extract source on host create user zabbix set passwd for zabbix switch user to zabbix run  ./configure –enable-agent switch user to root run make install mkdir /etc/zabbix edit zabbix_agentd.conf and change hostname mv /home/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf /etc/zabbix/ mv /home/zabbix/zabbix-agent.init /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent chkconfig –add zabbix-agent chkconfig zabbix-agent on service zabbix-agent start