Problem A newly installed zabbix agent (4.4.x) was installed on a Windows 2016 server using an automated script. The error was showing Windows could not start the Zabbix Agent service on Local Computer Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly Troubleshooting i tried to run the command in the foreground "C:\Progra~1\Zabbix-Agent\zabbix_agentd.exe" -f –config "C:\Progra~1\Zabbix-Agent\zabbix_agentd.conf" And Read More…
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Script to install Zabbix Agent on CentOS 6 and 7
The following bash script will determine if the guest OS is centos 6 ot 7 then deploy Zabbix Agent version 4.4.x accordingly. Simply change repostories if you want to use a different version: #!/bin/bash OUTPUT="$(cat /etc/redhat-release)" if echo "$OUTPUT" | grep -q "CentOS Linux release 7" ; then yes | Read More…
Upgrade Zabbix from 3.4 to 4.0 with Pacemaker/Corosync
Here are the instructions for upgrading Zabbix from 3.4 to 4.0 in a HA setup in a Pacemaker and Corosync environment. In this particular setup there are 6 servers – depicted below Two web front ends Two Zabbix Servers Two DB servers Steps Pre-requisite: As this was running in a VMware environment I snapshotted each Read More…
Zabbix VMware Monitoring Authentication Error
Issue Upon connecting to vCenter for the first time the following error was thrown up byt the Zabbix server Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password Troubleshooting Find vmware poller processes. In this case its 2154 & 2155 # ps -aux | grep vmware zabbix 2154 3.7 1.9 Read More…
Zabbix Graphs Showing Incorrect Time
Problem: After a new installation of Zabbix (appliance) 3.4.6 the time on the graphs were 2 hours ahead. The clock on the server was correct. Solution Edit Zabbix configuration file vi /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/zabbix.conf It appeared the timezone in the Zabbix settings is set to Europe/Riga Change php_value date.timezone Europe/Riga to you actual timezone for Read More…
Install Zabbix Agent on CentOS
The following describes how to install Zabbix agent 3.4.6 onto CentOS 6.9 1) Add Zabbix Repository rpm -ivh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/rhel/6/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.4-1.el6.noarch.rpm 2) Install Zabbix yum install -y zabbix-agent 3) . Edit zabbix_agentd.conf vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf Server={Zabbix_Monitoring_server} Hostname={your_server_name} 4) Start Zabbix agent service service zabbix-agent start 5) Add Zabbix Agent service to start up scripts Read More…
Install Zabbix Agent on Windows
In this post I will be deployig Zabbix Agent (3.4.6) onto a Windows 2012 R2 system 1. Download the Zabbix agent on the target machine. The .zip file can be downloaded directly from the Zabbix website. 2. Unzip the download to c:\Zabbix 3. Copy C:\Zabbix\confzabbix_agentd.win.conf to c:\Zabbix\zabbix_agentd.conf 4. Edit zabbix_agentd.conf Server=127.0.0.1,{Zabbix_Monitoring_server} Hostname={your_server_name} 4. Install Read More…
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