Zabbix Documentation 5.0

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS:

# yum install mysql-connector-odbc

• Debian/Ubuntu:

Please refer to MySQL documentation to download necessary database driver for the corresponding platform.

For some additional information please refer to: installing unixODBC.

ODBC configuration is done by editing odbcinst.ini and odbc.ini files. These configuration files can be found in /etc folder. The file odbcinst.ini may be missing and in this case it is necessary to create it manually.

odbcinst.ini

[mysql]
Description = General ODBC for MySQL
Driver      = /usr/lib64/libmyodbc5.so
Setup       = /usr/lib64/libodbcmyS.so 
FileUsage   = 1

Please consider the following examples of odbc.ini configuration parameters.

• An example with a connection through an IP:

[TEST_MYSQL]                                                     
Description = MySQL database 1                                   
Driver  = mysql                                                  
Port = 3306                                                      
Server = 127.0.0.1

• An example with a connection through an IP and with the use of credentials. A Zabbix database is used by default:

[TEST_MYSQL_FILLED_CRED]                       
Description = MySQL database 2                 
Driver  = mysql                                
User = root                                    
Port = 3306                                    
Password = zabbix                           
Database = zabbix                             
Server = 127.0.0.1                             

• An example with a connection through a socket and with the use of credentials. A Zabbix database is used by default:

[TEST_MYSQL_FILLED_CRED_SOCK]                  
Description = MySQL database 3                 
Driver  = mysql                                
User = root                                    
Password = zabbix                           
Socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock           
Database = zabbix

All other possible configuration parameter options can be found in MySQL official documentation web page.