Zabbix Proxy on 2.7.3
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Hello,
We run Zabbix 7, and I noticed that the proxy and agent version on the latest pfSense is only 6.4. This will cause some interoperability issues with Zabbix. Is there a way to update the Zabbix version on the pfSense without having to wait for the package to be updated, or am I stuck finding an alternative way to monitor items at these locations?
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The only safe way to that would be to compile your own Zabbix 7 proxy and agent packages on a pfSense-compatible package builder. That task is definitely not for the faint of heart. It is almost totally undocumented and requires a LOT of tweaking and customizing of the published build scripts to make it all work. You can find some details if you search the DEVELOPMENT sub-forum. Here is a very long thread discussion of the issue: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/169749/pfsense-compile-requirements-for-3rd-party-software.
You can't just install an updated package from a different repo (as in non-pfSense) because the version of various dependent shared libraries that may get pulled in will likely be incompatible with the kernel used in pfSense. You really need a package built using the exact same shared library package versions as those used to build pfSense itself.
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@bmeeks thank you for the reply.
I don't want to do that. That introduces instability. It looks like I will be loading a proxy on-site until it's updated.
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I recently asked TAC about the status of Zabbix 7 support on pfSense+ and was directed to this redmine feature request with 0% progress..
https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15548While there are zabbix-agent(2) binaries available from the zabbix download page, they're compiled against FreeBSD 13.1
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@gallenat0r
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@conejero I as a netgate customer do not have any updates for you. But if you take a look at the redmine link above, you can see that it has been pushed down the line a bit.
