Discovering proxies for monitoring

[craigmcfly]

Is it possible to programmatically get the list of proxies that zabbix knows about? It doesn't seem to have a way to alert if a proxy was last seen beyond the normal timeframe. For example, I've just had a proxy stuck for a month and it didn't tell me

[crackedatom]

In my case I just install the Zabbix agent on each proxy and make use of the templates "Template App Zabbix Agent" and "Template App Zabbix Proxy". I have tweaked the triggers a little to reduce the noise.

I did experiment with creating a dummy host with items and triggers for each proxy using zabbix[proxy,"Proxy Name",lastaccess] as the key, but I found that too labor intensive.

[choppy]

What did you use as the Item and Trigger? The proxy name is the local hostname, which differs from the DNS entry that is queried by Zabbix and therefore I don't know what to put in the template for an item.

[crackedatom]

What did you use as the Item and Trigger? The proxy name is the local hostname, which differs from the DNS entry that is queried by Zabbix and therefore I don't know what to put in the template for an item.

I used the hostname configured in the zabbix_proxy.conf file which is also the name set in the "Proxy name" field under Administration > Proxies.

[choppy]

So currently there's no way to discover this from the Zabbix server and create them as hosts using the template?