Zabbix Appliance Requests for the next image version

[JeffNL]

Hi developers,

I am currently using Zabbix Appliance 4.4.6 in a Hyper-V environment.

There are a few peculiarities I stumbled upon which can easily be ‘fixed’ in the next Appliance image.

In the documentation it was already mentioned that Hyper-V users would need to use CTRL-ALT-F2 to be able to login using the console screen.

This can be fixed by altering /etc/default/grub
Comment out a line:

#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

The graphical startup-screen is not that spectaculair, and hey, it’s a server, which should run forever.

Because I use static IP-adressing, I need to edit the file /etc/network/interfaces
I really hate to use “vi”. Why not install “nano” also?

apt install nano

The above two simple things will make it easier to install the Appliance image.

It would be even better if some sort of Q/A-script would be available, asking for:

• network settings
• hostname setting
• timezone

[provels]

I'm just a dumb user, but I implemented your grub and nano changes and appreciate them. We feel the same about vi. Lord, nano is so much better. But I'm a Windows user for 30 years, so there's that... I have used WinSCP to edit files on my FreeBSD machines as root, and I don't understand why root login is disallowed here (though I'm sure someone will tell me). After all, if you have the appliance login, you're only a sudo away from nuking the box anyway. It also might be nice to at least include commented out address/mask/gateway/dns-nameserver lines in /etc/network/interfaces for static addressing. After all, won't get too far installing nano without DNS...

[JeffNL]

provels
Most programs like WinSCP allow you to save the password for login.
But to use sudo, you would need to enter your password again. So that is in fact the security feature, because you cannot save this in such software.
If someone would be able to take over your pc/laptop, they would still need to have the password to use sudo.
Here considering that you do not store your paswords in cleartext

[provels]

Well, at least I can browse/search the tree and view/search in text files . That helps immensely. OT, but why do you suppose FreeBSD would permit, best practice or not? They seem to be at least somewhat security conscious.