Reverse agent? (agent that initiates connection to server)

[angch]

Is it possible to have an agent to connect periodically to a server, and asks which items to fetch, fetches them and send back to server?

This allows for much easier network configuration of agents behind an NAT-ing firewall communicating with a server in a DMZ.

On the other hand, is zabbix_sender efficient enough to send globs of stats to the server?

Failing that, I suppose a distributed zabbix server set up is the way to go? One slave server per zone, and a master zabbix server in the DMZ?

[Alexei]

This is exactly why we have active checks! Active checks do not require any connections from ZABBIX server to agents. ZABBIX agents do all work.

[angch]

Ah! Got it, everything appears to be working nicely now, thanks!

Totally missed the option to be able to do so from the config files and the documentation.

Just to make sure I'm doing things correctly, if a host is to be actively monitored via active checks in Zabbix 1.4, we need to make sure that:

1. the "Name" in the Front end (Host configuration) to match the one given in zabbix_agentd.conf's "Hostname"
2. the "IP Address" in the Front end to be "0.0.0.0"
3. the "Connect to" in the Front end set to "IP Address". This is the part that led me to believe that you have to be able to connect to the agent from the server.

Is that correct?

Edit: Well, probably not correct, since I appear to be monitoring the wrong host. Does active checks still work for hosts with "Not monitored" in their status in the host config screen?

[identity]

Just to make sure I'm doing things correctly, if a host is to be actively monitored via active checks in Zabbix 1.4, we need to make sure that:

1. the "Name" in the Front end (Host configuration) to match the one given in zabbix_agentd.conf's "Hostname"
2. the "IP Address" in the Front end to be "0.0.0.0"
3. the "Connect to" in the Front end set to "IP Address". This is the part that led me to believe that you have to be able to connect to the agent from the server.

This seems to monitor the zabbix server itself. Did you have any success in configuring Active Checks?

I read the manual several times, browse the forum, wiki and google, but somehow I can't find the correct way the configure active check in the frontend.

- C