smejdil / import-default-zabbix-templates

Import all default zabbix templates using Ansible

Import default Zabbix templates

Easy shell script for make ansible tasks.yml and import Zabbix template using Ansible

• Tested on Ubuntu 20.04.3 with Zabbix 5.0 LTS

Packages Ubuntu Server

• Package - python3-pip 20.0.2-5ubuntu1.6
• Package - ansible 2.9.6+dfsg-1

How it works

Ansible use collections https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/zabbix and by Zabbix API import default template to Zabbix monitoring system.

• Python package - zabbix-api 0.5.4

Install Ubuntu server

apt install ansible

pip3 install zabbix-api

Install ansible collection zabbix

ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml
Process install dependency map
Starting collection install process
Installing 'community.zabbix:1.5.1' to '/root/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/zabbix'

Make and run playbook

export ZABBIX_USER=zabbix_admin_user
export ZABBIX_PASSWORD=*******************
export ZABBIX_VERISON="5.0.20"

cd /tmp
git clone --branch ${ZABBIX_VERISON} https://git.zabbix.com/scm/zbx/zabbix.git --depth 1
cd zabbix
git fetch --unshallow
cd ../

tar cvzf zabbix-templates-${ZABBIX_VERISON}.tar.gz zabbix/templates/

cd ~/import-default-zabbix-templates

./import-zabbix-templates.sh

Problems

• The error was: zabbix_api.ZabbixAPIException: urllib2.URLError - Internal Server Error - PHP memory_limit
• The error was: zabbix_api.APITimeout: HTTP read timeout - max_execution_time

To do

• Import Media
• Test on other Linux distribution
• Test Zabbix 6.0.0beta3 - Import Zabbix 5.4 - 6.0 Template format YAML #618
• ansible-collections/community.zabbix#618