Part 3: How to Install and Configure Zabbix Agents on Remote Linux Systems
Zabbix Agent is required to install on all remote systems needs to be monitor through Zabbix server. The Zabbix Agent collects resource utilization data and applications data on client system and provide such information to Zabbix server on their requests.
There are two types of checks between Zabbix Server and Client.
Passive Check : Zabbix Agent sent data to server on their request.
Active Check : Zabbix Agent sends data periodically to Server.
Step 1: Configure and Test Zabbix Agent in Linux
The next logical step after installing the packages on the system is to open Zabbix agent configuration file located in /etc/zabbix/ system path on both major distributions and instruct the program to send all the collected information to Zabbix server in order to be analyzed and processed.
Therefore, open zabbix_agentd.conf file with your favorite text editor, find the below lines (use the screenshots as a guide), uncomment them and make the following changes:
nano /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
add zabbix server IP address and hostname as shown below.
Configure Zabbix Agent - zabbix_agentd.conf
Server=IP of Zabbix Server
ServerActive=IP of Zabbix Server
Hostname=use the FQDN of the node where the agent runs
Step 2 :
Once you’ve finished editing the Zabbix agent configuration file with the required values, restart the daemon using the following command
service zabbix-agent restart
Or
#systemctl restart zabbix-agent.service
Step 3: Add Zabbix Agent Monitored Host to Zabbix Server
6. On the next step it’s time to move to Zabbix server web console and start adding the hosts which run zabbix agent in order to be monitored by the server.
Go to Configuration - Hosts - Create Host - Host tab and fill the Host name field with the FQDN of the monitored zabbix agent machine, use the same value as above for Visible name field.
Enjoy
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