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Recently a Ceilometer proxy for Zabbix was released by OneSource. This proxy will pull all the instance information from OpenStack and populate it in Zabbix The source code can be downloaded from here: https://github.com/OneSourceConsult/ZabbixCeilometer-Proxy The basic prerequisites for the server where the proxy is running is Python and Pika library. Also there should be network connectivity from the proxy machine to your OpenStack installation.

Zabbix can be a tough cookie to crack!! And if you are planning to monitor Openstack using Zabbix, there is lot of additional work to be done .More so, if you want to go the agentless way, ie using SNMP So, here we go.I am using Ubuntu 12.04 OS, both for my Zabbix server as well as openstack nodes First you need to install the following packages using apt-get in the machine being monitored ie the openstack node