Steps to Install Zabbix-Agent on your server
Introduction
Zabbix is an open-source monitoring software tool for diverse IT components, including networks, servers, virtual machines and cloud services. Zabbix provides monitoring metrics, among others network utilization, CPU load and disk space consumption. Zabbix server get fetch their data from zabbix-agent. In E2E cloud node, Zabbix-agent is Installed by default on all the node.
In this tutorial, We will go through the steps to install zabbix-agent on your nodes.We will be using example of Centos 8 and Ubuntu 20 for zabbix-agent version 4.4
Incase if you have uninstalled this application or you are importing your custom image on e2enetworks portal, You can refer mentioned steps on this tutorial to install zabbix-agent.
Zabbix Installation on CentOS/RHEL/Fedora
Step 1: Download the Repository
You can download the required repository for zabbix-agent installation here <http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/>
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Dowloading the repository
rpm -ivh https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.4/rhel/8/x86_64/zabbix-agent-4.4.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
Updating the package
dpkg -i zabbix-agent-4.4.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
Step 2: Installing the Zabbix-agent
To install zabbix-agent on your server, Please use below command
yum install zabbix-agent
Enable Zabbix-agent on boot
systemctl enable zabbix-agent
Once the zabbix-agent is installed verify the status of zabbix-agent using below command
systemctl status zabbix-agent
Step 3: Connect zabbix agent to cloudone monitoring portal
After installing and verifying the status of zabbix-agent, We need to connect it with cloudone monitoring portal where you will be able to monitor your server.
Please use below command to edit the zabbix conf file (/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf) with required details
grep -rl '127.0.0.1' /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf | xargs sed -i 's/127.0.0.1/172.16.103.23/g'
host_name=`hostname`; grep -rl 'Hostname=Zabbix server' /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf | xargs sed -i "s|Hostname=Zabbixserver|Hostname=$host_name|g";
sed -i '/Timeout=3/s/^#//g' /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
Restart zabbix agent once to make the changes reflected
systemctl restart zabbix-agent
Zabbix Installation on Debian/Ubuntu
Step 1: Download the Repository
You can download the required repository for zabbix-agent installation here <http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/>
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Dowloading the repository
wget http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.4/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_4.4-1%2Btrusty_all.deb
Updating the package
dpkg -i zabbix-release_4.2-1+trusty_all.deb
Step 2: Installing the Zabbix-agent
To install zabbix-agent on your server, Please use below command
apt-get update
apt-get install zabbix-agent -y
Enable Zabbix-agent on boot
update-rc.d zabbix-agent defaults
Once the zabbix-agent is installed verify the status of zabbix-agent using below command
service zabbix-agent status
Step 3: Connect zabbix agent to cloudone monitoring portal
After installing and verifying the status of zabbix-agent, We need to connect it with cloudone monitoring portal where you will be able to monitor your server.
Please use below command to edit the zabbix conf file (/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf) with required details
grep -rl '127.0.0.1' /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf | xargs sed -i 's/127.0.0.1/172.16.103.23/g'
host_name=`hostname`; grep -rl 'Hostname=Zabbix server' /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf | xargs sed -i "s|Hostname=Zabbixserver|Hostname=$host_name|g";
sed -i '/Timeout=3/s/^#//g' /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
Restart zabbix agent once to make the changes reflected
service zabbix-agent status
Monitor your server.
- You will now be able to Monitor your server on Myaccount portal
Make sure You have port 10050 Opened in your server for the Server IP:172.16.103.23 (E2E Cloudone Monitoring server IP) since Zabbix uses the port 10050 to fetch your server data.
If you are observing any issue in the Monitoring portal, Please reach out to us on cloud-platform@e2enetworks.com