Install zabbix agent on linux

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Goal

We will install the zabbix agent on Debian 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 for the Zabbix Version 5.2.

Install zabbix repository

First we need to configure the zabbix repository, for installing the zabbix agent.

Download repo

Debian 10

wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/5.2/debian/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_5.2-1%2Bdebian10_all.deb

Ubuntu 20.04

wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/5.2/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_5.2-1%2Bubuntu20.04_all.deb

Install the repository

sudo dpkg -i zabbix-release_5.2-1%2Bubuntu20.04_all.deb

And afterwards update repositories.

sudo apt-get update

Install the agent

sudo apt-get install zabbix-agent

Configure the agent

To work proeprly, we need to edit the config file /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf.

PidFile=/run/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.pid
LogFile=/var/log/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.log
LogFileSize=0
Server=IP-OF-THE-ZABBIX-SERVER
ServerActive=127.0.0.1
Hostname=NAME-OF-THE-HOST
Include=/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d/*.conf

After we have configured the agent, we need to restart the agent.

sudo service zabbix-agent restart

This is all we have to do on our linux agent. The rest can be done on the zabbix web gui.