Connecting distributed monitoring hosts via HTTPS

[mschlegel]

In order to facilitate firewall traversal though different administrative domains, we would like to be able to connect distributed monitoring sites to each other using https. With a native https connector, distributed monitoring nodes can be deployed to monitor resources in an environment that we may not be able to change firewall policies, but would still be able to provide a communications through a proxy server.

Are there any methods to have the distributed monitoring nodes communicate with each other via http(s) instead of the native protocol on (default) port 15001?


One possible method I have in mind would send event data by using a wrapper around zabbix_sender on the central server side and a custom action script to perform an HTTP(s) request to the wrapper URL. Zabbix_sender would be able to locally send the reported event into the central server for processing. Has anyone built this type of relay system?

Thank you.

[rbenea]

Hi,

I didn't find a way to do this so far using zabbix alone BUT we are working on something like this. The 'custom' agent si calling a PHP script and sends the information via GET using a simple encryption algorithm. The data will be then sent via zabbix_sender to the server. The We still have to implement the remote command part.

The beauty of this is that the agent can send the data to multiple acquisition sites so we have some sort of backup in case of connection/server loss and that we can use cheap Web Hosting accounts to collect data. Also we can zabbix_send to multiple server so we have a backup on this too.

We made this in order to use it with the Hardware Zabbix Agent.

I'll keep you posted on the progress of the project.

Rares

P.S. I would like to know an official comment regarding this subject.