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 installing zabbix server 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 add Host in Zabbix Server.
Installing Zabbix Agent
Follow the below instructions to install Zabbix Agent on CentOS, RHEL 7/6/5 systems.
Step 1 – Add Required Repository
Before installing Zabbix Agent first configure zabbix yum repository using following commands as per your required version and operating system.
CentOS/RHEL 7: # rpm -Uvh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.0/rhel/7/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.0-1.el7.noarch.rpmCentOS/RHEL 6: # rpm -Uvh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.0/rhel/6/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.0-1.el6.noarch.rpmCentOS/RHEL 5: # rpm -Uvh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.0/rhel/5/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.0-1.el5.noarch.rpm
Step 2 – Install Zabbix Agent
After installing yum repository packages in our system. Now use following command to install Zabbix agent on your Linux system.
# yum installzabbix zabbix-agent
Step 3 – Edit Zabbix Agent Configuration
As zabbix agent has been successfully installed on our remote system. Now we just need to configure zabbix agent by adding zabbix server ip in its configuration file
#Server=[zabbix server ip] #Hostname=[ Hostname of client system ] Server=192.168.1.11 Hostname=Server1
Step 4 – Restarting Zabbix Agent
After adding zabbix server ip in configuration file, now restart agent service using below command.
# /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent restart
To start and stop zabbix-agent service anytime use following commands.
# /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent start # /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent stop
At REHL 7/CentOS 7, /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent start is old dated and not available anymore
use
systemctl restart zabbix-agent
and to auto-start it after a reboot
systemctl enable zabbix-agent
If you use incoming connections open the firewall…
hi guys can you help with my agent. i cant edit my config file for “agent” (access denied for super user)
Thanks! Great Job!
Thanks, very nice !!!
Hi,
I want to install zabbix agent without opening the port 10050.please help
Hi,
I want to install Zabbix agent without opening the port 10050.Is it possible to install if it so please help me to install the zabbix agent.And also please give me a tutorials on this
You can use zabbix agent in active mode so you do not need open the port. You have to give the zabbix server ip on filed ServerActive=
On that case, you have to make sure that on zabbix server side, you have to open the 10051 port.
Hope that help.
Hi,
Is it possible to install Zabbix Agent as non root user?
e.g. install as zabbix.
I don’t have access to root on many of my servers and it would be hard to get the SA to approve that.
Thanks,
Alex
Nope! It is not possible install as standard user.
This is a great article. I have a Ubuntu 14.04 server and using your tutorial and combining with another I managed to successfully install Zabbix and configure a Zabbix agent.
Kudos to you and many thanks.
Thanks, very much.
How to Uninstall zabbix completely from Centos?
Hi, can you update your post? URL are changed and I am getting the error as below once i ran command.
# rpm -Uvh zabbix-agent-2.2.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
zabbix = 2.2.0-1.el6 is needed by zabbix-agent-2.2.0-1.el6.x86_64
I am new to linux and zabbix. Please help me. Thank you.
Thanks Ryan. We will update articles soon.
You need to install first new zabbix yum repositories package then install zabbix agent
# rpm -ivh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/2.2/rhel/6/x86_64/zabbix-release-2.2-1.el6.noarch.rpm
# yum install zabbix-agent
I hope this will help you
Hi,
Thanks for this article and its very useful ……And I had implemented this in my machine and installed successfully…..But the problem is Mysql related applications and triggers are not working………..I had checked my version of server and agent….both are same zabbix-xxxxx-xxxxx-2.2.1-1
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If you know the solution please update it as a link or reply to this………
Hm…
Sometimes it happens that mysql write/read speed is just not fast enough so it can’t be writen inside mysql db. This can cause slow response time of zabbix! You can try to tune mysql ,tune i/o operations on server or add more hardware resourses!