Zabbiz in a managed services environment?

[jchristman]

We are looking closely at zabbix to add to our managed services company.

I would like to know how zabbix handles multiple remote clients that might have the same subnet behind the NAT?

Can we identify nodes by MAC address?

Thanks

[Alexei]

No, the functionality is not supported yet. It doesn't use MAC addresses to identify hosts.

[Wolfgang]

This is not a zabbix issue at all. basically the ip protocoll requires unique adresses. The other way arround is to use nat.

[joe]

This is not a zabbix issue at all. basically the ip protocoll requires unique adresses. The other way arround is to use nat.

I would argue that the above statement is not correct. MAC addresses must be unique, but the IP protocol does not specify IP addresses must be unique. Obviously, it is a requirement on the Internet, that your IP addresses do not conflict, and you should have registered address space (you, or your provider).

A company is perfectly free to use whatever IP addresses they want internally, but if they connect to the Internet, then yes, they will need to NAT to unique IP addresses.

All I'm saying is that it has nothing to do with the IP protocol specifying unique addresses, it's because of a requirement to have a global network.

joe

[Wolfgang]

Agreed.

All i wanted say was that zabbix uses IP as the transport protocol where mac adresses are used on on OSI Layer 2 Ethernet frames.