zabbix installation on ubuntu 6.06 LTS

[krischeu]

Hello NG,

i am new to zabbix and i want to test it in our environment. So i decided to install Ubuntu 6.06 LTS on VMware-server as LAMP-installation. Installing Ubuntu is so far not really a problem.

I installed the following packages by using apt-get with standard-sources of /etc/apt/sources.list (changes are only done by deleting the "#"!!).

I am running kernel 2.6.15.27 with 256 MB RAM.
After downloading the sources zabbix-1.1.4.tar.gz i run into problems with missing packages.

So i installed with apt-get install:
openssh-server, mysql-client, linux-image-server, gcc, make, openssl, libssl-devel, libmysql++-dev, libapache2-mod-php, php4-cgi

By starting ./configure -with-mysql -with-net-snmp i ran into problems, that it cannot find some snmp-develop-libraries. I decided to compile it by myself and download it from sourceforge net-snmp 5.4.

After this was done the compilation of ./configure -with-mysql -with-net-snmp looks good and the suggestion from the program to do a "make" looks fine to me.

I run "make" "make install" but in the ./bin directory are only 2 windowsexecutable. I want to run the zabbix-server as server and client AND other clients should send information to zabbix-server.

What have i done wrong? I know i could get installtion files from apt-get install zabbix ..., but i want to install it from scratch.

Every hint is usefull for me.......

[krischeu]

Zabbix 1.1.4

root@zabbix:/usr/local/zabbix/zabbix-1.1.4# ./configure --enable-server --enable-agent -with-mysql -with-net-snmp

make
make install

What follows up now? I did this as root and i want to change to user "zabbix".

Any hints?

[Alexei]

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is a perfect platform for ZABBIX. The distribution contains all necessary packages to build and run ZABBIX. No need to install any third-party software from source.

[krischeu]

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is a perfect platform for ZABBIX. The distribution contains all necessary packages to build and run ZABBIX. No need to install any third-party software from source.

Hi,
is there a desciption about installing zabbix with apt-get and the needed packages?

[squeege]

Debian + Zabbix How-To

This might be helpful, seeing that Ubuntu is debian-based:

http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/zabbix.htm

Also, this is a more general unix + Zabbix how-to:

http://howtoforge.net/zabbix_network_monitoring

I am going to try installing Zabbix on Ubuntu 6.10 Server as a proof of concept, hopefully when 7.04 LTS arrives, I will it make a permanent solution.

Good luck to you...

[Rick-CK-STL]

Newbie Looking for help and advice.

Hello,
I just installed Ubuntu 6.06 LAMP
I'm trying to install zabbix and running into issues. I see from above I need to install some other packages with apt-get. I tried installing the list above, some go ok some fail.
Does any one have a document for installing on Ubunto 6.06? I have read the other install docs but I think I need to work on the OS before I can start installing zabbix. Is Ubuntu a good distro to run zabbix on or should I be installing it on something else?

Thanks
Rick