Hack The Sec-Leading Resource Of Linux Tutorial: Windows

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<u><span style="color: red;">Install Zabbix Agent on Windows System</span></u></h1>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Zabbix Agent is installed on remote systems needs to monitor through Zabbix server. The Zabbix agent collects resource utilization and applications data on client system and provide such information to zabbix server on their requests.</span></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Download Agent Source Code</span></u></b></div>
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Download latest windows zabbix agent source code from <a href="http://www.zabbix.com/download.php">zabbix official site</a> or use below link to download zabbix agent 3.0.0.</div>
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<a href="http://www.zabbix.com/downloads/3.0.0/zabbix_agents_3.0.0.win.zip">http://www.zabbix.com/downloads/3.0.0/zabbix_agents_3.0.0.win.zip</a></div>
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After downloading the zipped archive of zabbix client, extract its content under c:\zabbix directory.</div>
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<b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Create Agent Configuration File</span></u></b></div>
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Now make of copy of sample configuration file <b>c:\zabbix\conf\zabbix_agentd.win.conf</b> to create zabbix agent configuration file at <b>c:\zabbix\zabbix_agentd.conf</b>. Now edit configuration and update following values.</div>
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<pre style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace;"><span style="line-height: 25.7143px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#Server=[zabbix server ip]
#Hostname=[Hostname of client system ]

Server=192.168.2.11
Hostname=zabbizagentserver</span></span></span></pre>
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<b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Install Zabbix Agent as Windows Service</span></u></b></div>
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Lets install zabbix agent as windows server by executing following command from command line.</div>
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zabbix_agentd.exe [9084]: service [Zabbix Agent] installed successfully
zabbix_agentd.exe [9084]: event source [Zabbix Agent] installed successfully</span></pre>
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<b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Start/Stop Agent Service</span></u></b></div>
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Use following command to start zabbix agent service from command line</div>
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zabbix_agentd.exe [5048]: service [Zabbix Agent] started successfully</span><span style="font-size: 0.9em;">
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zabbix_agentd.exe [7608]: service [Zabbix Agent] stopped successfully</span></pre>
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Also we can start/stop/restart from windows services control panel. To open services control panel use below steps.</div>
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<b>Open run windows >> type "services.msc" >> press enter</b></div>
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