How to configure static IP address on Ubuntu 18.04 ?

How to configure static IP address on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux

The objective is to configure static IP address on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux

configure static IP address using DHCP

Most likely your current Ubuntu system uses DHCP server to configure its networking settings.
Hence, the configuration of your IP address is dynamic. In many scenarios, simply configuring
your router or local DHCP server is a preferred way to set a static address to any host regardless
of the operating system in use. Check your router manual and assign the static IP address to
your host based on its MAC address using the DHCP service.

Configure static IP address using Netplan

Netplan network configuration had been first introduced to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver.
It is available to all new Ubuntu 18.04 installations.

Depending on your Ubuntu installation Netplan may not be avaiable on upgraded Ubuntu systems.
If this is your case you might attempt to configure a static IP address for your network interface
using /etc/network/interfaces file as described at the end of this document.

Ubuntu Server

To configure a static IP address on your Ubuntu 18.04 server you need to modify a relevant
netplan network configuration file within /etc/netplan/ directory.

For example you might find there a default netplan configuration file called 01-netcfg.yaml
or 50-cloud-init.yaml with a following content instructing the networkd deamon to configure
your network interface via DHCP:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# For more information, see netplan(5).
network:
 version: 2
 renderer: networkd
 ethernets:
   enp0s3:
     dhcp4: yes

To set your network interface enp0s3 to static IP address 192.168.1.220 with gateway 192.168.1.1
and DNS server as 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 replace the above configuration with the one below.

WARNING:
You must adhere to a correct code indent for each line of the block. In other words the prefix
number of spaces for each line is important. Othersiwe you may end up with an error message
similar to: Invalid YAML at //etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml line 7 column 6: did not find expected key

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# For more information, see netplan(5).
network:
 version: 2
 renderer: networkd
 ethernets:
   enp0s3:
    dhcp4: no
    addresses: [192.168.1.220/24]
    gateway4: 192.168.1.1
    nameservers:
      addresses: [8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4]

Once ready apply changes with:

$ sudo netplan apply

In case you run into some issues execute:

$ sudo netplan --debug apply

How to Disable, Stop or Uninstall Apport Error Reporting ?

How do I enable or disable Apport?

Apport is an Error Reporting Service provided by Ubuntu to intercept and analyze crashes and bugs as and when they occur. Crashes and Bugs may sound like bad things, but actually most operating systems will have several a day, and it doesn't mean your computer is broken, nor does it necessarily stop working. As such, Apport can usually be safely disabled, as it doesn't fix anything, it just tells developers that something went wrong.

Apport intercepts Program crashes, collects debugging information about the crash and the operating system environment, and sends it to bug trackers in a standardized form. It also offers the user to report a bug about a package, with again collecting as much information about it as possible.

How to Disable Apport at Boot ?

You need to manually edit a file to Stop Apport Running at Boot (when you turn on your machine. Open the Terminal, and paste the following command with Ctrl+Shift+V, or type it in manually.

Change the line that says enabled=1 to enabled=0 to disable Apport. To re-enable, change it back.

How to Stop Apport ?

On ubuntu 14.04 LTS

You can stop the currently running Apport service with the following command.
sudo service apport stop

Note that unless you remove it or disable it at boot it will start again the next time you turn on your computer.

On Ubuntu 16.04

To stop the service

Sudo systemctl stop apport.service

The systemd commands to enable / disable apport are:
Disable
sudo systemctl disable apport.service

If that does not work, you would then need to mask the service
Sudo systemctl mask apport.service

To re-enable
Sudo systemctl unmask apport.service # if you masked it
sudo systemctl enable apport.service

How to Uninstall Apport ?

It is fairly simple to uninstall Apport, as you can open the Ubuntu Software Centre, search for apport, and simply click Remove.

A similar process can be used for the package apport in both Synaptic and the Terminal.

sudo apt-get remove apport

sudo apt-get purge apport

How to test a zabbix item key using zabbix_agentd in linux ?

zabbix_agentd - Zabbix agent daemon

SYNOPSIS

      zabbix_agentd [-c config-file]

      zabbix_agentd [-c config-file] -p

      zabbix_agentd [-c config-file] -t item-key

      zabbix_agentd [-c config-file] -R runtime-option

      zabbix_agentd -h

      zabbix_agentd -V

DESCRIPTION

      zabbix_agentd is a daemon for monitoring of various server parameters.

OPTIONS

      -c, --config config-file

             Use the alternate config-file instead of the default one.  Absolute path should be specified.

      -f, --foreground

             Run Zabbix agent in foreground.

      -R, --runtime-control runtime-option

             Perform administrative functions according to runtime-option.

          Runtime control options

              log_level_increase[=target]

                  Increase log level, affects all processes if target is not specified

              log_level_decrease[=target]

                  Decrease log level, affects all processes if target is not specified

          Log level control targets

              pid Process identifier

              process-type

                  All processes of specified type (e.g., listener)

              process-type,N

                  Process type and number (e.g., listener,3)

      -p, --print

             Print known items and exit.  

          d Number with a decimal part.

          m Not supported.  This could be caused by querying an item that only works

in the active mode like a log monitoring item or an item that requires multiple collected  values.

              Permission issues or incorrect user parameters could also result in the not supported state.

          s Text. Maximum length not limited.

          t Text. Same as s.

          u Unsigned integer.

      -t, --test item-key

             Test single item and exit.  See --print for output description.

      -h, --help

             Display this help and exit.

      -V, --version

             Output version information and exit.

Examples:

How to test a item key using zabbix_agentd ?

Syntax:

zabbix_agentd -t  --test item-key

zabbix_agentd -t proc.mem[]

proc.mem[]                                    [u|3469561856]

 u give return data type from item was   Unsigned integer.

Proc.mem it give Memory used by process in bytes.

Above example it give all process total memory utilized in server .

zabbix_agentd -t system.hostname

system.hostname                               [s|linuxforfreshers.com]

Item returns data type was  s Text. Maximum length not limited.

How to find agent version ?

Syntax :

zabbix_agentd -V

Or

zabbix_agentd -t agent.version

Example:

zabbix_agentd -V

zabbix_agentd (daemon) (Zabbix) 3.0.22

Revision 84876 14 September 2018, compilation time: Sep 14 2018 07:36:14

zabbix_agentd -t agent.version

agent.version                                 [s|3.0.22]