Install Zabbix in production from source?
Hi,
We're evaluating Zabbix a.t.m. (with success) and are looking for the best scenario of installing Zabbix in our production environment.
For testing purposes I've installed Zabbix 1.8 on FreeBSD from the ports repository and on another machine I've installed Zabbix 2.0 from source (also FreeBSD). Both work, and the part from version 2.0 that we specifically tested was the new java gateway + jmx templates and those seem to work pretty nicely as well (I like the fact that it's easy to customize those JMX templates).
So what we're now looking into is setting up a production server with Zabbix 2.0, since eventually that's what we need. Installing from source doesn't seem too hard, but I'd prefer an installation from the repositories.
Now I understand it will take a while before version 2.0 becomes available in any repository (even when looking at Linux, there aren't any distro's that have it in their repo a.t.m.).
What are your experiences with zabbix installations? (from source or not from source ^_~)
Thanks in advance.
-- Bart
We're evaluating Zabbix a.t.m. (with success) and are looking for the best scenario of installing Zabbix in our production environment.
For testing purposes I've installed Zabbix 1.8 on FreeBSD from the ports repository and on another machine I've installed Zabbix 2.0 from source (also FreeBSD). Both work, and the part from version 2.0 that we specifically tested was the new java gateway + jmx templates and those seem to work pretty nicely as well (I like the fact that it's easy to customize those JMX templates).
So what we're now looking into is setting up a production server with Zabbix 2.0, since eventually that's what we need. Installing from source doesn't seem too hard, but I'd prefer an installation from the repositories.
Now I understand it will take a while before version 2.0 becomes available in any repository (even when looking at Linux, there aren't any distro's that have it in their repo a.t.m.).
What are your experiences with zabbix installations? (from source or not from source ^_~)
Thanks in advance.
-- Bart
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