Quick agentd install for Fedora Core 5 and Red Hat Enterprise 4

[adam.vollrath]

I'm using the following method to roll out zabbix_agentd to all of our servers, mostly RHEL 4, some Fedora Core 5.

Modify some files in misc/conf/ and misc/init.d/ and also insert the following shell script into the zabbix-1.1betaXX directory:

./configure --enable-agent
make
make install
groupadd zabbix
useradd -c 'Zabbix' -d /home/zabbix -g zabbix -s /bin/bash zabbix
echo "zabbix_agent 10050/tcp # Zabbix ports" >> /etc/services
echo "zabbix_trap 10051/tcp" >> /etc/services
echo Hostname=[INSERT HOSTNAME HERE] >> ./misc/conf/zabbix_agentd.conf
mkdir /etc/zabbix/
cp -v ./misc/conf/zabbix_agentd.conf /etc/zabbix/
chown -R zabbix.zabbix /etc/zabbix
cp -v ./misc/init.d/redhat/8.0/zabbix_agentd /etc/init.d/
chkconfig --add zabbix_agentd
chkconfig zabbix_agentd on
service zabbix_agentd start

Notice that the hostname needs to be set in the script before running this on each host. I've considered some ways to improve this, such as using $1 or trying to get the $HOSTNAME from the environment. Feel free to improve and post your changes here.

Also you'll need to modify the zabbix_agentd.conf file by commenting out the Hostname line so that the echo statement in the script can add it. And of course you'll need to put in your server's address and any other changes for your set up.
The misc/init.d/redhat/8.0/zabbix_agentd startup script also needs to be modified with the following lines (changes, not additions!):

progdir="/usr/local/bin/"

        su -c $progdir$prog - zabbix

After making these changes, you can simply copy the entire modified install directory to each of your hosts (gzip if you like) and run the installer. It's fairly verbose, so if anything doesn't jive you can fix it manually.

[robertsonstudios]

You can use `hostname` (backticks) or what I would recommend...

echo "Hostname=$(hostname)" >> ./misc/conf/zabbix_agentd.conf