Hi everyone.
I'm not a developer, so please, forgive me if you find my question stupid.
I just thought about Zabbix communication protocol between agent and server (and proxy and server), finding a way to secure it for remote monitoring, and I have one question about it:
instead of having it's own, clear text protocol, why Zabbix do not use the XMPP protocol for the communication.
As far as I understand it, XMPP is a generic, real time, XML based, easily secure-able (with TLS, or SASL) machine to machine communication protocol. Further more, it'd allow to have only one TCP connection per monitored host (a bidirectional XML stream).
So it seams an ideal transport mechanism for monitoring softwares.
Maybe I'm just off topic, does anyone have an idea about it ?
Regards, Daniel
I'm not a developer, so please, forgive me if you find my question stupid.
I just thought about Zabbix communication protocol between agent and server (and proxy and server), finding a way to secure it for remote monitoring, and I have one question about it:
instead of having it's own, clear text protocol, why Zabbix do not use the XMPP protocol for the communication.
As far as I understand it, XMPP is a generic, real time, XML based, easily secure-able (with TLS, or SASL) machine to machine communication protocol. Further more, it'd allow to have only one TCP connection per monitored host (a bidirectional XML stream).
So it seams an ideal transport mechanism for monitoring softwares.
Maybe I'm just off topic, does anyone have an idea about it ?
Regards, Daniel