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Zabbix Cookbook

By : Patrik Uytterhoeven, patrik uytterhoeven
Book Image

Zabbix Cookbook

By: Patrik Uytterhoeven, patrik uytterhoeven

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Zabbix Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up an active proxy


Just as with agents in Zabbix, we have proxies that can be active or passive. In this recipe, we will explain you how to configure the proxy as an active proxy and we will show you what parameters are important.

Getting ready

What we need for this recipe is of course, our Zabbix server with super administrator rights. We need an extra machine to install our proxy. You also have to set up your proxy as we showed you in the previous recipe, Installing a proxy.

How to do it…

  1. Set up your proxy as in the previous recipe, Installing a proxy.

  2. Make sure that in the zabbix_proxy.conf file, the option ProxyMode=0 is set.

  3. Be sure to fill in the IP address of your Zabbix server under the option Server in the zabbix_proxy.conf file.

  4. Also fill in the Hostname in the same conf file.

  5. Have a look at the options ConfigFrequency and DataSenderFrequency as these two options will determine how many times the proxy will go look for a new configuration on the Zabbix server and how many times...