Comments on: CentOS 5.3 Zabbix 1.6.5 Install (quick)

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:05:31 +0000

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?

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:50:56 +0000

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-

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:48:38 +0000

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

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:25:50 +0000

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