Templates

Tested on Zabbix 7.0 LTS and 6.4 version but sure will work on 6.0, 6.2 and maybe earlier versions

Template XCP-ng 8.2

This template is for the Hipervisor XCP-ng 8.2. Execute a discovery for all VMs inside Hypervisor, for each VM discovered, Zabbix create a new Host (Host Prototype) and assign a new Template XCP-ng 8.2 Guest VM with this parameters.

• HOST: VM UUID
• VISIBLE NAME: NAME_LABEL VM

Template XCP-ng 8.2 Guest VM

Items

ITEM NAME	INTERVAL	DESCRIPTION
Auto poweron	1h	Check if VM has configured auto power on
CPU Usage	1m	Gets the cpu usage of VM
HVM	10m	Check if HVM is enabled
Memory actual	1m	Gets the memory actual value
Memory dynamic max	10m	Gets the dynamic max memory configured
Memory dynamic min	10m	Gets the dynamic min memory configured
Memory static max	10m	Gets the static min memory configured
Memory static min	10m	Gets the static min memory configured
Memory overhead	1m	Gets the memory overhead value
Memory target	1m	Gets the memory target value
Number of virtual CPUs	10m	Get the number of virtual cpus VM has configured
Power state	1m	State of VM (halted, running, suspended, paused)
Requires reboot	10m	Check if XCP-ng tells if VM needs a reboot
Start-time	10m	Date and time when VM was powered on
Uptime	3m	Time since last poweron/reboot

Triggers

TRIGGER NAME	DESCRIPTION
VM has been restarted (uptime < 10m)	VM uptime it's between 5s and 10m
VM is paused	VM has autopoweron enabled and status is paused
VM is suspended	VM has autopoweron enabled and status is suspended
VM is powered off	VM has autopoweron enabled and status is powered off
VM requires reboot	VM has enabled the requires reboot param

Discovery

Network discovery

Get all virtual interfaces attached to a VM and create items and a group for each VIF.

ITEM NAME	INTERVAL	DESCRIPTION
KBytes received	1m	Kilobytes received on this VIF
KBytes transmitted	1m	Kilobytes transmitted from this VIF
MAC	1h	MAC Address of the VIF
MTU	1h	Configured MTU on the VIF
Network / vlan name	1h	Network / vlan name where this VIF is attached

Installation

Install Zabbix Agent on XCP-NG DOM0 (administration console).

Copy configuration file xcg-ng.conf which includes UserParameters

cp xcp-ng.conf /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d/xcp-ng.conf

Copy xcpng2zabbix.py script. This script extract the info of the VMS, Network VIF.

mkdir /etc/zabbix/scripts
cp xcpng2zabbix.py /etc/zabbix/scripts/xcpng2zabbix.py
chmod +x /etc/zabbix/scripts/xcpng2zabbix.py

Restart Zabbix Agent

systemctl restart zabbix-agentd.service

Test the script from zabbix

su -c 'python2.7 /etc/zabbix/scripts/xcpng2zabbix.py -a list' -s /bin/bash zabbix

Output like this will be shown (but in one line)

{
  "vmlist": [
    {
      "{#VM.NAME}": "webserver",
      "{#VM.UUID}": "bc919918-cbdc-8bd6-ad15-dcae0f74c84c"
    },
    {
      "{#VM.NAME}": "puppet-ansible",
      "{#VM.UUID}": "0cf8f762-b654-febd-0cfb-b2dc7b53d67b"
    },
    {
      "{#VM.NAME}": "Splunk",
      "{#VM.UUID}": "9f10841b-37dc-bd58-a1f0-1ae6846b83bf"
    },
    {
      "{#VM.NAME}": "docker02",
      "{#VM.UUID}": "1b51519b-eae5-a2bb-b456-5dc4f20186e0"
    }
  ]
}

If some error like Timeout appears, you need to gran permisions to user Zabbix on sudoers.

zabbix ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

For more security, you can only grant sudo to xe command. All commands inside script are executed with sudo xe

Now it's the time to check if Zabbix Agent daemon can execute and get data from script.

zabbix_agentd -t xcpng.vms.discovery

Output like

xcpng.vms.discovery [t|{"vmlist": [{"{#VM.NAME}": "webserver", "{#VM.UUID}": "bc919918-cbdc-8bd6-ad15-dcae0f74c84c"}, {"{#VM.NAME}": "puppet-ansible", "{#VM.UUID}": "0cf8f762-b654-febd-0cfb-b2dc7b53d67b"}, {"{#VM.NAME}": "Splunk", "{#VM.UUID}": "9f10841b-37dc-bd58-a1f0-1ae6846b83bf"}, {"{#VM.NAME}": "docker02", "{#VM.UUID}": "1b51519b-eae5-a2bb-b456-5dc4f20186e0"}]}]

Now, assign the Template XCP-NG 8.2 to XCP Server, and that's all