The active agent auto-registration
Starting with Zabbix 2.0, it is possible to instruct the active Zabbix agent for auto-registration. This way, new hosts can be added for monitoring without configuring them manually on the server. The auto-registration of an unknown host can be triggered when an active agent asks for checks. This feature can be precious to implement an automatic monitoring of new cloud nodes. When a new node in the cloud comes up, Zabbix will automatically start collecting performance metrics and checking the availability of the host.
The active agent auto-registration can also monitor hosts that have passive checks. When the active agent asks for checks, provide them to the Zabbix server's ListenIP and ListenPort configuration ...
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