Reporting Zabbix Agent Config file Versions.

[Wolfsbane2k]

Evening.

After having our zabbix agent files reset when going from 6 to 7 I'm trying to ensure that I have a consistent Config file set across my zabbix agents and wondering how others are doing it.

At present, I've got about 6 different conf file purposes each with different user parameters in them.o

My current thoughts are to add 2 specific user parameter to the conf file,
1) ConfFileName which is set to the main purpose of the file/host type
2) ConfFileVersion which is set to a Version Number

Both these are then supported by a generic template that i can apply to all my hosts.

It's a bit more Config control to set up, but I feel it will pay off as we grow and change user parameters over time.

Does anyone else have experience of using other methods?

Thanks very much.

[LenR]

We manage everything with Puppet, so we don't monitor the config, we manage it :-)

[Wolfsbane2k]

We manage everything with Puppet, so we don't monitor the config, we manage it :-)

Thanks - Management rather than monitoring is the right solution, and we're looking at Management tools like Puppet and Ansible, but that's likely a longer term plan to get that setup and operational.

We're also aware that Developers and Testers like (and need) rapid development environments, and I want to get a bit more control of history over those, so tracking the config's last changed date can provide a bit more visibility within a very small development/team.