README.md

Zabbix Template Linux Collectd_libvirt

A Zabbix templates for libvirt stats

Tested on:

Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 with KVM (kernel 3.5.0-44), collectd 4.10 Zabbix 2.0.x

CentOS 6.x X86_64, Collectd 4.10 Zabbix 2.0.x

Authors

• Patrik Majer [email protected]

installation - Manual

on monitored server (where you have kvm/libvirt)

• install a configure zabbix-agent

• copy file "zabbix-collectd.conf" into your zabbix include folder

• install collectd package(s) and perl modules

  apt-get install collectd
  apt-get install libregexp-common-perl
  
  yum install collectd collectd-virt perl-Collectd

• • if yum installation fails, install epel repo package (extras repo)

    yum install epel-release

• copy collectd config file (collectd.conf) into zabbix agent config folder (e.g. /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d)

• copy script "collect-libvirt-handler.pl" into /etc/zabbix/scripts/collectd-libvirt folder (with 755 perms)

• reboot collectd service

• reboot zabbix-agent service

on zabbix server

• import template (xml file)

installation - Automated

• use puppet module/manifest czhujer/puppet-zabbixagent

Monitored items

• virt-cpu-total - on all libvirt guests

• disk operations READ - on all libvirt guests

• disk operations WRITE - on all libvirt guests

• disk octets READ - on all libvirt guests

• disk octets WRITE - on all libvirt guests

• network interface packets TR/RX - on all libvirt guests

• network interface octets TR/RX - on all libvirt guests