Zabbix installation for SAGrid distributed monitor - CentOS

Prerequisite packages

• compilers - if not already there : yum install gcc
• make - If not already there : yum install make
• web server (httpd/apache) : yum install httpd ; if it gives errors, run : yum install apr.x86_64apr-util.x86_64 then rerun yum install httpd
• MYSQL (Database can also be Oracle or PostgreSQL? ) In this case I opted for mysql; yum install mysql mysql-server mysql-devel
• NET-SNMP - yum install net-snmp net-snmp-utils net-snmp-libs
• CURL - yum install curl curl-devel
• NTP - yum install ntp
• PHP - yum install php php-gd php-bcmath php-mysql
• IKSEMEL and FPING :download the files necessary :

   http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/iksemel/iksemel-1.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
  wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/iksemel/iksemel-devel-1.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
  http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/fping/fping-2.4-1.b2.2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
  rpm -ivh iksemel-1.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm iksemel-devel-1.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm fping-2.4-1.b2.2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
  chmod 7555 /usr/sbin/fping

  • note 1 - you can also enable the DAG repository in /etc/yum.repos.d
  • note 2 - this should be done with yum localinstall xxx to include the rpms and their dependencies in the yum metadata on the local machine.

Time synchronisation

/etc/init.d/ntpd start

Installation and configuration of Zabbix :

• Create Zabbix user :

  adduser zabbix

• Download and Untar Zabbix stable version 1.6.5 :

  wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/zabbix/ZABBIX%20Latest%20Stable/1.6.5/zabbix-1.6.5.tar.gz?use_mirror=fastbull
  tar xzvf zabbix-1.6.5.tar.gz

• create the Zabbix database and grant access to a mysql zabbix user :

  mysql -u root 
  mysql> create database zabbix;
  mysql> Grant DROP, INDEX, CREATE, SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, ALTER, DELETE on zabbix.*
  TO zabbixmysqluser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "zabbixmysqlpass";

• Create the DB Schema (from extracted examples) ( - can we have a link to these examples, or some reference to the documentation here ?)

-- BruceBecker - 23 Jul 2009