zabbix schema

[portu]

Hi, im very noob with zabbix and have one basic questions.

I want to monitor several machines that are behind a router.
The zabbix server is not in the same LAN than the agents following this schema:

zabbix_server ----- router1 ----- router2----- zabbix_agent1
.................................................. .....\-----zabbix_agent2
.................................................. ..... \-----zabbix_agent3

i have opened the 10051 port (default) in the server side router(router1). But i dont know what i must do with the 10050 port in client side because i only can redirect the 10050 port to a one machine.

What is the purpose of the client port?

Thanks

Regards, Jose

[mbjoerling]

Hi Jose

Then you are leaved to use active polling instead.

The clients only need to know which port the server port is. The client port is not interesting when using active polling. It is used for the server to send it's request. The agents can't receive requests from the server because of the firewalls. So just setting the server ip and port will be enough for configuring when it want to ask for what counters it should monitor.

When you setup a counter, remember to select Agent ( Active ), then the agents will get a list from the server where it's specified what it should monitor. The agent will then report back with the values to the server. Instead of the server contacting the agent and tell it what to do.

[portu]

Great!!, now i see that runs ok with "simple check" or "active agent".

Thanks!!!

Jose

[portu]

Hi again,

With the same schema, i have another questions.

I want to execute remote commands for setting up the services when are down but it appears not posible because the calls are always in the client -> server direction.

In my tests, the trigger are fired correctly and in the case of "send message" it runs ok, but i when execute a remote command nothing ocurrs. In this case the log of the server has messages than "Timeout while connecting to [client_host]"

Are any way to solve this?


Thanks

Regards, Jose