Zabbix Agent is required to install on all remote systems needs to monitor through Zabbix server. The Zabbix Agent collects resource utilization and applications data on the client system and provides such information to Zabbix server on their requests.
There are two types of checks can be configured between Zabbix Server and Client.
- Passive check – Zabbix Agent only sent data to server on their request.
- Active check – Zabbix Agent sends data periodically to Server.
After installing zabbix server on your server, this article will help you to install zabbix agent on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, and Debian 9/8 systems. After completing this below steps go to next article add host in zabbix server.
1. Enable Apt Repository
Zabbix apt repositories are available on Zabbix official website. Add the repository to install required packages for Zabbix agent using the following command. For the older version of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS can download and install Zabbix agent version 2.2.
For Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: wget http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_3.4-1+xenial_all.deb dpkg -i zabbix-release_3.4-1+xenial_all.deb For Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: wget http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_3.4-1+trusty_all.deb dpkg -i zabbix-release_3.4-1+trusty_all.deb For Debian 9: wget http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/debian/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_3.4-1+stretch_all.deb dpkg -i zabbix-release_3.4-1+stretch_all.deb For Debian 8: wget http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/debian/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_3.4-1+jessie_all.deb dpkg -i zabbix-release_3.4-1+jessie_all.deb For Debian 7: wget http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/debian/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_3.4-1+wheezy_all.deb dpkg -i zabbix-release_3.4-1+wheezy_all.deb
2. Install Zabbix Agent
As you have successfully added Zabbix apt repositories in your system let’s use the following command to install Zabbix agent using the following command
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install zabbix-agent
3. Configure Zabbix Agent
After installing completed of Zabbix aget. Edit zabbix agent configuration file
#Server=[zabbix server ip] #Hostname=[Hostname of client system ] Server=192.168.1.10 Hostname=Server2
4. Restart Zabbix Agent
After adding Zabbix server IP in the configuration file, now restart agent service using below command.
sudo service zabbix-agent start
To start and stop zabbix-agent service anytime use following commands.
sudo service zabbix-agent start sudo service zabbix-agent stop
Good article, i have followed these steps on ubuntu 14.04 but for some reason apt still wants to install version 1.3
Great and useful article. Thankyou
Don’t forget to use following commands for Ubuntu 16.04
$ sudo systemctl enable zabbix-agent #for automatically start after reboot
$sudo systemctl start zabbix-agent
my task was to install zabbix in amazon EC2 machine and test some server is up or down or some basic testing for that do i need an zabbix agent?
In case on configuration page you are getting an error of ” The frontend does not match Zabbix database.” and you are using Ubuntu 14.04 and trying to do a new install of Zabbix 3.0 then you should first populate the database with the sql file provided in /usr/share/doc/zabbix-server-mysql/create.sql. After that it should work. I wasted full 60min figuring this out. Hopefully someone else will save time. http://www.KnowBand.com
It did not work. I tried adding a rule to the iptables with the port 10050 still cannot get communication with the zabbix server. idk what else to do.
disable the firewall
How to configure active or passive check?
Thx mate!
Thanks a lot, great guide!