Zabbix_agent (active) behaviour when server not reachable

[iverona]

Hi!

I'm planning a deployment where network is not always reliable. It might happen that from time to time the host is not able to reach the server. Taking into account that only active monitoring is performed, what will be the behavior in such a case? Is it possible to provide some kind of "buffer" so when connectivity is restored all the data is sent to the server?

I was thinking about logging info to a timpestamped file and then using zabbix_send to force the values into the database, is there any other smart way of doing this?

thanks in advance,
Ignacio.

[iverona]

I ended up using trapper items, so it's the host who sends info using zabbix_sender when connection is available.