Install Zabbix Agent on Centos 7

Description: Here I have explained how to install Zabbix Agent on Centos 7

Procedure: Below is the procedure to install Zabbix agent on Centos 7

• Update and Upgrade packages on systems 

  # yum update
  # yum upgrade

• Install Zabbix Repository

# yum install https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.2/rhel/7/x86_64/zabbix-release-4.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm

• Install Zabbix Agent on CentOS 7

# yum install zabbix-agent

• Once the installation completed configure zabbix agent in order to communicate Zabbix server. The default file is /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf 
• Edit server details as follow.

Server=103.67.236.58
ServerActive=103.67.236.58
Hostname=test1.example.com

• Configure firewall to allow traffic port for passive check

firewall-cmd --add-port=10050/tcp --permanent 
firewall-cmd --reload

• Start and Enable service boot time

systemctl start zabbix-agent
systemctl enable zabbix-agent

• Add Centos server from Zabbix