Zabbix Template: Monitor health of DRBD

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Monitoring the status of drbd with Zabbix.

⚠️ New version released ⚠️
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This post is outdated!
New version: Zabbix Template: Monitor health of DRBD 9.x (NEW VERSION)
The Template shown here can still be found at Github - zabbix-drbd/drbd-old-version

Description
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Shows warning if the primary DRBD host becomes secondary or the secondary goes offline.
The “/proc/drbd” file in the Linux system is read for this purpose.

Tested with:

Zabbix Server 6 & Zabbix Server 7
zabbix-agent2 / drbd (on Debian 12 server)

Example for warning in zabbix:

Getting Started
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Dependencies
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Zabbix-Server
Host with zabbix-agent2 and drbd installed

Installing
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On Zabbix frontend server:
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Download and import the template drbd-status.yaml from github: drbd-status.yaml
Assign the Template DRBD Status' to the docker host(s) you want to monitor