zabbix agent vs agent2

[withjigs]

Hi All,

I am working on deploying Zabbix in our organization and comparing zabbix agent vs agent2

I found following link which is useful,

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/manual/appendix/agent_comparison

I just have a couple of questions:

• For agent2 "Daemonization" is "no". Does it mean agent2 service does not run in background? That does not seem right...
• Similarly "Drop user privileges" is "no". To me it sounds like the service would run as "root". However on testing, I can see that service is running as "zabbix" user.

Also, is there anything else I should know when using agent2? e.g. any limitations, gotchas?

Thank you
J

[dimir]

zabbix agent 2 is capable of doing all agent 1 does + some more. It's not "daemonized" on *NIX because this job is propagated to systemd. The same with privileges, while agent 1 is capable of switching user that it is run as, agent 2 doesn't have this functionality and this is controlled by systemd instead.

Fixed documentation, let me know if it's more clear now.

[withjigs]

Hi Dimir,
Thank you for your reply and updating the documentation. It helped a lot.
Cheers,
Jigar

[Vedior]

Hi Dimir. I have an additional question. I had the Agent2 installed on CentOs VM, enabled all checks but did not get a green availability light on the Frontend UNLESS I changed the port to the same port the Laptop running the VM was using. Strangely enough, I deleted Agent2, installed normal agent and the problem did not occur: I had a green available light on Front with the host referring to the correct portforwarded Port.
Is this "normal" or was it proably just a glitch or so in VMWare?

[dimir]

Looks more like a glitch to me. It is not notrmal.