Question re network interfaces on hosts and server

[wr38592]

I'm just starting to set up Zabbix on our network and I have a question.

Each server has two interfaces, one private on the 10. network, and one public interface. This is also the case for the zabbix server. I want Zabbix to communicate with the agents through the 10. network, but I also want to monitor some items on the public interface.

When I set up the hosts, do I put both addresses in the agent interfaces? Do I just put the Zabbix server's private address in each agent's config file?

[aib]

Let me guess...

1) Zabbix server has two network card:
- public - (something like) 192.168.1.1/24
- private - (something like) 10.0.0.1/24

2) Zabbix agent installed on client's server which has one network card:
- private - 10.0.0.2/24

In this case you have to configure "Server" in zabbix_agentd.conf

Server=10.0.0.1

and from command line check if you can ping ZABBIX server from client's server and vice versa.

If the client's server also has two network card
- public - (something like) 192.168.1.2/24
- private - (something like) 10.0.0.2/24

In this case you have to configure one more keyword - "ListenIP". Zabbix agent will listen the request from Zabbix server on this address.
Finally, you will have two lines in your zabbix_agentd.conf file which contain the address of Zabbix server

Server=10.0.0.1
ListenIP=10.0.0.2