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Monitoring Systems With Zabbix – Initial Configuration – Part 2

/ September 28, 2016 — Monitoring

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    We are going to configure this as a server, without SNMP support, and with MySQL as a database:

    [root@srv-1 data]# cd ..
[root@srv-1 create]# cd ..
[root@srv-1 zabbix-1.1beta8]# ./configure --enable-server --with-mysql
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
configure: Configuring  
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
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Configuration:
Detected OS:      linux-gnu
Install path:     /usr/local
Compiler:         gcc
Compiler flags:   -g -O2
Linker flags:     -lresolv -lnsl 
Compilation arch: linux
Enable server:    yes
With database:    MySQL
Enable agent:     no
***********************************************************
*            Now run 'make'                               *
*                                                         *
*            Thank you for using ZABBIX!                  *
*              <http://www.zabbix.com>                    *
***********************************************************
[root@srv-1 zabbix-1.1beta8]#

    OK. Let’s compile:

    [root@srv-1 zabbix-1.1beta8]# make
Making all in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/zabbix-1.1beta8/src'
Making all in libs
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/zabbix-1.1beta8/src/libs'
Making all in zbxcommon
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make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/zabbix-1.1beta8/src'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/zabbix-1.1beta8/src'
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/zabbix-1.1beta8'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/zabbix-1.1beta8'
[root@srv-1 zabbix-1.1beta8]#

    Good. Let’s install into /usr/local/bin:

    [root@srv-1 zabbix-1.1beta8]# make install
Making install in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/zabbix-1.1beta8/src'
Making install in libs
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/zabbix-1.1beta8/src/libs'
Making install in zbxcommon
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make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/zabbix-1.1beta8'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/zabbix-1.1beta8'
[root@srv-1 zabbix-1.1beta8]#

    Create /etc/zabbix, and copy the server configuration template:

    [root@srv-1 zabbix-1.1beta8]# mkdir /etc/zabbix
[root@srv-1 zabbix-1.1beta8]# cp misc/conf/zabbix_server.conf /etc/zabbix/
[root@srv-1 zabbix-1.1beta8]# cat /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
# This is config file for ZABBIX server process
# To get more information about ZABBIX, 
# go http://www.zabbix.com
############ GENERAL PARAMETERS #################
# This defines which server this is.
# Default value 1
# This parameter must be between 1 and 255
Server=1
# Number of pre-forked instances of pollers
# Default value is 6
# This parameter must be between 5 and 255
StartSuckers=6
# Number of pre-forked instances of trappers
# Default value is 5
# This parameter must be between 2 and 255
StartTrappers=5
# Listen port for trapping. Default port number is 10051. This parameter 
# must be between 1024 and 32767
ListenPort=10051
# How often ZABBIX will perform housekeeping procedure
# (in hours)
# Default value is 1 hour
# Housekeeping is removing unnecessary information from
# tables history, laert, and alarms
# This parameter must be between 1 and 24
HousekeepingFrequency=1
# How often ZABBIX will try to send unsent alerts
# (in seconds)
# Default value is 30 seconds
SenderFrequency=30
# Uncomment this line to disable housekeeping procedure
#DisableHousekeeping=1
# Specifies debug level
# 0 - debug is not created
# 1 - critical information
# 2 - error information
# 3 - warnings (default)
# 4 - for debugging (produces lots of information)
DebugLevel=3
# Specifies how long we wait for agent (in sec)
# Must be between 1 and 30 
Timeout=5
# After how many seconds of unavailability treat a host as unavailable
UnavailablePeriod=20
# Name of PID file
PidFile=/var/tmp/zabbix_server.pid
# Name of log file
# If not set, syslog is used
LogFile=/tmp/zabbix_server.log
#Location for custom alert scripts
AlertScriptsPath=/home/zabbix/bin/
#Location of 'fping. Default is /usr/sbin/fping
#FpingLocation=/usr/sbin/fping
# Frequency of ICMP pings. Defauls is 30 second.
#PingerFrequency=30
# Database host name
# Default is localhost
#DBHost=localhost
# Database name
DBName=zabbix
# Database user
DBUser=root
# Database password
# Comment this line if no password used
#DBPassword=<password>
# Connect to MySQL using Unix socket?
#DBSocket=/tmp/mysql.sock
# Experimental options. Use with care !
# Get rid of sockets in TIME_WAIT state
# This will set socket option SO_LINGER
# NoTimeWait=1
[root@srv-1 zabbix-1.1beta8]#

    The only thing we changed was DBPassword.

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