Wow, you throw out some assertions there, and I have to say that I disagree - But let's just leave it there.
The lack of a guide specifically for CentOS may be because the lack of Zabbix users running CentOS? However, since you are running CentOS, you are in a position where you can change this, by spending a little extra time while getting your setup running, by writing a guide at the same time in order to help other people in the same situation. After all, that's how the open source community works.
Most of frustrated people in here seem to forget that this software is open source, and that often means that you should lower the expectations to documentation and support. It could be due to Zabbix widely being used in enterprise environments, and the people in those environments are used to paying tons of money on service and equipment. This rises their expectations generally, which then may not fit to what Zabbix can deliver.
There are already as good general Linux instructions as you can get in the documentation (apart from any remaining typos). As almost every distro has their own package management system, you can't really make a guide to each distro around.
Finally, I will like to end of with the conclusion from the review of Zabbix at Linux.com:
The lack of a guide specifically for CentOS may be because the lack of Zabbix users running CentOS? However, since you are running CentOS, you are in a position where you can change this, by spending a little extra time while getting your setup running, by writing a guide at the same time in order to help other people in the same situation. After all, that's how the open source community works.
Most of frustrated people in here seem to forget that this software is open source, and that often means that you should lower the expectations to documentation and support. It could be due to Zabbix widely being used in enterprise environments, and the people in those environments are used to paying tons of money on service and equipment. This rises their expectations generally, which then may not fit to what Zabbix can deliver.
There are already as good general Linux instructions as you can get in the documentation (apart from any remaining typos). As almost every distro has their own package management system, you can't really make a guide to each distro around.
Finally, I will like to end of with the conclusion from the review of Zabbix at Linux.com:
Implementing Zabbix may take quite some time, especially if you have a large number of hosts. Configuring the Zabbix server exactly as you want it takes even longer. But once Zabbix is set up and the agents are in place, monitoring your network becomes a lot easier. Zabbix frees you from spending time discovering network and resource problems on your hosts and network.
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