WARNING: https://www.bareos.org/en/faq/why_fork.html You may be interested in using Bareos instead of original Bacula.

NOTICE: germanodlf created analogous tool based on this, which seems more mature and feature-reach: germanodlf/bacula-zabbix You may be interested to check it out.

bacula_zabbix_integration

Scripts and template to integrate bacula with zabbix.

Abilities

• separate monitoring for each job
• low-level auto-discovery of new jobs

Workflow

For each job it's exit status and parameters are forwarded to Zabbix.

Triggers

• Job exit status indicates error
• Job was not launched for 36 hours
• FD non-fatal errors occured
• SD errors occured
• Verify job failed

Installation

• Copy file somewhere. Default is /etc/bacula/bacula-to-zabbix
• Make sure that zabbix user can launch bconsole and get output of 'show jobs' command.
• Tweak conf.py:
  • path to zabbix_sender
  • bconsole config file
  • jobs list cache file. (!) This file should be avaliable for write to zabbix user.
  • timeout for bconsole command in seconds (default 5 seconds)
  • hostname for sending messages to zabbix
• Add UserParameter from to zabbix_agentd.conf. Example in file conf-zabbix_agentd-userparam. Restart zabbix_agentd
• Config Messages resuorce in bacula-director.conf. Example in file conf-bacula-dir-messages. You can directly include this file with @/etc/bacula/bacula-to-zabbix/conf-bacula-dir-messages. Reload config for bacula-director
• Add template tmpl bacula-director.xml to zabbix. Assign it to host with bacula-director.
• Disable auto-generated triggers for jobs that are not backup type(restore jobs, ...)

Feedback

Feel free to send bug reports and feature requests here.

P.S. If this code is useful for you - don't forget to put a star on it's github repo.