Auto starting zabbix services on Ubuntu

[Gijs007]

I'm having an issue where the Zabbix services are not automatically started at bootup of our Ubuntu 17.10 machine.
We've manually compiled and installed Zabbix.

We've installed the Zabbix agents as services by copying the debian startup scripts from the zabbix rar:

cd zabbix/misc/init.d/debian
sudo cp zabbix-agent /etc/init.d
sudo cp zabbix-server /etc/init.d

sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/zabbix-server
sudo update-rc.d zabbix-server defaults
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent
sudo update-rc.d zabbix-agent defaults

Now we can start Zabbix from the terminal with the following commands:

sudo service zabbix-agent start
sudo service zabbix-server start

How can we configure the system to auto start the Zabbix services?

I've already tried systemctl enable, which results in the following error:

zabbix-agent.service is not a native service, redirecting to systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable zabbix-agent
update-rc.d: error: zabbix-agent Default-Start contains no runlevels, aborting.

and I've also tried update-rc.d, but this doesn't work.

sudo update-rc.d zabbix-agent defaults
sudo update-rc.d zabbix-server defaults

[jan.garaj]

Use systemd unit files and system, because systemd is default init system of Ubuntu 17.

Example:

$ cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/zabbix-agent.service
[Unit]
Description=Zabbix Agent
After=syslog.target
After=network.target

[Service]
Environment="CONFFILE=/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf"
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/zabbix-agent
Type=forking
Restart=on-failure
PIDFile=/run/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.pid
KillMode=control-group
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/zabbix_agentd -c $CONFFILE
ExecStop=/bin/kill -SIGTERM $MAINPID
RestartSec=10s

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
$ systemctl enable zabbix-agent.service
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/zabbix-agent.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/zabbix-agent.service.
$  systemctl start zabbix-agent.service
...

Check systemd documentation.