status.typo3.org

Source of inspiration: https://status.github.com/

Could we easily fetch information from Zabbix?

A suggestion would be to use the API
http://www.zabbix.com/wiki/doc/api

We could just include the ouput of this URL: http://monitoring.typo3.org/screens.php?fullscreen=1&elementid=7

I would put it on the same server, as otherwise the status page is down because of the monitoring software is down (or the other way around). An extra vhost should work. We could also just fetch the output of the URL shown above in a kind of proxy mode.

To explore the possibilities with the API, I have tried two PHP wrappers around the Zabbix RPC API

• http://andrewfarley.com/php/zabbix-1-8-api-php-class-v1-0
• https://github.com/Tribily/php-zabbix

The first one seemed outdated and it didn't work out for me. The second looked more promising after I fixed a bug. Anyway, it is a source of inspiration since handling the login which is required as a first transaction (even for guest). I managed to log in and get data given a hostId parameter. Code looks like that:

$api = new ZabbixAPI("http://monitoring.typo3.org/");
$result = $api->authenticate("user", "password", $error = "");
$host = $api->getHostByHostId(100xx);
var_dump($host);

At first, I though we could use "item.get" but I don't think we can address it with that.
http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/api/item/get

Besides that, I have spotted a Zabbix Console (written in Ruby) that looks very "geeky" (and cool). Don't know how really useful it is, though. ;)
http://www.zabbix.com/img/zabconf2011/presentations/Andrew_Nelson_-_Zabbix_Console.pdf

Okay, I am not able to set this assigned to me.

Here is my status for now: http://git.bbnetz.eu/t3org_zabbix/overview

I tried to tidy up the API from Andrew Farley a little bit, not yet fully ready with this, but I am able to work with this right now.

The next steps for the weekend will be:

• Create a Basic layout with a container for all entries ( Without images and arts )
• Split the layout in 2 files; header and body. Both files will be included if is not $_GET['ajax']
• If everything runs ask the Design Team if they are able to improve the layout without a lot of work

Did I miss a thing?

Patch set 1 for branch master has been pushed to the review server.
It is available at http://review.typo3.org/14226