thordendal / vertica-zabbix-template

Zabbix-agent variant of Vertica monitoring.

Template App Vertica

This repo contains Zabbix template and zabbix-agent configuration for simple Vertica monitoring.
TODO: Cluster nodes discovery, separate performance monitoring for every node.

Setting up

On your Vertica server:

sudo apt-get install python-pip
pip install --pre pytz
pip install vertica-python

Create Vertica user zabbix with password SECRET, create role monitoring, then grant monitoring to zabbix and set it default for user. Note that password you set here also must be written into userparameter_vertica.conf.

CREATE ROLE monitoring;
CREATE USER zabbix IDENTIFIED BY 'SECRET';
GRANT monitoring TO zabbix;
ALTER USER zabbix DEFAULT ROLE monitoring;

Then connect to your database:

\c mydatabase

Grant neccessary privileges to monitoring:

CREATE VIEW active_events_mon AS SELECT * FROM active_events;
CREATE VIEW cpu_usage_mon AS SELECT * FROM cpu_usage_mon;
CREATE VIEW database_backups_mon AS SELECT * FROM v_monitor.database_backups;
GRANT SELECT ON activee_events_mon TO monitoring;
GRANT SELECT ON cpu_usage_mon TO monitoring;
GRANT SELECT ON database_backups_mon TO monitoring;

Put vertica_stats.py to directory where zabbix-agent can execute it, e.g. /home/zabbix/scripts, ang chmod+chown it:

chown zabbix:zabbix vertica_stats.py
chmod 755 vertica_stats.py`.

Then put userparameter_vertica.conf to your zabbix_agentd.d directory, e.g. /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d/ and restart your zabbix-agent.