How to Install Zabbix Agent on Windows System

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 class="title single-title title20" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab'; font-size: 28px; line-height: 38px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.24s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible;"> <u><span style="color: red;">Install Zabbix Agent on Windows System</span></u></h1> <div> <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> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflimtG3M_1XU6o3qBRtYV7CRgFJwxQ2WF3kiVMo_pszCrQMegKU2e96oTFV8aIb87Vzn3MCoibMIKbycx3Og9nBYxjBhzCfPddRw23PtPnzkumauxo6O4LQaMYg3UkWo5wbo8FMBIJhox/s1600/Zabbix_agent_hackthesec.co.in.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflimtG3M_1XU6o3qBRtYV7CRgFJwxQ2WF3kiVMo_pszCrQMegKU2e96oTFV8aIb87Vzn3MCoibMIKbycx3Og9nBYxjBhzCfPddRw23PtPnzkumauxo6O4LQaMYg3UkWo5wbo8FMBIJhox/s1600/Zabbix_agent_hackthesec.co.in.png" /></a></div> <div> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><div> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Download Agent Source Code</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #333333;"> 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> <div style="color: #333333;"> <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> <div style="color: #333333;"> After downloading the zipped archive of zabbix client, extract its content under c:\zabbix directory.</div> </span></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><div> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Create Agent Configuration File</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #333333;"> 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> <div style="color: #333333;"> <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> </div> </span></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><div> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Install Zabbix Agent as Windows Service</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #333333;"> Lets install zabbix agent as windows server by executing following command from command line.</div> </span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(60, 60, 60); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: white; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">c:\zabbix\bin\win64></span> <orange style="color: orange;">zabbix_agentd.exe -c c:\zabbix\zabbix_agentd.conf --install</orange> zabbix_agentd.exe [9084]: service [Zabbix Agent] installed successfully zabbix_agentd.exe [9084]: event source [Zabbix Agent] installed successfully</span></pre> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ZS3_iOzY4mY_W4uW7d7x7j9jTFgm4-Y7MPQB5sq4JqWGRPSRSIo-YDIM3bz0NvraoQu0dSKpO16TSckyv9kteA_qkJKkv4AvIdcaWZgmEDBc5OJ49innYYLb_SpNLfXe0fG4hs-ZuqXD/s1600/zabbix-agent-install-win_hackthesec.co.in.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ZS3_iOzY4mY_W4uW7d7x7j9jTFgm4-Y7MPQB5sq4JqWGRPSRSIo-YDIM3bz0NvraoQu0dSKpO16TSckyv9kteA_qkJKkv4AvIdcaWZgmEDBc5OJ49innYYLb_SpNLfXe0fG4hs-ZuqXD/s1600/zabbix-agent-install-win_hackthesec.co.in.png" /></a></div> <div> <span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><div> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Start/Stop Agent Service</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #333333;"> Use following command to start zabbix agent service from command line</div> </span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(60, 60, 60); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: white; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">c:\zabbix\bin\win64></span> <orange style="color: orange;">zabbix_agentd.exe --start</orange> zabbix_agentd.exe [5048]: service [Zabbix Agent] started successfully</span><span style="font-size: 0.9em;"> </span></pre> <pre style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(60, 60, 60); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: white; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">c:\zabbix\bin\win64></span> <orange style="color: orange;">zabbix_agentd.exe --stop</orange> zabbix_agentd.exe [7608]: service [Zabbix Agent] stopped successfully</span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><div> Also we can start/stop/restart from windows services control panel. To open services control panel use below steps.</div> <div> <b>Open run windows >> type "services.msc" >> press enter</b></div> </span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAGDynU8P9Vk9KJrdDniXywS3JQMyLPcm5DiixsHgGi1s7-EKKBCCgLAptfXK5vzDerJ9Y4D9FaKVsvV1EPjlTG4RXqfpyvukdPxUE-RKEIFn0Cvte_PuB36UOYbPehVdDgkUmLtC7ExLf/s1600/zabbix-win-agent_hackthesec.co.in.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAGDynU8P9Vk9KJrdDniXywS3JQMyLPcm5DiixsHgGi1s7-EKKBCCgLAptfXK5vzDerJ9Y4D9FaKVsvV1EPjlTG4RXqfpyvukdPxUE-RKEIFn0Cvte_PuB36UOYbPehVdDgkUmLtC7ExLf/s1600/zabbix-win-agent_hackthesec.co.in.png" /></a></div> <div> <pre style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(60, 60, 60); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: white; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/">www.hackthesec.co.in</a></span></pre> </div> </div>

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