Multiple agents one host - storage monitoring

[bigdog71]

Is this possible?

I'd like to run multiple agents on a single host (a proxy) to monitor multiple storage arrays. I'd like each agent to report back to the server a unique hostname (aka the array name). It seems like this might be possible but it's not clear from the documentation. Each agent would run external scripts to gather data from the array via things like navicli (VNX) or symcli (symmetrix).

[coreychristian]

Since you are using scripts already you may want to check into zabbix_sender as it easily let's you populate a unique hostname. (if you are running the scripts from the zabbix server you don't even need agents installed)

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.4/manpages/zabbix_sender

Otherwise you should be able to do it though it would take quite a bit of customization on the agent.

Essentially you would need a unique zabbix_agentd.conf for each host you wanted to setup, which would have to be configured to listen on a unique port, have a unique Hostname entry in the conf file, individual start up scripts, etc...