From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tremer To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Interested in maintaining zabbix addon package Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 21:38:07 +0100 Message-ID: <51448FDB-EC1E-4596-9E4A-99DD230972F9@ipfire.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3972233750577932847==" List-Id: --===============3972233750577932847== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, > On 27 Mar 2021, at 07:30, Adolf Belka wrote: >=20 > Hi Robin, >=20 > Sent from my Desktop Computer > On 27/03/2021 00:13, Robin Roevens wrote: >> Hi all >>=20 >> I'm Robin, living in Belgium and a daily administrator of Zabbix both >> professionally and at home. I use linux on all my computers, mainly >> openSUSE, and administer RHEL based linux servers as a profession. Used >> Gentoo, Debian, Slackware, Redhat, Mandrake etc many many years ago.. >>=20 >> I have been using IPFire also for many years now, coming from >> Smoothwall and IPcop, first in a VM on my home server, currently on an >> IPFire appliance from Lightning Wire, so evidently I like monitoring my >> appliance using Zabbix. >> Hence I wrote a Zabbix Template to monitor and alert on IPFire specific >> metrics (https://github.com/RobinR1/zbx-template-ipfire) and had >> recently added a suggestion in the IPFire wiki - zabbix addon page to >> use my template. >> In response to my edit, Alexander Koch added a notice to that page that >> the current Zabbix IPFire addon was no longer maintained. Welcome. As far as I know there is nobody on the team who is an expert on this, so it = would be very great indeed if you would take over the package and make sure i= t is up to standard :) *thumbs up* -Michael >> As an experienced user of both I may be interested in taking up the >> role as package maintainer for the zabbix addon in IPFire. >> I created packages before using Suse's OBS but never officially >> maintained ones, so this would be my first, and with a currently >> 'unknown' technology for me (Pakfire). >=20 > You will of course be very welcomed by the IPFire dev team.They are a bit b= usy right now with the build up to the Core Update 155 release. >=20 > Welcome to the IPFire team. I started out a year and a half ago with updati= ng am addon that I used that had become out of date and now am also helping w= ith providing patches to any programs I happen to find that are out of date. >=20 > So I have trod the path you are setting out on and will be willing to help = in any way I can. >=20 >> I started by reading the info available on the IPFire wiki and found >> https://wiki.ipfire.org/devel/ipfire-2-x/addon-howto as, I think, the >> most current documentation on how to build packages on IPFire 2.x. >> Other Pakfire-related info seems to be mainly for IPFire 3. >> The required build environment is currently building on my PC, so I >> hope to start working on it soon. >> However at the end of that document, the instructions as of how to >> actually submit the package for inclusion in IPFire seems to be >> missing. > The addon page you found is exactly the one to use. The end part of that pa= ge needs to be tidied up to point at the patch submission section. >> So I will try to update the zabbix agent using this build env as soon >> as it is ready, and for as far as I currently understand it, I will >> then probably end up with changes in lfs/zabbix_agentd and >> config/zabbix_agentd/, which I then just have to submit here as a patch >> following the instructions on ipfire wiki about submitting patches? >=20 > A few bits I have learned are:- >=20 > use git commit -s The -s adds your email address as the Signed-by: li= ne automatically >=20 > use git format-patch This gives you a patch formatted in the way that IPF= ire need it >=20 > use git send-email This send the patch to the IPFire development mail= ing list without mangling it like some mail MUA's can do (as I found out). >=20 >> Anyway, this was my introduction, and I hope I will be of some help in >> this great project. >=20 > Welcome and just ask for help if you hit any problems. >=20 > Sometimes response may take a day or so as they are a small team and especi= ally at times leading up to a Core Update Release. >=20 >> Regards >> Robin --===============3972233750577932847==--