[ZBX-21348] Zabbix Proxy History Poller gone Created: 2022 Jul 16  Updated: 2024 Apr 10  Resolved: 2022 Jul 19

Status: Closed
Project: ZABBIX BUGS AND ISSUES
Component/s: Documentation (D), Proxy (P)
Affects Version/s: 6.2.0
Fix Version/s: 6.4 (plan)

Type: Documentation task Priority: Trivial
Reporter: MArk Assignee: Martins Valkovskis
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 0
Labels: history, poller, process, proxy
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
Original Estimate: Not Specified

Team: Team A
Sprint: Sprint 90 (Jul 2022)
Story Points: 0.1

 Description   

After updating to Zabbix 6.2, I noticed a weird thing with Proxy.

From proxy health monitoring, the internal item "Zabbix proxy: Utilization of history poller" got unsupported with the following message.

No "history poller" processes started.

When checking the proxy processes, I noticed that, in fact, it is not started.
Also, that item is not available for newer Zabbix OOTB templates.

This request, ZBXNEXT-7498, seems to relate to this issue, but I'm not sure.

 

In summary,
Proxy Process Types doc says this process exists for Proxy.
Supported Internal checks doc says it is available for Proxy.
Standard Zabbix Proxy Health template does include an item for History Poller

Zabbix Proxy configuration doc does not include StartHistoryPollers.
Upgrade notes for 6.2.0 doc does not mention History Pollers.

 

Therefore, I'm lost with this.
The Proxy is certainly working without History Poller.

Maybe I'm missing some changes in-between version updates, or the documentation is missing some adjustments.

 Comments   
Comment by Martins Valkovskis [ 2022 Jul 18 ]

This issue was caused by incomplete documentation update and a lacking upgrade note entry about history pollers being removed from Zabbix proxy.

Right now the relevant documentation pages have been updated:

Existing templates should be manually updated by removing the item for the history poller process on the proxy.

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