Zabbix Agent for AIX

[lucassebben]

Hi there!

I have an infrastructure with few AIX servers and actually I am using the agent 2.4.4 for monitoring. My server is running 4.0.2 and the documentation for 4.0 show AIX compatibility.
Usually I use this link to download theagent (http://www.zabbix.com/downloads/2.4.4/zabbix_agents_2.4.4.aix6100.powerpc.tar.gz) and I would like to know if is possible to get another version for this file.


Thanks in advance.

Lucas Sebben

[santhosh04]

Can you please let me know the steps to install the agent in AIX 6. I'm planning to install on my infra.
Is the data is fetching to new version os zabbix server 4.0 with 2.4 agent ?

[andris]

You can look at https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-15151 - there are attachments with newer agent versions for AIX (although without encryption support). I compiled them on AIX 6.1 TL0, should work on AIX 7.1, too.

[santhosh04]

Thanks Andris. Is possible to let me know the steps to zabbix agento install on AIX 6.1.

[andris]

Something like that:
0. Read agent man-page at https://www.zabbix.com/documentation.../zabbix_agentd
1. Decide in which directory(ies) you will put agent binary, config file. E.g. /home/zabbix.
2. Unpack archive (tar.gz file from attachment mentioned above), put files zabbix_agentd, zabbix_get, zabbix sender, zabbix_agentd.conf into /home/zabbix/.
3 Customize your zabbix_agentd.conf - edit PidFile, LogFile parameters (if you dont want logfiles in /tmp), edit Server, ListenPort, ServerActive, Hostname as needeed in your environment.
4. Start agent. E.g. from command line: /home/zabbix/zabbix_agentd -c /home/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf . Look in agent log - is it working.
5. To stop agent - kill any of its processes (preferrably main process).
6. Once things work properly, set up automatic start after server reboot.

You may want to set DebugLevel=4 in zabbix_agentd.conf to see more info until agent is working as expected.