"Easy" Zabbix set up?

[propolis]

Good day, everyone!
I'm trying to implement Zabbix monitoring for variety of Windows servers.
Almost all the servers has different configurtaions:
Some has drives C: & D:, some - C: E: F: and so on.
Some has M$ Exchange installed, some - MySQL or M$ SQL and so on.
Some has file shares and some has IIS.

Is there any "magic" way to automatically add all these things to Zabbix? Some kind of "autodetection script" to tell Zabbix Server what to monitor.

There IS a monitoring solution which works like that - OpManager, but it is free only for 10 devices and 1 user and in free version it does not monitor Active Directory, Exchange and MS SQL. So i'm looking for alternative.

[irvined]

This works for me

Hi,

Not sure if this is an 'approved' way of doing what you want but it's working in my environment.

Like you we have lots of Windows servers each with a different disk layout.

The standard windows template just checks C and D

I have created a new template (base on the standard Windows one) which checks all disks from E to Z.

It has 44 entries

Total disk space on e: vfs.fs.size[e:,total]
Free disk space on e: vfs.fs.size[e:,free]

etc

Apply the template to each of the hosts you want. Configure any Triggers you need.

If you then look at a host any disks Zabbix can't find will be shown as 'Not suopported'

Seems to work for me. I think there will be changes to this coming up with V2?

Regards,

Doug

[ghoz]

Some has drives C: & D:, some - C: E: F: and so on.

Right now, you can do that by hand only as suggested by irvined:

You can create a template with all the disks, but then i would recommend disabling at the host level the 'not supported' items so you can still see id you have problemes with your items.

In v2, there is a mechanism of low level discovery with sub templates that allows automatic creation of these kind of items. you may want to test the 1.9 unstable series.

Some has M$ Exchange installed, some - MySQL or M$ SQL and so on.
Some has file shares and some has IIS.

For this, I would create a template for each app with all the items you need,
Then use a discovery rule for your network, using port numbers
and then a few actions :

if a host has port 1433 up => link to mssql template
port 3306 is up => link to mysql template.

you won't be able te recognise iis from other web servers, but depending on your shop setup you could do

if port 80 is up and host type=windows => IIS template

good luck.