Zabbix-agent Installation

[Raymond Burns]

Is there a zabbix-agent that is safe to install on the Proxmox Host?
I have a Zabbix Container on CentOS 6 x64, and I would like to monitor my Proxmox host other than SNMP (Need more information like bandwidth)

 

[adamb]

Sure, I use the zabbix-agent on my clusters.

apt-get install zabbix-agent should get you going. Hope this helps.

 

[Raymond Burns]

Do you have a template that you use?

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[adamb]

Do you have a template that you use?

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Nope I just use a default linux template and come up with my own. I typically only monitor network usage, DRBD status and load.

 

[ronpeled]

I just installed a brand new Proxmox - all is working well. However I do not see the zabbix-agent package in aptitude. running aptitude search zabbix* returns nothing.

any idea?

 

[adamb]

What if you run apt-get update first? Then run apt-get install zabbix-agent.

 

[ronpeled]

Yes, that worked actually. So I had to run 'aptitude update' & 'aptitude full-upgrade' first, then reboot, then another 'aptitude update' before I was able to see any packages properly. Would not expect that...

Thanks!

 

[Rushit]

You can also download the .deb package directly from http://www.zabbix.com/download.php. Once the download is complete just run

dpkg -i zabbix-agent_2.x.x-x_amd64.deb

Don't forget to setup /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agent.conf and restart the agent.

 

[kobuki]

Zabbix has moved to backports, you can install the newest or "second newest" packages from there. It was a move made so Debian won't lag behind official Zabbix releases (too much).

 

[anthonysomerset]

Zabbix has moved to backports, you can install the newest or "second newest" packages from there. It was a move made so Debian won't lag behind official Zabbix releases (too much).

DotDeb are also maintaining a current Zabbix Agent version in there repo - more info at http://www.dotdeb.org

 

[kobuki]

DotDeb are also maintaining a current Zabbix Agent version in there repo - more info at http://www.dotdeb.org

Yes, that's also a possibility. But please be warned that Dotdeb is not an official Debian repository, and sometimes it has serious dependency problems, packages are disappearing without prior notice, etc. For bleeding-edge PHP development or trying out the newest MySQL packages, it serves as an intermediary step on a development machine, but I'm personally never going to use it again.

 

[ronpeled]

You can also download the .deb package directly from http://www.zabbix.com/download.php. Once the download is complete just run

dpkg -i zabbix-agent_2.x.x-x_amd64.deb

Don't forget to setup /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agent.conf and restart the agent.

That works! thx!

 

[apmuthu]

https://github.com/swarnat/Zabbix-Proxmox