Zabbix (Active Agent) Query

[AlexYoung]

Hi,

I've been using Zabbix for a year now and it does the job i want it to as we support multiple companies and servers as just been using it as Zabbix Agent (Active) points at an external IP of our Zabbix server and it works.

Now i've been reading a few places about Zabbix Proxy and i might be getting confused but is it right this does not work with Active Agents?

If i want to monitor some SNMP values and although we have zabbix monitoring the server via the external IP if we want to monitor say a network swich via snmp how would one configure zabbix to pass through any SNMP values to our Zabbix agent?

I only mention the proxy because the way i understand is you install a proxy in your external environment and get the values from that proxy sent to your zabbix server?

[nick0909]

Proxies do support active agents. In the agent config you put the IP of your proxy. When setting up a host you put the proxy in the "monitored by proxy:" drop down. Anything you put in that drop down will use that proxy as if it was a zabbix server. The proxy then collects all the data and shoves it off to the main zabbix server. This also helps if you drop the connection between the remote site and your main server, the proxy will cache the data so it is not lost then send it all once the connection is available. I run all of my sites through a zabbix proxy at each site, including the site where my zabbix server is location. Doing so lets me take down the main zabbix server for maintenance and not lose any data.

[kloczek]

If i want to monitor some SNMP values and although we have zabbix monitoring the server via the external IP if we want to monitor say a network swich via snmp how would one configure zabbix to pass through any SNMP values to our Zabbix agent?

Monitoring over SNMP is done from proxy/server. It has nothing to do with zabbix agent.