I am looking for a solution to add our AIX machines to Zabbix. Is it possible to have Zabbix autodetect Lpars in the same fashion as it automatically adds VMS in vcenter?
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Answer selected by flydude25 at 14-02-2025, 04:18.
Zabbix ships pre-compiled agents for some AIX platforms, if that may be of any help: https://www.zabbix.com/download_agen...&show_legacy=0 -
Any time I see someone ask a "Is it possible to ..." question with technology, I always end up giving the same answer: almost anything is possible if you are determined enough and it is important to your organization. It may take lots of time and effort or it might be pretty easy, depending upon what resources your organization is willing to utilize to accomplish it. Many times, though, people will estimate the amount of work that would be involved and decide that "it may be possible, but it's not worth it for our particular needs".
There are other AIX users that have posted on these forums, but the group is smaller than some other platforms like Linux.
I haven't run any AIX systems for many years so I can't provide much advice on auto-discovery with LPARS. vSphere has an API that Zabbix can use, so once a 'zabbix' user or similar is configured in vSphere with the correct permissions, Zabbix discovery can use that to ask vSphere "what VMs are there", "what datastores are there", etc. If there's an API (or you know the commands to run to enumerate these types of things) for doing the same on AIX, then the same type of thing should be possible for AIX LPARS, with a little work on your part.
Customizing autodiscovery in this method is covered pretty well in the docs:
Note that the last example uses the perl scripting language, but there's no reason you couldn't use any language you're comfortable in (python, ruby, go, etc.).Comment
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Thanks for the input!Comment
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Zabbix ships pre-compiled agents for some AIX platforms, if that may be of any help: https://www.zabbix.com/download_agen...&show_legacy=0Comment
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