Automatic service restart when some service down in Zabbix

Maciej

3 min readOct 7, 2020

Introduction

In this post I will show you how to easily restart services using the Zabbix monitoring system.

Environment

Vagrant +Ubuntu 18.04
Zabbix 4.0 LTS

Instruction how install Zabbix

Download Zabbix

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www.zabbix.com

Adjust zabbix-agent configuration

If we want to use zabbix to restart services automatically, we need to enable some options in the zabbix -agent configuration.

Edit file /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf and enable this two options

### Option: EnableRemoteCommands
#       Whether remote commands from Zabbix server are allowed.
#       0 - not allowed
#       1 - allowed
#
# Mandatory: no
# Default:
EnableRemoteCommands=1### Option: LogRemoteCommands
#       Enable logging of executed shell commands as warnings.
#       0 - disabled
#       1 - enabled
#
# Mandatory: no
# Default:
LogRemoteCommands=1

Save file and restart service

root@vagrant:/home/vagrant# systemctl restart zabbix-agent
root@vagrant:/home/vagrant# systemctl restart…