Zabbix_agentd installer for Mac OS X

These are the source files for packaging a binary zabbix_agentd. The installer itself can be downloaded at the releases: https://github.com/mipmip/zabbix_agentd_osx_installer/releases

Requirements

• x64 processor
• Mac OS X version = 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9

Configuration

Make sure to replace the variables in /usr/local/etc/zabbix/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf after installing and before starting the agent deamon.

Server=0.0.0.0
Hostname=yourhostname

Usage

The agent starts automaticly at boot time. To start is manually enter:

sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.zabbix.zabbix_agentd.plist

Launchctl unload does not work. Use the command below.

sudo kill -9 `ps -aef | grep zabbix_agentd | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`

Build a new zabbix agentd installer

Before you can build an installer pkg you shoud have xcode command line tools and PackageMaker.app installed.

1. Download the source code from http://zabbix.com tarball
2. Clone this repository
3. Cd to the installer source code
4. Execute rake create[/path/to/zabbix_source_code.tar.bz]