More Apache Monitoring

[mimosinnet]

The key in the template is "apache[localhost,BusyWorkers]" and the template is sending it as "apache[TS,BusyWorkers]". TS is the hostname of the Apache instance that is being monitored.

This raises the question about how to fix this. This leaves up with a couple of options:

1. Alter the script so that items are sent up like "apache[BusyWorkers]". This would remove the ability to monitor multiple Apache instances with a single Zabbix host.
2. Alter the script so that (by default) items are sent up like "apache[,BusyWorkers]" but there is a flag that will cause it to send up with the hostname of the Apache server it's checking (ie "apache[somehostname,BusyWorkers]"
3. Use host level macros to do something like "apache[{$APACHEHOST},BusyWorkers]". This should work in theory but am having problems getting this working.
4. Use something like "apache[{HOSTNAME},BusyWorkers]". I'm not even sure if this will work. FireMail's testing indicates that it doesn't. This method would be the ideal solution as it will always work but allow users to override the checked host.

Thanks for the script and for the thread, it has been really useful. I was having the same issues than FireMail. This was because I was using a vhost setting, redirected the domain to another host, and has configured the server status in a virtual host:

Redirect permanent / http://www.generatech.org

Server-status was configured in the admin.generatech.org vhost. I was getting the following:

ZabbixApacheUpdater.py -o admin.generatech.org -c generatech -z generatech
zabbix_sender [11830]: DEBUG: Answer [{
        "response":"success",
        "info":"Processed 0 Failed 20 Total 20 Seconds spent 0.000170"}]
Info from server: "Processed 0 Failed 20 Total 20 Seconds spent 0.000170"
sent: 20; skipped: 0; total: 20

The script worked perfectly when redirecting /server-status to the virtual host:

Redirect permanent /server-status http://admin.generatech.org/server-status
Redirect permanent / http://www.generatech.org

Now, I get:

ZabbixApacheUpdater.py -c generatech -z generatech
zabbix_sender [15371]: DEBUG: Answer [{
        "response":"success",
        "info":"Processed 20 Failed 0 Total 20 Seconds spent 0.000188"}]
Info from server: "Processed 20 Failed 0 Total 20 Seconds spent 0.000188"
sent: 20; skipped: 0; total: 20

Thanks!

[ittec]

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Hi

Im trying to setup this Apache Monitoring to my Apaches. I have Apache with various Vhosts on httpd.conf. But it is very frustanting. Because it seems very easy and I have no success

Zabbix Server: 1.8.3
Zabbix Agentd: 1.8.3
Apache/2.2.16

When I run ZabbixApacheUpdater.py I obtain

zabbix_sender [17524]: DEBUG: Answer [{
        "response":"success",
        "info":"Processed 0 Failed 18 Total 18 Seconds spent 0.000208"}]
Info from server: "Processed 0 Failed 18 Total 18 Seconds spent 0.000208"
sent: 18; skipped: 0; total: 18

I had to add zabbix_sender to PATH to py find properly zabbix_sender. If I run server-status from bash:

-bash-3.2# wget -O - http://localhost/server-status?auto?
--2010-11-18 11:55:27--  http://localhost/server-status?auto?
Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1
Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 449 [text/plain]
Saving to: `STDOUT'

 0% [                                                                                     ] 0           --.-K/s              Total Accesses: 5
Total kBytes: 2
Uptime: 245
ReqPerSec: .0204082
BytesPerSec: 8.35918
BytesPerReq: 409.6

Any ideas? Someone is using this template to monitoring apache or are there more templates? Thanks anyway

[mimosinnet]

When I run ZabbixApacheUpdater.py I obtain

Ittec, have you given information about your host? For example, if I run:

 # ./ZabbixApacheUpdater.py 
zabbix_sender [6017]: DEBUG: Answer [{
        "response":"success",
        "info":"Processed 0 Failed 20 Total 20 Seconds spent 0.000169"}]
Info from server: "Processed 0 Failed 20 Total 20 Seconds spent 0.000169"
sent: 20; skipped: 0; total: 20

But:

# ./ZabbixApacheUpdater.py -c generatech -z generatech
zabbix_sender [6194]: DEBUG: Answer [{
        "response":"success",
        "info":"Processed 20 Failed 0 Total 20 Seconds spent 0.000238"}]
Info from server: "Processed 20 Failed 0 Total 20 Seconds spent 0.000238"
sent: 20; skipped: 0; total: 20

Cheers!

[ittec]

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Hi mimosinnet

yes, actually I run

-bash-3.2# /usr/bin/python /home/zabbix/ZabbixApacheUpdater.py -z IPOFZABBIXSERVER -o localhost
zabbix_sender [28483]: DEBUG: Answer [{
"response":"success",
"info":"Processed 0 Failed 19 Total 19 Seconds spent 0.000179"}]
Info from server: "Processed 0 Failed 19 Total 19 Seconds spent 0.000179"
sent: 19; skipped: 0; total: 19

in -o parameter I have or localhost, or IP of host or 127.0.0.1, all with permissions on mod-status

Im finding a simple way to monitoring Apache myself because there is no much info about this wiki. Thanks for your interest!

[mimosinnet]

I had also some issues to get the script work correctly. For me it was helpful what gpmidi suggests in this thread:

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15633&page=4

about changing the end of the script from "os.remove(tempfilepath)" to "print tempfilepath". If you look at the file, you will see the information given by the script. It may be helpful to debug it. This is what I get:

/tmp/tmpixQKVS

 # cat /tmp/tmpixQKVS 
localhost apache[localhost,ReadingRequest] 0
localhost apache[localhost,Uptime] 5087637
localhost apache[localhost,Logging] 0
localhost apache[localhost,TotalAccesses] 2810594
localhost apache[localhost,SendingReply] 1
localhost apache[localhost,Startingup] 0
localhost apache[localhost,Idlecleanupofworker] 0
localhost apache[localhost,Gracefullyfinishing] 0
localhost apache[localhost,DNSLookup] 0
localhost apache[localhost,BytesPerReq] 551001
localhost apache[localhost,WaitingforConnection] 73
localhost apache[localhost,CPULoad] .162484
localhost apache[localhost,BytesPerSec] 304393
localhost apache[localhost,Keepaliveread] 1
localhost apache[localhost,ReqPerSec] .552436
localhost apache[localhost,TotalkBytes] 1512343168
localhost apache[localhost,IdleWorkers] 73
localhost apache[localhost,BusyWorkers] 2
localhost apache[localhost,Closingconnection] 0
localhost apache[localhost,Openslotwithnocurrentprocess] 949

Good luck!

[lgc78]

mimosinnet thanks for the tip. I'm monitoring a remote host from zabbix server and the temp file generated looks like this:

server-test apache[server-test,ReadingRequest] 0
server-test apache[server-test,Uptime] 314347
server-test apache[server-test,IdleWorkers] 20
server-test apache[server-test,TotalAccesses] 4967193
server-test apache[server-test,SendingReply] 4
server-test apache[server-test,Startingup] 0
etc.

Does this mean that i have to have a custom template for each apache server i monitor? A template that has the same key? The template i downloaded uses the key 'localhost.Uptime' and 'localhost,IdleWorkers' etc.

I was expecting the generated temp file to look like this:
server-test apache[localhost,ReadingRequest] 0
server-test apache[localhost,Uptime] 314347
server-test apache[localhost,IdleWorkers] 20
server-test apache[localhost,TotalAccesses] 4967193
server-test apache[localhost,SendingReply] 4
server-test apache[localhost,Startingup] 0
etc.

Can someone clarify? Thanks!!

[lgc78]

One more question... early in this thread there were talks about adding instructions to the wiki about how to setup this script to run using the zabbix agent. It doesn't look like this ever happened. Can someone post instructions here - that would be great.

Thanks again. And thanks for the script.

[frater]

mimosinnet thanks for the tip. I'm monitoring a remote host from zabbix server and the temp file generated looks like this:

server-test apache[server-test,ReadingRequest] 0
server-test apache[server-test,Uptime] 314347
server-test apache[server-test,IdleWorkers] 20
server-test apache[server-test,TotalAccesses] 4967193
server-test apache[server-test,SendingReply] 4
server-test apache[server-test,Startingup] 0
etc.

Does this mean that i have to have a custom template for each apache server i monitor? A template that has the same key? The template i downloaded uses the key 'localhost.Uptime' and 'localhost,IdleWorkers' etc.

I was expecting the generated temp file to look like this:
server-test apache[localhost,ReadingRequest] 0
server-test apache[localhost,Uptime] 314347
server-test apache[localhost,IdleWorkers] 20
server-test apache[localhost,TotalAccesses] 4967193
server-test apache[localhost,SendingReply] 4
server-test apache[localhost,Startingup] 0
etc.

Can someone clarify? Thanks!!

I would expect this:

server-test apache[ReadingRequest] 0
server-test apache[Uptime] 314347
server-test apache[IdleWorkers] 20
server-test apache[TotalAccesses] 4967193
server-test apache[SendingReply] 4
server-test apache[Startingup] 0
etc.

I only spent very little time to check this script and I also didn't check this thread really. I've created several of these scripts with zabbix_sender myself, but I write them in bash. I always use zabbix_sender -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf in my scripts so the settings are in a centralized place.

I was also amazed the template didn't contain "zabbix trapper" instead of "zabbix agent"

[brynjellis]

I'm having the same problems with this script. I'm getting:

zabbix_sender [4439]: DEBUG: answer [{
"response":"success",
"info":"Processed 0 Failed 20 Total 20 Seconds spent 0.000375"}]
Info from server: "Processed 0 Failed 20 Total 20 Seconds spent 0.000375"
sent: 20; skipped: 0; total: 20
/tmp/tmplmfgSS

I'm testing the script from the command line with:

/usr/bin/python /etc/zabbix/ZabbixApacheUpdater.py -o 123.456.789.10 -c FCUATWEB1 -z 127.0.0.1

I'm using the zabbix virtual appliance. That's where I have the scripts installed. 123.456.789.10 is a server on a customer site accessed via a site-to-site VPN. I can run http://123.456.789.10/server-status and get a result.

The /tmp/tmplmfgSS looks like this:

FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,ReadingRequest] 0
FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,Uptime] 200688
FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,Logging] 0
FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,TotalAccesses] 36895
FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,SendingReply] 1
FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,Startingup] 0
FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,Idlecleanupofworker] 0
FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,Gracefullyfinishing] 0
FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,DNSLookup] 0
FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,BytesPerReq] 3749.79
FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,WaitingforConnection] 49
FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,CPULoad] .0473471
FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,BytesPerSec] 689.371
FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,Keepaliveread] 0
FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,ReqPerSec] .183843
FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,TotalkBytes] 135106
FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,IdleWorkers] 49
FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,BusyWorkers] 1
FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,Closingconnection] 0
FCUATWEB1 apache[123.456.789.10,Openslotwithnocurrentprocess] 974

FCUATWEB1 is the name I've given to the host when creating it in zabbix web frontend but am accessing via it's IP 123.456.789.10.

Other than that my setup is pretty much out-of-the-box zabbix 1.8.13 virtual appliance.

I'd really like to get this working if anyone can help please?

Regards
Bryn

[DIoX|DaZ]

I'm running Zabbix 2.0.3 on Ubuntu
And monitored host is Centos 6.3 with agent 2.0.3
Trying to test connection - this is what i get
P.S. ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED if i've tried setting crontab on zabbix_server
and add template to host that i want to monitor, tried changing data to Trapper etc...

root@zabbix:/usr/local/etc# ./ZabbixApacheUpdater.py -z 127.0.0.1 -o 46.255.209.183 -c 46.255.209.183 -q 10051
zabbix_sender [10964]: DEBUG: answer [{
        "response":"success",
        "info":"Processed 0 Failed 19 Total 19 Seconds spent 0.000138"}]
info from server: "Processed 0 Failed 19 Total 19 Seconds spent 0.000138"
sent: 19; skipped: 0; total: 19

if i've change file to print tempfilepath

zabbix_sender [11024]: DEBUG: answer [{
        "response":"success",
        "info":"Processed 0 Failed 20 Total 20 Seconds spent 0.000141"}]
info from server: "Processed 0 Failed 20 Total 20 Seconds spent 0.000141"
sent: 20; skipped: 0; total: 20

root@zabbix:/usr/local/etc# cat /tmp/tmpvKV_ze
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,ReadingRequest] 0
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,Uptime] 236
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,Logging] 0
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,TotalAccesses] 8
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,SendingReply] 1
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,Startingup] 0
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,Idlecleanupofworker] 0
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,Gracefullyfinishing] 0
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,DNSLookup] 0
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,BytesPerReq] 128
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,WaitingforConnection] 7
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,CPULoad] .00423729
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,BytesPerSec] 4.33898
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,Keepaliveread] 0
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,ReqPerSec] .0338983
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,TotalkBytes] 1
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,IdleWorkers] 7
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,BusyWorkers] 1
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,Closingconnection] 0
46.255.209.183 apache[46.255.209.183,Openslotwithnocurrentprocess] 248

So i don't get it - that means that script gets data from apache?


Should this script run on Zabbix server, or on machine that i want to monitor?

If i've open page on lynx i can see the data.

[Blackerado]

Any solutions to this yet? Seems odd that it is still an issue here 2 years later. I am having the same problems as above. All manual testing indicates the satus properly but it wont process to the zabbix server. Is this script to be run on the zabbix server itself or the host that im trying to monitor in the first place?