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Teach Zabbix to monitor service status

I know that Zabbix can monitor any service on Linux machine via two options:

  • scan particular tcp or udp port, on which the service is bound
  • or count the service processes with proc.num[<processname>]

It is totally counter-intuitive, because I can spawn processes with the same executable name and they will deceive Zabbix. I'd prefer to use standard service <servicename> status or systemctl status name.service tool. But there are no standard way to use it from Zabbix except system.run[cmd]

Could you help me to write templates for monitoring a particular service state. We want to use different OSes like Centos 7 and Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 distributions. It is pity but service <servicename> status is completely different in listed operating systems.

Solution

  • If Linux services are managed by systemd (Centos 7+, Ubuntu 16+, ...), then you can use https://github.com/cavaliercoder/zabbix-module-systemd. It uses standard systemd D-Bus communication - that's what systemctl does under the hood.