Install macOS Command Line Tools xcode-select --install
Agent log folder and log files sudo mkdir -p /var/run/zabbix
sudo mkdir -p /var/log/zabbix
sudo touch /var/run/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.pid
sudo touch /var/log/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.log
sudo dscl . -create /Groups/zabbix gid 301
sudo dscl . -create /Groups/zabbix RealName "Zabbix Server Group"
sudo dscl . -create /Groups/zabbix passwd "*"
sudo dscl . -create /Users/zabbix
sudo dscl . -create /Users/zabbix uid 301
sudo dscl . -create /Users/zabbix gid 301
sudo dscl . -create /Users/zabbix NFSHomeDirectory /var/empty
sudo dscl . -create /Users/zabbix UserShell /usr/bin/false
sudo dscl . -create /Users/zabbix RealName "Zabbix Server"
sudo dscl . -create /Users/zabbix passwd "*"
Install PCRE version 8.42 in this example curl --remote-name ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.42.tar.gz
Extract the archive and move into the folder. tar -xzvf pcre-8.42.tar.gz
sudo mv pcre-8.42 /etc/pcre-8.42
Configure, compile and install into /etc/pcre-8.42 cd /etc/pcre-8.42
sudo ./configure --prefix=/etc/pcre-8.42
sudo make
sudo make install
Create a symbolic link to /usr/local/pcre sudo ln -s /etc/pcre-8.42 /usr/local/pcre
Install libiconv library version 1.15 in this example curl --remote-name https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.15.tar.gz
Extract the archive and move into the folder. tar -xzvf libiconv-1.15.tar.gz
sudo mv libiconv-1.15 /etc/libiconv-1.15
Configure, compile and install into /etc/libiconv-1.15 cd /etc/libiconv-1.15
sudo ./configure --prefix=/etc/libiconv-1.15
sudo make
sudo make install
Create a symbolic link to /usr/local/pcre sudo ln -s /etc/libiconv-1.15 /usr/local/libiconv
Install Zabbix agent source curl -L https://sourceforge.net/projects/zabbix/files/ZABBIX%20Latest%20Stable/4.0.1/zabbix-4.0.1.tar.gz/download -o zabbix-4.0.1.tar.gz
tar -zxvpf zabbix-4.0.1.tar.gz
Switch to the tarball directory cd zabbix-4.0.1
Make the installation directories and run the configure script with the –enable-agent switch sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/etc /usr/local/sbin
sudo ./configure --enable-agent --with-libpcre=/etc/pcre-8.42 --with-iconv=/etc/libiconv-1.15/
sudo make
sudo make install
Copy the configuration file to the local etc directory: sudo cp ./conf/zabbix_agentd.conf /usr/local/etc/
Copy the daemon file to the local sbin directory sudo cp ./src/zabbix_agent/zabbix_agentd /usr/local/sbin
sudo nano /usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf
/usr/local/sbin/zabbix_agentd
Check Zabbix Agent version /usr/local/sbin/zabbix_agentd -V
Sample configuration /usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf Server= IP
ServerActive= IP
Hostname=arvuti FQDN
PidFile=/var/run/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.pid
LogFile=/var/log/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.log
EnableRemoteCommands=0
DebugLevel=3
LogFileSize=1
HostMetadata=["macos"]
Create an autostart script to automatically launch Zabbix /etc/startzabbix.sh sudo nano /etc/startzabbix.sh
#!/bin/bash
sudo mkdir -p /var/run/zabbix
sudo touch /var/run/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.pid
sudo chmod 757 /var/run/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.pid
/usr/local/sbin/zabbix_agentd
sudo chmod a+x /etc/startzabbix.sh
Create LaunchDaemon to autostart Zabbix Agent /Library/LaunchDaemons/autostart.zabbix_agent.plist <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>autostart.zabbix_agent</string>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>sh</string>
<string>/etc/startzabbix.sh</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
sudo nano /Library/LaunchDaemons/autostart.zabbix_agent.plist
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/autostart.zabbix_agent.plist
