Arch Linux agent

[Gokiwi64]

Hi,

I am trying to install the agent on an Arch Linux based machine. The problem I have is that I cannot tell if the agent is started (Im guessing not as I cannot telnet to port 10050 from the server).

How do I check the status and how do I start the agent on Arch Linux ?

Regards

[Gokiwi64]

I should add that I am using sudo systemctl start zabbix-agent - After prompting for my password it returns to the terminal $ prompt - GUFW is not running in any profile.

[Gokiwi64]

Still not working ! - Nobody installed the agent on Arch Linux ?

[tim.mooney]

I'm not familiar with Arch, but you've indicated that it uses systemd, so that gives us something to try.

First, though, I would use the netstat command with a particular bundle of options, like this:

$ sudo netstat -tnlp | egrep :10050
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:10050 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1068/zabbix_agentd
tcp6 0 0 :::10050 :::* LISTEN 1068/zabbix_agentd

That should show at least one line of output (mine shows 2 because the agent is also listening on the IPv6-related addresses).

If it doesn't show any output, then nothing is listening on port 10050, which is the default agent port.

If it's not running, then the thing to do is ask systemd why, in the form of

sudo systemctl status -l zabbix-agentd.service

The '-l' (long) output should show any error messages from the startup. Between that and the contents of the zabbix_agentd.log file (probably in /var/log/zabbix/ ), hopefully there will be a strong clue as to what the problem is.

[Gokiwi64]

Sorted !! - Thanks for the pointers Tim. It was all installed properly and I had configured the .conf correctly but I hadn't set it to run on reboot, so it just needed enabling. (The joys of using Ubuntu and Arch with little or no (more no) Linux experience).