This is a followup to an article i just posted “Building Zabbix 1.8.6 from source on Centos 5.5″. Once you have the Zabbix server up and running you will want the agent installed on your other Linux servers so you can monitor them.
Log on as root
Prerequisites
yum install make gcc
Create Zabbix user and group if it does not exist
CMD
/usr/sbin/groupadd zabbix /usr/sbin/useradd -c 'Zabbix' -g zabbix -s /dev/null zabbix
Download the source.
CMD
cd ~ wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/zabbix/zabbix-1.8.6.tar.gz?download
Extract Files
CMD
tar zxvf zabbix-1.8.6.tar.gz
Configure and make
CMD
cd zabbix-1.8.6 ./configure --enable-agent make make install
Copy start up scripts
CMD
cp -a /root/zabbix-1.8.6/misc/init.d/redhat/8.0/zabbix_agentd /etc/init.d/ chown root.root /etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd chmod +x /etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd
Edit startup script
CMD
vi /etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd
Change
progdir="/usr/local/zabbix/bin/"
To
progdir="/usr/local/sbin/"
Copy and edit configuration files.
CMD
mkdir -p /etc/zabbix cp -a /root/zabbix-1.8.6/misc/conf/zabbix_agentd.conf /etc/zabbix/ chown zabbix.zabbix /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
Edit agent config
CMD
vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
Change
Server=127.0.0.1
Change to zabbix server ip
Server=192.168.1.70
Set permissions on config
CMD
chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/zabbix_agentd
Start the agent
CMD
/usr/local/sbin/zabbix_agentd start
Set the service up
CMD
chkconfig --add zabbix_agentd chkconfig --level 35 zabbix_agentd on
Verify that the service is up.
CMD
chkconfig --list | grep zabbix
next add the host in the Zabbix web admin.
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