Install and configure Zabbix agent on CentOS/RHEL 7

First download the rpm and install it. Then install the agent.

Repository installation

CentOS/RHEL 7:

rpm -Uvh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/rhel/7/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.4-2.el7.noarch.rpm

To install the agent, run

# yum install zabbix-agent

You can see the agent package installed and dependency packages also get installed.

Check the agent configuration file server IP and hostname of Zabbix server should be defined.

To start the agent service, run:

# systemctl start zabbix-agent