help me find zabbix-sender

[dorth]

Where can I find zabbix-sender?

I'm definitely new to Zabbix and am trying to get some apache2 monitoring put in place. I need to use the zabbix-sender approach (outlined at https://www.zabbix.com/wiki/doku.php...mplates/apache, so I obviously need to find zabbix-sender.

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) and have the following in my apt sources list:

deb http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/2.0/ubuntu precise main main

After doing an apt-get install zabbix-agent, I see:

ii  zabbix-agent   1:2.0.8-1+prec network monitoring solution - agent

Listing the contents of that package reveals there is no zabbix-sender:

#/var/cache/apt/archives$ dpkg -L zabbix-agent
/.
/var
/var/log
/var/log/zabbix
/etc
/etc/logrotate.d
/etc/logrotate.d/zabbix-agent
/etc/zabbix
/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d
/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d/userparameter_mysql.conf
/etc/init.d
/etc/init.d/zabbix-agent
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/zabbix_agent
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/zabbix_agentd
/usr/share
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man8
/usr/share/man/man8/zabbix_agentd.8.gz
/usr/share/zabbix-agent
/usr/share/zabbix-agent/zabbix_agentd.conf
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent/examples
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent/examples/zabbix_agent.conf
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent/examples/userparameter_examples.conf
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent/copyright
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent/README.Debian

Looking at the source location, it certainly seems as if there is one listed there:

From http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/2.0/ub...amd64/Packages

Package: zabbix-sender
Source: zabbix
Version: 1:2.0.8-1+precise
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: Kodai Terashima <[email protected]>
Installed-Size: 254
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15)
Priority: optional
Section: net
Filename: pool/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-sender_2.0.8-1+precise_amd64.deb
Size: 170918
SHA256: 3d44d55e4eca4c1c93a7051942be367a0ea530d85dc403885995fd65f4d1bce8
SHA1: 2fa6cee97ffccd80c71ae10349af8a045e0444e9
MD5sum: 4b6ffae37743e7d5153e8fba3e3bf5a0
Description: network monitoring solution - sender
 Zabbix is a server/client network monitoring system with many features.
 It can be used for:
 .
  - high level monitoring of IT services;
  - centralized monitoring of your servers and applications;
  - monitoring of SNMP-enabled devices;
  - performance monitoring (process load, network activity, disk
    activity, memory usage, OS parameters etc.);
  - data visualization.
 .
 This package provides the command line utility needed to send data to
 Zabbix server or Zabix proxy.

Hmm, I wonder if that "Priority: optional" should give me a clue?

I also looked at a package from http://packages.tooptee.org/. It too, appears to be missing the zabbix-sender executable.

My strong desire is to get this enabled without having to compile from source and repackaging my own repo source for distribution to the large number of client systems. If you can help me out or guide me towards a possible solution, that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Dave O

[dorth]

Probably bad form to answer my own question, but here goes.

From my limited understanding, it appears that the zabbix-sender executable has been pulled out of the main zabbix-agent package and placed into its own package. So the short answer to "where do I get zabbix-sender?" is to:

apt-get install zabbix-sender

I believe that there are some errors in the zabbix-agent packaging which still incorrectly list the zabbix-sender as being part of that package:

root:~# zabbix-sender
No command 'zabbix-sender' found, did you mean:
 Command 'zabbix_sender' from package '[U]zabbix-agent[/U]' (universe)

root:~# zabbix_sender
The program 'zabbix_sender' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
apt-get install [U]zabbix-agent[/U]

So a simple modification to add the zabbix-sender package to my installs appears to have resolved this problem.

Dave O

[Panometric]

zabbix_sender and zabbix_get missing from packages

Thanks for documenting this.
FYI, zabbix_get is also missing in the Ubuntu Precise 12.04 pacakges:

sudo apt-get install zabbix-get

[pangarano]

you can dowload it from the repository:

Ubuntu:

https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/2.4/u...main/z/zabbix/

RHEL:

https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/2.4/rhel/6/x86_64/