Proxy data from production Zabbix server?

[101001101]

I am in the process of upgrading our Zabbix deployment from version 1.6.4 --> 1.8 to 2, I've tested on a seperate host and it worked fine.

Now due to the size of the DB (80GB) I want to minimize downtime as much as possible as it is essentially a production system.

I have built a second Zabbix server that is identical to production by exporting the database and importing, now I want to mirror the zabbix agent check data to this second host WITHOUT making any modifications to the agents on the various servers we are monitoring.

What is the best way to do this with minimal changes? can I run the proxy process on our production Zabbix server somehow and collect all the existing check data from there? if so how do I configure this without making ANY changes to the production system?

Any tips of advice appreciated - thanks

[101001101]

Does nobody have any ideas how i can do this?

I want to duplicate the zabbix agent data going to the existing server also to the new server without changing the agents on mymonitored servers as i would have to change the firewall rules too

[Davidus]

I want to duplicate the zabbix agent data going to the existing server also to the new server without changing the agents on mymonitored servers as i would have to change the firewall rules too

You can add second zabbix server to you agent`s conf file; data should flow to both servers then (not sure, but you can take a shot)