Providing a one line installer for zabbix agent (Linux)
The easiest way to deploy and auto-configure agents is via a single command line. Many companies are using this successfully and
Example from datadog:
Such a command installs latest version of the agent and also configures it to connect to the right server, also adds the yum or apt-get repositories so further updates will be installer properly. Also the same command happens to work on Mac OS X, and probably could work on Windows if run from Cygwin (even so DataDog had a different installer for Windows).
Anyway the whole point of this it to ease the deployment of the zabbix agents, we could have something like:
I opened a feature request for this at: https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-8034 -- feel free to vote for it or to comment there. I hope Zabbix team will take this seriously, as deployment ease / speed is something quite important. Also the same feature solved the problem of using the right distribution repositories for zabbix.
Example from datadog:
Code:
DD_API_KEY=1234 bash -c "$(curl -L http://dtdg.co/agent-install-ubuntu)"
Anyway the whole point of this it to ease the deployment of the zabbix agents, we could have something like:
Code:
ZABBIX_SERVER=zabbix.example.com bash -c "$(curl -L http://zabbix.com/agent-install)"