Below versions of Zabbix agent are available in respective distributions at the time of creation of these build instructions:

• RHEL (8.6, 8.8, 8.9, 9.0, 9.2, 9.3) have 6.0.25
• SLES 15 SP5 has 4.0.50
• Ubuntu 20.04 has 4.0.17
• Ubuntu 22.04 has 5.0.17
• Ubuntu 23.10 has 6.0.14

The instructions provided below specify the steps to build Zabbix agent version 6.0.25 on Linux on IBM Z for following distributions:

• RHEL (7.8, 7.9)
• SLES (12 SP5, 15 SP5)
• Ubuntu (20.04, 22.04, 23.10)

Important Notes:

• Zabbix-agent version 6.0.25 is available in RHEL (8.6, 8.8, 8.9, 9.0, 9.2, 9.3). However, it is not available in the default repositories, but can be obtained by enabling the EPEL repositories. This can be done by installing the epel-release package:

  • RHEL (8.6, 8.8, 8.9)

  sudo subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-$(arch)-rpms
  sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

  • RHEL (9.0, 9.2, 9.3)

  sudo subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-$(arch)-rpms
  sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm

• epel-release must be installed before attempting to install zabbix-agent.

General Notes:

• When following the steps below please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified.

• A directory /<source_root>/ will be referred to in these instructions, this is a temporary writable directory anywhere you'd like to place it.

If you want to build Zabbix agent using manual steps, go to STEP 2.

Use the following commands to build Zabbix agent using the build script. Please make sure you have wget installed.

wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linux-on-ibm-z/scripts/master/Zabbix/6.0.25/build_zabbixagent.sh

# Build zabbix agent
bash build_zabbixagent.sh

If the build completes successfully, Zabbix agent is started. In case of error, check Note at the end of this recipe or logs for more details or go to STEP 2 to follow manual build steps.

export SOURCE_ROOT=/<source_root>/

• RHEL (7.8, 7.9)

  sudo yum install -y tar wget make gcc pcre-devel
  

• SLES (12 SP5, 15 SP5)

  sudo zypper install -y tar wget make gcc awk pcre-devel
  

• Ubuntu (20.04, 22.04, 23.10)

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get -y install tar wget make gcc libpcre3-dev
  

• Download Zabbix agent

  cd $SOURCE_ROOT
  wget https://cdn.zabbix.com/zabbix/sources/stable/6.0/zabbix-6.0.25.tar.gz
  tar -xzf zabbix-6.0.25.tar.gz
  

• Install Zabbix agent

  cd $SOURCE_ROOT/zabbix-6.0.25
  export CFLAGS="-std=gnu99"
  ./configure --enable-agent
  make
  sudo make install
  

• Create a zabbix user required to start Zabbix agent daemon

   sudo groupadd zabbix
   sudo useradd -g zabbix zabbix
  

• Edit Zabbix agent configuration file /usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf

• Add Zabbix server IP address beside Server= and enter the hostnames as configured on the server beside Hostname=

• Start Zabbix agent

  export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin/:/usr/local/bin/
  zabbix_agentd
  

Note: If you get an error " cannot open "/tmp/zabbix_agentd.log" ", change file permissions of Zabbix agent log file using the command sudo chmod 766 /tmp/zabbix_agentd.log and start Zabbix agent again.

• Verify the installed Zabbix agent version with the following command:

  zabbix_get -s <host_ip> -k "agent.version"
  

• https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/6.0/manual/installation