Zabbix working in Deadline 10.0.20

anthonygelatka · August 29, 2018, 11:45am

Thanks Edwin,

Will there be any option to automatically email out a monthly report / graphs rather than exporting csv files?

Is the Zabbix option still possible?

I see it hasn’t been updated in 2 years so wondered if anything had changed?

I get this error in Pulse when trying it out
2018-08-29 12:41:35: An error occurred in the "OnHouseCleaning" function in events plugin 'Zabbix': NameError : global name 'slaveTotalKey' is not defined (Python.Runtime.PythonException)

Thanks
Ant

eamsler · August 29, 2018, 2:55pm

Moved this guy to a new topic since it can stand alone.

There isn’t a feature request for e-mailing a report at a regular interval, but Zabbix or AWS QuickSight or other BI tools are likely a better solution…

For Zabbix, I’m not sure how many folks are making use if it these days. That error though might be because “SlaveTotalItemKey” isn’t set in the plugin info. It’s what populates “slaveTotalKey” and it’s only used here. It should have always been a problem.

In looking at the param file there, the “SlaveTotalItemKey” and a few other keys seem to have been duplicated somehow and we never noticed. Just as a test (since you have access to Zabbix) can you give this file a try in that event’s folder?

Zabbix.zip (1.4 KB)

anthonygelatka · August 29, 2018, 3:23pm

Thanks Edwin,

I’m trying out Zabbix as it’s on a previous blog post and in the Deadline github.

Still getting the same issue, could be in the zabbix.py file rather than param file, I tried hashing out bits there but of course it references it further down
"C:/DeadlineRepository10\custom\events\Zabbix\Zabbix.py": GetConfigEntry: Attempted to access non-existent config key: SlaveTotalItemName (Deadline.Events.DeadlineEventPluginException)

eamsler · August 29, 2018, 7:04pm

Yeah, I’m getting that too here… “SlaveTotalItemName” is definitely not in the param file. I’ll go ask the guy who committed the code.

TheScope · September 4, 2018, 9:34am

I would definitely be interested in a working Zabbix Event Plugin for Deadline. We use Zabbix for monitoring anyway (with Grafana for the good looks).

I would be happy to help with testing.

Cheers, Florian

Jason_Ian_Yee · April 13, 2021, 7:47am

I decided to give this a try in 2021.

Okay, think I found the issue regarding the non-existent config key SlaveTotalItemName.

github.com

ThinkboxSoftware/Deadline/blob/master/Custom/events/Zabbix/Zabbix.param

[State]
Type=Enum
Items=Global Enabled;Opt-In;Disabled
Category=General Settings
CategoryOrder=0
Index=0
Label=State
Default=Global Enabled
Description=How this event plug-in should respond to events. If Global, all jobs and slaves will trigger the events for this plugin. If Opt-In, jobs and slaves can choose to trigger the events for this plugin. If Disabled, no events are triggered for this plugin.

[Verbose]
Type=boolean
Category=General Settings
CategoryOrder=0
Index=1
Label=Verbose Logging
Default=False
Description=If logging should be verbose.

[ZabbixURL]

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There is a copy/paste typo…

[SlaveTotalItemKey] is at line both 143, 152.

Line 152 should be

[SlaveTotalItemName]

One thing might help others if they are new to Zabbix is to make sure you give the zabbix user r/w permission to the host (aka slave/worker).

Another thing is that in the docs, it shows slaves properties where you can change the slave region. This is not available in the newer worker properties. You change region using launcher and restart the worker. Not sure if this works as I was getting another error relating to region, but I can confirm using Get Region from Extra Info works.

cheers

Jason