Zabbix template for EMC VNX Monitoring&Reporting

Use this template to monitor EMC VNX Monitoring&reporting aka VNX M&R vApp/linux instance via passive checks. This readme contains step-by-step instructions for zabbix agent insrtallation and template configuration.

Prerequisities

• Install and configure Zabbix-agent inside vApp
• Tweak firewall settings to allow zabbix passive checks

Zabbix-agent installation

• login to your VNX M&R instance via ssh - use root/Changeme1! credentials and run:

zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/monitoring/SLE_11_SP3/ server_monitoring
zypper update
zypper install zabbix-agent

• configure Zabbix-agent according your needs (server ip for passive checks)
• enable Zabbix-agent service

chkconfig zabbix-agentd on

• check if your changes were applied

chkconfig zabbix-agentd -l

should print smth like:

zabbix-agentd             0:off  1:off  2:off  3:on   4:off  5:on   6:off

Tweak VNX M&R firewall settings

• edit file:

/etc/sysconfig/scripts/SuSEfirewall2-custom

add following line into fw_custom_before_port_handling section before "true":

iptables -I INPUT 2 -p tcp -s 217.73.28.46 --dport 10050 -m comment --comment "zabbix server" -j ACCEPT	

• apply changes by running

/sbin/SuSEfirewall2

Template installation and Zabbix configuration

Now, the easy part :)

• Import template VNX Monitoring & Reporting from this repo into Zabbix
• Add VNX Monitoring & Reporting vApp as New host into Zabbix
• Assign newly imported template to your new host

You can also:

• Assign Template OS Linux to your new host