Using discovery with Zabbix proxies

In Chapter 7, Using Discovery for Automatic Creation, we talked about Zabbix and discovery. It is a very good idea to edit your discovery rules if you followed along with that chapter. Let's see how this would work in this recipe.

Getting ready

You'll need to have finished Chapter 7, Using Discovery for Automatic Creation, or have some discovery rules and active agent autoregistration set up.

I'll be using lar-book-lnx-agent-auto, lar-book-disc-lnx, and lar-book-disc-win hosts in this example. We will also need our Zabbix server.

How to do it…

Let's start with editing our discovery rule and then move on to editing our active agent to autoregister to the proxy.

Discovery rules

Starting with Zabbix discovery rules, let's look at how to make sure we do this from the Zabbix proxy:

1. Log in to the CLI of lar-book-disc-lnx and edit the /etc/zabbix/ zabbix_agent2.conf file. Edit the following lines...