Zabbix Proxy Server

[StephenJ]

I am setting up a proxy server for a customer. The proxy server will be held on the customer site, then linking back to our zabbix server. We are running zabbix v4.0. I have a test Linux box CentOS 7 setup in our test environment. I have configured the proxy settings in yum.conf and can run yum repolist. I can also ping google ok.

When I try to connect to the repo: rpm -ivh https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.0/r...el7.noarch.rpm

I get the following:

rpm -ivh https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.0/r...el7.noarch.rpm

Retrieving https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.0/r...el7.noarch.rpm
curl: (7) Failed connect to repo.zabbix.com:443; Connection timed out
error: skipping https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.0/r...el7.noarch.rpm - transfer failed


The other question I have is, I plan on using mySQL for the proxy database. Does the zabbix_proxy database get created on the customer proxy server, or does it get created on our Zabbix server? I am leaning towards having it on the customer proxy box.

[nneka]

Hello
the database is independant of the prixy , you can create it whenre you wan , but its better to create the proxy data base on the same server than the proxy.

if you can connect to the repo zabbix , just check you firewall rules

[StephenJ]

Ah ok. So the proxy database gets created on the zabbix server. Thats good to know thanks.

[ingus.vilnis]

No, proxy database is independent from the server. Proxy database in your case should be on the customer side. This approach will be able to collect data on the customer site even if the connection between proxy and server is down for some reason. Historical metrics will be sent to Zabbix server once the connection restores.

Just never ever configure the proxy to use the same database as Zabbix server. There should be two different databases. The proxy will update all needed contents in its DB once properly connected to Zabbix server.

[StephenJ]

That was my initial thoughts on it. Thank you for your help.