Scaling out JMX checks

[hyeteck]

I'm currently using active agents for all my data. We have over 3k nodes in zabbix and want to add some JMX tomcat checks but it seems like there is no way to do this via the active agent.

From what I understand, the jmx checks need a java gateway which either runs on the proxies or the server.

What is the best way to scale out JMX checks? Is there a way to have each zabbix agent do JMX checks locally on itself?

[hyeteck]

Is the "active check" design basically useless if you're using JMX or any other non agent based check?

Looks like passive checks would be needed for any check type not using the agent. At that point you might as well just not even use active checks and just do everything in passive.