1 Database creation scripts

Overview

A Zabbix database must be created during the installation of Zabbix server or proxy.

This section provides scripts for creating a Zabbix database. A separate schema script is provided for each supported database.

schema.sql, images.sql and data.sql files are located in the database subdirectory of Zabbix sources. If Zabbix was installed from distribution packages, refer to the distribution documentation.

For a Zabbix proxy database, only schema.sql should be imported (no images.sql nor data.sql)

The order of database file import has been changed

  • images must be imported before data.sql now.

Scripts

MySQL

We assume that a username user with password password exists and has permissions to create database objects.

shell> mysql -u<username> -p<password>
mysql> create database zabbix character set utf8 collate utf8_bin;
mysql> quit;
shell> mysql -u<username> -p<password> zabbix < database/mysql/schema.sql
# stop here if you are creating database for Zabbix proxy
shell> mysql -u<username> -p<password> zabbix < database/mysql/images.sql
shell> mysql -u<username> -p<password> zabbix < database/mysql/data.sql

PostgreSQL

We assume that a username user exists and has permissions to create database objects.

shell> psql -U <username>
psql> create database zabbix; 
psql> \q 
shell> cd database/postgresql
shell> psql -U <username> zabbix < schema.sql
# stop here if you are creating database for Zabbix proxy
shell> psql -U <username> zabbix < images.sql
shell> psql -U <username> zabbix < data.sql

Oracle

We assume that a zabbix database user with password password exists and has permissions to create database objects in ORCL service located on the host Oracle database server with a user shell user having write access to /tmp directory.

If you are creating a database for Zabbix server you need to have images somewhere on the Oracle host, for example in the /tmp/zabbix_images folder. Copy all images from misc/images/png_modern to /tmp/zabbix_images directory on the Oracle host:

shell> cd /path/to/zabbix-sources  
shell> scp -r misc/images/png_modern user@host:/tmp/zabbix_images

Edit the database/oracle/images.sql file and set images_dir variable to the /tmp/zabbix_images path:

CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY image_dir AS '/tmp/zabbix_images'

Now prepare the database:

shell> sqlplus zabbix/password@host/ORCL
sqlplus> @database/oracle/schema.sql
# stop here if you are creating database for Zabbix proxy
sqlplus> @database/oracle/images.sql
sqlplus> @database/oracle/data.sql

Zabbix requires a UTF-8 database character set. If database is not UTF-8, it can be converted by running: ALTER DATABASE NATIONAL CHARACTER SET UTF8;

IBM DB2

shell> db2 "create database zabbix using codeset utf-8 territory us pagesize 32768"
shell> cd database/ibm_db2
shell> db2batch -d zabbix -f schema.sql
# stop here if you are creating database for Zabbix proxy
shell> db2batch -d zabbix -f images.sql
shell> db2batch -d zabbix -f data.sql

Zabbix frontend uses OFFSET and LIMIT clauses in SQL queries. For this to work, IBM DB2 server must have DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR variable be set to 3. Run the following command before starting the database server:

shell> db2set DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=3

SQLite

shell> cd database/sqlite3
shell> sqlite3 /var/lib/sqlite/zabbix.db < schema.sql
# stop here if you are creating database for Zabbix proxy
shell> sqlite3 /var/lib/sqlite/zabbix.db < images.sql
shell> sqlite3 /var/lib/sqlite/zabbix.db < data.sql

If using SQLite with Zabbix proxy, database will be automatically created if it does not exist.

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