Zabbix Agent is required to install on all remote systems needs to be monitor through Zabbix server. The Zabbix Agent collects resource utilization data and applications data on the client system and provides such information to the Zabbix server on their requests.There are two types of checks between Zabbix Server and Client.
Passive Check – Zabbix Agent sent data to server on their request. Active Check – Zabbix Agent sends data periodically to server.After on your server, Now we are moving to install agent on remote system’s. This article will help you to install zabbix agent on CentOS/RHEL 7/6/5 systems. After completing this step go to next article.
Step 1 – Add Required RepositoryBefore installing Zabbix Agent first configure Zabbix yum repository using following commands as per your required version and operating system. CentOS/RHEL 7: rpm -Uvh 6: rpm -Uvh 2 – Install Zabbix AgentAfter installing yum repository packages in our system. Use the following command to install Zabbix agent on your CentOS and Red Hat systems using the yum package manager. Yum install zabbix zabbix-agentStep 3 – Zabbix Agent ConfigurationAs Zabbix agent has been successfully installed on our remote system. Now we just need to configure Zabbix agent by adding Zabbix server IP to the configuration file /etc/zabbix/zabbixagentd.conf #Server=zabbix server ip#Hostname= Hostname of client system Server= 192.168.1.100Hostname= Server1 Step 4 – Open PortZabbix agent uses 10050/tcp port. You are required to open this port to allow the Zabbix server with the agent. Execute command to open port in iptables firewall where 192.168.1.100 is IP of Zabbix server.
Iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 192.168.1.100 -dport 10050 -m state -state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPTStep 5 – Restarting Zabbix AgentAfter adding Zabbix server IP to the configuration file, now restart agent service to reload the new settings, using the following command. Service zabbix-agent restartTo start and stop zabbix-agent service anytime use following commands.
Install Zabbix Agent Windows 10
Service zabbix-agent startservice zabbix-agent stopCongratulation’s! You have successfully installed Zabbix Agent. Lets to be monitory. Hello Sir, I am new to linux and I tried installing zabbix for my server by following the tutorial on this site. I was able to install it however I am having problems installing zabbix-agent for my client. I ran the command to add the repository and install zabbix and zabbix-agent but I got the results below.
Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution that can be used to monitor and track performance and availability of network servers, devices and other IT resources. It supports distributed and WEB monitoring, auto-discovery, and more.
Web monitoring as well as monitoring of WMware virtual machines is possible with Zabbix. Click to know more about zabbix.This article will help you install Zabbix on CentOS/RHEL Systems. Step #1 PrerequisitesBefore installing Zabbix, we should have install and configure LAMP stack on server.