Add client to Zabbix

[Jonathanb]

Hello everyone,

This is probably a simple thing, but when I searched for this it didn't gave me the correct answers. To install Zabbix onto Debian Squeeze I followed this walkthrough (http://sigign.blogspot.com/2011/05/i...n-squeeze.html), but unfortunataly it didn't gave me any directions to add a Windows client to Zabbix. I have a Windows 7 32bit test client. I downloaded from http://www.zabbix.com/download.php the Pre-compiled Zabbix 1.8.5 (stable) agent for Windows all. In extracted it and I had three files called zabbix_agentd.exe, zabbix_get.exe and zabbix_sender.exe. When I open these exe files they give me a cmd screen for a second and then it disappears.

My question is how I can add the Windows 7 client to Zabbix and let it monitor the client. My knowledge about Linux is very limited.

Hopefully someone can help me out here or send me in the right direction.

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Jonathanb

[Rudd]

Hi Jonathanb,

The Zabbix client runs as a windows service. You can install the service if you run the following from a cmd prompt in the directory where you unpacked the files.

zabbix_agentd.exe -c "C:\Program Files\Zabbix\zabbix_agentd.conf" -i

The above obviously assumes you put the files in "C:\Program Files\Zabbix" and have a zabbix_agentd.conf.

After that you can manage the service from Windows or the command line.

Run each of the commands with the parameter "--help" for additional information.

Also have a look at: http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/...bix_agentd_win

hth,

[Jonathanb]

Hell Rudd and thank you for your reply.

I have done as you said, but the agent doesn't want to start when I start the zabbix service. I also heard that you need a "Hostname=hostname-here" in your config file to let it work whoch has been done now.

Do you know how I can start the agent and let it send snmp packets to the server?

[EDIT]

I found out that when I changed the location of the conf file to c:\ that the service works. Is there a way that it will look at it's own directory instead at c:\?


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Jonathanb

[angelhc]

To install the agent:

zabbix_agentd.exe -i -c c:\your_zabbix_folder\conf\zabbix_Agentd.conf

To start it as a service:

zabbix_agentd.exe -s -c c:\your_zabbix_folder\conf\zabbix_Agentd.conf

Regards.

[Jonathanb]

Yeah got it working thanks to you!
Thank you very much. <- Happy