I discussed this about a year ago but in the end I didn’t publish anything. I actually did get “Windows Server Operating System” MP to be pretty much feature-complete (no to little OS metadata – health checks only) and it pretty much blows away any Zabbix built-in template and any other I’ve seen. There’s a few addition bits that I found useful. Works fine on Windows 2012+ and… more-less fine on 2008 and 2008R2. Some items are missing due to different performance monitors but I really haven’t bothered to edit it (physical disk and networking if I remember correctly). All items and triggers use macros so it’s easy to override checks.
The main issue remains 256 char item limit. I did make some progress in packing extra PowerShell in this small limit so previous posts may not be up to date, so templates still don’t require any changes to agent or any local scripts. Another issue is that I can’t reference items from other (linked) templates in triggers. And as you can’t add the same item in another template, it makes some templates REALLY annoying. 30 second command timeout remains an issue so you can’t actively defrag/chkdsk/unmap/trim or do very expensive checks. Command timeout with proxy seems to cause proxy to reissue commands every few minutes, causing performance issues as commands never complete and just repeat indefinitely. I did leave the checks in but disabled them. File system health is checked from just dirty flag and fragmentation information is checked from registry last run data. It seems to trigger false positives occasionally from VMware snapshots but works reasonably well. I did figure out how to change disk optimization from weekly to daily in PowerShell but it’s waaaaay too big to fit in item for all OS. I did consider building item command from multiple macros but this change would have little value. For reference (2012+ only):
$v=[environment]::OSVersion.Version;If($v.major -gt 6 -or ($v.major -eq 6 -and $v.minor -ge 2)){$s='ScheduledDefrag';$t=Get-ScheduledTask $s|export-scheduledtask;$t.Task.Settings.MaintenanceSettings.Period='P1D';register-scheduledtask -TaskN $s -TaskP '\Microsoft\Windows\Defrag' -X $t.outerxml -F}
I did some work on ADDS and File server MPs but it’s really time-consuming and they remain incomplete (they have helped to catch a few incidents though). I did mostly complete Exchange template but it’s mostly telemetry (as in original MP) and alerting mostly works by querying health monitor – but again, it has helped to diagnose issues and catch incidents early.
I’ll try to clean them up and release somehow… someday.
PS! I still think that Zabbix sucks but it’s one of the best among free stuff. 🙂