Automatic host inventory - only for Linux?

[tchjts1]

Unless I am missing something,the automatic host inventory functionality only works on the Linux platform?

I say that based on these:
http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/...osts/inventory

Automatic mode

Host inventory can also be populated automatically. For that to work, 
when configuring a host the inventory mode in the Host inventory tab 
must be set to Automatic.

Then you can configure host items to populate any host inventory field with
their value, indicating the destination field with the respective attribute
(called Item will populate host inventory field) in item configuration.

Items that are especially useful for automated inventory data collection:

    system.hw.chassis[full|type|vendor|model|serial] - default is [full], root permissions needed
    system.hw.cpu[all|cpunum,full|maxfreq|vendor|model|curfreq] - default is [all,full]
    system.hw.devices[pci|usb] - default is [pci]
    system.hw.macaddr[interface,short|full] - default is [all,full], interface is regex
    system.sw.arch
    system.sw.os[name|short|full] - default is [name]
    system.sw.packages[package,manager,short|full] - default is [all,all,full], package is regex

And in conjunction with the "supported items per platform" table:
http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/...ed_by_platform

Which basically shows the above items are only supported on Linux:
Columns 2 & 3

[leelilijian]

Hi ,how can you configure this automic inventory?

[HullZabbix]

I've just setup automatic inventory for Linux and Windows hosts.

For windows hardware, I've created a .vbs script which returns all the hardware info I want to know.

On Error Resume Next

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colCPUItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Processor")
set colMEMItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_PhysicalMemory")
Set colMEMAItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_PhysicalMemoryArray")
Set colHDItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_DiskDrive")
Set colGFXItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_VideoController")
Set colMBItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_BaseBoard")
Set colBIOSItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_BIOS")


For Each objItem in colCPUItems
	StringCPU = "CPU: "& objItem.Name
	Next
	
memType = array("Unknown","Other","DRAM","Synchronous DRAM","Cache DRAM","EDO","EDRAM","VRAM","SRAM","RAM","ROM","Flash","EEPROM","FEPROM","EPROM","CDRAM","3DRAM","SDRAM","SGRAM","RDRAM","DDR","DDR-2")
memForm = array("Unknown","Other","SIP","DIP","ZIP","SOJ","Proprietary","SIMM","DIMM","TSOP","PGA","RIMM","SODIMM","SRIMM","SMD","SSMP","QFP","TQFP","SOIC","LCC","PLCC","BGA", "FPBGA","LGA")

For Each objItem In colMEMItems
	memoryType = memType(objItem.MemoryType)
	memoryTotal = memoryTotal + (objItem.Capacity / 1048576)
	Next

For Each objItem in colMEMAItems
	totalSlots = objItem.MemoryDevices
	stringMEM = "RAM: " & memoryTotal & "MB " & memoryType
	Next

numberOfDisks = -1
For Each objItem in ColHDItems
	numberOfDisks = numberOfDisks + 1
	Next
Dim myArray()
reDim myArray(numberOfDisks)
j = 0

For Each objItem in colHDItems
	myArray(j) = "HD" & j & ": " & objItem.Model & " " & FormatNumber((objItem.Size/1000000000), 0) & "GB" & " " & objItem.InterfaceType & " "
	j = j + 1
	Next
	
For Each objItem in colGFXItems
	stringGFX = "GFX: " & objItem.Description
	Next
	
For Each objItem in colMBItems
	stringMB = "MB: " & objItem.Manufacturer & " " & objItem.Product
	Next

For Each objItem in colBIOSItems
	stringBIOS = "BIOS: " & objItem.Manufacturer & " " & objItem.Name
	Next

Wscript.Echo stringOS & vbcrlf & stringCPU & vbcrlf & stringMEM & vbcrlf & Join(myArray,vbcrfl) & vbcrlf & stringGFX & vbcrlf & stringMB & vbcrlf & stringBIOS

I've added this as a user parameter in the hosts zabbix agent config:

UserParameter=specHWShort,cscript.exe /nologo "\\192.168.x.x\MachineSpec\specHWShort.vbs"

Then added the items in the zabbix interface:



I've circled the important part - this allows it to automatically fill in the inventory.

As you can see it gets added to the automatic tab:



Inventory sorted:

[leelilijian]

good idea,thanks very much!

[tchjts1]

Axida - thank you for sharing!

Jeff

[simpleton]

Perfect! Just what I was looking for.
Where do you keep the .vbs script?
Do you create a file-share on each host, or in one central location?

\\192.168.x.x\MachineSpec\specHWShort.vbs


This should be in the Zabbix documentation, for sure!

[HullZabbix]

Good to know it's useful for some people

I've created the single file share on the zabbix server which is 192.168.x.x (our local domain). This contains all the .vbs scripts. But for servers in the DMZ I have the local zabbix configs set to reference a local copy. I don't want file transfer through the DMZ!

[lagorue]

Perfect, Thanks!

[vhan]

Host not auto populate HW info

Hi HullZabbix.

I configure as you guide but the configure item is different with yours. I changed host to automatic but it does not populate data as you mention

Here is my steps:
- Copy your file specHWShort to C:\Program Files\Zabbix\
- Change UserParameter=specHWShort,cscript.exe "C:\Program Files\Zabbix\specHWShort.vbs"
- Link Host to Template with Item specHWShort
- Version: Zabbix Agent 2.0.4 (revision 31980). Zabbix server 2.0.5

I don't know which steps are missing. Please help. Thanks so much

[HullZabbix]

Have you checked the latest data for the host?

Make sure your specHWShort item is getting populated in there first (Monitoring-->Latest Data)

check https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26862 to see if you can pick up anything there.

*edit* also, I haven't tested this with templates. I have it as just an item.

[akiraexe]

ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED sometimes

Hello!

I tried sucessufully thes scripts with minor changes but sometimes on some servers I get the message of ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED and in the monitoring panel shows that Items is "Not Supported"

You experienced something like that?

Grettings!

[HullZabbix]

That just means the script is failing to return anything. Whether that's a timeout or just an error.

Have you tried running the .vbs script locally on the server?

[akiraexe]

Yes, you are right, the fact is that works local but when I tried to get data, shows this message. I don't know if is to hard o take too much to display data.

You can give me a tip for make it a bit light and fast? I'll send you a copy of my script.

Greetings!

[killout]

Hello.

Does anybody know if analog script for collecting linux hardware info exists?
I want to populate it into inventory field/

[killout]

facter from puppet do the work good.