zabbix[host,agent,available] doesn't work with proxies

[ahowell]

Hi,

Ever since the Zabbix available item was created in 1.9.9 (I think it was 1.9.9) this feature hasn't worked with proxies. I reported ZBX-4684 at that time, just wondering if anyone could have a look at it. It's a major bug that makes this unusable for proxies.

I believe this has been reported in at least one other bug as well. ZBX-4991

[ahowell]

Please could someone look into this? This is a major bug for anyone using this feature and proxies. Isn't this the correct way to monitor availability of an agent? I don't understand why 2.0 was released with this quite old bug.