Call for discussion on ZABBIX 1.8

[martin2002]

How to use the ssh agent and telnet agent

Hi,

I had upgrade the zabbix 1.8 with ubuntu 9.0. when I use ssh agent to execute some command , the zabbix server show following errors:

" Item [Zabbix Server:ssh.run[gethost,localhost]] error: Support of SSH parameters was not compiled in."

How to resolve it , Thanks.

[MrKen]

" Item [Zabbix Server:ssh.run[gethost,localhost]] error: Support of SSH parameters was not compiled in."

How to resolve it , Thanks.

http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/manual/installation/requirements?s[]=ssh&s[]=run

Section 2.2.4. Server requirements.

HTH

[martin2002]

How to use the ssh agent and telnet agent

http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/manual/installation/requirements?s[]=ssh&s[]=run

Section 2.2.4. Server requirements.

HTH

I have add the libssh2, but the problem is never resolved

[martin2002]

How to use the ssh agent and telnet agent

http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/manual/installation/requirements?s[]=ssh&s[]=run

Section 2.2.4. Server requirements.

HTH

The problem has been resolved ,Thanks.

[jwagdy]

The problem has been resolved ,Thanks.

How did you solve it? I installed libssh2 on Centos 5.4 but still the problem exist. Do I have to recompile zabbix?

Thx

[Firm]

How did you solve it? I installed libssh2 on Centos 5.4 but still the problem exist. Do I have to recompile zabbix?
Thx

Correct. You have to rebuild zabbix.

[MikeBreton]

Email Address for User Groups

We had to create dummy Users in each UserGroup (enabled but with readonly capabilities) in order to make use of the User email address, as UserGroups don't have such a property. This allows us to take advantage of the Media Script capability to use a Perl script to send mail to an internal news group of technicians responsible for responding to hardware/software problems.

It sure would be nice to have an email address property for the UserGroup entity and not to have all of these dummy accounts floating around.

[Tux]

I have some suggestions to make some things better :

*allow external scripts with input support
*allow custom values /translated values (i.e. Procurve Switch gives a value like 5 back and i want set it to 5 = good, then will the status shown as good in latest data and not as 5)

The actual feature "value mapping" isnt good enough. nagios support this, so why not zabbix?

[richlv]

I have some suggestions to make some things better :

*allow external scripts with input support

what input support ?

*allow custom values /translated values (i.e. Procurve Switch gives a value like 5 back and i want set it to 5 = good, then will the status shown as good in latest data and not as 5)

The actual feature "value mapping" isnt good enough. nagios support this, so why not zabbix?

what exactly isn't good enough about it ?

[Tux]

Hi,

sorry for my english.

1. Actually it´s not possible to run own scripts which uses user-data (zabbix´s popup shows nothing)

i.e.

#!/bin/sh
read -p "Enter Port(1-XX):" number
read -p "Port $portnummer activate(1), deactivate(2)?" choose
snmpset -v 2c -c public 10.12.224.45 IF-MIB::ifAdminStatus.$number i $choose

Or its my fault. I don´t know

2.It would be cooler. Actually i must always have a look at value mapping to know what the different values (like 4) stands for. (Self) "Translated" ( like 4 shown as Status Good) Values would be great.

[richlv]

1. Actually it´s not possible to run own scripts which uses user-data (zabbix´s popup shows nothing)

i.e.

#!/bin/sh
read -p "Enter Port(1-XX):" number
read -p "Port $portnummer activate(1), deactivate(2)?" choose
snmpset -v 2c -c public 10.12.224.45 IF-MIB::ifAdminStatus.$number i $choose

ah, you mean interactive frontend scripts - that might be pretty hard to support, if not impossible...

2.It would be cooler. Actually i must always have a look at value mapping to know what the different values (like 4) stands for. (Self) "Translated" ( like 4 shown as Status Good) Values would be great.

erm, why ? did you assign that value mapping to the item ? (see item properties)

[alixen]

Hi,

ah, you mean interactive frontend scripts - that might be pretty hard to support, if not impossible...

Currently, only simple text output from action script is allowed in popup window.
It would be nice to allow HTML support. It would then be possible to have more advanced actions as running AjaxTerm console or opening SSH or VNC sessions.

This has been discussed in this post: http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthre...ght=ssh+applet.
PHP has to be hacked to support it. A cleaner solution would be nice.

I am aware that allowing arbitrary HTML injection could be a security risk. It is limited since adding an action script needs proper access rights to Zabbix scripts directory and administrator rights within Zabbix.

Regards,
Alixen

[bashman]

It would be nice to have the possibility to send a message when you disable a host to inform other users. The idea is when a user changes host status to "Not Monitored", the rest of the users could know what had happened by a message.

[Murilex]

My 2 cents: Yes bashman, you'll have to recompile zabbix binary in order to use the ssh checks. Remember that you have to specify the directive --with-ssh2 (besides others you need) to enable support of ssh checks in zabbix server.