Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Verifying the service's state

While the systemd method is a nice way to check a service's state for some distributions, it's not available everywhere and isn't always enough. Sometimes, you might want to use these other methods to check whether the Zabbix server or agent is running:

• Checking running processes: The most common method to check whether a particular process is running is by looking at the running processes. You can verify whether the Zabbix agent daemon processes are actually running using this command:

    $ ps -C zabbix_agentd

• Output from the ss command: Sometimes, an agent daemon might start up but fail to bind to the port or the port might be used by some other process. You can verify whether some other process is listening ...