Zabbix Xenserver

This templates Monitoring Xenserver disks HBA, Physical Networks and Memory from all nodes. The agent is setup on xenserver master.

Install Zabbix Agent on Xenserver

Add repositories:

#mkdir ~/downloads/
#cd ~/downloads
#rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
#rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
#rpm -Uvh https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.2/rhel/7/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm

Disable new repositories:

Disable repositories according to the standard adopted by XenServer. To do this, use the command “sed”. Run the commands below:

#sed -i -e "s/enabled=1/enabled=0/" /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
#sed -i -e "s/enabled=1/enabled=0/" /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo
#sed -i -e "s/enabled=1/enabled=0/" /etc/yum.repos.d/remi-safe.repo
#sed -i -e "s/enabled=1/enabled=0/" /etc/yum.repos.d/zabbix.repo

Update installed repositories:

#yum --enablerepo=epel --enablerepo=remi --enablerepo=base --enablerepo=zabbix makecache

Installing Zabbix Agent:

#yum --enablerepo=epel --enablerepo=remi --enablerepo=base --enablerepo=zabbix install zabbix-agent

Allow firewall:

For the zabbix agent to work correctly we need to allow port 10050 on the XenServer firewall to allow the agent to connect. Edit the file /etc/sysconfig/iptables and add the line:

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp --dport 10050 -j ACCEPT

Enable services:

#systemctl enable zabbix-agent
#systemctl restart iptables
#systemctl start zabbix-agent

Configure template

• Create xenserver user with read-only role (tested with active directory user)
• Copy the xenserver folder and userparameter_xenserver.conf inside /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
• Edit the file zabbix_agentd.d/xenserver/xen_passwd
• Import template (xenserver_template.xml) on Zabbix server (tested on zabbix 4.4)