question about alerting in distributed setup.

[steev]

Ok, I have one master zabbix node and a few slaves at different data centers. all my clients at each data center talk to the local zabbix server and that server is forwarding info back to the central server.

My question is: If an alert pops and is intercepted by a slave zabbix node, does the alert get forwarded back to the master or just the history? Or,to phrase it another way, do I need to set up users, e-mail addresses, user groups and alerting on each individual node or just the master? If I do, then are there any tools to copy users and groups and media from one node to another?

[Rob]

Does anyone know the answer?

[GArmao]

the alert will be intercepted by the master and if you have an action set to send an email it will be sent from there.
in fact, you can filter actions by "node name"

[steev]

thanks!

that worked. I filtered by node name at each node in my DM environment.

[Slesers]

Hello, I am hijacking this thread.

I am at the moment thinking about implementing Distributed setup of Zabbix, to monitor public service availability. And we could go one step further and imagine this scenario:

I have one master and one slave node, slave node is located out of the network. And I am setting monitor for public services. Will notifications won't be sent if the Master node will be dead. Or slave node in case of death of master node also send messages about Public service availability? THat's the question.

[GArmao]

the slave server is completely independent from the master server, if you set the slave server to send emails when a public service is not available it will send them even if the master node is down.
In addition, if you have configured the Master Server to send out email for the same alarm, it will send the email as soon as it comes back available.