Zabbix 2.0 Agent Install on Centos

[colhart]

Afternoon..

Can someone point me to the upto date documentation or a guide on how to install the ZABBIX agetn on centos / linux. The online docs do not appear to be correct as the detail ./configure and make, however to the tar ball package tghere is no configur file :-(

Cheers

Col.

[aggietex04]

Here is what I have been using to script install it on my centos systems. I removed my identifying hostnames/ip and bolded the areas you should change for your environment. :


groupadd -g 130 zabbix ; useradd -u 130 zabbix -c 'Zabbix monitoring' -g zabbix ; cd /root/ ; scp root@server:/root/zabbix.tar . ; tar -xvf zabbix-2.0.2.tar.gz ; cd /root/zabbix-2.0.2/ ; yum -y install gcc ; ./configure --enable-agent ; make -j$[$(cat /proc/cpuinfo| grep -c '^processor')+1] ; make install ; cp conf/zabbix_agentd.conf /usr/local/etc ; cp /root/zabbix-2.0.2/misc/init.d/fedora/core5/zabbix_agentd /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent ; chmod 755 /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent ; chmod 755 /usr/local/sbin/zabbix_agentd ; /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent start ; ps aux | grep zabbix ; rm -rf /root/zabbix-2.0.2.tar.gz ; sed -i 's/Server=127.0.0.1/Server=[SeverIP]/g' /usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf ; sed -i 's/ServerActive=127.0.0.1/ServerActive=[ServerIP]/g' /usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf ; sed -i 's/Hostname=Zabbix server/Hostname=[Agent Hostname]/g' /usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf ; sed -i 's/# ListenIP=0.0.0.0/ListenIP=[AgentIP]/g' /usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf ; sed -i 's/# LogRemoteCommands=0/LogRemoteCommands=1/g' /usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf ; sed -i 's/Server=127.0.0.1/Server=[Server IP]/g' /usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf ; sed -i 's/ServerActive=127.0.0.1/ServerActive=[Server IP]/g' /usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf ; sed -i 's/Hostname=Zabbix server/Hostname=[Agent Hostname]/g' /usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf ; sed -i 's/# ListenIP=0.0.0.0/ListenIP=[Agent IP]/g' /usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf ; sed -i 's/# LogRemoteCommands=0/LogRemoteCommands=1/g' /usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf ; rm -rf /tmp/zabbix_agentd.log ; /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent restart ; chkconfig zabbix-agent on

[colhart]

File not the same

Thank very much for your install instructions, however when I untar the file this is the contents. there is no confure file.

The source of tyeh agent installation I am using is:

http://www.zabbix.com/downloads/2.0....3.amd64.tar.gz


[root@wiki zabbix]# tree /tmp/zabbix/
/tmp/zabbix/
bin
- zabbix_get
- zabbix_sender
sbin
- zabbix_agent
- zabbix_agent.conf
- zabbix_agentd

[aggietex04]

You downloaded the pre compiled binary for a linux 2.6 kernel. You need to get the actual source code package for there to be a configuration file. You can grab it from the zabbix download forums.

[volter]

EPEL is offering 2.0 packages for EL 5 and 6:

http://blog.zabbix.com/zabbix-2-0-packages-for-rhel-centos-sl/1893/

[tim.mooney]

EPEL is offering 2.0 packages for EL 5 and 6:

http://blog.zabbix.com/zabbix-2-0-pa...entos-sl/1893/

I totally agree with volter; don't install from source, install it as a package. If you don't want to have the EPEL repo listed and active on all your clients, then just take the zabbix20-agent package from the repo and install it, but definitely use a package.

Alternately, build your own agent package, perhaps using the EPEL zabbix20 source RPM as a starting point.