zabbix agent deployment

[Yello]

Hi,
I have a need to deploy a zabbix agent on a red hat server in our network. How am I meant to do this?

From checking the zabbix download page I don't see any zabbix agent downloads. Therefore do I need to download source? If so, can the source be built as "agent only"?


Regards,
David

[MrKen]

Installing the agent only is very easy. Just follow this guide:

http://www.zabbix.com/wiki/howto/monitor/os/linux/agentinstallonlinux

MrKen

[nelsonab]

For RHEL it's even easier.

Subscribe your system to the appropriate Fedora EPEL channel.

This link goes directly to the list of packages to install to use EPEL.

The following is an example for installing EPEL on RHEL 6.
rpm -i http://download.fedoraproject.org/pu...6-5.noarch.rpm

After that it's a simple matter of:
yum install zabbix-agent

Then you just edit the /etc/zabbix directory as needed and execute:
sysconfig zabbix-agent on
along with
service zabbix-agent start

And you will now have a properly started and running Zabbix agent on RHEL. Best of all when ever you execute "yum update" the Zabbix agent will be updated if there is a new version.

[MrKen]

Wow! It just gets easier all the time.

Thanks for the tip Nelsonab.

MrKen