Getting Proxy status via CLI

[nabberuk]

I'm in the process of deploying raspberry pi's as a low powered Zabbix Proxy (we won't be monitoring a large amount of values) with a 3D printed case. I've just found a bunch of display components that i could integrate into the case.

My plan is to display if it currently connected to the server and the current vps.

My question is, is there anywhere to grab this info from the Zabbix proxy service? The only way i can think of is to parse the log file, but that feels like a pretty intensive way to do something simple.

[jtnfoley]

I'm not running proxies currently but desperately want to do so.

A quick googling for CLI options led me to zabbix-get:

https://sbcode.net/zabbix/zabbix-get/

Looks like they have specific use cases that are similar to yours.
Install both the agent and proxy on a pi and poll the agent status with zabbix-get perhaps?

https://sbcode.net/zabbix/proxy-install-agent/

Another option I thought of was a loop-and-grep shell script that runs "service zabbix-proxy status" ?

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/concepts/proxy

[nabberuk]

I hadn't seen Zabbix-get, i'll have a look at it, wonder if i can query the proxy itself with it (i won't be able to talk with the Zabbix server directly).

The only issue i can think of with the 2nd idea is that will tell me if the service is running, but that could mean it is still disconnected from the Zabbix Server.

EDIT: i can see Zabbix-get queries the Zabbix agent and not the server, this could work if i deploy the agent on each RPI too. Will have a play around.

[cyber]

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/6.0/en/manual/config/items/itemtypes/internal