Chapter 20. Encrypting Zabbix Traffic
Communication between Zabbix components is done in plaintext by default. In many environments, that is not a significant problem, but monitoring over the Internet in plaintext is likely not a good approach—transferred data could be read or manipulated by malicious parties. In previous Zabbix versions, there was no built-in solution, and various VPN, stunnel, and SSH port-forwarding solutions were being used. Such solutions can still be used, but 3.0 is the first Zabbix version to provide built-in encryption. In this chapter, we will set up several of the components to use different types of encryption.
Overview
For Zabbix communication encryption, two types are supported:
- Pre-shared key
- Certificate-based encryption ...
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