jefvantongerloo / zabbix-automation-demo

Automating Zabbix with Netbox and Ansible

zabbix-automation-demo

Automating Zabbix with Netbox and Ansible

Manual tasks can be time-consuming and prone to human errors. We leverage automation to configure, import and synchronize network devices to Zabbix. Netbox acts as a source of truth for our Zabbix desired state and the device snmp configuration. Ansible orchestrates and glues all the API component interactions together for a consistent, reliable and scalable automation chain.

Installation

Clone git repository

git clone https://github.com/jefvantongerloo/zabbix-automation-demo.git

Install dependencies

poetry install
poetry self add poetry-dotenv-plugin

Install Ansible collections

ansible-galaxy collection install -r collections/requirements.yml

Environment variables

# Ansible network related variables
# More info: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/network/getting_started/network_differences.html
ANSIBLE_USER=''
ANSIBLE_PASSWORD=''
ANSIBLE_CONNECTION=''
ANSIBLE_NETWORK_OS=''

# Netbox related variables
# More info: https://demo.netbox.dev/static/docs/rest-api/overview/
NETBOX_API=''
NETBOX_TOKEN=''

# Ansible Zabbix related variables
# More info: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.zabbix
ZABBIX_API=''
ANSIBLE_ZABBIX_AUTH_KEY=''

# Switch snmp config related variables
CFG_SNMP_PASSPHRASE=''

Getting started

1. Add Netbox device zabbix tag

2. Check Ansible Netbox inventory plugin

   ansible-playbook -i inventory/ --list

3. Run Ansible zabbix-sync playbook

   ansible-playbook -i inventory/ playbooks/sync-zabbix.yml

Ansible tags

• switch-config
• zabbix-config
• zabbix-hosts