openwrt zabbix agent daemon

# HOWTO configure zabbix agent on OpenWrt
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# install zabbix (built from openwrt packages repo)

ipkg install zabbix-agent

# create zabbix user and group
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# /etc/passwd

zabbix:*:42223:42223:zabbix:/var:/bin/false

# /etc/group

zabbix:x:42223:

# create /var/tmp (for pidfile)

mkdir /var/tmp
chown zabbix /var/tmp

# edit /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf

Hostname=openwrt
StartAgents=1
PidFile=/var/tmp/zabbix_agentd.pid
LogFileSize=1

# start zabbix_agentd

zabbix_agentd

# End