Need help in installing Zabbix

[dakkonz]

Hey guys, i am really new to linux and zabbix
would like to know to install zabbix do I need to install from root account???
Or can I just put the file into a user account and unzip then run everything from there??

[James Wells]

Greetings,

You can install Zabbix as a normal user, however, when Zabbix fires up it attempts to become the user 'zabbix', failing to do that it will exit out gracefully. As a normal user, unfortunately, this means that you will be unable to start Zabbix, unless you are logged in as the user 'zabbix' or the user 'root'.

Additionally, to run Zabbix, you will need a MySQL database installed, and a PHP capable web server. The MySQL database requires you to either be logged in as the user 'root' or the user 'mysql' to start, but once it is started, anyone who has an account on the database can access it.

Your best bet for learning how to get it installed is to read the Zabbix Installation Guide

[dakkonz]

oh okiez thanks...
I read through the manual but dun quite understand.
Thanks for clearing my doubts

[dakkonz]

Hey guys, i experience a problem while configuring zabbix, can anyone help??
I got this from the screen before intallation was stalled

checking for MySQL support... no
configure: error: Invalid MySQL directory - unable to find mysql.h
[weekiat@FYPDevelopment zabbix-1.0]$

Thanks

[James Wells]

checking for MySQL support... no
configure: error: Invalid MySQL directory - unable to find mysql.h

Right off the bat, it looks like you don't the MySQL header files in a standard location. IIRC, the configure script looks for the headers in the following location;
/usr/include
/usr/local/include

If your header files are not located in these directories, then you will need to tell the configure script where they are located with the --with-mysql=<MySQL Library and Header Directory> argument.

[dakkonz]

okie thanks a lot... it is working now... thanks bro.

[dakkonz]

oh I have another problem now, sorry to bother you guys again

when attempting to run
"cd bin
./zabbix_suckerd
./zabbix_trapperd "
i got the following error message :

for "./zabbix_suckerd"
the error message is "./zabbix_suckerd: error while loading shared libraries: libnetsnmp.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

for "./zabbix_trapperd"
the error message is "Cannot open config file [/etc/zabbix/zabbix_trapperd.conf] [No such file or directory]"

is it necessary to run this step??? and what is the action being done by running these two commands??

[Wolfgang]

error while loading shared libraries: libnetsnmp.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Do you have libnetsnmp installed?

[dakkonz]

Yah I have installed net-snmp-5.1.3.1
I dunno what is wrong with it