In our previous post we have installed Zabbix Server on Ubuntu from source.
Let’s add and monitor another linux server with Zabbix Agent.
Login to server as root and Create a new user and group
groupadd zabbix useradd -g zabbix zabbix
Download and install latest version of zabbix from source.
cd /usr/local/src wget http://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/zabbix/ZABBIX%20Latest%20Stable/3.0.3/zabbix-3.0.3.tar.gz tar -zxvf zabbix-3.0.3.tar.gz cd zabbix-3.0.3 ./configure --enable-agent make install
Edit Zabbix agent configuration file at
vi /usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf
Add Zabbix server IP address to the file.
Server = 127.0.0.1, ZABBIX_SERVER_IP
Start zabbix_agentd
[root@server ~]# zabbix_agentd
Verify Zabbix agent log for errors.
tail /tmp/zabbix_agentd.log
Then login to Zabbix Dashboard on zabbix server and add a new host by entering the following details.
Host name: client host name Groups: Linux Servers IP address: client host IP
Enable Zabbix Agent to start on Boot CentOS
[root@server ~]# cd /usr/local/src/zabbix-*/ [root@server zabbix-3.0.3]# cp misc/init.d/fedora/core5/zabbix_agentd /etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd [root@server zabbix-3.0.3]# chkconfig --add zabbix_agentd [root@server zabbix-3.0.3]# chkconfig zabbix_agentd on
If everything is alright, you should see 3:on like below when running the following command.
[root@server ~]# chkconfig | grep zabbix zabbix_agentd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off [root@server ~]#
Enable Zabbix Agent to start on Boot (Ubuntu/Debian)
cd ~/zabbix-source/zabbix-*/ cp misc/init.d/debian/zabbix-agent /etc/init.d chmod 755 /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent update-rc.d zabbix-agent defaults
You may receive some LSB tags missing warnings.
It just mean that the special new tags have not yet been added to the boot scripts. The script still work fine.
You can fix that warning by adding the LSB tags to the init scrips like mentioned in zabbix server install post.
