Zabbix-Vitrage Gateway

Consolidate Zabbix alerts from across multiple sites into a single “at-a-glance” console by using a custom Zabbix [alertscript](https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.0/manual/config/notifications/media/script).

Installation

Note: Don’t try to use zabbix with docker image to test, because zabbix_vitrage.py requires some openstack libraries (oslo.messaging and oslo.config).

Copy the zabbix_vitrage.py script into the Zabbix servers’ AlertScriptsPath directory which is by default /usr/lib/zabbix/alertscripts and make it executable:

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openstack/vitrage/master/vitrage/datasources/zabbix/auxiliary/zabbix_vitrage.py
$ cp zabbix_vitrage.py /usr/lib/zabbix/alertscripts/
$ chmod 755 /usr/lib/zabbix/alertscripts/zabbix_vitrage.py

Install oslo.messaging and oslo.config to zabbix host (may require root):

$ pip install oslo.messaging oslo.config

Zabbix web ui configuration

To forward zabbix events to Vitrage a new media script needs to be created and associated with a user. Follow the steps below as a Zabbix Admin user:

  1. Create a new media type [Administration > Media Types > Create Media Type]

    Name: Vitrage Notifications
    Type: Script
    Script name: zabbix_vitrage.py
    Script parameters:
    1st line: {ALERT.SENDTO}
    2nd line: {ALERT.SUBJECT}
    3rd line: {ALERT.MESSAGE}

  2. Modify the Media for the Admin user [Administration > Users]

    Type: Vitrage Notifications
    Send to: rabbit://rabbit_user:rabbit_pass@127.0.0.1:5672/ <— Vitrage message bus url
    When active: 1-7,00:00-24:00
    Use if severity: tick all options
    Status: Enabled

    Note: Default rabbit_user/rabbit_pass for devstack rabbitmq is stackrabbit/secret

  3. Configure Action [Configuration > Actions > Create Action > Action]

    Name: Forward to Vitrage
    Default Subject: {TRIGGER.STATUS}
    Add an operation:
    Send to Users: Admin
    Send only to: Vitrage Notifications
    Default Message:
    host={HOST.NAME1}
    hostid={HOST.ID1}
    hostip={HOST.IP1}
    triggerid={TRIGGER.ID}
    description={TRIGGER.NAME}
    rawtext={TRIGGER.NAME.ORIG}
    expression={TRIGGER.EXPRESSION}
    value={TRIGGER.VALUE}
    priority={TRIGGER.NSEVERITY}
    lastchange={EVENT.DATE} {EVENT.TIME}
    To send events add under the Conditions tab:
    (A) Maintenance status not in maintenance

For a full list of trigger macros see https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.0/manual/appendix/macros/supported_by_location

To test zabbix events and vitrage alarms, please see zabbix trigger documentation: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.2/manual/config/triggers/trigger

Vitrage configuration

  1. Add zabbix to list of datasources in /etc/vitrage/vitrage.conf

[datasources]
types = zabbix,nova.host,nova.instance,nova.zone,static,aodh,cinder.volume,neutron.network,neutron.port,heat.stack

  1. Add following section to /etc/vitrage/vitrage.conf

[zabbix]
url = http://<ip>/zabbix  # URL to zabbix
password = zabbix
user = admin
config_file = /etc/vitrage/zabbix_conf.yaml

  1. Create /etc/vitrage/zabbix_conf.yaml with this content

zabbix:
- zabbix_host: Zabbix server
  type: nova.host
  name: Zabbix server

  1. Restart vitrage service in devstack/openstack

DONE