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CentOS 5.3 Zabbix 1.6.5 Install (quick)

Submitted by Carl on Friday, 19 June 20094 Comments

A quick reference for a from-scratch Zabbix install on CentOS 5.3. We’ve used Zabbix for the past 3 or 4 years and just implementing 1.6.5 across multiple Xen nodes for funky distributed monitoring.

wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/zabbix/zabbix-1.6.5.tar.gz
tar xvf zabbix-1.6.5.tar.gz
yum install mysql-server
mysql

type > create database zabbix
type > quit

cd zabbix-1.6.5
service mysqld start
cd create/schema/
cat mysql.sql | mysql zabbix
cd ../data
cat data.sql | mysql zabbix
cat images_mysql.sql | mysql zabbix
cd ../..
yum install gcc mysql mysql-devel curl curl-devel net-snmp net-snmp-devel
./configure –enable-server –with-mysql –with-net-snmp –with-libcurl
make install
vi /etc/services

add > zabbix-agent 10050/tcp Zabbix Agent
add > zabbix-agent 10050/udp Zabbix Agent
add > zabbix-trapper 10051/tcp Zabbix Trapper
add > zabbix-trapper 10051/udp Zabbix Trapper

cp misc/init.d/fedora/core5/zabbix_server /etc/init.d/
vi /etc/init.d/zabbix_server

change > /usr/bin/zabbix_server
to > /usr/local/sbin/zabbix_server

adduser zabbix
mkdir /etc/zabbix/
cp ./misc/conf/zabbix_server.conf /etc/zabbix/
/etc/init.d/zabbix_server start
chkconfig –add zabbix_server
chkconfig –add httpd

chkconfig zabbix_server on
chkconfig httpd on
chkconfig mysqld on

yum installl httpd fping php php-mysql php-bcmath

cd zabbix-1.6.5/frontends/php/
cp -rf * /var/www/html/
service httpd start

vi /etc/php.ini

change > max_execution_time = 30;
to > max_execution_time = 300;
change > date.timezone =
to > date.timezone = UTC
change > memory_limit = 16M
to > memory_limit = 100M

service httpd restart
service mysqld restart

4 Comments »

Steve said:

Thanks for this awesome tutorial. However, after following all of these instructions I could not get the zabbix_server process to start. It looks like it was trying to run as root. Can you advise how to get the zabbix_server process to run as the zabbix user? I’m still new to linux and don’t know how to do everything yet.

Running CentOS 5.3 and Zabbix 1.6.5

- 30 June 2009 at 7:25 am

Carl (author) said:

Hi Steve,
You should just need to-do “/etc/init.d/zabbix_server start” and that script takes care of the appropriate permissions (zabbix.zabbix).

Ta,
Carl

- 30 June 2009 at 10:48 am

Jason said:

For your distributed monitoring do you utilize “nodes” or “proxies”? I’m trying to set up my first Zabbix install on CentOS 5.3, but unsure which path I should take. Furthermore, it seems the zabbix-proxy package requires different configuration.

If you have any insight I would really appreciate it.

Thanks,
-Jason-

- 19 August 2009 at 12:50 am

Carl (author) said:

We’re not quite using the distributed element yet and no proxy. For this particular setup we have two cabs, a zabbix vm in each cabinet monitoring itself and the other cabinets hosts/vms but in basic terms it’s just like two zabbix installs linked by a common web interface as we use it.

Eventually I’ll get onto looking at getting across multiple sites, for the moment though we’re happy just having individual/independent zabbix/cacti/smokeping installs at each site.

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9409 might be of use?

- 19 August 2009 at 1:05 am