Ansible : Playbook Zabbix

The aim of this project is to deploy a simple Zabbix Server on Vagrant with some basic configuration like a Postgresql backend database and an agent node.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

What things you need to run this Ansible playbook :

• Vagrant must be installed on your computer
• Update the Vagrant file based on your computer (CPU, memory), if needed
• You must have download the ubuntu Xenial64 vagrant box :

vagrant box add https://app.vagrantup.com/ubuntu/boxes/xenial64

Usage

A good point with Vagrant is that you can create, update and destroy all architecture easily with some commands.

Be aware that you need to be in the Vagrant directory to be able to run the commands.

Build Environment

Vagrant needs to init the project to run and build it :

vagrant up

After build, you can check which virtual machine Vagrant has created :

vagrant status

If all run like it is expected, you should see something like this :

$ vagrant status

Current machine states:

postgresql01               running (virtualbox)
zabbix01                   running (virtualbox)
node01			   running (virtualbox)

Deployment

To deploy the Zabbix instance, you just have to run the Ansible playbook zabbix.yml with this command :

ansible-playbook zabbix.yml

If all run like it is expected, you should access the Zabbix web interface : http://10.0.0.171/zabbix

Default login are : Admin / zabbix

After that, you could configure Zabbix discovery to see every node appear on the dashboard.

Destroy

To destroy on what Vagrant has created, just run this command :

vagrant destroy

Author

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