Linux & DevOPS: zabbix

How to Install Zabbix 2.2.1 on CentOS 6.5 
 
Server and Client Platform: CentOS 6.5 x86_64 
Windows client platform: Windows server 2012 
 
Note: please setup NTP for time synchronization 
 
1.Set Up Apache, MySQL and PHP  
 
for Database: 
yum -y install mysql mysql-server mysql-devel 
 
for frontend: 
yum -y install httpd httpd-devel php php-cli php-common php-devel php-pear php-gd php-bcmath php-mbstring php-mysql php-xml 
 
for server: 
yum -y install zlib-devel glibc-devel libcurl-devel OpenIPMI-devel libssh2-devel net-snmp-devel openldap-devel 
yum -y install fping iksemel-devel(using fedora epel repo -- rpm -ivh http://mirrors.sohu.com/fedora-epel/6Server/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm) 
 
2. vi /etc/my.cnf 
[mysqld] 
default-storage-engine=INNODB 
 
service httpd start 
service mysqld start 
chkconfig httpd on 
chkconfig mysqld on 
 
3. Install the repository configuration package 
rpm -ivh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/2.2/rhel/6/x86_64/zabbix-release-2.2-1.el6.noarch.rpm 
 
4. for Zabbix server and web frontend with mysql database 
yum -y install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-web-mysql 
 
5. for Zabbix agent -- on zabbix server and linux client 
yum -y install zabbix-agent 
 
6.Create zabbix database and user on MySQL. 
# mysql -u root 
mysql> create database zabbix character set utf8; 
mysql> grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost identified by 'zabbix'; 
mysql> flush privileges; 
mysql> exit 
 
Import initial schema and data. 
# cd /usr/share/doc/zabbix-server-mysql-2.2.1/create 
# mysql -uroot zabbix < schema.sql 
# mysql -uroot zabbix < images.sql 
# mysql -uroot zabbix < data.sql 
 
7.Edit database configuration in zabbix_server.conf 
# vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf 
DBHost=localhost 
DBName=zabbix 
DBUser=zabbix 
DBPassword=zabbix 
Start Zabbix server process. 
# service zabbix-server start 
chkconfig zabbix-server on 
 
8.Apache configuration file for Zabbix frontend is located in /etc/httpd/conf.d/zabbix.conf. 
Some PHP settings are already configured. 
php_value max_execution_time 300 
php_value memory_limit 128M 
php_value post_max_size 16M 
php_value upload_max_filesize 2M 
php_value max_input_time 300 
# php_value date.timezone Asia/Shanghai 
It's necessary to uncomment the “date.timezone” setting and set the right timezone for you. After changing the configuration file restart the apache web server. 
# service httpd restart 
 
9. Zabbix frontend is available at http://zabbix-frontend-hostname/zabbix in the browser.  
 
Default username/password is Admin/zabbix. 
 
10. For zabbix agent configuration 
vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf 
#Server=[zabbix server ip] --This is for zabbix agent Passive check, port 10050 
#ServerActive=[zabbix server ip] --This is for zabbix agent(active) Active check, port 10051 
#Hostname=[ Hostname of client system ] 
#hostname value set on the agent side should exactly match the ”Host name” configured for the host in the web frontend 
 
Server=192.168.1.11 
ServerActive=192.168.1.11 
Hostname=Linux Client 
 
service zabbix-agent start 
chkconfig zabbix-agent on 
 
11. For installing zabbix agent on Windows Server 2012 client 
 
a).download zabbix_agents_2.2.1.win.zip and extract to c:\zabbix 
wordpad c:\zabbix\zabbix_agentd.win.conf 
#Server=[zabbix server ip]  --This is for zabbix agent Passive check, port 10050 
#ServerActive=[zabbix server ip] --This is for zabbix agent(active) Active check, port 10051 
#Hostname=[ Hostname of client system ] 
#hostname value set on the agent side should exactly match the ”Host name” configured for the host in the web frontend 
 
Server=192.168.1.11 
ServerActive=192.168.1.11 
Hostname=Windows Client 
 
b).c:\zabbix\bin\win64\zabbix_agentd.exe --config c:\zabbix\zabbix_agentd.win.conf --install 
 
c).using services.msc to start zabbix agent 
 
d).open inbound firewall port for 10050 
 
12. Add linux and windows client in zabbix web frontend

Install Zabbix 2.2.1 on CentOS 6.5

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