Distributed Monitoring & proxies

[luismo]

Hello,

I have now a stand-alone Zabbix Server (nodeid=0) monitoring a set of machines, and a proxy monitoring a subnet. Everything is working really fine.

But I was trying this afternoon to move this nodeid=0 to nodeid=10, in order to set a new central instance... the movement using /usr/...../zabbix_server -n 10 /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf, worked.

Then this nodeid=10 node kept working fine with all the nodes, retrivieving SNMP, receiving traps, everything.... but the Proxy, the proxy was unable to connect with the server, and server was complaining with the message "Unknown Proxy mon1".

Is it possible to have such structure, with a central node, some remote nodes and then some proxies which synchrnoice witht the remote nodes?

Did I miss anything else? Apart of the Nodeid change of the "central node" there were no other changes in the configuration or the database.

Thank you.

Cheers.

[claudio]

I don't really know what the issue could be but we've got that very configuration and it's working as a charm.

[luismo]

Hi,

Finally we got it working, we made a lot of changes (movements among hosts, migration to x64, upgrading zabbix, moving the zabbix 12GB main DB to a cluster), and we think the problem was the most stupid problem...

It was working by sheer chance before the migration, since we had an error in the name of the proxy... and there was another host in the database with that wrong hostname....