Zabbix agent

Zabbix agent is Zabbix client agent that runs on Linux, UNIX and Windows.

Zabbix agent support:

• Metric collection from CPU, memory, swap, disk and network interface
• Service information
• File information
• Log monitoring and Widows Event Log

Installation and configuration

apt install zabbix-agent
sed -i s/ServerActive=127.0.0.1/ServerActive=192.168.0.18/ /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
sed -i s/Server=127.0.0.1/Server=192.168.0.18/ /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf

systemctl restart zabbix-agent

systemctl start zabbix-agent

• Binaries: zabbix_agentd, zabbix_sender
• Config file: /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
• Logs: /var/log/zabbix-agent/zabbix_agentd.log

Commands:

• zabbix_agentd -p

• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS includes zabbix-agent 4.0.19 (October 2018)
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS includes zabbix-agent 3.0.12

Activities

• Make sure port 10050 is open on your monitored machine: iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 10050 -j ACCEPT
• Review ansible-galaxy zabbix agent role: ansible-galaxy install dj-wasabi.zabbix-agent

Related commands

• Prometheus-node-exporter
• sadc
• Metricbeat
• Add your first Zabbix hosts (monitored machine)

See also

• Zabbix, Zabbix releases, Install Zabbix using Docker, Zabbix agent (zabbix_agentd.conf), Zabbix API, zabbix_server, zabbix_get, zabbix_sender, /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
• Performance, monitoring, sysstat, metrics, Telemetry