Zabbix Template: Wordpress Updates

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Zabbix template for Wordpress update monitoring

Description
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Based on “WP-CLI” (CLI query to check updates): Github - WP-CLI

Shows number of available Wordpress Core, Plugin and Theme updates on a host for all available Wordpress installations at /var/www/*.
LLD (low level discovery) is used inside of a discovery rule to scan all folders at /var/www/*.

Example notification:

Tested with:

Zabbix Server 7.0.8 & 7.2.3
zabbix-agent2 (on Debian 12 server)
Various Wordpress-Versions

Getting Started
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Dependencies
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Github - WP-CLI installed on the host (Installation Guide)
Zabbix-Server with timeouts set up to 15 seconds! (Timeout=15)
Host with zabbix-agent2 and a Wordpress installation

Installing
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On Zabbix frontend server:
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Download and import the template wordpress-updates.yaml
Assign the Template Wordpress Updates to the Wordpress host(s) you want to monitor

On all hosts you want to monitor:
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Automatically (Bash-Script-Installer):

download and run the file installer_wp_updates.sh, which will run all manual steps automatically.

Manual:

Install and configure package zabbix-agent2 (if not installed):
```
apt-get install zabbix-agent2
```

Install WP-CLI: (Installation Guide from WP_CLI):

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
php wp-cli.phar --info
chmod +x wp-cli.phar
sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp

Test, if it was successfull:

wp --info

download “wp_discovery.sh” to new directory /etc/zabbix/scripts/ and change permission:

mkdir /etc/zabbix/scripts
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thetorminal/Zabbix-Wordpress-updates/refs/heads/main/wp_discovery.sh -o /etc/zabbix/scripts/wp_discovery.sh
chown zabbix:zabbix /etc/zabbix/scripts/wp_discovery.sh && chmod 0755 /etc/zabbix/scripts/wp_discovery.sh

add “wp_updates.conf” to /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agent2.d/:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thetorminal/Zabbix-Wordpress-updates/refs/heads/main/wp_updates.conf -o /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agent2.d/wp_updates.conf