Zabbix Template Module NFS version 1.0.4

Tested on Zabbix 4.4 to 5.2

Introduction

Template for zabbix to check nfs share availability using external script. It can check:

• If NFS server is accepting request
• If NFS share are available
• The NFS server version

Requirement

The script use the commands showmount & rpcinfo so it requires the linux package nfs-common

To install it you can use the package manager of your distribution

Exemple

apt-get install nfs-common

By the way you may require sudoer rights to run the command.

On linux NFS server you may need to install rpcbind service to get information from rpcinfo command

Installation

Content

The template installation require 3 files:

• frogg_nfs_check.sh Zabbix external script
• frogg_nfs_check.xml Zabbix template configuration
• userparameter_frogg_nfs_check.conf Zabbix shortcut for a clean call

Introduction

The script will be launched by Zabbix server, testing if client nfs share is available using a script. That mean Zabbix network must be able to see nfs sharing of the client on the network.

• All the files are installed on Zabbix server, none is required on the client.
• Your network must allow zabbix server to see nfs share of the client
• First check your external script folder, in most of new version you can find it in /usr/lib/zabbix/externalscripts You can find the ExternalScripts folder in your /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf (default location)

### Option: ExternalScripts
#       Full path to location of external scripts.
#       Default depends on compilation options.
#       To see the default path run command "zabbix_server --help".
#
# Mandatory: no
# Default:
# ExternalScripts=${datadir}/zabbix/externalscripts

ExternalScripts=/usr/lib/zabbix/externalscripts

• For a cleaner script calling this template now use userparameter file, You can verify the path stored in your /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf (default location)

### Option: Include
#       You may include individual files or all files in a directory in the configuration file.
#       Installing Zabbix will create include directory in /usr/local/etc, unless modified during the compile time.
#
# Mandatory: no
# Default:
# Include=

Include=/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d/*.conf

If /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf.d/ doesn't exist you ca create it

External script

Scripts

Place the frogg_nfs_check.sh in /usr/lib/zabbix/externalscripts.

You will need to add execute permission on the script

chmod +x frogg_nfs_check.sh 

User parameters

Add the userparameter_frogg_nfs_check.conf to /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf.d/ (default location)

Testing the installation

You can run the command:

• To Test NFS version

./frogg_nfs_check.sh version <ip-of-server>

• To Test NFS share

./frogg_nfs_check.sh share <ip-of-server> "/nfsShare1,/nfsShare2,/nfsShare3"

Template

Then you need to import the frogg_nfs_check.xml template configuration file in the zabbix web interface in Template tab using the import button

Host configuration

The template use 2 macros :

MACRO	Description
{$NFSVERSION}	the NFS version that should be returned by the server
{$NFSSHARES}	the list of NFS shares that should be available, to set multiple shares they must be separated by ,

Exemple:

Template items

Template triggers

Debugging

Going further...This step is working with most of externals scripts

If you got troubles getting an external script working, first :

1. Check the Zabbix tab Monitoring > latest data If you select an host, you should see all items linked to it, check for your item and you should see the lasted data linked to it. If it appear in gray (disabled) that mean there is something wrong with the external script (rights, path, arguments ...) To find more about it you can check logs
2. By default the logs are in /var/log/zabbix/zabbix_server.log or you can find the log path in Zabbix configuration file zabbix_server.conf (by default /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf)

To get the last log lines you can use for example:

tail -f /var/log/zabbix/zabbix_server.log

Then look at the script trouble...

Example: In this case Zabbix cannot find the path of the script as you can see no such file or directory

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