Zabbix Build and Config

Table of Contents Buildout Config File What's built? How to Start How to Stop

Buildout Config File

The buildout config file is simple as following. (Markdown syntax using 4 whitespaces for code block).

    parts=
        zabbix-agentd-bin
        zabbix-server-bin
    
    [zabbix-server-conf-mysql]
    
    [zabbix-agentd-conf]
    server-ip = 127.0.0.1
    hostname = agentd.hostname

What's built?

How to Start

The zabbix-agentd-bin and zabbix-server-bin parts will generate shell scrips in bin folder:

    bin
      zabbix_server
      zabbix_agentd

Both parts are defined in file zabbix-conf.cfg. The bash name could be customized by using the variable command-name in each part. The defaul name are zabbix_server and zabbix_agentd.

How to Stop

To stop Zabbix server and agent, we need using the command killall.

    $ killall -9 zabbix_agentd
    $ killall -9 zabbix_server