Proxmox VE by HTTP for Cluster monitoring

[pavels.marhels]

Quite offten Proxmox is deployed as a Cluster (with 3 and even more node). So it is HA. And can be managed from any of cluster nodes IP adreses. When i specify HOST i can provide "Agent IPs". I suppose they can used later as {HOST.CONN} macro.

But when i add Proxmox VE by HTTP template i can specify only one IP and even MACRO {HOST.CONN} doesn't work there:

[Markku]

As far as I understand it, there is no out-of-the-box solution:
- If you create one Zabbix host for each node (and set {$PVE.URL.HOST} differently on each host), you'll get multiples of all events (and data)
- If you only create one Zabbix host, you'll lose cluster monitoring if that node is down. (But if your nodes are relatively reliable, this might not be a problem after all, and you can then manually adjust the macro to continue cluster monitoring via another node)

I've heard some people are installing keepalived on the PVE nodes just for this: to provide a virtual IP address that can be used for cluster monitoring in Zabbix.

Markku

[pavels.marhels]

Thanks Markku. I had about the same feeling. Most probably this question is answered already by your post.