Zabbix Agent - Active vs Passive check

ZABBIX Agent, the most frequent type of monitoring can work in two modes - Active and Passive. In this video, I will try to explain the benefits and downsides of each of them.

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[danilodistefanis]

Dude, I seriously never met anyone so capable of explaining things so clearly. I’m a noob at all this and it’s marvellous your ability to send ideas through.

[ozricus]

Thanks for your time and showing this.

[jens]

Very useful explination. I'm writing my thesis about Zabbix and your channel helped me a lot!
Thanks for that. I'll make sure you're mentioned in my thesis if you have no objection!

[tekchand]

I was very confused with Active and Passive check in Zabbix. Great video with good explanation and i got the answer of my questionsns.

[Psychosapiens]

Active check are kind a like DynDns. Agent will send data to the server regarding of its own IP address.

Very useful when you play with zabbix agent on Android or any other devices that use 3G/LTE .

As you specify, by default all items are Passive.

But... when you add new host, the default IP address is 127.0.0.1, which is the default for adding active agent...:)

I learn a lot from this video. Will subscribe.

[lanceeilers]

Amazing amazing, thank you so much for that lesson, I see why you have an active part and a passive part in the config file, I like the flexibility and control these files give you - really awesome keep theses vids coming I am learning such alot and have an awesome day further :-) best regards Lance

[ankit]

Awesome explanation... thanks for sharing your knowledge 🤘

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[BeRayTV]

If the IP address of a existing registered host changes does the new IP update in the front-end?

[mmospanenko]

very clear explanation, thanks!

what about open ports (10050/10051) - is it secure to have them opened (on agent machines and server)?

[mikhailkalashnikov]

Hi! Thank you very much for the explanation. Are you planning Russian-language documentation or articles?

[syriawithlove]

fantastic videos you make .. but can you add arabic subtitles to your videos to tell my friends about you, because they have a project in school about zabbix

[raedraddadi]

Great!!
I have a Linux host which is in a network .. I can't monitor it remotely...how to solve this?

[krishnanmanimaran]

how can we know that zabbix agent is capturing gps and obd data from a raspberry pi?
please

[vanomel]

Is there a way to convert passive template to active checks and versa?

[majojepan]

Great video, thank you.
Any experience with ElasticSearch?

[juliechengula]

My zabbix agent remains down every time I reboot a server. How can I solve this?

[briancoverstone]

And I thought I was the only one that used paint and

[renenieuwburg]

Language like "over A" is not clear. Imho better would be to indicated source and destination: "from server port A to agent port B". "Over" does not let me know if you are talking about the source or destination port. Now it leaves me confused and not giving me answers about which ports to open where, essential when it comes to firewalls.

[briancoverstone]

I really don't think having 100 agents is a good idea. You could max out your CPU. It's ok to raise up the timeout. Especially if your CPU is getting pegged. Sure, when nothing is running you'll see .002 seconds to get a number back. But try that in a real production environment where the CPU is getting pegged. RAISE THE TIMEOUT. It's ok.