Month: December 2010

Since some time ago, I’m used working with ZABBIX systems – as server as agent, proxy … . Now, I don’t going to explain all the fantastic features about this software in this post. In this post, I will only enumerate my preferred ZABBIX Agent settings and my best values for each one.

• Server=zproxy01.mon.mng.amz.coorp.com

  List of comma delimited IP addresses (or hostnames) of ZABBIX servers.
  No spaces allowed. First entry is used for sending active checks.
  Note that hostnames must resolve hostname->IP address and
  IP address->hostname.

• ServerPort=10051

  Server port for sending active checks

• Hostname=php611.int.amz.coorp.com

  Unique hostname. Required for active checks.
  This hostname must correspond with the name set on ZABBIX Server for this
  host

• ListenPort=10050

  Listen port. Default is 10050.

• ListenIP=8.8.8.8

  IP address to bind agent
  If missing, bind to all available IPs

• StartAgents=5

  Number of pre-forked instances of zabbix_agentd.
  Default value is 5.
  This parameter must be between 1 and 16

• RefreshActiveChecks=90

  How often refresh list of active checks. 2 minutes by default.
  This check list are sending by the ZABBIX server/proxy.
  See in zabbix.com
  to known more about Zabbix Agent’s protocol.
  This value can’t be lower than 60 seconds.

• DisableActive=0

  Disable active checks. The agent will work in passive mode listening server.

• EnableRemoteCommands=1

  Enable remote commands for ZABBIX agent. By default remote commands disabled.

• DebugLevel=3

  Specifies debug level:

  • 0 – debug is not created
  • 1 – critical information
  • 2 – error information
  • 3 – warnings
  • 4 – information (default)
  • 5 – for debugging (produces lots of information)

• PidFile=/var/run/zabbix-agent/zabbix_agentd.pid

  Name of PID file

• LogFile=/var/log/zabbix-agent/zabbix_agentd.log

  Name of log file.
  If not set, syslog will be used

• LogFileSize=5

  Maximum size of log file in MB. Set to 0 to disable automatic log rotation.

• Timeout=15

  Spend no more than Timeout seconds on processing
  Must be between 1 and 30

• UserParameter=http.basicaction,wget -t 2 -T 10 -q -O – “http://server:80/StatusInfo.php” | grep -e “App:”

  Format: UserParameter=key,shell_command
  Note that shell command must not return empty string or EOL only

More info:

• http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/protocols/agent