Multiple Networks

[Harris]

Hello,

I'm planning to implement Zabbix to Monitor on some different networks, each network, have its on servers, switchs, routers, printers.....

I was wondering if is it possible to install a zabbix_server on each network (monitoring all the agents, switchs, routers....) and make a central Zabbix, fech data from all other zabbix_servers.

Is this possible??

Since my english is not so good as I wish, i will try to draw, so it may bet easier for understanding what i want.



Tkz in advance

[cptnzod]

This is a nice diagram. How did you do it? I like it.
Yes. According to the documentation it is possible. You will have to give a unique number to your servers in the server conf file. Thats all I know. I don't know how the servers talk to each other though.

[Harris]

This is a nice diagram. How did you do it? I like it.
Yes. According to the documentation it is possible. You will have to give a unique number to your servers in the server conf file. Thats all I know. I don't know how the servers talk to each other though.

About the diagram:
I used M$ Visio, its a good tool to make any kind of diagrams.
I also extracted those images and imported to zabbix (now the maps looks great!), if you want, i can zip the images and upload it to somewhere else.

About my question:
I looked at "Zabbix manual http://www.zabbix.com/downloads/ZABB...ual%20v1.4.pdf and at page 119 i found somethings about "Distributed monitoring" i think that this is what i want.
Well, tomorrow at work i will take a better look on this part to see if i can make it work.
If you or someone else have any tips/advices or more documments about this, i would love it.

tkz!

[James Wells]

Greetings,

I was wondering if is it possible to install a zabbix_server on each network (monitoring all the agents, switchs, routers....) and make a central Zabbix, fech data from all other zabbix_servers.

At present, this is not possible, however, the next major version of Zabbix (1.4) will support this capability.

Please note that this feature was available for a short time in 1.1Alpha, but was removed just before 1.1Beta.

Now, having said that, it can kind of be done in a very round-about way. Instead of having multiple Zabbix servers, you can create a single Zabbix server, and multiple satellites. The satellites would query the data from the agents using zabbix_get, and send the data to a central Zabbix server using zabbix_send. The tricky part would be the scripting required on the satellite servers to keep the monitored item list up to date, though it is doable.

[Alexei]

Nice diagram!

Yes, the distiributed monitoring is part of 1.4. Even more, configuration of all ZABBIX servers (items, triggers, whetever) can be done either from Cenrtal Server or locally.