zbxora

Zabbix Oracle monitoring plugin Downloadable from https://github.com/ikzelf/zbxora

Written in python, tested with python 2.6 and 2.7. Using cx_Oracle purpose is monitoring an Oracle database in an efficient way. Optionally calling zabbix_sender to upload data

Supports Oracle 9,10,11,12 RAC,asm and plugin databases Tested with Oracle 11,12 RAC,standby,asm and plugin databases

usage zbxora.py -c configfile resulting in log to stdout and datafile in specified out_dir/{configfile}.zbx

sample config:

bin/zbxora.py
bin/zbxora_sender
bin/zbxora_starter

database config files:

etc/zbxora.fsdb02.cfg

default checks files:

etc/zbxora_checks/oracle/asm.11.cfg
etc/zbxora_checks/oracle/asm.12.cfg
etc/zbxora_checks/oracle/primary.11.cfg
etc/zbxora_checks/oracle/primary.12.cfg
etc/zbxora_checks/oracle/standby.11.cfg

site checks files - examples:

etc/zbxora_checks/oracle/ebs.cfg.example
etc/zbxora_checks/oracle/sap.cfg.example

example config file: zbxora.fsdb02.cfg

[zbxora]
db_url: //localhost:15214/fsdb02
username: cistats
password: knowoneknows
role: normal
# for ASM instance role should be SYSDBA
out_dir: $HOME/zbxora_out
hostname: testhost
checks_dir: etc/zbxora_checks
site_checks: sap,ebs
to_zabbix_method: NOzabbix_sender
# if to_zabbix_method is zabbix_sender, every cycle a sender process is started
to_zabbix_args: zabbix_sender -z 127.0.0.1 -T -i 
# the output filename is added to to_zabbix_args

(check out http://ronr.blogspot.nl/2017/01/cleartext-userid-and-passwords-in.html regarding passwords)

Assuming bin/ is in PATH: When using this configfile ( zbxora.py -c etc/zbxora.fsdb02.cfg ) zbxora.py will read the configfile and try to connect to the database using db_url If all parameters are correct zbxora will keep looping forever. Using the site_checks as shown, zbxora tries to find them in {checks_prefix}_sap.cfs and in {checks_prefix}_ebs.cfg (just specify a comma separated list for this) Outputfile containing the metrics is created in out_dir/zbxora.fsdb02.zbx

After having connected to the specified service, zbxora finds out the instance_type and version, after which the database_role is determined, if applicable. Using these parameters the correct zbxora_checks_X.Y.cfg file is chosen.

After having read the checks_files, a lld array containing the queries is written before monitoring starts. When monitoring starts, first the discovery section is executed. This is to discover the instances, tablespaces, diskgroups, or whatever you want to monitor.

zbxora also keeps track of the used queries. zbxora executes queries and expects them to return a valid zabbix_key and values. The zabbix_key that the queries return should be known in zabbix in your zabbix_host (or be discovered by a preceding lld query in a discover section)

If a database goes down, zbxora will try to reconnect until killed. When a new connection is tried, zbxora reads the config file, just in case there was a change. If a checks file in use is changed, zbxora re-reads the file and logs about this.

zbxora's time is mostly spent sleeping. It wakes-up every minute and checks if a section has to be executed or not. Every section contains a minutes:X parameter that specifies how big the monitor interval should be for that section. The interval is specified in minutes. If at a certain moment multiple sections are to be executed, they are executed all after each other. If for some reason the checks take longer than a minute, an interval is skipped.

The idea for site_checks is to have application specific checks in them. The regular checks should be application independent and be generic for that type and version of database. For RAC databases, just connect using 1 instance For pluggable database, just connect to a global account to monitor all plugins

zbxora_starter:

this is an aide to [re]start zbxora in an orderly way. Put it in the crontab, every minute. It will check the etc directory (note the lack of a leading '/') and start the configuration files named zbxora.{your_config}.cfg, each given their own logfile. Notice the sleep in the start sequence. This is done to make sure not all concurrently running zbxora sessions awake at the same moment. Now their awakenings is separated by a second.

zbxora_sender:

This is convenient when monitoring lot's of databases from one client. In that case it is more efficient to collect all output files in zbxora_out/ and upload them in one session to zabbix. It is possible to have zbxora call zabbix_sender but this is not implemented in the most efficient way.

TODO: make zbxora.py open a pipe to zabbix_sender and use that all the time instead of opening a new session every minute.

self monitoring:

zbxORA also does some self monitoring. For that it starts with finding the checks files that are needed for the particular configuration. It creates an lld array for the files so it can report status and last modification times on those files. If the file happens to be unreadable, or gives parsing errors, the status reflects that. lmod lists the files last modification times so it is easy to find when something changed, in zabbix, instead of having to search log files. Also the query status and performance is reported. If a query fails, the error code is in the queries status column ( zbxora[query,{#SECTION},key,status] ). This key is not necasarily the item key that the query reports to. Some queries, like those that report tablespace usage, report for many keys .... During upgrades, the zbxora[query,{#SECTION},key,ela] can give a quick view on how the upgrade influences the performance...

on connect only queries

zbxORA uses the sections that have minutes = 0 for a special case: run only once, after logon to the database. This is fine for items like version, that are not often changed while connected to the database. This saves a lot of space compared to having to run - and store - this info every hour.

value mappings

zabbix supports import of value mappings since v3. Now you can import value maps in "Administration->General->Value_Mapping" Since zabbix pre v3 did not export value mappings, first create them with following properties:

zbxora arl_dest

0 ⇒ OK
1 ⇒ DEFERRED
2 ⇒ ERROR
3 ⇒ UNK

zbxora db.openstatus

0 ⇒ unknown
1 ⇒ MOUNTED
2 ⇒ READ ONLY
3 ⇒ READ WRITE
4 ⇒ READ ONLY WITH APPLY

zbxora rman status

0 ⇒ COMPLETED
1 ⇒ FAILED
2 ⇒ COMPLETED WITH WARNINGS
3 ⇒ COMPLETED WITH ERRORS
4 ⇒ noinfo
5 ⇒ RUNNING
9 ⇒ unk

zbxora[checks,status]

0 ⇒ OK
11 ⇒ unreadable
13 ⇒ parse error[s]

zbxora[connect,status]

0 ⇒ OK

zbxora[query,,,status]

0 ⇒ OK

For your convenience, just run valuemapping_oracle.sql, if your zabbix lives in an Oracle database or valuemapping_mysql.sql if your zabbix lives in a mysql database (untested).

Warning:

Use the code at your own risk. It is tested and seems to be functional. Use an account with the least required privileges, both on OS as on database leven. Don't use a dba type account for this.

database user creation:

create user cistats identified by knowoneknows;
grant create session, select any dictionary, oem_monitor to cistats;

In Oracle 12 - when using pluggable database:

create user c##cistats identified by knowoneknows;
alter user c##cistats set container_data = all container = current;
grant create session, select any dictionary, oem_monitor, dv_monitor to c##cistats;

extra warning:

I have written this in python but not in a pythonic style. A little cleanup to convert this to clean python code - and preserving efficiency - is welcome.

denw90/zbxora