Zabbix - Synology Active Backup for Business task monitoring

Features

• Discovery of all backup tasks (VM, Physical server, SMB and PC)
• Item - Status of backup task
• Item - Transferred bytes
• Item - Start time backup
• Item - End time backup
• Trigger - Backup operation error

Installation

Synology configuration

• Enable SSH on Synology
• Create the scheduled task on your Synology that exports data from the Active Backup for Business database to a CSV file, paste the two commands in the task (change paths in bold to Active Backup/config location and location for exported CSV files):

sqlite3 -header -csv /volumeX/@ActiveBackup/activity.db "select config_device_id, device_name, status, transfered_bytes, time_start, time_end from (SELECT * FROM device_result_table ORDER BY config_device_id) GROUP BY config_device_id;" | awk '{gsub(/"/,"")};1' > /volumeX/sharename/ActiveBackupExport.csv

sqlite3 -header -csv /volumeX/@ActiveBackup/config.db "select device_id, host_name, backup_type from device_table" | awk '{gsub(/"/,"")};1' > /volumeX/Server/ActiveBackupHostExport.csv

• Let this scheduled task run every 10mins (adjust as you wish)

Synology scheduled tasks: https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/DSM/help/DSM/AdminCenter/system_taskscheduler

Zabbix configuration

• Import value mapping - Synology_ABB_ValueMapping.xml
• Import template - Synology_ABB_Template.xml
• Add template to Synology host
• Configure template macros (SSH & CSV path)