ZABBIX agent2 installation

Zabbix Agent2 Introduce

Zabbix 5.0 Version introduces the use go Language rewrites Agent2, It's also 5.0 Version new features ,Agent2 Has the following characteristics ：

• The completed plug-in framework supports , Scalable services and application monitoring

• Support flexible collection cycle scheduling

• More efficient data acquisition and transmission

• Can completely replace the existing agent

• …..

There are many features , It is recommended to use . Due to the use go Language writing , Compilation and installation are different from previous versions .Agent2 Default 10050 port , And Zabbix Agent Same port , Without modifying the port , The same machine cannot be started at the same time Zabbix Agent And Zabbix Agent2.

install

You can use yum Or compile and install , For novice , It is recommended to use yum install .

yum install

Good configuration yum Source , Use the following command to install Zabbix Agent2

rpm -Uvh https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/5.0/rhel/7/x86_64/zabbix-release-5.0-1.el7.noarch.rpm
yum clean all
yum install zabbix-agent2 -y

The default profile is

/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agent2.conf

The default binary file is

/usr/sbin/zabbix_agent2

Start with the following command Agent2 And configure boot up

systemctl enable --now zabbix-agent2

Compilation and installation

install gcc And other basic compilation environments , Due to the use go To write , So you need to configure go Compile environment , Download and configure go Language compiling environment

cd /opt
wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.14.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar zxvf go1.14.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/opt/go/bin" >>/etc/profile
source /etc/profile
go env

The final display is as follows , indicate go Locale configuration succeeded .

GO111MODULE=""
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOCACHE="/root/.cache/go-build"
GOENV="/root/.config/go/env"
GOEXE=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOINSECURE=""
GONOPROXY=""
GONOSUMDB=""
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/root/go"
GOPRIVATE=""
GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"
GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
AR="ar"
CC="gcc"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD=""
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build821720893=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"

Turn on go mod, Because the compilation process requires online downloading of dependent packages , To configure go mod agent

go env -w GO111MODULE=on
go env -w GOPROXY=https://goproxy.cn,direct

download zabbix 5.0 Source code

cd /opt
wget https://cdn.zabbix.com/zabbix/sources/stable/5.0/zabbix-5.0.0.tar.gz
tar zxvf zabbix-5.0.0.tar.gz
cd zabbix-5.0.0

If you just want to compile agent2, Direct addition -enable-agent2 Parameters can be

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/zabbix -enable-agent2
make
make install

You must pay attention to errors in the compilation process , You need to download dependent packages online , Wait patiently for the installation to complete .
Default profile

/usr/local/zabbix/etc/zabbix_agent2.conf

Binary program

/usr/local/zabbix/sbin/zabbix_agent2

To configure systemd Startup file

vi /lib/systemd/system/zabbix-agent2.service

The contents are as follows

[Unit]
Description=Zabbix Agent 2
After=syslog.target
After=network.target

[Service]
Environment="CONFFILE=/usr/local/zabbix/etc/zabbix_agent2.conf"
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/zabbix-agent2
Type=simple
Restart=on-failure
PIDFile=/tmp/zabbix_agent2.pid
KillMode=control-group
ExecStart=/usr/local/zabbix/sbin/zabbix_agent2 -c $CONFFILE
ExecStop=/bin/kill -SIGTERM $MAINPID
RestartSec=10s
User=zabbix
Group=zabbix

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Configure startup and set startup

systemctl enable --now zabbix-agent2

 Agent2 No component dependency , You can directly copy the compiled binary files and configuration files and run them on other hosts .