Issue installing Zabbix6 agent on Rocky Linux 8

[Rohaldos]

Hi,

I am experiencing some problems with never happened before. When I install zabbix6 agent (not agent2) on Rocky Linux it does create the /etc/zabbix but the configuration file is in /etc. I did install zabbix agent6 on CentOS7 never had this problem.
If I install zabbix6 agent2 the configuration file gets created in /etc/zabbix/
My question is this a normal behaviour for installing zabbix6 agent on Rocky Linux 8?

Kind Regards,
Antonio

[Rohaldos]

Quick update

I updated the zabbix-agent.service to the following and moved the zabbix_agentd.conf to /etc/zabbix

ExecStart=/usr/sbin/zabbix_agentd -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf -f

I still don't understand why the zabbix agent installation process would create the /etc/zabbix and put the zabbix_agentd.conf in /etc.

Kind Regards,
Antonio

[tim.mooney]

I am experiencing some problems with never happened before. When I install zabbix6 agent (not agent2) on Rocky Linux it does create the /etc/zabbix but the configuration file is in /etc.

That sounds like a packaging bug. What version of the zabbix-agent package, specifically, did you download?

I just checked the 6.0.29-release1.el8 RPM and it looks correct. zabbix-agent.conf is packaged in /etc/zabbix/

$ rpm -q -l -p zabbix-agent-6.0.29-release1.el8.x86_64.rpm
warning: zabbix-agent-6.0.29-release1.el8.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA512 Signature, key ID a14fe591: NOKEY
/etc/logrotate.d/zabbix-agent
/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/8a50a77f84fcba17b5d3a3adc23432efac9a3d
/usr/lib/systemd/system/zabbix-agent.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/zabbix-agent.conf
/usr/sbin/zabbix_agentd
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent/README
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent/userparameter_mysql.conf
/usr/share/man/man8/zabbix_agentd.8.gz
/var/log/zabbix
/var/run/zabbix

[Rohaldos]

That sounds like a packaging bug. What version of the zabbix-agent package, specifically, did you download?

I just checked the 6.0.29-release1.el8 RPM and it looks correct. zabbix-agent.conf is packaged in /etc/zabbix/

$ rpm -q -l -p zabbix-agent-6.0.29-release1.el8.x86_64.rpm
warning: zabbix-agent-6.0.29-release1.el8.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA512 Signature, key ID a14fe591: NOKEY
/etc/logrotate.d/zabbix-agent
/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/8a50a77f84fcba17b5d3a3adc23432efac9a3d
/usr/lib/systemd/system/zabbix-agent.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/zabbix-agent.conf
/usr/sbin/zabbix_agentd
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent/README
/usr/share/doc/zabbix-agent/userparameter_mysql.conf
/usr/share/man/man8/zabbix_agentd.8.gz
/var/log/zabbix
/var/run/zabbix

Hello,

Thank you for the response.

Here is what I have installed:

rpm -qa | grep zabbix
zabbix6.0-agent-6.0.29-1.el8.x86_64
zabbix6.0-6.0.29-1.el8.x86_64
zabbix6.0-selinux-6.0.29-1.el8.noarch
zabbix-release-6.0-4.el8.noarch

Kind Regards,
Antonio

[tim.mooney]

If you point a web browser at the official Zabbix repo for RHEL 8, here:

https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/6.0/rhel/8/x86_64/

you can browse the package list.

Your package is named "zabbix6.0-agent", but I don't see any agent packages in the repo that have "zabbix6.0" at the start of the name. It makes me wonder if maybe the packages are coming from somewhere else.

What does the command

sudo yum info zabbix6.0-agent

output?

[Rohaldos]

If you point a web browser at the official Zabbix repo for RHEL 8, here:

https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/6.0/rhel/8/x86_64/

you can browse the package list.

Your package is named "zabbix6.0-agent", but I don't see any agent packages in the repo that have "zabbix6.0" at the start of the name. It makes me wonder if maybe the packages are coming from somewhere else.

What does the command

sudo yum info zabbix6.0-agent

output?

Hello,

Thank you for the response here is the output:

dnf info zabbix6.0-agent
Last metadata expiration check: 1:10:11 ago on Tue 21 May 2024 16:52:10 BST.
Installed Packages
Name : zabbix6.0-agent
Version : 6.0.29
Release : 1.el8
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 650 k
Source : zabbix6.0-6.0.29-1.el8.src.rpm
Repository : @System
From repo : epel
Summary : Zabbix agent
URL : https://www.zabbix.com
License : GPLv2+
Description : Zabbix agent, to be installed on monitored systems

Kind Regards,
Antonio

[tim.mooney]

dnf info zabbix6.0-agent

Name : zabbix6.0-agent
From repo : epel
Summary : Zabbix agent

As you can see, the 'zabbix6.0-agent' came from the EPEL repo, not the official Zabbix repo.

You may want to post on EPEL-specific forums to ask if there's an issue with the config file or the config directory for that package.

If you want to prefer the official Zabbix packages, rather than these alternate packages from EPEL, you probably need to look into setting repository priorities: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/45244

[Rohaldos]

Hello Tim,
Thank you for the response.

Kind Regards,