Encrypting your Zabbix proxy connection with pre-shared keys

For additional security, it’s recommended to make sure your Zabbix proxy is connecting over the network encrypted. The simple reason for this is to make sure that any possible intruder on your network cannot see all the data sent between the Zabbix server and Zabbix proxy from your network in plain text.

Image you have macros configured with important passwords. These macros will flow over the network in plain text if you do not encrypt the connection between the Zabbix server and proxy.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need our Zabbix server and a connected proxy of either the passive or active type.

How to do it…

Let’s get started on the CLI of our proxy, where we need to make some configuration changes:

1. First things first, let’s edit the Zabbix proxy configuration file:

   vim /etc/zabbix/zabbix_proxy.conf

2. We will find the following and edit the following variables...