Zabbix Template and PERL Script for Monitoring Apache2

[lostmarbles]

Hello!

After trying just about every Apache monitoring configuration for Apache2, found one that actually works well for Apache2 over at The UNIX and Linux Forums.


Zabbix Template and PERL Script for Monitoring Apache2

Enjoy!

Note:

This template has a nice graph that shows total workers, active workers and idle workers. Total item monitored: 10

[Konstantin Tokar]

UserParameter=apache2.busyworkers,/etc/zabbix/zabbix_apache2.pl|cut-f8-d ":"
UserParameter=apache2.idleworkers,/etc/zabbix/zabbix_apache2.pl|cut-f9-d ":"

Perhaps, there is a possibility in zabbix_agent not to use some starts of a file zabbix_apache2.pl and a choice of the necessary line from the answer, but to start zabbix_apache2.pl once? As a last resort to make so:

To execute
/etc/zabbix/zabbix_apache2.pl> result.txt

In result.txt will get:

apache2.uptime 1224
apache2.reqpersec 1234
.....

zabbix_agent Reads result.txt

UserParameterFromFile=apache2.uptime, result.txt
UserParameterFromFile=apache2.reqpersec, result.txt


It allows not to call difficult scripts of gathering of statistics.

[lostmarbles]

I agree that reading the parameters from a file is a better way!

Good idea! Thanks!

[lostmarbles]

This script was updated today based on Konstantin Tokar's recommendation.

Basically, we have moved the PERL script to a crontab running every minute and we then write the results to a /tmp file. Then the Zabbix agent reads the data from the file instead of calling the PERL script 10 times. This is more efficient.

Also, we change the template to update every 60 seconds instead of 30 seconds to match the crontab entry.

You can find the crontab file, template and agent entries here:


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