  # in editor.php :
  $ENABLED=true;
  // ...
  // To avoid the warning message about Cacti
  $ignore_cacti=TRUE;
  
  cd /tmp
  git clone https://github.com/amousset/php-weathermap-zabbix-plugin
  cp -rp php-weathermap-zabbix-plugin/lib/* /usr/share/zabbix/weathermap/lib/
  
  cd /usr/share/zabbix/weathermap
  chown www-data configs/
  chmod u+w configs/
  
  cat >>/etc/apache2/conf.d/zabbix <<EOF
  <Directory "/usr/share/zabbix/weathermap">
      <Files editor.php>
          Order Deny,Allow
          Deny from all
          Allow from 127.0.0.1
      </Files>
  </Directory>
  EOF
  
  # in Zabbix GUI, create a "weathermap" user, read-only
  # then in the graph conf file, global section : 
  SET zabbix_user weathermap
  SET zabbix_password PASSWORD
  SET zabbix_url http://1.2.3.4/zabbix/api_jsonrpc.php
  
  # In the regular LINKS section :
  LINK node1-node2
          TARGET zabbix:itemid:Switch1:24471:24263
          NODES node1 node2
  
  # Then, generate the map : 
  ./weathermap --config configs/simple.conf

  Here are all the references I used :
  

  https://github.com/amousset/php-weathermap-zabbix-plugin

  
  https://wiki.minet.net/wiki/monitoring/weathermap
  

  http://network-weathermap.com/manual/0.97b/pages/install-cli-editor.html

  
  
  I first had some trouble because of using a self-signed ssl-cert, but I solved it with adding the following lines in SimpleZabbixApi.php (this is not a production server...) :
  

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);

• 2nd point
  mschedrin: I've tried your plugin, but I had an error I could not solve :
  

  failed to connect to zabbix api!

  and in apache logs :
  

  ==> /var/log/apache2/error.log <==
  [Wed Feb 25 10:19:23 2015] [error] [client 10.11.12.13] PHP Notice:  Undefined index: hostname in /usr/share/zabbix/weathermap2/zabbix-graph.php on line 8
  [Wed Feb 25 10:19:23 2015] [error] [client 10.11.12.13] PHP Notice:  Undefined index: iface in /usr/share/zabbix/weathermap2/zabbix-graph.php on line 9
  [Wed Feb 25 10:19:23 2015] [error] [client 10.11.12.13] PHP Notice:  Undefined index: imageonly in /usr/share/zabbix/weathermap2/zabbix-graph.php on line 10
  [Wed Feb 25 10:19:23 2015] [error] [client 10.11.12.13] PHP Warning:  Creating default object from empty value in /usr/share/zabbix/weathermap2/lib/zabbix-api/ZabbixAPI.class.php on line 110
  
  ==> /var/log/apache2/ssl_access.log <==
  10.11.12.13 - - [25/Feb/2015:10:19:23 +0100] "GET /zabbix/weathermap2/zabbix-graph.php HTTP/1.1" 200 436 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 Iceweasel/31.4.0"
  10.21.7.77 - - [25/Feb/2015:10:19:23 +0100] "POST /zabbix/api_jsonrpc.php/api_jsonrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 200 1719 "-" "ZabbixAPI v1.0 - http://andrewfarley.com/zabbix_php_api"

  I'm not sure I installed it the right way though : maybe you could explain a bit more how to setup correctly ?

Regards

[Burps]

problem solved...

[stav13]

How?

problem solved...

How did you did you solve this as I get the failed to connect to Zabbix api and it's driving me mad!!

Thanks

[Burps]

How did you did you solve this as I get the failed to connect to Zabbix api and it's driving me mad!!

Thanks

Sorry, I did not solve this problem actually...

I first had some problems with my "1st point", that I finally solved, hence the edit/corrections to the topic.

I did not try to go further with the 2nd point, sorry, so THIS problem is not solved.

Have you tried my How-to, using the plugin from " amousset" ? Maybe I could help you on this plugin.

Regards

[stav13]

Sorry, I did not solve this problem actually...

I first had some problems with my "1st point", that I finally solved, hence the edit/corrections to the topic.

I did not try to go further with the 2nd point, sorry, so THIS problem is not solved.

Have you tried my How-to, using the plugin from " amousset" ? Maybe I could help you on this plugin.

Regards

Hi,

I got the "amousset" plugin to work, however the main issue i had with this was I cannot show host and link status nor the overlib graphs.

There does appear to be a very big "gap" within the maps on Zabbix and I was hoping to be able address these issues with using weathermap in the same way Cacti uses it. I unfortunately am not a programmer so was hoping that these plugins would do the job but I have attempted to email/message the developers but they do not respond! very frustrating!

All I can do currently with the "amousset" plugin is show the link speeds, however I would love to be able to show host status, link status and embed graphs into the map.

If you could help with this I would be very grateful!!

Thanks

[sersad]

there is a solution https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20208
no graphs in 2.4

[Burps]

Hi,

I got the "amousset" plugin to work, however the main issue i had with this was I cannot show host and link status nor the overlib graphs.

[...]

All I can do currently with the "amousset" plugin is show the link speeds, however I would love to be able to show host status, link status and embed graphs into the map.

If you could help with this I would be very grateful!!

Thanks

Hi,

I did not try yet to show host and link status, but I did show graph on links, et made the links be an "hyperlink" to the graph :

SET post_zabbix_graphs 1
SET post_zabbix_graph_link 1
SET post_zabbix_graph_base_url https://1.2.3.4/zabbix
SET post_zabbix_graph_width 420
SET post_zabbix_graph_height 150
SET post_zabbix_graph_period 86400
...

# regular LINKs:
LINK node1-node2
        OVERLIBGRAPH zabbix:graphid:Switch1:680
        TARGET zabbix:itemid:Switch1:24468:24260
        NODES node1 node2
        INFOURL zabbix:graphid:Switch1:680

Note that you can display more than one graph on the "mouseover", using the very last plugin from "amousset", since I submitted a few lines of code, to behave like the original weathermap. It's not (IMO) very readable, but it works :

OVERLIBGRAPH zabbix:graphid:Switch1:643 zabbix:graphid:Switch1:673  zabbix:graphid:Switch1:674

I also suggested amousset a few corrections to the manual, and he published a new version last Friday. Go back check it.

I'm not very familier with weathermap, I was asked to set it up, so I'm not sure to understand correctly : what exactly do you want to show as "host status, link status" : maybe i'm interested in it too, but don't know yet !!

As for the plugin from mschedrin, I did not try further, so can't tell you any more..

Regards

[stav13]

I'm not very familier with weathermap, I was asked to set it up, so I'm not sure to understand correctly : what exactly do you want to show as "host status, link status" : maybe i'm interested in it too, but don't know yet !!

As for the plugin from mschedrin, I did not try further, so can't tell you any more..

Regards

Hi Burps,

The main reason for host status and link status is we have multiple DC's which contain Core, Aggregation and Access layer with multiple LAGs running between them all. In case of a switch/router failure within that setup I would find it very useful to see at a glance which item within that has gone down and which links have been affected. Basically if a switch/router goes down then the icon for that item would switch to another image and likewise with the link however I would think that would be monitored from its operational or administrative status.


To be honest I am now confused on which solution is being looked at or whether they are actually the same. From my understanding there is the "amousset" plugin and also another solution following this link;

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20208

Am I correct in that thinking?

Thanks

[Burps]

I think there are 3 solutions actually :
- amousset : https://github.com/amousset/php-weat...zabbix-plugin/
- mschedrin : https://bitbucket.org/mschedrin/weat...-zabbix-plugin
- and one suggested by sersad, in this post : https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthr...t=20208&page=4

I successfully setup the one fom amousset.
I had the "connection failed" with the 2nd one
I did not try the 3rd one, so can't tell.

Regards

[sersad]

I did not try the 3rd one, so can't tell.

Regards

3rd all work on 2.2.x
2.4.x work without pop-up graph
error in weathermap_chart.php
I have not found a solution. Poor knowledge of PHP
http://zabbix/weathermap_chart.php?host[]=Kan_ME3400&item[]=ifHCInOctets.GigabitEthernet0-1&host[]=Kan_ME3400&item[]=ifHCOutOctets.GigabitEthernet0-1&color[]=009900&color[]=000099&drawtype[]=5&drawtype[]=2&height=100&width=400&legend=1

[sersad]

Burps, what version of zabbix?

[rekeds]

this looks fun, will try this out, thank you for posting.

[nuteric]

I'm trying to add a TARGET to a NODE with the network weathermap solution of amousset.
Has anyone be able to establish this?
The line I'm using is
TARGET zabbix:itemid:host:28601
When create the map i'm getting WMWARN08 not a valid target.
But my hostname and itemid is correct.
Does someone have a solution for this?
thanks in advance

[Burps]

Quick answer : your syntax seems to be wrong :

To configure a link, use the following  TARGET  syntax:
TARGET zabbix:keyname:hostname:input_item_name:output_item_name

I think you're missing the last utput_item_name

I'm busy, so can't investigate more, but "it works for me"