Ansible Role: Zabbix Agent (Linux)

Description

This role downloads, installs and configures the Zabbix Agent on RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, SLES and ARM-based distros (Raspbian, Ubuntu-arm64) After installation the zabbix-agent service will be enabled and started. To view the status (or disable/stop):

systemctl status zabbix-agent.service

The role will open the assigned Zabbix agent passive port on hosts running firewalld or ufw.
To confirm firewall status after install use these commands:

#firewalld
sudo firewall-cmd --list-all

#ufw
sudo ufw status verbose

Requirements

Ansible modules from the collections below are utilized. Ensure there is a requirements file if they are not already available.

# Example /roles/requirements.yml
---
collections:
  - community.general
  - ansible.posix

Role Variables

The values for default variables are listed below (see defaults/main.yml). Ensure they are overwritten with the values you require. See here for guidence on variable placement.

zbx_version: 6.2 # Used to configure the Zabbix download repository, at time of writing the latest version is 6.2
zbx_server: 192.168.1.1 # IP Addr or FQDN of your Zabbix server
zbx_passive_port: 10050 # Zabbix server will request agent on this port
zbx_active_port: 10051 # Active agent will request Zabbix server on this port

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
   - lpwoodhouse.zabbix_agent_linux

Author Information

Created in 2022 by Lee Woodhouse.