Zabbix Agent on PhotonOS 3.0

This repo contains zabbix-agent and templates for PHOTON OS

vCenter monitoring is for zabbix-server v3.4
vCenter Replica monitoring is for zabbix-server v4.4 You can install it automatically with shell (bash) script or manually

Check, that you have git package installed, otherwise run this command: root@vcsa#: tdnf -y install git

AUTOMATICALLY

root@vcsa#: cd zabbix_photon; bash install.sh

MANUALLY

Install rpm package

rpm -Uvh /content/rpm/zabbix-agent-3.0.28-1.6.ph1.x86_64.rpm --nodeps

Edit zabbix_agentd.conf file

vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf			

Server:Your_Zabbix_Server_IP
:wq!

VMWare has bug, that every time you reboot PhotonOS, it deletes /var/run/zabbix and /var/log/zabbix directories So it's better to create script and add cronjob, that does this work after every reboot

3.1 Create script:

vi zabbix_on_boot.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Creates directories with rights
mkdir -p /var/run/zabbix/; chmod 777 /var/run/zabbix
mkdir /var/log/zabbix/; chmod 755 /var/log/zabbix;
# Start zabbix-agent
systemctl enable zabbix-agent
systemctl restart zabbix-agent
:wq!

3.2 Give rights to script and start it

chmod +x zabbix_on_boot.sh ; bash zabbix_on_boot.sh

3.3 Configure cron:

crontab -e
Add the end next line: 
@reboot /path/to/zabbix_on_boot.sh

Backup / Snapshot it
Reboot

Debugging

If it will give PidFile error, then do this.

mkdir -p /var/run/zabbix ; chmod 775 /var/run/zabbix ; mkdir -p /var/log/zabbix

We need to give 775 rights to /var/run/zabbix because otherwise it will give permission denied error

Enable and start zabbix-agent

systemctl start zabbix-agent
systemctl enable zabbix-agent

Author

Christofher - Initial work - KostLinux

License