With the previous post I showed you how you can use the zabbix-server on one or multiple machines with my wdijkerman-zabbix puppet module. At the end I said that you could also do this with the zabbix-proxy. So this blog item is showing how to setup the zabbix-proxy on 1 or 2 nodes. I don’t know if people are using it like this, but when I was busy for the zabbix-server, I thought that I also had to do this for the zabbix-proxy. 🙂

So sit back and watch the show. 🙂

Single node

PostgreSQL

So, we first show you have to do this with the PostgreSQL as backend.

node 'proxy.example.com'
 class { 'postgresql::server': }

 class { 'zabbix::proxy':
   zabbix_server_host => '192.168.20.11',
   zabbix_server_port => '10051',
 }
}

As you see in this manifests file, we have configured to use the postgresql-server class and the zabbix-proxy class. This zabbix-proxy class needs 1 parameter: ‘zabbix_server_host’. This is the ip address or fqdn of the zabbix-server host. The parameter ‘zabbix_server_port’ is optional, you only have to use this parameter when the zabbix-server is running on a different port than 10051.

MySQL

Okay, so you want to use MySQL as database backend? No worries, take a look at this:

node 'proxy.example.com'
 class { 'mysql::server': }

 class { 'zabbix::proxy':
   zabbix_server_host => '192.168.20.11',
   zabbix_server_port => '10051',
   database_type      => 'mysql',
 }
}

Like the zabbix-server, the zabbix-proxy uses the PostgreSQL as default database. So we have to use the ‘database_type’ parameter for specifying mysql.

Multi node

With the following example, we have 2 servers:

• server11.example.com, which will be running the zabbix-proxy.
• server12.example.com, which will be running the database.

MySQL

Lets start the manifests file again with the MySQL as ‘database_type’:

node 'server11.example.com' {
# My ip: 192.168.30.11
  class { 'mysql::client': }
  class { 'zabbix::proxy':
    zabbix_server_host => '192.168.20.11',
    manage_database    => false,
    database_host      => 'server12.example.com',
    database_type      => 'mysql',
  }
}

node 'server12.example.com' {
# My ip: 192.168.30.12
  class { 'mysql::server':
    override_options => {
      'mysqld'       => {
        'bind_address' => '192.168.30.12',
      },
    },
  }
  class { 'zabbix::database':
    database_type     => 'mysql',
    zabbix_type       => 'proxy',
    zabbix_proxy      => 'server11.example.com',
    database_name     => 'zabbix-proxy',
    database_user     => 'zabbix-proxy',
    database_password => 'zabbix-proxy',
  }
}

On the node of the zabbix-proxy, we had to add a new parameter: ‘manage_database’. We had to set it to false, the proxy class isn’t responsible for creating the database and loading the files. Thats what the ‘zabbix::database’ will do on the 2nd host.

PostgreSQL

Now with the PostgreSQL as ‘database_type’:

node 'server11.example.com' {
# My ip: 192.168.30.11
  class { 'postgresql::client': }
  class { 'zabbix::proxy':
    zabbix_server_host => '192.168.20.11',
    manage_database    => false,
    database_host      => 'server12.example.com',
  }
}

node 'server12.example.com' {
# My ip: 192.168.30.12
  class { 'postgresql::server':
    listen_addresses => '192.168.30.12'
  }
  class { 'zabbix::database':
    zabbix_type       => 'proxy',
    zabbix_proxy_ip   => '192.168.30.11',
    database_name     => 'zabbix-proxy',
    database_user     => 'zabbix-proxy',
    database_password => 'zabbix-proxy',
  }
}

With the above setup for both MySQL as PostgreSQL as ‘database_type’, we had to use the ‘database_name’ and ‘database_password’ parameters. The default values for the ‘zabbix::database’ class is for both parameters ‘zabbix-server’. Which is a kind of strange for the proxy. 🙂

Note

With the default installation on both the single as the multi node setup, the password for the database is ‘zabbix-server’. I would strongly recommend that you use the parameter: ‘database_password’ and give it a nice password.