Zabbix newbie, need help monitoring Ubuntu services

[Zyklon]

Hello

I would like to know how can I monitor any service that is running in ubuntu, should I create a user parameter for monitoring such services that are not displayed on zabbix itens?

here is a example of a service that i want to know if its up/down

root@myserver:~# service SampleAPP status
SampleAPP start/running, process 21008


how to make zabbix monitor it?

[jamesNJ]

You could try either a user parameter, or use the proc.num[] key to look for running processes.

[Zyklon]

but how to create such user parameter?

thats my question ...

[jamesNJ]

See the following:

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.4/manual/config/items/userparameters

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.4/manual/config/items/userparameters/extending_agent

You will need to know a little about linux command line to craft a test that you are interested to see.

For example, if I wanted to see if mysqld process was running, I could use something like:

UserParameter=mysq.proc,ps -ef | fgrep "/usr/libexec/mysql" | fgrep -v grep

(my system is centOS 7, yours might be different) That item should return a single line for the mysql process, and you could then use the nodata or regex trigger functions to alert you if that query turns up empty.