zabbix agent not starting automatically on ubuntu`

[phampson]

Hello all

Ive got zabbix agent 1.8.2 and ubuntu 10.10.

My problem is that when the server is rebooted zabbix doesnt restart

If I start zabbix up after the machine is backup it works

ie cd /etc/init.d ; sudo ./zabbix-agent start works fine

But in /etc/rc2.d S01zabbix-agent doesnt

Ive moved it to S03 and it makes no difference. Infact by putting echos into the script Im pretty sure its not executing the script on startup

Permissions for the zabbix-agent script in init.d are 755 root root

Any ideas

Paul

[vrolok]

Did you check fields "NAME=, PATH=, DAEMON=" in /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent file?

[phampson]

Yes , its the same script that starts it once the machine is up.

It really looks like for some reason the script isnt been run when it goes to run level 2. There are actually two other programs with the same problem webmin and simplehelp. I put displays at the start of the script to log when its run. They are run on shutdown but not start up.

In the end today i wrote a little file which called all the problematic programs in S99. That didnt seem to run either for some reason.

[arrayown]

This just happened to me on 2 servers with Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial: zabbix-agent 3.0.10 wouldn't autostart.

To fix it, I had to enable zabbix-agent via systemctl tool.

As root, run the following command:

systemctl is-enabled zabbix-agent.service # Tells you if it's currently enabled
systemctl enable zabbix-agent.service # Enables Zabbix Agent

Hope this helps anyone coming to this page from Google

[ebonweaver]

Thank you! No idea why on one server the service was disabled on install when I have never had this issue before. It's been driving me insane that I had to manually start the service every reboot....

[vesper1978]

Since you're on Ubuntu 10.10 (no systemd) try running this:

sudo update-rc.d zabbix-agent enable