Install Zabbix Agent on Windows Systems

This guide will take you through how to install Zabbix agent on Windows systems.

Install Zabbix Agent on Windows Systems

Zabbix agent can be used to poll various system metrics as outlined below and push them to Zabbix server for visualization.

Network	Packets/bytes transferred Errors/dropped packets Collisions
CPU	Load average CPU idle/usage CPU utilization data per individual process
Memory	Free/used memory Swap/pagefile utilization
Disk	Space free/used Read and write I/O
Service	Process status Process memory usage Service status (ssh, ntp, ldap, smtp, ftp, http, pop, nntp, imap) Windows service status DNS resolution TCP connectivity TCP response time
File	File size/time File exists Checksum MD5 hash RegExp search
Log	Text log Windows eventlog
Other	System uptime System time Users connected Performance counter (Windows)

Zabbix Agent capabilities

Download Zabbix Windows agent install from the downloads page.

You can simply get the Zabbix agent installer download link and pull using Powershell.

Note, we are using Windows 10 in this guide.

Launch PowerShell as administrator.
Run the command below to download the Zabbix agent Windows installer. Replace the link accordingly.

cd C:\Users\<username>\Downloads

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri `
"https://cdn.zabbix.com/zabbix/binaries/stable/6.0/6.0.4/zabbix_agent2-6.0.4-windows-amd64-openssl.msi" `
-Outfile zabbix_agent2-6.0.4-windows-amd64-openssl.msi

Install Zabbix agent;

You can install by double clicking the agent installer or by using Powershell.

To launch the Zabbix agent Windows installer wizard on PowerShell;

.\zabbix_agent2-6.0.4-windows-amd64-openssl.msi

The installation Wizard will launch in a few sec.

Click Next and accept the End User License Agreement.

Next, Set the Zabbix agent hostname, the Zabbix server IP for active and passive checks. Ensure you define the correct hostname as this must match the hostname while adding the host to Zabbix server for monitoring.

On Custom setup, just click Next.

Click Install to install Zabbix agent on Windows.

When the installation is done, click Finish to exit the Zabbix agent installation wizard.

Check Zabbix Agent Status

The agent is started upon installation;

Get-Service -Name "*zabbix*"

Status   Name               DisplayName
------   ----               -----------
Running  Zabbix Agent 2     Zabbix Agent 2

Open Zabbix Agents ports on Firewall

Zabbix agent listens on port 10050/tcp by default;

Get-NetTCPConnection | where Localport -eq 10050 | select LocalAddress,LocalPort,State

LocalAddress LocalPort  State
------------ ---------  -----
::               10050 Listen

Run the command below to open Zabbix agent on Windows firewall. Replace <Zabbix Server IP address> with your Zabbix server address.

New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Allow Zabbix Checks on port 10050" `
-RemoteAddress <Zabbix Server IP address> -Direction Inbound `
-Protocol TCP -Action Allow -LocalPort 10050 -Profile Domain

You can also allow ping, to monitor availability using ping;

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="ICMP Allow incoming V4 echo request" `
protocol="icmpv4:8,any" dir=in action=allow

Also ensure that you can connect to the Zabbix server on port 10051/tcp.

Add and Monitor Windows Host from the Zabbix Server

You can now add the host to the server for monitoring. Check the link below on how to add hosts to Zabbix server for monitoring.

Install Zabbix Agent on Windows Systems