Zabbix Proxy Hardware

[Logicwrath]

I will be setting up Zabbix soon and I had a question about what kind of hardware I will need to run a successful Zabbix Proxy. I am looking to monitor between 5-75 devices on average. I found this website selling low-cost fanless PCs and I figured I could get one to perform the proxy role.

http://www.ewayco.com/100-low-cost-pc-products-low-cost-systems-embedded-systems-servers-lcd-pc-panel-pc.html#tiny-fanless-systems

These will be windows machines and I plan on getting event logs. Depending on WMI support I may or may not use agents.

Will one of those fanless systems run a proxy with no trouble?
Will I also be able to run squid?
Is there a particular distribution that will run best on a smaller system?

Thanks in advance.

[MarkusL]

hi,

We have about 15 proxies out there at our customers Site. All Intel Atom 1"6Ghz, 1GB RAM, MySQL. they perform REALLY well, little oversized.
No problems since near 2 years. We are rolling them out by image with little script. for me was Important to have complete intel-system. Even a mainboard-Change after 1 year had no problem. NIC also changed!



Kind regards,

Markus.