installation zabixx agent on VMkernel

[edenred]

Hello,

We have en ESX and we need to install zabbix agent on a VMkernel

we have uname -a :
VMkernel servername.localdomain 4.0.0 #1 SMP Release build-208167 Nov 8 2009 01:02:11 x86_64 unknown
it's a 64 bit

I can't make apt-get install and yum install.

Where can I find a tar.gz for VMkernel ?

Thanks for your help.

[bbrendon]

I did this once upon a time, but now that ESXi is standard, I have canned the concept of installing the agent on the hypervisor. Sorry, I haven't yet invented a better way, but I imagine it will have something to do with the VMA guest host.

[nelsonab]

You're going to have to do some work to make this happen. At one point the base OS of VMWare (and still is to some extent) was/is Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The good news is that limits the number of potential versions of glibc you have to worry about. ;-)

You can go two routes, you can try to compile your own agent, if you do that you need to be sure to use the same glibc development library for compiling as the one used by ESX. Otherwise you can give compiling the agent with the --static option a try. Static binding yields much larger binaries but the are much more portable.

Hopefully that points you in the right direction.

[nelsonab]

I did some digging on my own ESX 4.1 server and it looks like the base glibc is from RHEL 5.3. Thus if you compile under RHEL 5.3 and statically link you *should* be ok... there is no guarantee.. You may also be able to compile under CentOS 5.3 as they claim binary compatibility (not always, but is usually true). One more thing to note, you need to compile for 64 bit.

Otherwise just for reference the glibc2 version looks to be 2.12.3-el5_3.1 x86_64. Also libstdc++ is 4.12-46.el5_4.2, Interesting that's from RHEL 5.4

The kernel on the build I here is a VMWare build with a version number of 410.2.6.18-164.0.0.251350... looks like a 2.6.18 series kernel..