Zabbix on OpenShift

[dkanbier]

I've been experimenting with creating a QuickStart for Zabbix on OpenShift.

OpenShift is RedHat's cloud platform, which you can use for free with limited resources. I've been using this for monitoring my website using web checks.

It's easy to use:

1. Create an account at http://openshift.redhat.com/
2. Install the OpenShift client application "rhc" and configure it
3. Run:

rhc app create zabbix php-5.3 mysql-5.1 --from-code=https://github.com/dkanbier/openshift-zabbix-quickstart

4. That's it!

Visit your Zabbix instance at http://zabbix-<your_rhcloud_namespace>.rhcloud.com

For more information:

https://github.com/dkanbier/openshift-zabbix-quickstart

Edit:

I just noticed when github.com or the openshift servers are very busy it's possible for the app creation to time out. In that case, just execute the command again.

[nelsonab]

Pretty cool! I'll let the Zabbix admin for OpenShift know if he does not already. Zabbix is what is used to monitor the Public OpenShift instance.

[dkanbier]

Pretty cool! I'll let the Zabbix admin for OpenShift know if he does not already. Zabbix is what is used to monitor the Public OpenShift instance.

Nice!

I noticed the time-outs occurring a lot more when trying to install it this way. I think it's because the zabbix sources are downloaded and compiled on the OpenShift servers, which takes too much time.

I think I'll take the binaries from my instance and upload them in the QuickStart. It will speed up the installation process a lot, but people will have to thrust the binaries I put in there.

[nelsonab]

Putting the binaries into a gear/cartridge is the best way to go overall. Last time I checked the nodes running OpenShift had a process load of around 40+ It's shared tenancy to the extreme for the free version.

[dkanbier]

Putting the binaries into a gear/cartridge is the best way to go overall. Last time I checked the nodes running OpenShift had a process load of around 40+ It's shared tenancy to the extreme for the free version.

Well I tried to do this yesterday, but I ran into the problem where you can configure the configuration directory while compiling Zabbix.

On OpenShift, the part where you can write to always has a random string in it. For example, ${OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR} always contains your specific user name/string. So I can't compile that in

[dkanbier]

I've compiled the binaries and put them into the QuickStart, so no compilation is needed anymore!