I could not find a tutorial that showed how to install the precompiled Zabbix 2.0 agents on a 64 bit Debian box, so I’m making a how to for Zabbix agent on Debian 7 x64 . This tut also works on Debian 6 x64 or x86.
The latest downloads for precompiled agents and source code for building servers is here. http://www.zabbix.com/download.php , there is no Zabbix agent on Debian 7 x64 so you will need the source code.
On the Debian system that is getting the agent (remember this is for 64 bit version of Debian, go to the Zabbix download site for the link to the 32 bit agent if your system is 32 bit):
You should be logged in to a root sudo or su session for the following
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cd $HOME wget http://www.zabbix.com/downloads/2.0.6/zabbix_agents_2.0.6.linux2_6_23.amd64.tar.gz mkdir zabbix cd zabbix tar -xzvf ../zabbix_agents_2.0.0.linux2_6_23.amd64.tar.gz tar -xzvf $HOME/zabbix-2.0.0.tar.gz cp $HOME/zabbix/bin/* /usr/bin cp $HOME/zabbix/sbin/* /usr/sbin groupadd zabbix useradd -g zabbix zabbix mkdir /var/log/zabbix-agent chown zabbix:zabbix /var/log/zabbix-agent cp $HOME/zabbix/conf/zabbix_agent.conf /usr/local/etc/ cp $HOME/zabbix/conf/zabbix_agentd.conf /usr/local/etc/ nano /usr/local/etc/zabbix_agent.conf |
Change “Server=127.0.0.1” option to the IP address of your Zabbix server, for example:
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Server=192.168.1.10 |
Exit and save the file
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nano /usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf |
Change “LogFile=/tmp/zabbix_agentd.log” to:
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LogFile=/var/log/zabbix-agent/zabbix_agentd.log |
Change “Server=127.0.0.1” option to the IP address of your Zabbix server, for example:
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Server=192.168.1.10 |
Change “ServerActive=127.0.0.1” option to the IP address of your Zabbix server, for example:
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ServerActive=192.168.1.10 |
Change the hostname to the fqdn of the server or rem out the “Hostname=Zabbix server” line:
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#Hostname=Zabbix server or Hostname=servername.domain.ltd |
Exit and save the file
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nano /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent |
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#! /bin/sh counter=0 zabbix_counter=$(ps -ef | grep zabbix_agentd | grep -v grep | wc -l) start(){ echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------" echo " LAUNCHING ZABBIX AGENT" if [ $zabbix_counter -gt 0 ]; then echo " * Zabbix agent was previously running" echo " * Number of Zabbix agentd instances= $zabbix_counter" echo "-----------------------------------------------------------------" fi # Checking if the user is able to start the agent.... if the user is not able to, script performs su to # the user zabbix and starts the agent if [ $(whoami) != "zabbix" ];then sudo -u zabbix zabbix_agentd else # Script is acting as the zabbix user, so it can start the agent. zabbix_agentd fi sleep 10 zabbix_counter=$(ps -ef | grep zabbix_agentd | grep -v grep | wc -l) if [ $zabbix_counter -gt 0 ]; then echo " * Zabbix agent succesfully started" echo " * Number of zabbix agentd instances= $zabbix_counter" echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------" else echo " * Zabbix agent couldn't be started, check Zabbix logs" echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------" fi } stop(){ # Checking if the user is able to stop the agent.... if the user is not able to, script performs su to # the user zabbix and kills the agent. Also script tries to kill zabbix-agent processes 5 times using a counter, if at # the fith try the agent is still there, script outputs a message to the console. echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------" echo " STOPPING ZABBIX AGENT" if [ $zabbix_counter -eq 0 ]; then echo " * Zabbix agent was not running on this machine" echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------" fi while [ $zabbix_counter -gt 0 ] && [ $counter -lt 5 ] ; do let counter=counter+1 echo " * Number of Attempts (Max 5)=$counter" echo " * Stopping zabbix.." echo " * Number of zabbix agentd instances= $zabbix_counter" if [ $(whoami) != "zabbix" ];then sudo -u zabbix killall zabbix_agentd > /dev/null & else killall zabbix_agentd > /dev/null & fi sleep 10 # Script has a 10 second delay to avoid attempting to kill a process that is still shutting down. If the script # can't kill the processes, an error will appear. # After 10 seconds script checks again the number of zabbix_agentd processes running, # if it's 0, script will exit the loop and continue on zabbix_counter=$(ps -ef | grep zabbix_agentd | grep -v grep | wc -l) done if [ $zabbix_counter -gt 0 ]; then echo " * Zabbix agent couldn't be stopped, check Zabbix logs" echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------" fi if [ $zabbix_counter -eq 0 ]; then echo " * Zabbix agent successfully stopped" echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------" fi } restart(){ stop # Gives system some time to stop processes before script restarts service sleep 10 # Now script can start the agent again start } case "$1" in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; restart) restart ;; *) echo "Usage: zabbix {start|stop|restart}" exit 1 esac exit 0 |
Exit and save the file
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chmod 744 /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent ln -s /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent /sbin/zabbix-agent update-rc.d zabbix-agent defaults |
Now the Zabbix agent on Debian 7 x64 is installed. Go to your Zabbix server’s web interface and add the new system to hosts as you normally would and configure accordingly and you are done.
References:
http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?p=103244#post103244
Hello Thomas,
there is an package for the zabbix agent but it is in the wheezy backports.
http://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/zabbix-agent
regards
Chris
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the info, I’ll change the post to include this.
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