Running several zabbix server

[Brice.F]

Hello

I try something yesterday :

At first I run an instance of zabbix_server
Then I create a new database called zabbix2 with some data and a new configuration file like this :

zabbix_server2.conf :

Server=2

StartPollers=6

StartTrappers=5

ListenPort=10051

HousekeepingFrequency=1

SenderFrequency=30

DebugLevel=3

Timeout=5

PidFile=/var/tmp/zabbix_server2.pid

LogFile=/tmp/zabbix_server2.log

AlertScriptsPath=/home/zabbix/bin/

DBName=zabbix2

DBUser=zabbix

DBPassword=zabbix


After I configure a frontend and run
zabbix_server -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server2.conf

And it seems to work well. Is there someone who try this before? Is there any known issues or bug? Advices are welcome.

Thanks.

Brice

[Alexei]

We constantly run 4 or 5 ZABBIX server on our main test server. It is absolutely safe provided you use different databases. By the way, no need to use parameter Server. It is not supported.

[Brice.F]

So the method is good? Thans, it will help me a lot.

I just want to knowhow server options will be used in future?

[jmanzer]

Is such a thing possible? I have alot of items that would need to be polled (perhaps 500k every 5 min). I dont think one server will cut it.