Monitoring with zabbix

This tutorial shows how you can monitor your flows in Zabbix

Steps:

1. get the data out of Assimbly using the REST service
2. create the input file for zabbix_sender executable
3. create zabbix items and triggers for your data

get the data out of Assimbly using the REST service

Create a REST client in any language you want

Get an initial token by calling this URL and store the parameter XSRF-TOKEN it in a cookie named X-XSRF-TOKEN GET http://your_assimbly_server:assimbly_port/api/account

Post the login form data to (make sure you re-use your cookie data from the previous step) POST http://your_assimbly_server:assimbly_port/api/authentication

Retrieve all flows from the assimbly instance GET http://your_assimbly_server:assimbly_port/api/flows?page=0&size=250&sort=name,asc

Loop through the retrieved JSON with flowdata and GET their stats use these parameters out of each object for the stats request: .gatewayId => .id => GET http://your_assimbly_server:assimbly_port/api/connector/<Gateway ID>/flow/stats/<Flow ID>

create the input file for zabbix_sender executable

Save the retrieved data in a textfile, values are separated by a hostname zabbixkeyname unixtimestamp value

for example: ASSIMBLYSERVER01 flow.maxprocessingtime[flow_name_from_a_to_b] 1600947605 188 ASSIMBLYSERVER01 flow.lastprocessingtime[flow_name_from_a_to_b] 1600947605 31 ASSIMBLYSERVER01 flow.meanprocessingtime[flow_name_from_a_to_b] 1600947605 54 ASSIMBLYSERVER01 flow.lastexchangefailureexchangeid[flow_name_from_a_to_b] 1600947605 0 ASSIMBLYSERVER01 flow.firstexchangefailuretimestamp[flow_name_from_a_to_b] 1600947605 0 ASSIMBLYSERVER01 flow.firstexchangecompletedexchangeid[flow_name_from_a_to_b] 1600947605 ID-SVVGGAPLP0054-1600885392012-0-3754 ASSIMBLYSERVER01 flow.lastexchangecompletedtimestamp[flow_name_from_a_to_b] 1600947605 2020-09-24T12:13:49.424+0200 ASSIMBLYSERVER01 flow.exchangescompleted[flow_name_from_a_to_b] 1600947605 9

create zabbix items and triggers for your data