Active Zabbix Proxy not sending zabbix Agent checks to Zabbix Server

[sarhan]

Hi,

I am installing Zabbix in a Distributed Environment. Zabbix Proxies are deployed in Active mode on several clusters and all are connected to one cluster which has the Zabbix server.

all types of checks are sent from the Proxy to the server while the checks of Type Zabbix Agent and simple checks are not sent to the Zabbix server and accumulated in the Queue of Zabbix proxy.

Configuration of the server :

/usr/bin/podman run --name zabbix-server \
--net host \
--memory-reservation "2g" \
--cpus "2" \
-v /var/log/zabbix/snmptraps:/var/lib/zabbix/snmptraps \
-v /var/lib/zabbix/mibs:/var/lib/zabbix/mibs \
-v /usr/lib/zabbix/alertscripts/:/usr/lib/zabbix/alertscripts/ \
-v /usr/lib/zabbix/externalscripts:/usr/lib/zabbix/externalscripts \
-v /var/log/zabbix/zabbix-server.log:/var/lib/zabbix/zabbix-server.log \
-v /etc/cbis-snmp/:/etc/cbis-snmp/ \
-v /var/log/zabbix/:/var/log/zabbix/ \
-e ZBX_LOG_TYPE=file \
-e ZBX_LOG_FILE=/var/lib/zabbix/zabbix-server.log \
-e ZBX_LOG_FILE_SIZE=0 \
-e DB_SERVER_HOST=172.31.0.4 \
-e ZBX_DEBUGLEVEL=5 \
-e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=Z-95e4583a46e3510737531b6fe76c1e46b9a11496ac3bd5 \
-e MYSQL_DATABASE=zabbixdb \
-e MYSQL_USER=zabbix \
-e MYSQL_PASSWORD=sCLSwYZ9jUV3f8uH \
-e ZBX_STARTPOLLERS=20 \
-e ZBX_STARTPOLLERSUNREACHABLE=5 \
-e ZBX_STARTTRAPPERS=32 \
-e ZBX_STARTPINGERS=10 \
-e ZBX_STARTDISCOVERERS=10 \
-e ZBX_STARTALERTERS=3 \
-e ZBX_STARTTIMERS=4 \
-e ZBX_CACHESIZE=1024M \
-e ZBX_TRENDCACHESIZE=256M \
-e ZBX_VALUECACHESIZE=128M \
-e ZBX_STARTPREPROCESSORS=40 \
-e ZBX_ENABLE_SNMP_TRAPS=true \
-e ZBX_TIMEOUT=10 \
-e TZ=Europe/Helsinki \
-p 10051:10051 \
--expose 10051/tcp 172.31.0.4:8787/zabbix-server-mysql:zabbix-centos-5.4-latest


configuration of the proxy:

/usr/bin/podman run \
--conmon-pidfile %t/container-zabbix-proxy-mysql.pid \
--cidfile %t/container-zabbix-proxy-mysql.ctr-id \
--cgroups=no-conmon \
--replace \
--name zabbix-proxy-mysql \
--net host \
-e ZBX_ENABLE_SNMP_TRAPS=true \
-e ZBX_LISTENIP=172.31.9.4 \
-e ZBX_SOURCEIP=172.31.9.4 \
-e MYSQL_USER=zabbix \
-e ZBX_STARTPINGERS=5 \
-e ZBX_STARTDISCOVERERS=5 \
-e ZBX_STARTTRAPPERS=22 \
-e ZBX_STARTTIMERS=4 \
-e ZBX_STARTPREPROCESSORS=30 \
-e ZBX_STARTPOLLERSUNREACHABLE=5 \
-e ZBX_STARTPOLLERS=10 \
-e ZBX_TIMEOUT=30 \
-e MYSQL_DATABASE=zabbixdb \
-e DB_SERVER_HOST=172.31.9.4 \
-e ZBX_SERVER_HOST=172.31.0.4 \
-e ZBX_DEBUGLEVEL=5 \
-e MYSQL_PASSWORD=sCLSwYZ9jUV3f8uH \
-e ZBX_HOSTNAME=honda-civic \
--memory-reservation "2g" \
--cpus "2" \
-d 172.31.0.4:8787/zabbix-proxy-mysql:zabbix-centos-5.4-latest



is there any configuration that needs to be added to the server or the proxy to allow the flow of Zabbix-agent checks and simple checks to the Zabbix server?
does active proxy support both Zabbix agent checks and zabbix Agent (Active) checks ?

thanks,

[Hernandes Martins]

Hi

Look in this case, just use type: zabbix agent active.

[sarhan]

thanks for the answers,
this is the configuration of the zabbix-agent on the remote nodes monitored by the proxy :

Hostname=rca-test-cluster1-allinone-0
Server=127.0.0.1,172.31.9.4,172.31.9.0/24
ServerActive=172.31.9.4
SourceIP=172.31.9.5
AllowKey=system.run[*]
Timeout=10
PidFile=/var/run/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.pid
LogFile=/var/log/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.log
LogFileSize=20
Include=/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d/

the agent is collecting and sending to the proxy. but the proxy Queue for the Zabbix agent items are building up. its not sending any of the zabbix agents items to the zabbix-server. Any idea how to check why is this failing to send those values?

how exactly those zabbix-agent items are being sent from the proxy to the server? I don't get why active items are being sent but not the Zabbix-agent ones.

thanks for the help