wdjijerman Zabbix module

[Matthew Ceroni]

Wondering if anyone uses this module? I think it does a fantastic job but did have a few questions around some of the defined types.

For instance, if you set manage resources on agent it exports the following. 

@@zabbix_host { $hostname:
	ipaddress => $ipaddress,
	use_ip => $use_ip,
	port => $port,
	group => $group,
	group_create => $group_create,
	templates => $templates,
	proxy => $proxy,
	zabbix_url => '',
	zabbix_user => '',
	zabbix_pass => '',
	apache_use_ssl => '',
	}

As it doesn't specify the zabbix url, user, password etc I am wondering how it ends up generating defaults for these.

Similar goes for a call made in zabbix::proxy to userparameters type where all but one of the parameters is not supplied:

zabbix::userparameters { 'Zabbix_Proxy': template => 'Template App Zabbix Proxy', }

Thanks

[Rob Nelson]

Matthew, we are using the module in a limited proof of concept. You can see where the defaults are set in https://github.com/dj-wasabi/puppet-zabbix/blob/master/manifests/params.pp. It's a little confusing after there. Where you're looking, those variables are not used. They are set in two places that I see:

https://github.com/dj-wasabi/puppet-zabbix/blob/master/manifests/web.pp#L276-L281 - The web node instantiates zabbix::resources::web using some parameters.
https://github.com/dj-wasabi/puppet-zabbix/blob/master/manifests/resources/web.pp#L38-L43 - All the collected zabbix_host exported resources are then modified to set those parameters.

You can override this in a few spots. Here is how we use it and the hiera overrides are near the bottom: https://gist.github.com/rnelson0/25cb7191c92fd59d1c7cc1095854e81b

To override the user and password, I think you'd use zabbix::web::zabbix_api_user and ::zabbix_api_pass, but we haven't gotten that far with our testing yet to say for certain. I'm definitely not sure why it's this seemingly complex, but I hope this helps :)

Rob Nelson
rnel...@gmail.com

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