Inventory in automatic mode

[getUP]

I'm not sure what I'm missing, but it seems that hardware information can't be pulled from our systems.

# zabbix_agentd -t system.hw.chassis[full]
system.hw.chassis[full]                       [m|ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED]

What am I missing or doing wrong?

[harmonica]

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/config/items/itemtypes/zabbix_agent

"Root permissions are required because the value is acquired by reading from memory."

[getUP]

Thanks, I didn't notice that.

So basically it all comes down to running the agent as root? That's not going to happen. It might be easier for us to write some wrappers around dmidecode to do the same but using sudoers.

[harmonica]

Yes. In zabbix_agentd.conf change

# AllowRoot=0
to
AllowRoot=1

[mcintoshj]

System chassis from dmidecode with sudoers.d

Thanks, I didn't notice that.

So basically it all comes down to running the agent as root? That's not going to happen. It might be easier for us to write some wrappers around dmidecode to do the same but using sudoers.

Simple solution for you:

If you allow remote commands to be run (and log them), you can install dmidecode and do these:

* dmidecode -s system-product-name is the equivalent (for us) of system.hw.chassis[model]

* system.hw.chassis[vendor] -> dmidecode -s system-manufacturer

SO I have items like "system.run[sudo /usr/sbin/dmidecode -s system-manufacturer]" that run every 3600 to get that information