5 Proxy installation
For this procedure Zabbix repository provides choice of 3 packages named as follows:
- zabbix-proxy-mysql
- zabbix-proxy-pgsql
- zabbix-proxy-sqlite3
where the last value of the name (after zabbix-proxy-) represents database type of the package — MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite respectively.
Common configuration
Database configuration for Zabbix proxy
Edit proxy host, name, user and password in zabbix_proxy.conf
If Zabbix proxy and Zabbix server are installed on
the same host, their databases must have unique names! Defaults for both
are zabbix.
# vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_proxy.conf
DBHost=localhost
DBName=zabbix
DBUser=zabbix
DBPassword=zabbix