Standalone-Distributed Monitoring

[vikty]

Hi,
I have tried to change the Zabbix configuration from "Stand Alone" to "Distributed Monitoring"

I have read that the mysql DB must be empy... but I have configured differents items, triggers....
Therefore
1)I have done th dump of the DB
2)I have recreated the DB schema
3)I have ran the "./zabbix_server -n 1 -c /path/zabbix-server.conf"

It's work fine...., but whene I have restore the db dump I have lost the section Nodes in Admin....
Well, It's normal because the dumb is a list of SQL cmd...consequently I have restored the precedente DB configuration (Standalone)

How can I pass from Standalone to Distributed Monitoring without to lose the check configutation?

PS
I can lose the history

[swaterhouse]

You could export your items, triggers and graphs as templates. That wont get you your hosts, screens or anything else but its at least some of it.

The other thing you could do is only restore tabels like hosts, items, triggers, screens etc.

[vikty]

ok well,
but I have exported the file.xml after when I imported file.xml zabbix reply with "could not open XML input"

Zabbix Version 1.4.1

[vikty]

Whene I run

./zabbix_server -n 1 -c /etc/zabbix/zabbbix_server.conf

I configure zabbix as Master.

Whene I run

./zabbix_server -n 2 -c /etc/zabbix/zabbbix_server.conf

I configure zabbix as Slave. Is it correct?

The option "-n" what do It modify in the Zabbix DB?
so... It add a parameter..... an ID

[vikty]

Node Tables

I have seen these
the tables:

nodes
node_cksum
node_node_configlog

are they important for distributed monitoring??

[vikty]

well,
Whene can I find a documentation on the zabbix DB schema???

In this moment I am looking the zabbix-db, but something isn't clear...