Newbie question

[richlv]

you can try creating a mysql database dump :

mysqldump zabbix | bzip2 -9 > dbdump.bz2

transfer it to another machine. later you can restore it with :

bzcat dbdump.bz2 | mysql zabbix

make sure that zabbix server is not running while the restore is happening

[zabbix69]

Thanks. It works.

[Voxtech]

looks good. and "config" directory they reside in ?

edit : ah, damn. if you copy configuration file, why are you running the wizard ? either allow webserver to write to that file, or just cancel the wizard.

I'm in the same boat. I have Zabbix running I just want to cover all my bases. So I'm running the Web install wizard just to check my settings. I've corrected a few PHP settings and tweaked a couple. Now I'm at the final stage but "how do I allow the webserver to write to that file"

Thank you

[richlv]

usually, chown -R <webserveruser> zabbixfrontenddirectory/conf
make sure to do something like chown -R root zabbixfrontenddirectory/conf afterwards

[Bertrand39100]

Hello Zabbix69,

To answer to you first question :

Is there a step by step guide that tells you how to setup a minimum installation of Zabbix?


Please find below some informations I use and files I modify to customize VM appliance to have your specific network settings and have access to zabbix front-end on you your network.

# ZABBIX VM PASSWORD

System: root:zabbix
Database: root:zabbix
Zabbix frontend: admin:zabbix

### ZABBIX VM COMMANDS ###
service mysql status
service zabbix-server status
service zabbix-agentd status

service zabbix-agentd start/stop/restart/status

# ZABBIX VM TOOLS

ping/fping
snmpwalk -v 1 -c public 172.x.x.x 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.5
zabbix-get -s172.x.x.x -p10050 -k"vfs.fs.size[/tmp]"
zabbix-get -s127.0.0.1 -p10051 -k"log["/var/log/zabbix/zabbix-agentd.log","active","UTF-8",100]"

# FIREWALL #
SuSEfirewall2 open EXT TCP zabbix-trapper zabbix-agent
SuSEfirewall2 stop
SuSEfirewall2 start

# MySQL #
mysqldump zabbix | bzip2 -9 > dbdump.bz2
bzcat dbdump.bz2 | mysql zabbix

# ZABBIX VM CONFIG FILES

### KEYBOARD ###

/etc/sysconfig/keyboard

KEYTABLE="us.map.gz" === KEYTABLE="xx.map.gz"
YAST_KEYBOARD="us,pc104" === YAST_KEYBOARD="xx,pc104"

xx is the country code you want to set (for me fr )

/etc/init.d/kbd stop
/etc/init.d/kbd start


### NETWORK ###
/etc/sysconfig/network/config
...

# ZONE x :
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp === BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR= === IPADDR=172.x.x.x
(IP address for Zabbix-server)
NETMASK= === NETMASK=255.255.255.0
route add default gw 172.x.x.254

service network stop
service network start

/etc/sysconfig/network/ifroute-eth0 = fille to add network static route
...

### APACHE ###
/etc/apache2/conf.d/zabbix.conf

Allow from 172.x.x.x/16

Network range to have access to Zabbix Front-End from.

service apache2 stop
service apache2 start

### FIREWALL ###
SuSEfirewall2 open EXT TCP zabbix-trapper zabbix-agent

SuSEfirewall2 stop
SuSEfirewall2 start

Need to be check if needed :
SuSEfirewall2 open EXT TCP snmp
SuSEfirewall2 open EXT TCP snmptrap

Hope it helps you

Have a good day.

Bertrand39100.

[Voxtech]

usually, chown -R <webserveruser> zabbixfrontenddirectory/conf
make sure to do something like chown -R root zabbixfrontenddirectory/conf afterwards

Thanks! I'm not sure what "chown" is but I just opened up the PHP file that the web install created and manually wrote in the settings in, that method seems to have worked.

Thank you!

[rugwiza]

Installation problem

Dear Sir, Im having the same problem.
The last step in installation says:
Configuration file: Fail

Please install configuration file manually, or fix permissions on conf directory.

Press "Save configuration file" button, download configuration file and save it as
"/etc/zabbix/web/zabbix.conf.php"

When done, press the "Retry" button
I downloaded the file, paste the contents into
"/etc/zabbix/web/zabbix.conf.php"
change permissions to 777, restarted httpd and mysqld, but nothing is changing. Can u advise please?