Installing Zabbix 2.0.1 on Legacy Ubuntu Hardy 8.0.4 (with Plesk)
Just a quick post to let you know that I wrote a two parts tutorial (still work in progress, needs some cleaning) on how to install zabbix 2.0.1 on a contrieved environment (ie. Linux server with plesk) on an old (soon to be legacy) Ubuntu (8.0.4).
I think this situation is common enough (there are thousands of these old Hardy/plesk servers still being sold as "new defaut installs"), and as it took me some time to figure out things, I could as well share that.
Main problem is : not interfering with your "sources.list" (as little as possible), not interfering with "Plesk's" own packages (and man, does the thing hijack the OS), build a debian package so that undoing can be fast in case something went wrong with Plesk, and as a side-effect use Plesk's own backup/management system to do the hosting/backuping of Zabbix-server's php frontend and database for us.
It's here : http://barkingcode.peterhost.fr/
part I : http://barkingcode.peterhost.fr/2012...ith-plesk.html
part II : http://barkingcode.peterhost.fr/2012...sk-PART-2.html
I think this situation is common enough (there are thousands of these old Hardy/plesk servers still being sold as "new defaut installs"), and as it took me some time to figure out things, I could as well share that.
Main problem is : not interfering with your "sources.list" (as little as possible), not interfering with "Plesk's" own packages (and man, does the thing hijack the OS), build a debian package so that undoing can be fast in case something went wrong with Plesk, and as a side-effect use Plesk's own backup/management system to do the hosting/backuping of Zabbix-server's php frontend and database for us.
It's here : http://barkingcode.peterhost.fr/
part I : http://barkingcode.peterhost.fr/2012...ith-plesk.html
part II : http://barkingcode.peterhost.fr/2012...sk-PART-2.html