Zabbix architecture advice for AWS

[philipgeraldtaylor]

Hi there, been using Zabbix for a few months now and loving it

Am running a basic 2.0.2 server / agent setup on Debian but want to move the server to AWS and use the pfSense firewall/s built-in proxy (v1.8.n) over a VPN to an AWS VPC

Also running Java Gateway, SNMP and Orabbix with some custom stuff - very ordinary setup am sure

Have looked at Minkoomi but it kind of implies (?) you need to run an Appliance which I would prefer not to do since it has limited capabilities and I want the full server

I guess my question is which Amazon EC2 AMI distro to use for best success and which cloud model?

I suspect the latter will be a private VPC with a VPN but would really appreciate any advice on the distro part too.

Many thanks, Phil

[philipgeraldtaylor]

Further to this, my client is firing up a new AWS which qualifies for the Free-usage Tier.

My thoughts on architecture are to create a VPC and micro web instance and RDS in the private zone and VPN to the proxy at the datacentre/s

I was toying with using Oracle instead of MySQL but reading the zForums, it seems the Oracle support is a bit buggy - any comments?