Setting up a passive proxy
So far, we configured and discussed only one way a proxy can work, an active proxy. A proxy may also be configured to accept incoming connections from the server, and similar to the agent; it is called a passive proxy in that case:
As opposed to the Zabbix agent, where this mode was set on the item level and a single agent could work in both active and passive mode, a Zabbix proxy can only work in one mode at a time.
Let's switch our active proxy to the passive mode. First, edit zabbix_proxy.conf and set the ProxyMode parameter to 1. That's all that is required to switch the proxy to the passive mode—now restart the proxy ...
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