Zabbix Proxies may greatly simplify maintenance of Zabbix environment and increase performance of the central Zabbix server. Also, use of Zabbix Proxies is the easiest way of implementing centralized and distributed monitoring, when all Agents and Proxies report to one Zabbix server and all data is collected centrally. Zabbix offers advanced monitoring, alerting and visualization features, including distributed monitoring, auto-discovery, notifications, etcetera. zabbix_proxy needs to run under its own user/group. This has been assigned to the following by SlackBuilds.org, but feel free to change it on your system for consistency with local assignments. User: zabbix UID: 228 GID: 228 group: zabbix GID: 228 You can pass alternate values for the user and group using ZABBIXUSER and ZABBIXGROUP variables when running the build script. For some important post-build and basic configuration instructions, see the included README.SLACKWARE file.