How To Install zabbix40-agent on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zabbix40-agent on CentOS 8.
What is zabbix40-agent
Zabbix agent, to be installed on monitored systems
We can use yum or dnf to install zabbix40-agent on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install zabbix40-agent.
Install zabbix40-agent on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install zabbix40-agent using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install zabbix40-agent
Install zabbix40-agent on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install zabbix40-agent using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install zabbix40-agent
How To Uninstall zabbix40-agent on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the zabbix40-agent package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove zabbix40-agent
zabbix40-agent Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/logrotate.d/zabbix-agent
/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf
/run/zabbix
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/96
/usr/lib/.build-id/96/bf48ff1ec9f92cad69f7b50344574a902eb859
/usr/lib/systemd/system/zabbix-agent.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/zabbix.conf
/usr/sbin/zabbix_agentd
/usr/share/doc/zabbix40-agent
/usr/share/doc/zabbix40-agent/userparameter_examples.conf
/usr/share/doc/zabbix40-agent/userparameter_mysql.conf
/usr/share/man/man8/zabbix_agentd.8.gz
/var/lib/zabbix
/var/log/zabbix
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zabbix40-agent on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.