Zabbix Agent Installation Guide - nrazavi70/Ansible GitHub Wiki


Windows Agent Installation

  1. First you have to download the agent from here. Note that version of Zabbix agent must be matching its server. In Rashin the server's version is 5.0.5 .
  2. After unzipping the package you have to edit the config file located at conf directory. In order to config it you have to do the following:
    a. Change 'Server' to proxy server's IP address
    b. Change 'ServerActive' to proxy server's IP address
    c. Change 'Hostname' to the clients' hostname
  3. Run the following powershell command to start the agent using the conf you created:
zabbix_agentd.exe -i -c zabbix_agentd.conf

Linux Agent Installation

  1. First you have to download and install zabbix repository, you do this by entering the following command:
wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/5.0/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_5.0-1+focal_all.deb
dpkg -i zabbix-release_5.0-1+focal_all.deb
apt update
  1. Then you can use apt-get install to install zabbix-agent.
sudo apt-get install zabbix-agent
  1. Then you have to edit the config file just like before:
    a. Change 'Server' to proxy server's IP address
    b. Change 'ServerActive' to proxy server's IP address
    c. Change 'Hostname' to the clients' hostname
  2. Just restart your service after you are done editing the config file:
systemctl restart zabbix-agent.service