How To Install zabbix40-agent on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install zabbix40-agent on Rocky Linux 8. zabbix40-agent is Zabbix agent

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install zabbix40-agent on Rocky Linux 8.

What is zabbix40-agent

Zabbix agent, to be installed on monitored systems

We can use yum or dnf to install zabbix40-agent on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the zabbix40-agent package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove zabbix40-agent

zabbix40-agent Package Contents on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.