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This is a super light weight way to get a zabbix proxy up and running without the overhead of running a mysql database. sqlite is basically an entire database that lives inside of a single file. The 1.6 docs say that zabbix will create a database if none exists. This is only true for sqlite.
I recommend downloading the sources for the latest 1.6.x and using those instead. It shouldn't change any of these steps except for 1.6 ⇒ 1.6.x.
apt-get install build-essential snmp libsnmp9-dev snmpd libcurl3-dev fping curl sqlite libsqlite3-dev ntpdate
If you aren’t going to be using Web Monitoring, you can exclude libcurl3-dev from above.
Log into your server as root.
adduser zabbix enter in new password confirm
use the remaining defaults. Add zabbix to the admin group:
adduser zabbix adm
su - zabbix cd ~ wget http://optusnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/zabbix/zabbix-1.6.tar.gz tar zxvpf zabbix-1.6.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 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23494.
cd zabbix-1.6/ ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-proxy --enable-agent --with-sqlite3 --with-net-snmp --with-libcurl && make su make install
nano /etc/services
Add at the end:
zabbix_agent 10050/tcp # Zabbix ports zabbix_trap 10051/tcp
Save and exit.
mkdir /etc/zabbix chown -R zabbix.zabbix /etc/zabbix/ cp misc/conf/zabbix_proxy.conf /etc/zabbix/ cp misc/conf/zabbix_agentd.conf /etc/zabbix/
Edit the agent's configuration:
nano /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
Make sure that the Server parameter points to the proxy's address. use the REAL IP, not loopback for this.
Server=127.0.0.1
Save and exit. Edit /etc/zabbix/zabbix_proxy.conf:
nano /etc/zabbix/zabbix_proxy.conf
For small sites, most the parameters will work fine. Iif you are into tweaking your config for your 10+ hosts, you may want to use mysql instead of sqlite, and/or edit these parameters. Change the caps parameters:
# IP address (or hostname) of ZABBIX servers. Server=MASTER_ZABBIX_SERVER_IP # Database name DBName=/home/zabbix/zabbix.db # Unique hostname. Hostname=MACHINE_HOST_NAME
Save and exit.
Copy the init.d scripts to the right spot: (this uses the server’s init script. we rename it, and will modify it to start the proxy service instead.
cp misc/init.d/debian/zabbix-server /etc/init.d/zabbix-proxy cp misc/init.d/debian/zabbix-agent /etc/init.d
You need to edit these script files as the compiled versions of the zabbix files is placed under /usr/sbin (/usr/bin in older versions). configure the proxy service script
nano /etc/init.d/zabbix-proxy
Make it look like this:
NAME=zabbix_proxy
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/zabbix/bin
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/${NAME}
DESC="Zabbix proxy daemon"
PID=/var/tmp/$NAME.pid
Save and exit. now edit the agent startup script
nano /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent
Change this line:
DAEMON=/home/zabbix/bin/${NAME}
replace it with:
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/${NAME} (old versions use /usr/bin/${NAME})
Save and exit. Now set the correct permissions and set ZABBIX to start when the machine boots:
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/zabbix-proxy update-rc.d zabbix-proxy defaults chmod 755 /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent update-rc.d zabbix-agent defaults
Start the server :
/etc/init.d/zabbix-proxy start
Start the agent:
/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_proxy and zabbix_agentd running if everything has gone ok. If not, check /tmp/zabbix_proxy.log for errors. On your zabbix server, go to configuration-> Hosts. From the dropdown box in the upper-right corner, select “proxies”. then click the “create proxy” button. Use the same EXACLTY as you entered it in the “zabbix-proxy.conf” file.
