Tag: zabbix

Change History for Zabbix Protocols

All the information on this page is gathered from the official Zabbix documentation about the protocols and the upgrade notes. I’m using this information to assist with the Zabbix protocol dissector development in Wireshark, thus not all possible protocol change details will be documented here but mostly only those that affect the dissector. Server-proxy data […]

Zabbix Active Agent Autoregistration

Let’s see how the Zabbix active agent autoregistration works in the communication. I have configured the Zabbix agent (version 6.2.3) on the Linux host at 192.168.7.17 with this configuration: ServerActive=192.168.7.15 Hostname=Test-agent After restarting the agent, the Zabbix server (version 6.2.3) at 192.168.7.15 logged immediately in /var/log/zabbix/zabbix_server.log: cannot send list of active checks to “192.168.7.17”: host […]

Tag Guidelines in Zabbix

This is a tag-specific summary from the official Zabbix guidelines documentation, based on the situation as of Zabbix 6.0 LTS. Note: “Please note that this model might become enforced in the future Zabbix releases. Templates that do not follow specified rules will need to be updated.“ Tag name and value format lowercase only allowed characters: […]

Moving Zabbix Database

In the series “why wouldn’t I put this out public instead of just saving it to my own notes”: Moving the Zabbix database to a new database server. Old server: Debian Linux 9, running MariaDB 10.1.48 New server: Debian Linux 11, running MariaDB 10.5.12 (from Debian packaging) Zabbix (5.0.19 LTS) frontend is running on Apache […]