Install Zabbix Agent on Suse Linux and Configure

Install taken from Suse – http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=server:monitoring&package=zabbix-agent

For SLE 12 SP1 run the following as root:

zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:monitoring/SLE_12_SP1/server:monitoring.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install zabbix-agent

For SLE 12 run the following as root:

zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:monitoring/SLE_12/server:monitoring.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install zabbix-agent

For SLE 11 SP4 run the following as root:

zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:monitoring/SLE_11_SP4/server:monitoring.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install zabbix-agent

For SLE 11 SP3 run the following as root:

zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:monitoring/SLE_11_SP3/server:monitoring.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install zabbix-agent

To configure the agent – Instructions taken from – https://www.zabbix.org/wiki/Install_on_openSUSE_/_SLES#Linux

Edit /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf and point the agent to the zabbix server by changing the Server and ServerActive settings.
Start the agent (rczabbix-agentd start)

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