Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Proxy operation

Let's talk about how proxies operate a bit. We'll cover three things here:

• Synchronization of the configuration
• Synchronization of the collected data
• Operation during maintenance

By default, proxies synchronize the configuration once per hour, and this period can be set in the zabbix_proxy.conf configuration file. Look for the parameter named ConfigFrequency, which by default will look like this:

# ConfigFrequency=3600

This means that a Zabbix proxy can lag in configuration up to an hour, which might sound scary, but once a production installation settles, the configuration usually doesn't change that often. While testing, you might wish to decrease this period, but in a stable production setup, it is actually suggested ...