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Hi,

Is there a way to define a data collection on a node that would collect data from another node?
This can be interesting when willing to poll a node for a data that is already available on another node (maybe becasue there is already a specific monitoring ongoing) which is much simpler / cheaper to poll than this other one (possibly because the link is congested or resources shall be reserved for service and not monitoring)

Many thanks
Jdamien

Hi!

Yes, it's possible. You can define "proxy node" for any DCI. If proxy node is defined, real data collection will happen on proxy node, not n the node where DCI is configured. You have to add node where you create proxied DCI to proxy node's "trusted nodes" list, or turn off trusted nodes checking by setting server configuration variable CheckTrustedNodes to 0. A bit more detailed explanation of trusted nodes concept is here: http://wiki.netxms.org/wiki/SG:Security_Issues.

Best regards,
Victor