Can't connect to agent on CentOS 7

[Velinath]

Hello!

I'm running into an interesting issue on my Zabbix monitoring server. I have no trouble connecting to my CentOS 6.5 servers or my Windows servers, but after setting up the agent on CentOS 7, I keep on getting the error "Get value from agent failed: cannot connect to [[CentOS 7 Server IP]:10050]: [111] Connection refused".

These were the steps I took to get the agent installed:

yum install epel-release
yum install zabbix22-agent

in /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
Server=[IP of Zabbix server]
Commented out ServerActive directive
ListenPort=10050
Hostname=[Hostname of CentOS 7 Server]

in /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agent.conf :
Server=[IP of Zabbix server]


service zabbix-agent start
chkconfig zabbix-agent on
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=10050/tcp --zone=public
firewall-cmd --reload

What am I missing?

[aib]

SElinux? It brings a lot of headache...

[Velinath]

It wasn't SELinux, oddly enough.

It turned out that after installing zabbix22-agent from the EPEL repo, the .conf file automatically points the PID file to /var/run/zabbix, but the yum install script doesn't make that folder. Commenting out that line and having the zabbix agent use the default of /tmp worked fine.

I don't know what you guys do here, whether this thread should get closed or what, but this is all set. Hopefully this helps someone else down the line!

[refflects]

.conf file automatically points the PID file to /var/run/zabbix
Commenting out that line and having the zabbix agent use the default of /tmp worked fine.

Thank you!

[wisnu]

It wasn't SELinux, oddly enough.

It turned out that after installing zabbix22-agent from the EPEL repo, the .conf file automatically points the PID file to /var/run/zabbix, but the yum install script doesn't make that folder. Commenting out that line and having the zabbix agent use the default of /tmp worked fine.

I don't know what you guys do here, whether this thread should get closed or what, but this is all set. Hopefully this helps someone else down the line!

Hi, this helped me! Thanks
I use centos 7, in my case I also need to edit /usr/lib/systemd/system/zabbix-agent.service
and set

PIDFile=/tmp/zabbix_agentd.pid