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**c4t1nh4t** · 11-01-2019, 08:41

I've recently been working on getting Zabbix-agent working for our cluster of solaris 11.3 servers and found similar issues with opencsw package. I believe they stopped updating those several years ago.

Your best bet is to go with the newest available source.

Download Zabbix sources

https://www.zabbix.com/download_sources

Download sources from Git repository or ready-to-use Zabbix distributives

base install of solaris 11.3 and I needed gcc and libpcre_dev packages before going further.

pkg install gcc

pkgadd -d http://get.opencsw.org/now
/opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -U
/opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -y -i libpcre_dev

groupadd zabbix
useradd -g zabbix zabbix

untar the downloaded source
./configure --enable-agent
make install

updated the config file at /usr/local/etc/ as needed
create log file/folder

start agent
/usr/local/sbin/zabbix_agentd -c /usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf

add smf

https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZB...#comment-82910

use xml file in that thread and update as needed

Now, all this being said, I've come across an issue I'm unable to figure out at this point. The path to the pid in the config file is /var/run/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.pid
you need to create the directory "zabbix" in /var/run/ , chown zabbix:zabbix (all done as root btw)

I am able to start the agent and run without issues manually or through svcadm at this point. However, if the machine reboots, svcs is unable to write the pid to the location as the user has no permission to write to /var/run/ and the zabbix directory is no longer there (being that /var/run/ is ram)

these are internal machines with no outside access so I've even tried adding the Zabbix Agent to root group with no luck. Work around was to have the pid in /tmp and it works perfectly fine. It might work for you as well. However, in my case, our cluster has a tmp clearing script that runs occasionally putting me in a bind. I'll continue to look for a solution for this but hope everything else helps you. Let me know if you have any questions and I'll try to answer to the best of my ability. This is my first time with zabbix (decades of nagios ) so maybe I made a mistake somewhere.

**sph919** · 11-01-2019, 10:31

Hi c4t1nh4t,

Thanks that's really helps. Been pulling my hair out with this. Ill go through your steps. Yea in the same boat, moved away from ZenOS and re-learning everything haha. Thanks again

**sph919** · 14-01-2019, 16:53

Solved my own problem so thought I would share it.

Download the pre-compiled Zabbix agents from zabbix
In my case it was zabbix_agents_3.2.0.solaris10.sparc.tar.gz (although its for Solaris 10 it will work on 11)

Extract the files

tar -xvzf zabbix_agents_3.2.0.solaris10.sparc.tar.gz
You will have the following folders

sbin/
bin/
conf/

Now move the content of the files to there system folders eg

mv /export/home/username/conf/zabbix_agentd.conf /etc/
mv /export/home/username/conf/zabbix_agentd /etc/
mv /export/home/username/bin/zabbix_sender /bin/
mv /export/home/username/bin/zabbix_get /bin/
mv /export/home/username/sbin/zabbix_agentd /sbin/

Edit your zabbix_agentd.conf to point to your Zabbix server and add the host servers name.
Now run : /sbin/zabbix_agentd -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf to start the agent
Add it to your Zabbix server and your done.

Note that the pre-compiled Zabbix agent for Solaris was not compiled without TLS support

Also, as an option, or you can compile zabbix_agent from the source files: https://sourceforge.net/projects/zab...ar.gz/download.

Install the required dependencies and gcc (gnu-compiler) + make.
untar the source code
Follow this manual: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...zabbix_daemons

./configure --enable-agent
The zabbix_sender, zabbix_get and zabbix_agentd + conf file will be place under the /usr/local/ directories.

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