[Zabbix-users] zabbix_sender to host / proxy ownership restriction ?

[Beuserie F. <Fre...@ns...>]

Hi guys,

On top of the normal monitoring use, we are also using zabbix as a communication channel to inject the history about some customer related values (like current backup storage used for a virtual machine) into the database.
Then, we consume those values from REST to generate billing and other reports for a given Zabbix host.

We inject those values on dedicated items for a given host (those values must be processed by some scripting/db/... before being send to the Zabbix item.
In some case, the script which run and compute the values is not running in the same environment, (not even the same datacenter) that the target host.

Zabbix_sender fails and doesn't accept the new value since it's coming from another Zabbix proxy that the one attached to the target Zabbix host.
That seems normal since the proxy doesn't have the items for this host, he cannot handle it.

So now, I was thinking about injecting those values directly from the Zabbix server (since it has everything it needs to compute this value). But
zabbix_sender also fails if I try to send directly to Zabbix server and not to the proxy attached to the host.

Is there any workaround about that ? or planned change around this ?

Thanks for your help !.

Frédéric Beuserie.