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Zabbix Performance Tuning

By : Luciano Alves, Luciano de C Alves
Book Image

Zabbix Performance Tuning

By: Luciano Alves, Luciano de C Alves

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Zabbix Performance Tuning
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The first steps with the Zabbix proxy


After understanding that the environment was born without a Zabbix proxy and knowing that we need to introduce this feature to the environment, what should we do? What are the precautions to take and the key areas to focus on?

Zabbix proxy is a program that must be installed in the same manner as the Zabbix server, by leaving the source, or through packages. The options in building, if not installed through packages, should be the same as those used for the Zabbix server (except that you may need to change enable-server to enable-proxy). The configuration file is almost the same as that for the Zabbix server, except the parameters related to their own settings (of Zabbix proxy). These are the parameters:

  • ProxyMode: This parameter defines how the Zabbix proxy will behave in active mode (value 0), or in passive mode (option 1). Active mode is the standard. It was introduced in version 1.8.3. The choice of modes has little influence on performance. Instead...