Zabbix frontend does not see server running

[jdlyle]

Hello everybody,
I am currently trying to install Zabbix 2.0.3. I followed the guide provided here:
http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/...lation/install

I have compiled it from source, created the database, configured the server, and installed the frontend. Yet when I navigate to the webpage in my browser, it shows that the running status of the Zabbix Server has a value of "no" (please see the "zabbix_webpage" screenshot).

So I made sure that the zabbix server process was running (please see the "zabbix_server_process" screenshot), and indeed it is. I then checked the log to make sure there were no errors being thrown out, and the log seemed fine (please see the "zabbix_server_log" screenshot).

So after looking through the forum, the two main causes of this issue are usually because (A) SElinux is enabled and (B) the server is not listening to the port. I made sure that SElinux was in fact disabled (please see the "zabbix_selinux_disabled" screenshot), and I also made sure that the Zabbix server was also listening to the right port (please see the "zabbix_listen_port" screenshot).

I was hoping that someone could help me resolve this issue. I appreciate any help I can get, and thank you for your time.

[jdlyle]

The issue is resolved. This is what I did:

So first I tried install zabbix 2.0 from source onto my Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 server, and the frontend was not recognizing that the zabbix server was running. I went into the IRC channel, and I was pointed in the direction of this thread:

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?p=121332

After installing the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repo, I tried installing the the packages using the "yum" command. It failed to install because of the dependencies "php-mbstring" and "php-bcmath" could not be found. Previously, I had tried to install these two modules manually in my initial Zabbix 2.0 install (and the frontend did recognize them during the Front End install). So I subscribed to the "optional" channel within the RHN, and I installed both of them from the repo. After those two dependencies were properly installed, I was then able to install the zabbix server packages from EPEL. Because the mysql database was using a password, I had to chmod the zabbix_server.conf to "write" so I could add the password into that file. Everything worked just fine after that.