Zabbix Monitoring Lab

Requirements

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant
• Ansible

Network

• Zabbix Appliance: 192.168.56.10
• Bastion-ansible: 192.168.56.20

Steps

1. Start Bastion VM

vagrant up
vagrant ssh

2. Clone repository

sudo git clone https://github.com/sposdknl/ansible01-zbx-sxriii.git /opt/repo
cd /opt/repo

3. Install Ansible collection

sudo ansible-galaxy collection install community.zabbix --upgrade

4. Run playbook

sudo ansible-playbook -i inventory.ini -l bastion configure_servers.yml

5. Zabbix Appliance

• Import OVF from zabbix.com
• Set eth1: 192.168.56.10
• Login: Admin / zabbix

6. Auto-registration

• Alerts -> Actions -> Autoregistration actions
• Create action with condition: Host metadata contains linux
• Operations: Add host, Add to host group Linux servers, Link template Linux by Zabbix agent active

7. Verify

• Monitoring -> Hosts -> bastion should appear
• Monitoring -> Latest data -> select bastion