And while we’re at it, I might add another contribution related to Zabbix: a monitoring template for the Cisco Catalyst 2960-48.
Get it while it’s hot, either on my blog or on the Zabbix wiki:
http://blog.penumbra.be/files/zabbix_template_2960-48.xml.txt
http://www.zabbix.com/wiki/templates/cisco_2960_48_port
Preview:
For those who want or need to build Zabbix 1.8 on CentOS 5: there is an excellent RPM Spec file available at Andrew Farley’s blog. He’s also been kind enough to host a series of precompiled RPM packages.
If you look at the changelog you might find yours truly. I’ve contributed a patch to add a couple of dependencies and to fix a couple of bugs. So I thought I should share.
First of all the RPM Spec file:
http://repo.andrewfarley.com/centos/specs/zabbix.spec
If you’d like to compile your own packages you might follow this guide:
# yum groupinstall "Development Tools" # yum install rpmdevtools # rpmdev-setuptree
To compile for your running architecture:
# rpmbuild -bb --clean zabbix.spec
Or if you’d like to build for a specific architecture:
# rpmbuild -bb --clean --target i686 zabbix.spec
After the compile process you’ll find the RPM files in the following directory:
~/rpmbuild/RPMS/zabbix*.rpm
