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Installing Zabbix 1.4 on CentOS 5

If you’re not familiar with linux or open source tools, finding all the dependencies, downloading the source, compiling source, creating the db, etc can be a daunting task. So I’ve created this cut and paste walk through to help you through those steps. Almost everything here is cut and paste, except for hostname, and password information You’ll need to provide those on your own. I’ve done my best to make this as accurate as possible. I hate walkthroughs that just aren’t accurate! CentOS was installed choosing zero options, with as base of an installation as it would let me. I used the 2.6.18-8 kernel. If you have any questions, or find any errors, please let me know. And of course as usual, if you find it helpful, also, please let me know

I wrote these instructions using 1.4.1 as the example, but theres no reason why 1.4.2 shouldn’t work the same way

Update, 11/4/2007: 1.4.2 seems to install its binaries under prefix/sbin instead of prefix/bin, which is different than 1.4.1 which was used for this document. I’ve also noticed that when copying and pasting from this guide some of the whitespace, apostrophies, and dashes (’ – ) seem to get distorted upon pasting. Its correct in the source, but when its displayed something is munged up. When I figure out what it is, I’ll fix it. In the meantime if you get a syntax error, try retyping what I’ve put on this page instead of copying and pasting. And if you know why its happening, let me know!

Install all the necessary pieces. I started with a very base installation of CentOS 5.

yum -y install ntp php php-bcmath php-gd php-mysql httpd mysql gcc mysql-server mysql-devel net-snmp net-snmp-utils net-snmp-devel net-snmp-libs curl-devel mak

Start up the time server. its important for the time between your devices to be in sync.

/etc/init.d/ntpd start

Download fPing, and install it:

wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/fping/fping-2.4-1.b2.2.el5.rf.i386.rpm

rpm -Uvh fping-2.4-1.b2.2.el5.rf.i386.rpm

chmod 7555 /usr/sbin/fping

Create Zabbix user.

useradd zabbix

Download zabbix and untar it.

wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/zabbix/zabbix-1.4.1.tar.gz

tar -xzvf zabbix-1.4.1.tar.gz

Start MySQL, and change the root password.

/etc/init.d/mysqld start

/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password YourFancyNewRootPassword

Connect to the DB using your newly created root password. Create the zabbix DB, and assign a new user (zabbixmysqluser) with privileges to that DB. You may want to change “zabbixmysqlpassword” to something else. But it should not be the same as any other “critical” password because it will be stored plain text in a config file.

mysql -u root -p

mysql> CREATE DATABASE zabbix;

mysql> GRANT DROP,INDEX,CREATE,SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,ALTER,DELETE ON zabbix.* TO zabbixmysqluser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ‘zabbixmysqlpassword’;

mysql> quit;

Create the DB Schema

cd zabbix-1.4.1

cat create/schema/mysql.sql | mysql -u zabbixmysqluser -pzabbixmysqlpassword zabbix

cat create/data/data.sql | mysql -u zabbixmysqluser -pzabbixmysqlpassword zabbix

cat create/data/images_mysql.sql | mysql -u zabbixmysqluser -pzabbixmysqlpassword zabbix

./configure –enable-server –prefix=/usr/local/zabbix –with-mysql –with-net-snmp –with-libcurl

make install

make clean

Compile the agent. I chose to compile it staticly, so it can be copied easily to other hosts.

./configure –enable-agent –prefix=/usr/local/zabbix –enable-static

make install

Add the zabbix server and agent ports to your /etc/services file.

echo ‘zabbix_agent 10050/tcp’ >> /etc/services

echo ‘zabbix_trap 10051/tcp’ >> /etc/services

Copy the sample configs to /etc/zabbix for server and agentd.

mkdir /etc/zabbix

cp misc/conf/zabbix_agentd.conf /etc/zabbix

cp misc/conf/zabbix_server.conf /etc/zabbix

in /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf, modify:

DBUser=zabbixmysqluser

BPassword=zabbixmysqlpassword

DBSocket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

FpingLocation=/usr/sbin/fping

in /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf, modify:

Server=127.0.0.1,Your.Zabbix.Server.IP

Hostname=EnterAUniqueHostNameForEachAgent

cp misc/init.d/redhat/zabbix_agentd_ctl /etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd
cp misc/init.d/redhat/zabbix_server_ctl /etc/init.d/zabbix_server

in /etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd AND /etc/init.d/zabbix_server:

BASEDIR=/usr/local/zabbix

in /etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd (Note the # hash marks, they are necessary), add near the top, just below #!/bin/sh:

# chkconfig: 345 95 95
# description: Zabbix Agentd

in /etc/init.d/zabbix_server (again, note the # Hash marks, they are required), add near the top, just below #!/bin/sh:

# chkconfig: 345 95 95
# description: Zabbix Server

Configure automatic starting and stopping of services.

chkconfig –level 345 zabbix_server on

chkconfig –level 345 zabbix_agentd on

chkconfig –level 345 httpd on

chkconfig –level 345 mysqld on

chkconfig –level 0123456 iptables off

/etc/init.d/iptables stop

Note: I turn the iptables firewall OFF because my box is behind a firewall. You should consult with your network folks before turning off the firewall. At the very least you should poke holes for port 80, 10050, and 10051 in the firewall.

cp -r frontends/php /var/www/html/zabbix

in /etc/php.ini, modify:

max_execution_time = 300

date.timezone = America/Los_Angeles

Note: Obviously you should substitute your own time zone. For a list of all valid timezones, click here

/etc/init.d/httpd start

chmod 777 /var/www/html/zabbix/conf

Launch http://your.servers.name/zabbix inyour browser. You should be prompted with a setup screen. Click through the user agreement, and when you get to the Pre requisites screen, make sure you have a green OK next to everything.

When you’ve finished walking through the web interface setup:

chmod 755 /var/www/html/zabbix/conf

mv /var/www/html/zabbix/setup.php /var/www/html/zabbix/setup.php.bak

/etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd start

/etc/init.d/zabbix_server start

You can now login to your zabbix installation by going to http://your.server.name/zabbix, using the username “admin”, with no password. To monitor your zabbix server, you can go to the Configuration Tab, and choose the “hosts” sub Tab. Select the “Zabbix Server” host, by putting a checkmark next to it. and choose the “Activate Selected” button below. Wait a minute or two, then select the “Monitoring” tab, and then the “latest data” sub tab. You should start seeing performance stats appear!

For Reference, your binaries are under /usr/local/zabbix/bin, and your configuration files are in /etc/zabbix.

I’m not a big fan of their default template, I think the naming sucks. Look for a future article talking about renaming zabbix items. But this should be enough to get you started! You can find the answers to most of your questions in the Zabbix manual, available here: http://www.zabbix.com/documentation.php . You can also find lots of answers in the zabbix forums .

This entry was posted on 8 October 2007 at 9:41 am and is filed under Tech, Zabbix. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

80 Comments

doug skranak says:

I used 1.4.2 so yep, validated!

I had one issue and it’s under the create db schema.
>cat create/schema/mysql.sql | mysql -u zabbixmysqluser -pzabbixmysqlpassword zabbix

I thought it was a typo where it says -pzabbixmysqlpassword and inserted a space. This is of course wrong.

Anyhow, many, many thanks!
14 October 2007, 12:21 pm
aris gunawan says:

Thanks for tutorial, now I have zabbix.
11 November 2007, 11:48 pm
SuperBert! says:

You rock, dude!

Thx for the HOWTO.

Note for CentOS 4.5, get the correct fping rpm. Also the libcurl shipped with CentOS 4 is too old for Zabbix. If you don’t want to compile from source and don’t care (messing around), omit the ‘–with-curl’ from the configure command.
15 November 2007, 7:16 pm
Abhishek says:

You really rock man,it is really helpfull.Take Kare
Thanks and regards,
Abhishek.
1 December 2007, 5:15 am
arijit chatterjee says:

You really rox, after so many failures we got this site and installed in one chance. where we can contact further for any problem ?
1 December 2007, 5:16 am
Doug Peterson says:

Thanks for the feedback folks. I’m glad its been helpful.

Arijit — If you need any further help, I’m available for IT consulting (including zabbix!). Visit the contact page, and get in touch with me from there. TTYL!
3 December 2007, 11:24 am
PanVlad says:

This article is no doubt very useful helps to knowledge. Thank you very much!!!!
17 January 2008, 2:54 am
Jandeman says:

Well done mate, although have had zabbix 1.1.7 this manual was very useful!
17 January 2008, 6:39 am
Goll says:

Hola!

what is that ‘mak’ package? is that typo you meant you
type ‘make’??

nice tutorial btw, thanks a lot
22 January 2008, 10:56 am
Larry says:

woohoo

other than the chkconfig -level 345 zabbix_server on etc s/b –level 345 the walkthru was flawless – a perfect setup!!!
9 February 2008, 2:32 am
Doug Peterson says:

Yeah Larry,

Unfortunately wordpress is removing my double dashes (–), so the chkconfig command is screwed up

If anyone knows of a good simple codebox for wordpress, let me know. I’ve had a hard time finding a simple one that doesn’t do any syntax checking, or line number highlighting.

Glad its still useful though.
14 February 2008, 5:47 pm
Adam G. says:

Just wanted to say THANK YOU for the great guide. Thanks to you I was able to get past my missing packages problem and be up and running in less than 30 minutes.
28 March 2008, 6:28 am
rav3n says:

Hi! I’ve been wanting to install zabbix, and got lucky to found your site… been following the guide… I’m on the step where I’m going to change the mysql password I have this problem…

/usr/bin/mysqladmin: unable to change password; error: ‘Access denied for user ”@’localhost’ to database ‘mysql”

I can’t change the password… I try to login using admin account without password. I did login using this account but creating DB is also not possible.

/usr/bin/mysqladmin: unable to change password; error: ‘Access denied for user ”@’localhost’ to database ‘mysql”

Anyone has this error?
11 April 2008, 1:02 am
AngeLinuX says:

Nice tutorial !!

Using zabbix 1.4.5, i have an error starting server and agent scripts, because is looking for “/usr/local/zabbix/bin”

So i made a hardlink form bin to sbin (used on that version), and no problems at all. It works !
14 April 2008, 9:22 am
Paul says:

This works great. I was just wondering how you copy and setup the agent on other hosts. You say you compile it statically for that purpose. Can you shed more light on this? Thanks
1 May 2008, 2:41 pm
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10 May 2008, 9:19 am
johnnguyen says:

This works with version 1.45, very nice tutorial, thanks
14 May 2008, 12:36 am
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5 June 2008, 11:21 pm
nice tutorial yahoooo says:

thanks dude
6 June 2008, 5:05 am
Jeff says:

One thing with the latest version of Zabbix at this time (1.4.5)

The init.d scripts for Centos 5 are in

zabbix-1.4.5/misc/init.d/fedora/core5/zabbix_server

not redhat
9 June 2008, 9:54 pm
Jeff says:

But yes…..very very cool tutorial
9 June 2008, 9:54 pm
Nav says:

How would you copy the statically compiled agent to other machines. Do you just copy /usr/local/zabbix/sbin/ agent stuff. And copy the agent conf, and init.d script. Add a line /etc/services

Is that it. It is a great article. It helped me a lot. Kudos!!

THanks
Nav
5 July 2008, 12:34 pm
Robin Bowes says:

Hi,

Perhaps they weren’t available when you wrote this article, but are you aware that you can install zabbix RPMs from the epel repository?

I wrote up the procedure here:

http://robinbowes.com/article.php/20080730161131557

R.
31 July 2008, 10:36 am
Doug Peterson says:

Nav:

Yup! Thats it! just copy all those things you mentioned, and you’ll be good to go!

Robin:
There was a reason I didn’t like the RPM, though I confess to forgetting what the reason was. I think I may not have liked the location it placed things, or some of the default options. I also patch the source code periodically, so that too would be a problem I have an article on my site for an SSL web scenario patch.

To Everyone else, This is pretty out of date.. I keep telling myself I’m going to go through and add some more items, and improve the zabbix demo! I have a whole server in my datacenter dedicated to this guy, I really should be doing more with it! But paying gigs take priority, and I’ve been busy lately
7 August 2008, 11:01 am
Danilo Rocha says:

Validates with zabbix 1.4.6

Tks a lot
11 August 2008, 6:08 am
terence says:

i am receiving the error after following through all the step.
anyone can help?

29047:20080822:000105 Starting zabbix_server. ZABBIX 1.4.1.
29047:20080822:000105 **** Enabled features ****
29047:20080822:000105 SNMP monitoring: YES
29047:20080822:000105 WEB monitoring: YES
29047:20080822:000105 Jabber notifications: NO
29047:20080822:000105 **************************
29047:20080822:000105 Failed to connect to database: Error: Access denied for u
ser ‘zabbixmysqluser’@'localhost’ (using password: NO) [1045]
21 August 2008, 8:04 am
DennisM says:

I’m running through zabbix installation and very much grateful for this site.

possible typo: mak should be “make”?

yum -y install ntp php php-bcmath php-gd php-mysql httpd mysql gcc mysql-server mysql-devel net-snmp net-snmp-utils net-snmp-devel net-snmp-libs curl-devel make

updated Zabbix source:
wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/zabbix/zabbix-1.4.6.tar.gz

not yet finished, though, will let you know.

Again, thanks for the tutorial
23 August 2008, 12:43 am
DennisM says:

I was not able to compile it on my system, so I shifted to Robin’s site (http://robinbowes.com/article.php/20080730161131557) and was able to install zabbix using EPEL repo.

Thanks Robin

Thanks to you both
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20 September 2008, 1:42 pm
Alexey Govorov says:

Thanks for this article.
Now i have zabbix 1.6 on my CentOS 4.x servers.. but whithout snmp.
25 September 2008, 5:04 am
nibb says:

I managed to get the install fine for Zabbix 1.6

The agents and server did not start. I figured out is because the path is sbin now instead of bin. I changed the path on the init scripts to sbin on the agent and server. Agent starts, but server doesnt. It doesnt output any error when you start the server. I can only see the agent running, servers says start and doesnt do anything? Some tips?
11 October 2008, 11:56 pm
nibb says:

Update:

I hacked into Zabbix. It seems the leave password blank and use Admin only doesnt work anymore. Default user is admin and pass is zabbix. I suppose my server did started then but i dont see it, but i can log in so it works it seems.
12 October 2008, 12:28 am
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3 November 2008, 2:26 pm
arieffirdaus says:

i follow your instruction to install zabbix but i use zabbix 1.6.1.
everything is okay, but when i try to test with web browser, there are errors :

* Undefined index: TYPE[/var/www/html/zabbix/include/db.inc.php:606]
* Undefined index: TYPE[/var/www/html/zabbix/include/db.inc.php:606]

what should i do?
12 November 2008, 8:44 pm
arieffirdaus says:

my error happen in Introduction.

in Configure DB Connection, there are errors:

* Undefined index: TYPE[/var/www/html/zabbix/include/setup.inc.php:519]
* Undefined index: SERVER[/var/www/html/zabbix/include/setup.inc.php:520]
* Undefined index: PORT[/var/www/html/zabbix/include/setup.inc.php:521]
* Undefined index: DATABASE[/var/www/html/zabbix/include/setup.inc.php:522]
* Undefined index: USER[/var/www/html/zabbix/include/setup.inc.php:523]
* Undefined index: PASSWORD[/var/www/html/zabbix/include/setup.inc.php:524]

what should i do again?
12 November 2008, 8:48 pm
Anoop says:

HI

When i try to go to http://localhost/setup.php on third screen where it checks to prerequisite i am getting these errors
* Undefined index: TYPE[/var/www/html/zabbix/include/db.inc.php:606]
* Undefined index: TYPE[/var/www/html/zabbix/include/db.inc.php:606]
* Timezone for PHP is not set. Please set “date.timezone” option in php.ini.

I have modified /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini file and setting defined is
;date.timezone = America/New_York

but because of some reson its not accepting that. Any help is apprciated.
26 November 2008, 8:17 am
Jon says:

Anoop:

Your issue with the timezone is you need to remove the ;
Having this in comments the line out.

As for your other problem, i’m having the same issue.
26 November 2008, 10:08 am
Jon says:

Anoop:

If you go through the setup process, once you have the config file in place the undefined index issue corrects itself.
26 November 2008, 10:28 am
Anoop says:

Thanks folks. I was installing on SUSE 10.1 and removing ; also did not worked and i had to hardcode date.timezone value.

more questions – how to use discovery to know about all the systems in my subnet? Is there a way to push client software through GUI?
2 December 2008, 8:10 am
Anoop says:

Hi

One Question, i have installed Zabbix server and client agent on one system as root. What i will have to change to run it as zabbix user?

Thanks
Anoop
3 December 2008, 6:34 am
Deepak says:

Hi

Thanks for whole configuration.Everything is perfect,but after all configuration when I go to login with admin username without password it shows
“ERROR: Login name or password is incorrect”

What should I do.

Regards
Deepak
5 December 2008, 5:38 am
Samuel says:

Well…sorry for my bad english ..
I need configure host and i think that install and configure snmp agent and zabbix agent, but i don’t sure how make it…….
Please can i help with the configurations in zabbix host (snmp agent and zabbix agent) and how to add zabbix host (linux host) and routers

I know that this so much, but i need probe this..

Thankyou very much and Merry Christmas
10 December 2008, 4:25 pm
Brad Ackerman says:

That supplied a few missing hints. Thanks. Now to actually use it.
21 December 2008, 1:28 pm
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17 January 2009, 2:45 pm
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18 January 2009, 6:06 am
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18 January 2009, 12:30 pm
Lirika says:

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19 January 2009, 2:28 pm
Olina says:

Where I may to find posts on this topic?
20 January 2009, 2:47 am
Uyit says:

It’s hard to understand..
20 January 2009, 1:34 pm
Robot says:

So nice!
21 January 2009, 2:09 am
Guylnarat says:

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21 January 2009, 6:59 am
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22 January 2009, 2:20 am
Lobby says:

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22 January 2009, 5:43 am
yawn says:

this whole stuff featured here dont work, dont bother with this crap. you cant even copy&paste coz this guy used styles in the text, that cause the comands to fail
26 January 2009, 1:23 pm
TheEditor says:

yawn: You are dead wrong. Stop being a troll and follow directions. I used them and they worked fine.
20 February 2009, 8:40 am
Kittu says:

Thanks a lot. It really helped me a lot.
23 February 2009, 11:15 pm
Michel LAURENT says:

Thanks for this great tutorial.
18 March 2009, 11:05 am
Michel LAURENT says:

This tutorial works perfect for the last version (1.6.2).

The only change is the login : Admin / zabbix and not admin / no password.

Thank you very much for this tutorial.
18 March 2009, 2:41 pm
Ray Frangie says:

Tutorial is perfect but am stuck on the last part with 1.6.2…

[root@CPHSYDINF01 zabbix-1.6.2]# /etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd start
/etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd: line 83: /usr/local/zabbix/bin/zabbix_agentd: No such file or directory
/etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd start: zabbix_agentd could not be started
[root@CPHSYDINF01 zabbix-1.6.2]# /etc/init.d/zabbix_server start
/etc/init.d/zabbix_server: line 83: /usr/local/zabbix/bin/zabbix_server: No such file or directory
/etc/init.d/zabbix_server start: zabbix_server could not be started

Any ideas???

Cheers,
Ray.
25 March 2009, 6:50 pm
Ray Frangie says:

Ok… Just found out where the prob is…

Seems like 1.6.2 has them in SBIN rather than BIN, so you need to change a line a couple of lines below the BASEDIR variable as follows…

In /etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd
FROM: ZABBIX_AGENTD=$BASEDIR/bin/zabbix_agentd
TO: ZABBIX_AGENTD=$BASEDIR/sbin/zabbix_agentd

In /etc/init.d/zabbix_server
FROM: ZABBIX_SUCKERD=$BASEDIR/bin/zabbix_server
TO: ZABBIX_SUCKERD=$BASEDIR/sbin/zabbix_server

Try start them again and you should get….

[root@CPHSYDINF01 sbin]# /etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd start
/etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd start: zabbix_agentd started

[root@CPHSYDINF01 sbin]# /etc/init.d/zabbix_server start
/etc/init.d/zabbix_server start: zabbix_server started

Hope this helps

Cheers,
Ray.
25 March 2009, 6:58 pm
Toeternitoe says:

Great tutorial… Thanks
2 April 2009, 11:20 pm
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5 April 2009, 5:03 am
Allan Cano says:

This is one of the best install tutorials I’ve found to date. Thanks for putting it together.

Still works for 1.6.4.

Cheers,
Allan
15 May 2009, 10:05 am
Melanie says:

Hi everybody ! I have almost finish to install zabbix (the agent works, the webinterface too) but when i want start the server with this line “/etc/init.d/zabbix_server start” i have this kind of errors message :

“/usr/local/zabbix/bin/zabbix_serveur : missing mandatory parameter [DBName]”

But in the file “zabbix_server.conf”, i put DBName=zabbix

Somebody can help me please ?

Thanks

Mèl
16 July 2009, 1:30 am
sureshkumar says:

it’s very nice tutorial for new ZABBIX Monitoring tool users…. Nice stuff

do you know, how to configuration the ZABBIX Monitoring tool.if you know kindly please send me the links to my email.
14 September 2009, 2:05 am
Steve says:

Awesome dude! You cut down a crapload of work for me, and it was nearly flawless!
3 December 2009, 10:56 pm
Luiz Souza says:

Yes! Thanks for the tutorial! Save my ass! Ahahahhaha!
14 December 2009, 7:40 pm
jdt says:

Has anyone tried this how-to with Zabbix 1.8 ?
7 January 2010, 1:26 pm
Park Ko Pil says:

Very good blog.
Thank you!!
14 January 2010, 12:44 am
JPJones says:

I just did a test run with zabbix 1.8.1 and centos 5.4 using this tutorial. of course you need to install the latest php and dependencies from centos-testing repo first. tested fine on my test bed. I also used the agent installer (for windows servers) from http://www.suiviperf.com/zabbix. seems to work great so far…. i like it! i’m now installing a fresh centos on the server I’ll be using in my production env.

Thanks for the great tutorial!

John
18 February 2010, 1:06 pm
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11 March 2010, 8:22 pm
Joely says:

Thanks heaps mate,

Going to use this guide tomorrow for installation on a server!!

Will let you know how it goes!

regards

Joely
24 March 2010, 6:44 pm
Joely says:

Everything is good in this tutorial, however I came across the following Problems:

Version Centos 5.4 x64 / Zabbix 1.8.1

1. Need to install the latest version of mbstring to get past the pre-requisites page. I tried to change the value in the php.ini to no avail.

‘yum –y install php-mbstring’

Restart the httpd service

’service httdp restart’

Then you can pass the pre-requisites page.

2. Need to create symbolic Links before you start the zabbix_agentd & zabbix_server (as they are kept in the /sbin dir not the /bin dir)

ln –s /usr/local/zabbix/sbin/zabbix_agentd /usr/local/zabbix/bin/zabbix_agentd
ln –s /usr/local/zabbix/sbin/zabbix_server /usr/local/zabbix/bin/zabbix_server

Then start the services

/etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd start
/etc/init.d/zabbix_server start

&:-)
28 March 2010, 3:39 pm
Joely says:

Oh and the default password has changed.

3.
username:’admin’
password :’zabbix’
28 March 2010, 3:53 pm
Carola Whitehall says:

I was reading your blog and thought i would say hi.
9 April 2010, 7:59 am
Andrea says:

Great Post!

I currently use zabbix to monitor a really large environment (more than 320 servers)

I’ve founded a wonderful plugin that is more than a plugin and the others monitoring systems don’t have nothing of similar, and nothing that go inside oracle so deeply.

In the hope that someone found useful my comment

http://www.smartmarmot.com

here you are going to find Orabbix opensource and released under GPL3
17 May 2010, 6:14 am
Raul says:

Great tutorial – wouldn’t have made it without it – version 1.8.2 installs just fine (I am on CentOS 5.5) with these instructions with only 3 things to point out:

1. Binaries are now in /usr/local/zabbix/sbin – either create a symbolic link like mentioned above or edit /etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd and /etc/init.d/zabbix_server and change the configs accordingly

2. User & Password is now admin / zabbix for the front interface (already mentioned above as well)

3. I had to change a setting within httpd since SE Linux didn’t like what zabbix was doing—-setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect=1 should do the trick !

Once again, thanks for such a clear set of instructions !
1 June 2010, 5:44 pm
adiarer says:

Interesante post, hay un artículo bastante completo sobre el proceso de instalación de zabbix con oracle, creo que puede resultar de utilidad, el artículo se llama:
Instalación y Configuración de Zabbix 1.8.x – Oracle 10gR2 – OEL 5.x (CentOS 5.x – Red Hat 5.x)
y está en la url:
http://www.malagahabla.com/Blog/ViewPost.aspx?pageid=38&ItemID=63&mid=44
14 June 2010, 3:12 am
Eliran says:

Hi,
Good Job!!!!
Great tutorial!!!
I had the same problems as Raul and 1 more.

In the:
Configure automatic starting and stopping of services.

chkconfig –level 345 zabbix_server on

chkconfig –level 345 zabbix_agentd on

chkconfig –level 345 httpd on

chkconfig –level 345 mysqld on

chkconfig –level 0123456 iptables off

/etc/init.d/iptables stop
I needed to do –level

Cento 5.2 on Citrix XenServer
9 August 2010, 4:03 am
Eliran says:

LOL it remove my – - level
9 August 2010, 4:04 am

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