How to install Zabbix agent and monitor remote linux servers

I installed Zabbix server in my previous post: http://linuxscripter.blogspot.com/2013/09/how-to-install-zabbix-server-on-linux.html
To monitor remote servers, we can install Zabbix agent.
Installing Zabbix agent is quite straight forward

Here are my installation steps:
1. create user account for zabbix

# useradd zabbix

2. download current stable version zabbix-2.0.8.tar.gz from www.zabbix.com
3. configure and install zabbix agent

# tar -zxpf zabbix-2.0.8.tar.gz
# cd zabbix-2.0.8
#  ./configure --enable-agent --prefix=/usr/local/zabbix
# make install

4. modify /usr/local/zabbix/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf
In previouse post, we installed zabbix server on 192.168.100.100, so modify the Server parameter

Server=192.168.100.100

5. restart zabbix_agentd to reload the new configuration file
now we can monitor this host from zabbix server.

To monitor remote host, all the configuration are done in the Zabbix web interface.
1. open web browser, go to http://zabbix-server/zabbix
2. Configuration -> Hosts -> Create host
Enter the host name, IP address, choose "Linux servers" as the host group.

3. After saving, you will see the host linux-1 is monitored by zabbix now.

 

 4. At the monitoring dashboard, you will see issues are shown in different colors

Reference: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/installation/install#from_the_sources