commnad to stop zabbix agent

[paragpalkhe]

I use following command to start the zabbix agent

/opt/app/zabbix_agent/sbin/zabbix_agentd

What is the command to stop the agent gracefully using the zabbix command ?

(the zabbix agent is owned by application owner so systemctl start / stop is no good)

Please let me know how do you deal with this.

[Markku]

Hi, you can kill it. This is from an install done using Zabbix repo:

$ [B]systemctl status zabbix-agent | grep loaded[/B]
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/zabbix-agent.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
$ [B]cat /lib/systemd/system/zabbix-agent.service[/B]
[Unit]
Description=Zabbix Agent
After=syslog.target
After=network.target

[Service]
Environment="CONFFILE=/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf"
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/zabbix-agent
Type=forking
Restart=on-failure
PIDFile=/run/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.pid
KillMode=control-group
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/zabbix_agentd -c $CONFFILE
[B]ExecStop=/bin/kill -SIGTERM $MAINPID[/B]
RestartSec=10s

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

One way is using "killall zabbix_agentd".

Markku

[paragpalkhe]

Thanks for your reply. I will continue to kill the processes using kill command however just wanted to know if there is any better way to stop them gracefully other than systemctl stop. Thanks again for your help.