MoZBX: Why Mobile Zabbix Matters

A presentation on MoZBX, an unofficial mobile webfrontend designed for smartphone usage for the Zabbix Monitoring Solution.

Transcript

1. Why  Mobile   Ma,ers Oh hai graphs on your smartphone!
2. Who  am  I? •  Geek •  Developer •  Automater •  DevOps at Nucleus.be •  Blogger at http://mattiasgeniar.be
3. What  is  MoZBX?
4. New  UI
5. Why  mobile?
6. Challenges
7. Limited  resources
8. Too  many  devices
9. First:  UI  Framework:  jqTouch
10. Now:  Twi,er  Bootstrap
11. Own  PHP  API ~  750  lines  of  PHP  code  for  the  Zabbix  Class Very  easy  PHP,  simple  OO Features  only  the  most  common  tasks •  Get  hosts  /  hostgroups •  Get  triggers,  ack  triggers •  View  graphs Why?  No  choice  back  then.
12. Easier  navigation
13. Pre,ier  forms
14. Same  graphs
15. App  vs  Mobile  Site
16. Hacking  graphs
17. Fetching  with  cURL
18. Retrieve  graphs  via  API     Please.  J
19. Zabbix  1.8  vs  2.x
20. API  changes
21. Double  Code
22. Installation $  cd  /var/www/html/ $  wget  h,ps://github.com/ma,iasgeniar/MoZBX/zipball/master $  unzip  ma,iasgeniar-­‐‑MoZBX-­‐‑*.zip $  curl  -­‐‑I  "ʺh,p://localhost"ʺ HTTP/1.1  200  OK
23. Hosted  version www.mozbx.net
24. Why  I  do  it?
25. TODO Or  more  fancy:  the  roadmap
26. TODO Be,er  git  commits?  J
27. Expand  host  view
29. Contribute? •  Issue tracker
30. Contribute? •  Source: https://github.com/mattiasgeniar/MoZBX •  -> could use: patches, new features, ... It’s simple PHP!
31. Contribute? •  More UI testing: need more phones
32. Contribute? •  Interested? -> Twitter: @mattiasgeniar -> E-mail: m@ttias.be