Building Zabbix agent

Building Zabbix agent

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

• Ubuntu 16.04 has 1:2.4.7+dfsg-2ubuntu2.1
• Ubuntu 17.04 has 1:3.0.7+dfsg-1

The instructions provided below specify the steps to build Zabbix agent version 3.4.3 on Linux on IBM Z for following distributions:

• RHEL (6.9, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4)
• SLES (11 SP4, 12, 12 SP1, 12 SP2, 12 SP3)
• Ubuntu (16.04, 17.04)

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.

Step 1: Install dependencies

• RHEL (6.9, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4)

  sudo yum install tar wget make gcc pcre-devel    

• SLES (11 SP4, 12, 12 SP1, 12 SP2, 12 SP3)

  sudo zypper install tar wget make gcc awk pcre-devel  

• Ubuntu (16.04, 17.04)

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

Step 2: Download and install Zabbix agent

• Download Zabbix agent

   cd /<source_root>/
   wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/zabbix/files/ZABBIX%20Latest%20Stable/3.4.3/zabbix-3.4.3.tar.gz/download -O zabbix-3.4.3.tar.gz
   tar -xvf zabbix-3.4.3.tar.gz

• Install Zabbix agent

   cd /<source_root>/zabbix-3.4.3
   ./configure --enable-agent
   make
   sudo make install

Step 3: Post installation steps

• Create a 'zabbix' user required to start Zabbix agent daemon

   sudo /usr/sbin/groupadd zabbix
   sudo /usr/sbin/useradd -g zabbix zabbix

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

• Enter Zabbix server IP address and Hostname in configuration file

• Start Zabbix agent

   export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin/
   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"

Reference:

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.2/manual/installation/