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

[Todd B. <tb...@gm...>]

I unfortunately don't have the code anymore...

But at my previous employer I had a similar issue.  The answer was that I
created a small php script that if sent a Zabbix hostname, would return a
Zabbix proxy IP.

So if a host needs to zabbix_sender something, it calls
http://zabbixweb/whichproxy.php?host=somehost and the whichproxy.php script
does the lookup on the back-end which returns an IP that zabbix_sender can
use.  It's an extra step and if there's a large number of individual
senders happening it could pile up and cause a slowdown, but it was the
best solution I could come up with.

I suppose if a volume problem started happening, cacheing on the client
lookups might help...

Hope this helps.

On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Beuserie Frédéric <
Fre...@ns...> wrote:

> 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 ?
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>
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> Thanks for your help !.
>
>
>
> Frédéric Beuserie.
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>
>
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