FreeBSD Zabbix Agent

This small project is used for install zabbix_agent[5|6] on OS FreeBSD 13

Dependencies

• Package on desktop - vagrant - 2.2.6+dfsg-2ubuntu3 Tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments
• Package on desktop - ansible - 2.9.6+dfsg-1 - Configuration management, deployment, and task execution system

How it works

On Linux desktop run vagrant with VirtualBox. For test install and configure zabbix_agent by ansible on FreeBSD 13

Installation test evnviroment FreeBSD

vagrant up
vagrant ssh

• Vagrant also configure sshd - PermitRootLogin yes and set up root password and install ansible package

Installation Desktop

• install ssh public key to FreeBSD

cd ~/.ssh && ssh-copy-id -i id_rsa.pub root@192.168.42.100
cd ${HOME}/work/freebsd-zabbix-agent

• test Ansible communication

ansible "*" -i "192.168.42.100," -u root -m ping
192.168.42.100 | SUCCESS => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/local/bin/python3.7"
    },
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"
}

Configure ansible on Desktop

sudo vim /etc/ansible/hosts

[fbsd-vagrant]
freebsd ansible_ssh_host=192.168.42.100 ansible_ssh_user=root

ansible fbsd-vagrant -m ping

Use Ansible community collection general and pkgng module

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/index.html#plugins-in-community-general
• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/pkgng_module.html

Install Ansible module

ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
or
ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml

Run Ansible playbook with enviroment

ansible-playbook zabbix-agent.yml --extra-vars "ansible_fqdn=freebsd zabbix_server=zabbix.pfsense.cz"

ToDo

• Install and configure zabbix_server