How To Install Zabbix Agent on Ubuntu 18.04 & 16.04 LTS

    By 2 Mins Read

    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 the Zabbix server on their requests.

    Advertisement

    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 18.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS systems. After completing this below steps go to next article add host in zabbix server.

    Step 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 18.04 (Bionic):

    wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.0/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_4.0-3+bionic_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i zabbix-release_4.0-3+bionic_all.deb

    For Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial):

    wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.0/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_4.0-3+xenial_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i zabbix-release_4.0-3+xenial_all.deb

    Step 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

    Step 3 – Configure Zabbix Agent

    After installation of Zabbix agent. Edit Zabbix agent configuration file /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf and update Zabbix server IP.

    sudo vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf

    #Server=[zabbix server ip]
#Hostname=[Hostname of client system ]

Server=192.168.1.10
Hostname=Server2

    Here 192.168.1.10 is the IP of Zabbix server to allow for connection with this Zabbix client.

    Step 4 – Restart Zabbix Agent

    After adding Zabbix server IP in the configuration file, now restart agent service using below command.

    sudo systemctl enable zabbix-agent 
sudo systemctl start zabbix-agent

    To start and stop zabbix-agent service anytime use following commands.

    sudo systemctl stop zabbix-agent 
sudo systemctl status zabbix-agent

    Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Zabbix Agent. Lets Add Host in Zabbix Server to be monitor.

    Share.

    Related Posts

    View 15 Comments

    15 Comments

    1. Zabby on

      You really should work on making your english a lot more clear. I had a hard time understanding the guide(Had to go back and read threw to understand the steps properly)

      Other then that this is a great tutorial for noobs 🙂

      Reply
    4. Thanh Ho on

      I got a problems zabbix agent unreachable 5 minutes,disabled firewall,ping ok, try increase timeout in server conf,not work.
      Check log zabbix server: first error network,wait for 15 seconds.
      Plz help me.

      Reply
    5. Joey on

      Good article, i have followed these steps on ubuntu 14.04 but for some reason apt still wants to install version 1.3

      Reply
    7. Roman on

      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

      Reply
    8. bhuvan on

      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?

      Reply
    9. Nitin on

      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

      Reply
    10. Abner A Ortiz on

      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.

      Reply

    Leave A Reply