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 Zabbix Agent

cd  Zabbix\bin\win64
zabbix_agentd.exe -c c:\Zabbix\zabbix_agentd.conf –install
 

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5. Start the Zabbix Service

Go to Start -> Administrative Tools -> Services -> Right click Zabbix Agent -> Start

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