Zabbix proxy installation explained

[@jagaboom796]

Hi Dmitry, Thanks for yet another great video ! I just created two Zabbix proxy's running on a different VLAN (10.44.254.0) to my Zabbix server (192.168.1.0) - obviously, the proxy's have two NICs configured. One proxy in PASSIVE mode, and the other ACTIVE ...then 3 Windows systems running the Windows Zabbix Agent. then on the Zabbix server, I defined 3 windows hosts on the 10.44.254.0 VLAN: - win1 - Template Windows by Zabbix Agent - monitored via the PASSIVE proxy - win2 - Template Windows SNMP - monitored via the ACTIVE proxy - win3 - Termplate Windows by Zabbix Agent (active) - monitored via the ACTIVE proxy Everything worked perfectly. A lot simpler than I'd originally thought :-) Thanks again !

[@AlbertJanGoed]

Good video. It's good to know that the proxy settings are updated once a hour so that it takes up to 60 minutes before monitoring starts. Also after discovery hosts at a proxy, it take up to another 60 minutes before monitoring starts because the config is updated. If you want immediately starting monitoring, at the proxy run the command "zabbix_proxy -R config_cache_reload".

[@AlbertJanGoed]

By the way... active proxy's are a great way to secure monitoring customers or other sites since you can allow one way traffic from a remote site to the central monitoring system. We use pfSense appliances for this so we can easily manage and deploy them and setup an OpenVPN connection to the central site.

[@yannickhache643]

Nice clean video. Maybe another nice topic would be to introduce the use of External Script made in Bash, PHP, Python !

[@kritikapathak2728]

Good understanding! In my case I configured the zabbix proxy plugin on Firewall. And then the same I added to my individual Zabbix Server. Can you tell here how I add the Zabbix proxy to Zabbix server or Active or Passive?

[@wylde780]

To be clear the proxy does not do any 'monitoring' its purely a collection engine and does no calculations or alerting. Purely data collection. Thanks for the videos

[@wylde780]

Anyone reading this later .. This statement is now false in all versions > 4.2

[@youssefelankoud6497]

Thanks very much, DMITRY, Please make more Videos for ZABBIX

[@harshadkenchi1874]

Can we have video on How to create actions on triggers. And pre-requisites for action to work out

[@jhonnyguamanrivera6415]

Great video, What should be the characteristics of the server for zabbix proxy ?. Is a raspberry pi 3b + enough?

[@jhonnyguamanrivera6415]

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[@MaroucheLifeTV]

Urgent: Good morning. Would you be able to direct me to document or a video how to migrate Zabbix proxy to another machine. We are using now centos 8 but we will use Rocky Linux so can you please tell us how we can migrate our zabbix proxy to our new machien ( Rocky ). Thank you

[@zabbix]

Simply installing and configuring a fresh Zabbix proxy on the new machine will do. There's no need to "Migrate" a proxy, since the history data in the proxy DB gets emptied on a regular basis after it is sent to the Zabbix server.

[@hayimca]

My enviroment is that the proxy and server are in two different locations without any lan between. the server has fixed IP and the proxy is behind NAT with dnat to 10051 port. Still no connection in any way. active or passive...

[@dfisicaro]

Question, Do we have to update the Zabbix configurations on the Zabbix Hosts so the Proxy is allowed to receive data from them, or if you have them already setup with Active Registry to the Zabbix Server we just need to update each host to be monitored by the Proxy like you showed in the video?

[@venkataramanan8731]

Nice Explanation , It very helpful to use the porxy settings...

[@golakswain7376]

Awesome Video, very informative about zabbix proxy.

[@sriramsundarsm421]

is it possible to receive email triggers from zabbix proxy ?

[@formickaw]

Awesome video. Please make more videos like that!

[@SatishKumar-er2lq]

Hi Zabbix team, I have few questions here, To install Zabbix Proxy do we need Zabbix Server in that machine..? using sqlite3 I have installed Zabbix Proxy on my local machine which is running Zabbix server as well, after install I updated config file as well, however unable to start proxy, getting error "Aug 15 09:22:35 ip-172-31-41-43 systemd[1]: zabbix-proxy.service: Can't open PID file /run/zabbix/zabbix_proxy.pid (yet?) after start: Operation not permitted Aug 15 09:22:35 ip-172-31-41-43 systemd[1]: zabbix-proxy.service: Failed with result 'protocol'." not sure how to proceed further. Please help. Thanks.

[@PaperTowelSauce]

Prior to doing the proxy setup -- Do I setup a zabbix server as normal then do the proxy install? aside from the main server

[@zayedmahmud1940]

@Dmitry, thanks for the wonderful explanation. Helps a lot honestly. I have a query, can you plz help? i want to run simple check (icmp) to host2 from another host1, not from my zabbix server. host1 is added to zabbix server. i want to add an item in host1 and make target to host2 for icmp simple check. do i need to install fping in host1? or is this possible at all? If not how can i achieve this task: get ping response, pinglosss, alive/dead check from host1 to host2 and graph/store them in zabbix server. thanks

[@bhaskarnath8649]

I have one question. If I have a zabbix proxy server dn all host are automatically add to zabbix server or it mandatory add the all host to zabbix server. @@@proxy just collect the data for added host /its also add the host via zabbix agent to the server.?

[@Kamrulhasan-ie5ds]

If zabbix server will down for certain time how proxy will collect data? what will be the solutions?

[@zabbix]

Zabbix proxy keeps track of which hosts it should monitor and what items it should collect. It will continue doing so even if the Zabbix server is offline and keep the collected data in the database based on the ProxyOfflineBuffer configuration parameter.

[@Kamrulhasan-ie5ds]

@@zabbix One thing right now in every host conf file they have placed zabbix server active/passive . If we introduce proxy for our current zabbix do they need to change zabbix server ip as proxy server ip?

[@Kamrulhasan-ie5ds]

Hi can you update my query ?

[@Pontie66]

How to add network devices such as switches and routers

[@michaeldaniels9564]

Has anyone figured out how to create a Zabbix Proxy on a Windows server (non-Linux)?

[@Alireza-zc3kc]

Awesome man, Please put more time making these! much much appreciated, you are absolutely genius.

[@Zakkya]

Hello Dmitry :) I would ask one thing because i'm not sure. When modifying the configuration file of the zabbix proxy (for me, it's not the same server as zabbix server), should I put Server=ZabbixMainServerIP ?? Thank you EDIT : Is it necessary to add proxy service (install zabbix-proxy-mysql) on Main Server to make it works with Proxies Servers ?

[@BharathKumar-ie1so]

Zabbix active check configurations please. I am facing issue setting up, please make an video on that!!

[@christiannagel7887]

Good job. It works directly! Thanks Dmitry

[@sajeevguru7151]

Does the proxy 3.0 version will support 4.0 ?

[@dhamodaranvt4546]

How to Manually configure zabbix database and zabbix proxy database sync

[@matyproo]

Thanks very much. Very inspiring video! Do you mind explain me or give me some link related to how to replace a Zabbix Server with a Zabbix proxy? I have two servers, each one in a different place. I am interested in replacing one of them with a proxy and manage all hosts from one Zabbix server. ¿Shoud I have to create again all hosts, triggers, etc of the replaced server in the other? The idea is to create all-new hosts from the master server and point to the proxy server those hosts that are in the Zabbix proxy location

[@lanceeilers5061]

Cool thanks Dmitry for the great vid keep up the good work :-) !

[@ayodelegilbert8860]

Nice video. Good job. Can you please explain how to configure zabbix as an agent-less monitoring. I don't want to install agent on my servers.

[@tutunak]

Your videos are very helpful! Do more!

[@PaperTowelSauce]

Wow great video

[@michaelgrimes5991]

very well done.. (as usual ;-) ... miC

[@furlanettifabio]

Great explanation

[@jonmccombs1711]

Great job!

[@jatinchugh373]

Amazing video buddy, thanks

[@dimirx]

For copy-pasting commands visit: zabbix.com/download

[@kamrankami23247]

thanks a lot that was a great video

[@talbech]

Great video, thanks.

[@xylexrayne8576]

Its Ten Thousand Fifty One dude.

[@mrshibanov]

very easy :( borring