Distributed Monitoring Notification

[morgan]

In a distributed configuration, which system(s) handle the actual notifications? I am assuming that the Central Server should be, however, from the documentation and what I can see from the architecture, it appears that the distributed node(s) would also handle notifications.

What is the correct methodology for notifying? I will be building a custom set of notification scripts (handling presence for each user so that the notification system will alert via the proper vector), but I need to know which system(s) should be sending the notifications out.

[Alexei]

The distributed monitoring is very flexible. Notifications can be handled either by each individual node, a master node, a central node or a combination of 1,2,3.

Actually it is up-to you to decide what method is the most appropriate. ZABBIX does not set any limits!

[dmz]

The distributed monitoring is very flexible. Notifications can be handled either by each individual node, a master node, a central node or a combination of 1,2,3.

Actually it is up-to you to decide what method is the most appropriate. ZABBIX does not set any limits!

So where does one configure zabbix to tell the node that it is the one sending those specific alerts? Would I configure "media" within the node and then it's enabled?

[Alexei]

So where does one configure zabbix to tell the node that it is the one sending those specific alerts? Would I configure "media" within the node and then it's enabled?

Every node may send alerts if it is configured (actions, users, medias) to do so.

You may setup sending all notifications by central node only. Alternatively each node maybe configured either locally or from a mster node to send local notifications. In this case each node must have information about its users, medias, actions and so on.