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4 Zabbix Agent (UNIX, Inetd version)
The file contains configuration parameters for zabbix_agent. The file must exist and it should have read permissions for user 'zabbix'. Supported parameters:
| Parameter | Mandatory | Default value | Description |
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| Alias | no | Sets an alias for parameter. It can be useful to substitute long and complex parameter name with a smaller and simpler one. Starting from version 1.8.6 Zabbix Agent will terminate in case incorrectly formatted Alias entry or duplicate Alias key is present in configuration file. |
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| Include | no | You may include individual files or all files in a directory in the configuration file. See special notes about limitations. | |
| Server | yes | - | Comma-delimited list of IP addresses of ZABBIX Servers or Proxies. Connections from other IP addresses will be rejected. |
| Timeout | no | 3 | Do not spend more than Timeout seconds on getting requested value (1-255). The agent does not kill timeouted User Parameters processes! |
| UnsafeUserParameters | no | 0 | Allow all characters to be passed in arguments to user-defined parameters |
| UserParameter | no | User-defined parameter to monitor. There can be several user-defined parameters. Format: UserParameter=<key>,<shell command> Note that shell command must not return empty string or EOL only. Example: UserParameter=system.test,who|wc -l Starting from version 1.8.6 Zabbix Agent will terminate in case incorrectly formatted UserParameter entry or duplicate UserParameter key is present in configuration file. |
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Starting from version 1.8.6 Zabbix Agent will terminate if invalid (not following parameter=value notation) or unknown parameter entry is present in configuration file.
Zabbix supports configuration files only in UTF-8 encoding without BOM.