How dbbix works with Zabbix

Jephe Wu - http://linuxtechres.blogspot.com

Environment: dbforbix running on separated CentOS 5 box, Zabbix server or zabbix proxy is on another server
Objective: use separated server running dbbix to serve database performance check and show graph on zabbix web gui
Concept:
dbforbix collects data from separated server, then send it to zabbix server(destination server was configured without proxy) or zabbix proxy(server was configured with proxy)


Steps:
1. on dbforbix, configure it as follows:

ZabbixServerList=zabbixserver01,zabbixproxy01
zabbixserver01.Address=172.16.4.1
zabbixserver01.Port=10051

zabbixproxy01.Address=172.16.4.2
zabbixproxy01.Port=10051

DatabaseList=db01,db02


db01.Url=jdbc:mysql://db01:3306/mysqldb01.User=zabbix
db01.Password=zabbix
db01.DatabaseType=mysql
db01.QueryListFile=./conf/mysql/mysqlquery.props

oradb-01.Url=jdbc:oracle:thin:@oradb-01-vip:1521:LIVEDB1
oradb-01.User=zabbix
oradb-01.Password=zabbix
oradb-01.QueryListFile=./conf/oracle/query.props

dbent.Url=jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://172.16.7.2:1987/master
dbent.User=zabbix
dbent.Password=zabbix
dbent.DatabaseType=mssql
dbent.QueryListFile=./conf/mssql/mssqlquery.props

host1.Url=jdbc:postgresql://host1:5432/databasename
host1.User=zabbix
host1.Password=zabbix
host1.DatabaseType=pgsql
host1.QueryListFile=./conf/pgsql/pgsqlquery.props

.....

2. debug if the gui is not updating data

make sure dbforbix server can telnet zabbix server or proxy at port 10051, if not, make sure proxy or server is not running iptables.
otherwise, you will get !X (man traceroute, it's administratively prohibitted indication))
use traceroute or tcptraceroute to troubleshoot.

3. installation guide:
refer to http://www.smartmarmot.com/wiki/index.php/DBforBIX