advice on items settings for items pushed using zabbix_sender

[whisky]

Hi,

I'm building an asterisk monitoring system, that push events asynchronously to Zabbix using the zabbix_sender protocol (through an Apache Camel routing).

I'm wondering what is the proper settings for thoses items.

question 1) does thoses items type need to be set as 'Zabbix agent (active)' or be 'Zabbix trapper'

question 2) what about the update interval for thoses items that happens asynchronously (i.e item == trigger). Is there is any issue beside graphing units and storage reservation for keeping trend ?

thanks in advance (and thanks for the great book !)

[James Wells]

Greetings,

question 1) does thoses items type need to be set as 'Zabbix agent (active)' or be 'Zabbix trapper'

If you are using the Zabbix Sender, then the items need to be configured as Zabbix Trappers. If, on the other hand, the items will finish gathering data in under 3 second, you can call them from the Zabbix Agent and make them Zabbix Agent (Active) checks.

question 2) what about the update interval for thoses items that happens asynchronously (i.e item == trigger). Is there is any issue beside graphing units and storage reservation for keeping trend ?

Nope, not really. As a Zabbix Trapper item, there is no delay (more properly called periodicity). As such the Zabbix Server and Zabbix Agents have nothing to do with when the item data is sent to the Zabbix Server.

[whisky]

Greetings,

If you are using the Zabbix Sender, then the items need to be configured as Zabbix Trappers. If, on the other hand, the items will finish gathering data in under 3 second, you can call them from the Zabbix Agent and make them Zabbix Agent (Active) checks.

I send them directly from java using the same protocol of zabbix_sender in see in the proxy that they are handled the same way. I tried both settings and they worked (apparently the same), just wanted to know if there is some hiden sides effects (like having zabbix_server asking the zabbix_agent for some key that obviously couldn't be resolved by the local agent, that have no ideas that someone else is delivering the item directly). So without more knowledge I will use Zabbix Trapper and see what's happening ;-)

Nope, not really. As a Zabbix Trapper item, there is no delay (more properly called periodicity). As such the Zabbix Server and Zabbix Agents have nothing to do with when the item data is sent to the Zabbix Server.

OK I see so more point toward setting those items as Zabbix Trapper instead of pretending to pass them through the zabbix agent/proxy protocol.