help me to understand zabbix

[aragorn77]

Hallo ,
I'm a new zabbix users . I have read all the documentation but i don't understand something ( i'm working with the last zabbix-1.1alpha6).
I want to do a simple NMS server without snmp query. Which server i have to configure ?
zabbix_server ... ok
zabbix_agentd ... i think ok and why !?
zabbix_agent ? My server don't use inetd superdeamon but xinetd ... how to do for configure them ?

I don't understand the difference between zabbix_agent and zabbix_agentd ...


sorry for my bad english !! I hope that someone can help me !

[cooper]

Hallo ,
I want to do a simple NMS server without snmp query. Which server i have to configure ?
zabbix_server ... ok

You need to configure one zabbix_server. This is the box that will query information from all of the machines you want to monitor.

zabbix_agentd ... i think ok and why !?
zabbix_agent ? My server don't use inetd superdeamon but xinetd ... how to do for configure them ?

You need to use either zabbix_agent OR zabbix_agentd on each machine you want to monitor. agent does not daemonize and listen in the background. It must be run with (x)inetd. agentd does daemonize and listens all by itself. I recomend using agentd as it is much easier.

HTH

cooper

[aragorn77]

ok thank you very much !