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Installing Zabbix 2.2 From Source Code On CentOS 7

This document provides steps to install Zabbix 2.2 from source code on CentOS 7. It details installing required packages, creating a database and user, compiling and configuring Zabbix, and starting the services. The installation process is completed by browsing to the Zabbix frontend.

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Installing Zabbix 2.2 From Source Code On CentOS 7

This document provides steps to install Zabbix 2.2 from source code on CentOS 7. It details installing required packages, creating a database and user, compiling and configuring Zabbix, and starting the services. The installation process is completed by browsing to the Zabbix frontend.

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Installing Zabbix 2.2 from source code on CentOS 7.

Set the hostname


#/etc/hostename

Disable SELINUX
#vi /etc/selinux/config

Install below packages initially.


#yum group install "Development Tools"
#yum install httpd php
#yum install php-bcmath.x86_64 php-mbstring.x86_64 php-gd.x86_64
# yum install mysql mariadb-server
# yum install libxml2-devel net-snmp net-snmp-devel curl-devel

1. Download the source archive


http://www.zabbix.com/download.php

Once downloaded, extract the sources, by running,


#tar -zxvf zabbix-2.4.0.tar.gz

2. Create user account.


#groupadd zabbix
#useradd -g zabbix zabbix

3. Create Zabbix database.


For MySQL;

#systemctl start mariadb


# mysql_secure_installation
Enter current password for root (enter for none): (Press enter in your keyboard)
OK, successfully used password, moving on...

Set root password? [Y/n] y


New password:
Re-enter new password:
Password updated successfully!

Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y


... Success!

Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] y


... Success!

Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y


- Dropping test database...

Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y


... Success!

Thanks for using MariaDB!


4. ensure mariadb running.
# mysql -u root –p
MariaDB [(none)]> create database zabbix;
MariaDB [(none)]> grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost identified by 'secretpassword';
MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges;
MariaDB [(none)]> exit

5. Create all schema.


# mysql -u root -p zabbix < database/mysql/schema.sql
# mysql -u root -p zabbix < database/mysql/images.sql
# mysql -u root -p zabbix < database/mysql/data.sql

6. Configuring the source.


#./configure --enable-server --enable-agent --with-mysql --with-net-snmp --with-libcurl --with-libxml2
# make
# make install

7. Configure the webserver


# sed -i 's/^max_execution_time.*/max_execution_time=600/' /etc/php.ini
# sed -i 's/^max_input_time.*/max_input_time=600/' /etc/php.ini
# sed -i 's/^memory_limit.*/memory_limit=256M/' /etc/php.ini
# sed -i 's/^post_max_size.*/post_max_size=32M/' /etc/php.ini
# sed -i 's/^upload_max_filesize.*/upload_max_filesize=16M/' /etc/php.ini
# sed -i "s/^\;date.timezone.*/date.timezone=\'Asia/Calcutta'/" /etc/php.ini

Or
# vim /etc/php.ini and change the parameters.
max_execution_time 600
max_input_time=600
memory_limit=256M
post_max_size=32M
upload_max_filesize=16M
date.timezone=’Asia/Culcutta’

#vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/zabbix.conf
#
# Zabbix monitoring system php web frontend
#

Alias /zabbix /usr/share/zabbix

<Directory "/usr/share/zabbix">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory "/usr/share/zabbix/conf">
Require all denied
</Directory>

<Directory "/usr/share/zabbix/include">
Require all denied
</Directory>

Security considerations
# iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT

Start and initialize Zabbix


# systemctl start zabbix-agent
# systemctl start zabbix-server
# systemctl start httpd

Start all service on boot


# systemctl enable zabbix-agent
# systemctl enable zabbix-server
# systemctl senable httpd

After starting the services, browse to the following URL: http://<ip or hostname>/zabbix (for example:
http://192.168.202.101/zabbix). If all goes well, you should see something like this
Click next and check if everything is marked with OK:

In the next step, enter the details about the MariaDB user which we created (named zabbix and password
secretpass):
Continue to step and finish the installation:

After clicking finish, you should see the login screen to your new Zabbix installation:
The default username is admin and the default password for that user is zabbix.

Reference weblinks
http://jensd.be/?p=393
https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.2/manual/installation/install
https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.2/manual/appendix/install/db_scripts

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.4/manual/installation/install

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