Monitoring Zabbix

[cliffwilliams44]

I believe that is considered an active check, which is where I was going to look at. I am also considering writing an OPNsense template, that would show the application components running on an OPNsense firewall.

Yes, you can do that. Anything you can script you can use as an active check, just send the results of the script the stdout.

A word of warning, you have to be careful with scripted active checks. The old saying in Quantum Physics "To monitor a quantum phenomenon is to change it" also holds true with monitoring a computer system. You can seriously impact performance if your active check is called to often.

A few version back in Zabbix the SQL template used active checks and if you just accepted the default 1 minute item interval it would bring your SQL server to its knees! That was a hard lesson learned!

[Evert]

OPNsense is FreeBSD, there is a zabbix client for freeBSD. It's not available as a package from the GUI [...]

os-zabbix-agent, os-zabbix6-agent, and os-zabbix64-agent are all available right in System > Firmware > Plugins.

I currently have os-zabbix64-agent installed. If I were to replace that with os-zabbix-agent , will I then automagically get an updated version when 'os-zabbix7-agent' is released?

In other words: which version of zabbix-agent does os-zabbix-agent represent?

[spetrillo]

OPNsense is FreeBSD, there is a zabbix client for freeBSD. It's not available as a package from the GUI [...]

os-zabbix-agent, os-zabbix6-agent, and os-zabbix64-agent are all available right in System > Firmware > Plugins.

I currently have os-zabbix64-agent installed. If I were to replace that with os-zabbix-agent , will I then automagically get an updated version when 'os-zabbix7-agent' is released?

I dont think so but I could be wrong. v7 agents and proxies for OPNsense are being developed and I would expect them to be available with the next OPNsense update.