Installing ZABBIX on Ubuntu from source files

Following are instructions on installing ZABBIX on Ubuntu. Beware that the packages in the Ubuntu repository are quite probably an old version. You can check this with

apt-cache showpkg zabbix-server-mysql

They currently apply to ZABBIX v1.4.2 and Ubuntu 7.04 but may apply to other versions. These instructions have been compiled from various sources so a big thanks to the sources.

Install pre-requisites: Apache MySQL-Server PHP5 Net-Snmp libraries Curl libraries

sudo apt-get install build-essential mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev php5 php5-gd php5-mysql snmp libsnmp9-dev snmpd libcurl3-dev

If you aren’t going to be using Web Monitoring, you can exclude libcurl3-dev from above.

NOTE: For Jabber support make sure to include libiksemel1 and libiksemel1-dev packages and then add –with-jabber=/usr/ to your configure command (STEP #4 below). The script wants the /include dir for the .h file and /lib for .c files and it needs to look in the root of the directory for them. For Ubuntu /usr is the place. Therefore, if you make sure that it knows to look in “/usr/” Jabber support should build fine. This is tested on Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 with Zabbix 1.4.2 but should work for more recent versions of Ubuntu as well.

1 - Make the zabbix user and group:

sudo adduser zabbix
enter in new password
confirm

use the remaining defaults.

Add zabbix to the admin group:

sudo adduser zabbix admin

2 - Download and Untar the sources:

su - zabbix
wget 
tar zxvpf zabbix-1.4.2.tar.gz

You might want to confirm that this is actually the latest version. You might also want to find a mirror closer to you by going to .

3 - Create a zabbix database and populate it:

sudo mysql -e"create database zabbix;"
sudo mysql -e"grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost identified by 'enter-password-here';"

安装是遇到禁止进入mysql的问题，使用webwin在图形界面的mysql管理里增加了zabbix用户设置密码，因此这两步完全略过

The following steps will require the password you assigned to the new zabbix database user account in the step above.

mysql -uzabbix -p zabbix < /home/zabbix/zabbix-1.4.2/create/schema/mysql.sql
mysql -uzabbix -p zabbix < /home/zabbix/zabbix-1.4.2/create/data/data.sql
mysql -uzabbix -p zabbix < /home/zabbix/zabbix-1.4.2/create/data/images_mysql.sql

使用刚才在sql里建立的zabbix的密码

4 - Configure, compile and install the server:

cd zabbix-1.4.2/
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-mysql --with-net-snmp --with-libcurl --enable-server --enable-agent && make
sudo make install

If you aren’t going to be using Web Monitoring, you can exclude –with-libcurl from above.

If you wish to add Jabber support add –with-jabber=/usr/ and make sure you have libiksemel1 and libiksemel1-dev packages as noted above before STEP #1

5 - Prepare the rest of the system:

sudo vim /etc/services

Add at the end:

zabbix_agent 10050/tcp # Zabbix ports
zabbix_trap 10051/tcp

Save and exit.

sudo mkdir /etc/zabbix
sudo chown -R zabbix.zabbix /etc/zabbix/
sudo cp misc/conf/zabbix_* /etc/zabbix/

Edit /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf:

sudo vim /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf

Make sure that the Server parameter points to the server address, for the agent that runs on the server it is like this:

Server=127.0.0.1

Save and exit.

Edit /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf:

sudo vim /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf

For small sites this default file will do, however if you are into tweaking your config for your 10+ hosts site, this is the place.

Change this:

# Database user
DBUser=zabbix
# Database password
# Comment this line if no password used
DBPassword=Secret

这步没做，我不需要改这个

Save and exit.

Copy the init.d scripts to the right spot:

sudo cp misc/init.d/debian/zabbix-server /etc/init.d
sudo cp misc/init.d/debian/zabbix-agent /etc/init.d

You may need to edit these script files as the compiled versions of the zabbix files is placed under /usr/sbin (/usr/bin in older versions).

sudo vim /etc/init.d/zabbix-server

Look for the following line:

DAEMON=/home/zabbix/bin/${NAME}

and replace it with:

DAEMON=/usr/sbin/${NAME} (old versions use /usr/bin/${NAME})

Save and exit.

sudo vim /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent

Look for the following line:

DAEMON=/home/zabbix/bin/${NAME}

and replace it with:

DAEMON=/usr/sbin/${NAME}  (old versions use /usr/bin/${NAME})

Save and exit.

Now set the correct permissions and set ZABBIX to start when the machine boots:

sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/zabbix-server
sudo update-rc.d zabbix-server defaults

sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent
sudo update-rc.d zabbix-agent defaults

Start the server :

sudo /etc/init.d/zabbix-server start

Start the agent:

sudo /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent start

Now check to make sure that they are running:

ps -aux | grep zabbix

You should see multiple instances of zabbix_server and zabbix_client running if everything has gone ok.

6 - Configure web interface

mkdir /home/zabbix/public_html
sudo cp -R frontends/php/* /home/zabbix/public_html/

Edit /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default:

sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default

Work into file:

Alias /zabbix /home/zabbix/public_html/

  AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes
  Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
  
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  
  
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
  

把这个加在原来文档的最后就可以了，我的文件夹一开始写错名字了，把public写成pulic结果实验的时候显示404错误，很囧。。。

Save and exit.

Make php.ini adjustments:

sudo vim /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Change the following values:

max_execution_time = 300 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
date.timezone = Asia/Shanghai

原文档里，date.timezone = Asia/Shanghai前面还有个分号呢，记得去掉，要不命令是无法生效的

(use this url to find your correct timezone format: )

Restart Apache:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Now point your browser to:

 or ip>/zabbix/

最后打开网页，输入我的地址却打不开网页，而是提示是否下载php文件

有次可知php没有被解析，上网查了下，可以试试以下命令

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

sudo a2enmod php5

第一条让apache重启，之后激活php5，我的php安装比较早，一直没用，一开始装完了就没激活……

执行这个命令之后刷新网页，zabbix页面终于出来了

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

打开网页后是安装界面，按照步骤到第四步：4. Configure DB connection

host使用localhost

user用最初建立好的zabbix用户，密码也是，点击显示ok就可以了

第五步，要求你下载zabbix.conf.php文件，并且复制到/home/zabbix/public_html/conf/下

点retry之后显示
Configuration file:
Ok
就可以了

最后完成所有安装，就可以看到Zabbix的用户界面了

Log in with username: Admin No Password 

装好了，界面很干净，也是中文的，现在研究一下报警之类的配置吼吼~~~

http://palm0507.blog.sohu.com/73469620.html