Zabbix 4.0 : Add Monitoring Target Host (Windows)2018/10/16

	Add Monitoring Target. Add a Windows Server 2016 as an example on here. It's necessarry to configure Windows Firewall to allow 10050 port if you enable it.
[1]	Download an binay file of Zabbix Agent on target Windows host from the Zabbix site below. ⇒ https://www.zabbix.com/download_agents
[2]	After downloading, extract the ZIP file, then [bin] and [conf] folder exist like follows. Copy [zabbix_agentd.win.conf] which is under the [conf] and also copy 3 exe files which are under the [bin] folder into a folder which you'd like to locate them.

For example on here, create a new folder [C:\Program Files\Zabbix_Agent] and copy files of above.

[3]	Open the configuration file [zabbix_agentd.win.conf] with a text editor and change parameters.

# line 23: specify the location of log file
LogFile=C:\Program Files\Zabbix_Agent\zabbix_agentd.log

# line 86: specify Zabbix server
Server=10.0.0.30

# line 127: specify Zabbix server
ServerActive=10.0.0.30

# line 138: specify the own hostname
Hostname=fd3s.srv.world

[4]	Start the command prompt with admin priviledge and iput command like follows. > cd C:\Program Files\Zabbix_Agent > zabbix_agentd.exe --config "C:\Program Files\Zabbix_Agent\zabbix_agentd.win.conf" --install

[5]	After installing, open service management, then [Zabbix Agent] has been just added like follows. Click [Start] to start it.

[6]	Login to Zabbix admin site with admin user and move to [Configuration] - [Hosts] tab, and then click [Create Host] button.

[7]	Input a hostname for [Hostname] field, input any name you like for [Visible name] field, select a group or add a new group for [Groups] field, input IP address and DNS name for [Agent interfaces] field. For other fields are optional. If it's OK all, move to [Templates] tab.

[8]	Click [Select] button.

[9]	Select [Template OS Windows] and click [Select] button.

[10]	Click [Add] link.

[11]	Confirm the template added and click [Add] button.

[12]	New monitoring target host is added.

[13]	After few minutes later, monitoring data is collected like follows.

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