One Agent for multiple hosts

[lgryp]

Hello,

We have a number of semi-offline devices that provide their information in a central SQL database. Each device sends their latest status every day.

Can we use ONE single standard Zabbix agent instance to grab the data from the database for ALL the devices (=hosts)?
How is this possible?

thanks

[JBo]

Hi,

I don't think that it is possible with Zabbix agent.
However, you can use zabbix_sender to send from your scripts to Zabbix server.

Hope this helps
JBo

[lgryp]

JBo thanks for your reply. This is indeed what I thought.
Using zabbix_sender would require a script of other application to poll for changes/additions in our database that would have to be sent with zabbix_sender.
This is a complex and very inefficient process. I think that we better go for a solution where we send the items straight from the semi-offline devices using the simple json messages.
Or is there another option?

[JBo]

Even with zabbix agent, you'll have to write a script to poll the database.
I don't see how it could be easier with zabbix agent than with zabbix_sender.

If your semi offline devices can connect directly to zabbix server, you can directly use zabbix sender protocol.

JBo