Zabbix Proxy

[randydrobinson]

I have devices in different locations that are monitored via SNMP from one central Zabbix server. Load on the Zabbix server is increasing beyond capacity.

Can a proxy server be deployed at each location & monitor the local devices using SNMP?

I deployed a proxy & added it to the Central Zabbix server, then changed the local hosts to "Monitored by proxy". After that, I received no notification when an action was triggered.

Somewhere there is documentation on how proxies can accept SNMP traps & monitor agents but I cannot find anything about proxies monitoring devices via SNMP. Is the Central Server configuration sent to the proxy then the proxy polls the device? Some explanation please.

[Heilig]

Can a proxy server be deployed at each location & monitor the local devices using SNMP?

yes, you can

I deployed a proxy & added it to the Central Zabbix server, then changed the local hosts to "Monitored by proxy". After that, I received no notification when an action was triggered. Somewhere there is documentation on how proxies can accept SNMP traps & monitor agents but I cannot find anything about proxies monitoring devices via SNMP. Is the Central Server configuration sent to the proxy then the proxy polls the device? Some explanation please.

The procedure of proxy configuration is very similar to the zabbix server - you need to install the packages on the server to work with snmp (net-snmp, net-snmp-devel, etc). Configure proxy with snmp support (you can check in the proxy log file, search for the line "SNMP monitoring", should be "yes"). Details here - https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...lation/install.
How to set up processing of traps, you can read here - https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...types/snmptrap
Overall, you will need:
1) install the snmp packages on the proxy server
2) configure from source proxy with snmp support or install proxy from packages
3) set up processing of traps on the proxy server
4) create the necessary items in zabbix frontend for the host which monitored through the proxy

[jluvs2ride]

I know this is an old thread, but am I to understand that the MIBs and SNMP packages get installed on the Proxy but not on the Zabbix Server?

[dimir]

If you use Proxies - yes. For hosts that are monitored by Server - you need MIBs on the Server.