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Zabbix Active Agent Conf — CentOS (Outdated)

Add repo

rpm -ivh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/rhel/7/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.4-2.el7.noarch.rpm

Install package

yum install -y zabbix-agent

Edit agent conf

vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf

Zabbix Server IP Address or Hostname:

Server=$SERVERNAME or $SERVERIP
ServerActive=$SERVERNAME or $SERVERIP

Comment Hostname, uncomment HostnameItem:

HostMetadataItem=system.uname  # For registration in Actions

# Restart zabbix_agentd
service zabbix-agent restart

# Enable Zabbix service
systemctl enable zabbix-agent

Full install (single command)

rpm -ivh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/rhel/7/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.4-2.el7.noarch.rpm && yum install -y zabbix-agent && sed -i 's/127.0.0.1/$SERVERNAME/' /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf && sed -i 's/Hostname=Zabbix server//' /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf && sed -i 's/\#\ HostnameItem=system.hostname/HostnameItem=system.hostname/' /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf && sed -i 's/\#\ HostMetadataItem=/HostMetadataItem=system.uname/' /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf && service zabbix-agent restart && systemctl enable zabbix-agent

Seds

sed -i 's/127.0.0.1/$SERVERNAME/' /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
sed -i 's/Hostname=Zabbix server//' /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
sed -i 's/\#\ HostnameItem=system.hostname/HostnameItem=system.hostname/' /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
sed -i 's/\#\ HostMetadataItem/HostMetadataItem=system.uname/' /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf