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
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
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
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-
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?