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Zimbra Template​

Download the Zimbra Template for Zabbix version 6.0.

In the Configuration → Templates section users can configure and maintain templates. Click on Import to load the template YAML file:

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zmcontrol_status​

Prepare the Zimbra server, by adding the following line to the ROOT CRONTAB. This will put the output of the zmcontrol_status on a file in /tmp. It will run every 3 min:

crontab -u root -e
*/3 * * * * sudo -u zimbra /opt/zimbra/bin/zmcontrol status > /tmp/zmcontrol_status

This will generate the following file:

cat /tmp/zmcontrol_status
Host my.zimbra.com
        amavis                  Running
        antispam                Running
        antivirus               Running
        ldap                    Running
        logger                  Running
        mailbox                 Running
        memcached               Running
        mta                     Running
        opendkim                Running
        proxy                   Running
        service webapp          Running
        snmp                    Running
        spell                   Running
        stats                   Running
        zimbra webapp           Running
        zimbraAdmin webapp      Running
        zimlet webapp           Running
        zmconfigd               Running

Zabbix Agent​

Add the following UserParameter to the zabbix_agentd.conf file, or the zabbix_agentd.d folder:

nano /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d/zimbra_template.conf
# Zimbra Monitor Template
UserParameter=zimbra.amavis.status,awk '/amavis/{print $2}' /tmp/zmcontrol_status
UserParameter=zimbra.antispam.status,awk '/antispam/{print $2}' /tmp/zmcontrol_status
UserParameter=zimbra.antivirus.status,awk '/antivirus/{print $2}' /tmp/zmcontrol_status
UserParameter=zimbra.mailbox.status,awk '/mailbox/{print $2}' /tmp/zmcontrol_status
UserParameter=zimbra.mta.status,awk '/mta/{print $2}' /tmp/zmcontrol_status
UserParameter=zimbra.zmconfigd.status,awk '/zmconfigd/{print $2}' /tmp/zmcontrol_status
UserParameter=zimbra.webmail.status,awk '/service webapp/{print $3}' /tmp/zmcontrol_status
UserParameter=zimbra.webadm.status,awk '/zimbraAdmin/{print $3}' /tmp/zmcontrol_status
UserParameter=zimbra.proxy.status,awk '/proxy/{print $2}' /tmp/zmcontrol_status

Zabbix Agent 2​

The version 2 configuration file does not use this directory. But it imports conf files from:

Include=./zabbix_agent2.d/plugins.d/*.conf

So I am placing the Zimbra Template configuration there:

nano zabbix_agent2.d/plugins.d/zimbra_template.conf

And restart the agent with:

service zabbix-agent2 restart
service zabbix-agent2 status

Configure the Server​

Now we can configure our server to use the Zimbra template:

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Wait a while and verify the latest data received from your server. Note: the template maps RUNNING with the value 0. So seeing zeros is here a good thing:

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