Automating 2.4 Install

[slakevc]

Hello, I'm having an issue installing version 2.4 on Ubuntu using a provisioner(ansible). I need to be able to remotely install the package/build from source and am unable to do so because of the debconf dialog that asks:

Configure database for zabbix-server-mysql with dbconfig-common?

A remote install hangs at that point.

I've tried using the hacky fix: export DEBCONF_FRONTEND=noninteractive to turn off those dialogs globally but then the install just hangs. Is there any way around this?

[slakevc]

Figured it out

Think I was just using the wrong source files. Anyway, here's my ansible playbook for building 2.4 in case it helps anyone, All of the files referenced by the 'copy' module were copied from a running server made with these instructions:https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...lation/install

---
- name: Automate mysql password setup
command: bash -c "sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server mysql-server/root_password password zabbix'"

- name: Automate mysql password setup
command: bash -c "sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server mysql-server/root_password_again password zabbix'"

- name: install packages
action: apt pkg={{ item }} state=installed
with_items:
- libsnmp-dev
- apache2
- build-essential
- libxml2-dev
- libcurl4-gnutls-dev
- libmysqlclient-dev
- php5
- php5-mysql
- php5-gd
- mysql-server

- name: Copy over Zabbix 2.4 source
copy: src=zabbix-2.4.3.tar.gz dest=/tmp

- name: Extract Zabbix source
command: chdir=/tmp tar xvzf zabbix-2.4.3.tar.gz

- name: Create zabbix group
group: name=zabbix state=present

- name: Create zabbix user
user: createhome=no group=zabbix name=zabbix state=present

- name: Move zabbix frontend into place
command: chdir=/tmp/zabbix-2.4.3/ bash -c "mv frontends/php/* /var/www/"

- name: Set up apache with zabbix entry
copy: src=000-default.conf dest=/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

- name: Replace php apache php.ini file
copy: src=php.ini dest=/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

- name: Create zabbix database
command: mysql -h localhost -u root -pzabbix --execute='CREATE DATABASE zabbix character set utf8 collate utf8_bin'

- name: Create zabbix mysql user
command: mysql -h localhost -u root -pzabbix -e "grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost identified by 'zabbix'"

- name: Configure source
command: chdir=/tmp/zabbix-2.4.3 bash -c './configure --enable-server --enable-agent --with-mysql --with-net-snmp --with-libcurl --with-libxml2'

- name: Install zabbix
command: chdir=/tmp/zabbix-2.4.3 bash -c 'make install'

- name: Set up zabbix config
copy: src=zabbix.conf.php dest=/var/www/conf/zabbix.conf.php

- name: Set up zabbix config 2
copy: src=zabbix_server.conf dest=/usr/local/etc/zabbix_server.conf

- name: Import schema
command: chdir=/tmp/zabbix-2.4.3/database/mysql bash -c "mysql -h localhost -u zabbix -pzabbix zabbix < schema.sql"

- name: Import images
command: chdir=/tmp/zabbix-2.4.3/database/mysql bash -c "mysql -h localhost -u zabbix -pzabbix zabbix < images.sql"

- name: Import data
command: chdir=/tmp/zabbix-2.4.3/database/mysql bash -c "mysql -h localhost -u zabbix -pzabbix zabbix < data.sql"

- name: Restart mysql
command: /etc/init.d/mysql restart

- name: Start zabbix
command: zabbix_server

- name: Restart apache
command: /etc/init.d/apache2 restart