DEVELOPMENT.md

How to test and debug

• Install the packages on the zabbix agent host

• Test the agent on the agent machine

  zabbix_agentd  -t linux.dmesg
  zabbix_agentd --print
  

• Test the agent on the server machine

  apt-get install zabbix-get
  zabbix_get -s 127.0.0.1 -k linux.dmesg
  

How to release and/or install the userparameter scripts

Adpoted from: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-fpm-to-easily-create-packages-in-multiple-formats

• Install FPM : https://fpm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing.html

  sudo apt-get install ruby-dev build-essential debhelper devscripts rpm xalan
  gem install --no-document fpm
  

• Get the repo

  git clone https://github.com/scoopex/zabbix-agent-extensions
  cd zabbix-agent-extensions
  

• Release only: Edit this file (README.md) and describe the new feature

• Create packages

  git commit ....
  ./create_packages
  

• Install the rpm or debian archive on as an addition to your zabbix-agent:

  rpm -Uvh noarch/zabbix-agent-extensions-<version>.noarch.rpm
  dpkg -i zabbix-agent-extensions_<version>_all.deb
  

• Push release

  git tag <release-number>
  ./create_packages
  git push
  git push --tags
  

• TravisCI builds and tests the release and uploads it to github