Installation from deployment packages

Installation from Zabbix's official source library

Zabbix SIA provides official RPM and DEB deployment packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Debian and Ubuntu LTS systems.

Deployment package files can be downloaded through repo.zabbix.com. The server provides both yum and apt source libraries. Detailed tutorials for installing Zabbix from deployment packages are provided here.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS
Support Versions: RHEL 7, Oracle Linux 7, CentOS 7

Some component deployment packages (such as agent, proxy, etc.) also support RHEL 5 and RHEL 6.

Install centos7 system:

Configuration allows root account remote login

1. Edit the / etc/ssh/sshd_config document and modify it to read as follows:

PermitRootLogin yes

System CTL stop firewalld
 System CTL disable firewalld

2. View firewalld status
    > firewall-cmd --state
    > not running

• Disable SElinux (must be turned off, otherwise some functions will not work properly)

1) Modify the / etc/selinux/config configuration file

sed -i "s/SELINUX=enforcing/SELINUX=disabled/g" /etc/selinux/config

2) Confirm whether the modification was successful

cat /etc/selinux/config |grep -v ^# |grep -v ^$
SELINUX=disabled
SELINUXTYPE=targeted

3) Restart the system

reboot

4) Check SELinux status after reboot

sestatus
SELinux status: disabled

Install the Zabbix service

• Install Repository with MySQL database

rpm -i http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/rhel/7/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.4-2.el7.noarch.rpm

• IInstall Zabbix server, frontend, agent

yum install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-web-mysql zabbix-agent

Install Initialization Database

Install Mariadb database (latest version of linux system, default is Mariadb.)

yum install -y mariadb mariadb-server

Start mariadb

systemctl start mariadb

Set up boot-up self-startup

systemctl enable mariadb

Security initialization, setting root password, etc.

mysql_secure_installation

To install the Zabbix database and users on MySQL, see the following instructions. MySQL database creation script.

• MySQL

mysql -uroot -p
create database zabbix character set utf8 collate utf8_bin;
grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost identified by '123456';
quit;

Then import the initial architecture (Schema) and data.

cd /usr/share/doc/zabbix-server-mysql-3.4.* (Installation-based view of specific versions)

zcat create.sql.gz | mysql -uroot zabbix

Check the zabbix_server.conf configuration file modification results

cat /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf |grep -v ^# |grep -v ^$

LogFile=/var/log/zabbix/zabbix_server.log
LogFileSize=0
PidFile=/var/run/zabbix/zabbix_server.pid
SocketDir=/var/run/zabbix
DBHost=localhost
DBName=zabbix
DBUser=zabbix
DBPassword=123456
SNMPTrapperFile=/var/log/snmptrap/snmptrap.log
Timeout=4
AlertScriptsPath=/usr/lib/zabbix/alertscripts
ExternalScripts=/usr/lib/zabbix/externalscripts
LogSlowQueries=3000

Start the Zabbix Server process

Editing database configuration in zabbix_server.conf

vim /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
DBHost=localhost
DBName=zabbix
DBUser=zabbix
DBPassword=zabbix

Start the Zabbix Server process

systemctl restart zabbix-server zabbix-agent httpd
systemctl enable zabbix-server zabbix-agent httpd

View zabbix-server running

systemctl status zabbix-server

Editing the PHP configuration for the Zabbix front end

The Apache configuration file on the front end of Zabbix is located at

/etc/httpd/conf.d/zabbix.conf .

Some PHP settings have been 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 always_populate_raw_post_data -1

php_value date.timezone Europe/Riga

Depending on the time zone, you can uncomment the "date.timezone" setting and configure it correctly. After the configuration file changes, you need to restart the Apache Web server.

View the modification results

cat /etc/httpd/conf.d/zabbix.conf |grep -v ^# |grep -v ^$

Alias /zabbix /usr/share/zabbix
<Directory "/usr/share/zabbix">
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
    <IfModule mod_php5.c>
        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 always_populate_raw_post_data -1
        php_value date.timezone Asia/Shanghai
    </IfModule>
</Directory>

Restart service

systemctl restart httpd

The Zabbix front end can be accessed in browsers http://zabbix-frontend-hostname/zabbix Visit. The default username/password is Admin/zabbix.