New to zabbix as we are evaluating for use in University environment with roughly 200 servers across Netware, Windows, HP-UX, Solaris, SUSE, RedHat.
I am trying to understand the agent. Is it possible to collect performance data without the agent using a listening port? It seems that the two following directives in the zabbix_agentd.conf file would tell the agent to poll the server for what items to get and when. But when I set the listening port to only listen on localhost I lose monitoring via zabbix interface. Where am I misunderstanding this? Have tested only a linux client/host thus far.
DisableActive=0
RefreshActiveChecks=120
Does this have something to do with the difference between item type zabbix agent vs. zabbix agent (active)? I have tried both ways without success.
Basically, we would prefer the agents not to need an open port listening.
I am trying to understand the agent. Is it possible to collect performance data without the agent using a listening port? It seems that the two following directives in the zabbix_agentd.conf file would tell the agent to poll the server for what items to get and when. But when I set the listening port to only listen on localhost I lose monitoring via zabbix interface. Where am I misunderstanding this? Have tested only a linux client/host thus far.
DisableActive=0
RefreshActiveChecks=120
Does this have something to do with the difference between item type zabbix agent vs. zabbix agent (active)? I have tried both ways without success.
Basically, we would prefer the agents not to need an open port listening.
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