Re: [Astlinux-users] Zabbix Agent User Parameters

[Michael K. <mic...@ip...>]

Hi Dan

We use Zabbix extensively with Astlinux and it has become a critical part of our infrastructure.

Just updating zabbix_agentd.userparams.conf should be all that you need to edit. We use PSK so we have updated the init file to add this but should not be necessary normally.
In Astlinux, normally autogenerated files added to /mnt/kd will replace and not add to an autogenerated file as part of the init process so yes this would be expected behaviour.

Regards
Michael Knill


From: Dan Ryson <da...@ry...>
Date: Wednesday, 26 March 2025 at 3:02 am
To: AstLinux Users Mailing List <ast...@li...>
Subject: [Astlinux-users] Zabbix Agent User Parameters
Team AstLinux,

I recently tried to enable Zabbix and a custom Zabbix Agent user parameter to diagnose a fleeting, intermittent networking problem.

The AstLinux documentation (here<https://doc.astlinux-project.org/userdoc:tt_zabbix_monitoring>) was a great start.  However, I ran into trouble while trying to "include" a custom user parameter using added file /mnt/kd/zabbix_agentd.userparams.conf as suggested by the instructions.  That file contained a single line starting with "UserParameter=".

After some troubleshooting, I found a comment in /usr/bin/zabbix_agentd.conf explaining to edit /mnt/kd/zabbix_agentd.conf instead.  (Note the missing "userparams" part.)  Much to my surprise, using that file name prevented the zabbix_agent from starting.  It wasn't until I put the whole configuration (including Server, ListenPort, etc.) into /mnt/kd/zabbix_agentd.conf that the agent began working.  The custom UserParameter, added as the last line, is also working.

Is this the expected behavior?  Or is there something that I can do to allow the auto-generated web parameters to be used by zabbix agent - while adding the UserParameter via a separate file as suggested by the documentation?

Thanks for any insight.

Dan​