Zabbix server is not running / fe_sendauth: no password supplied

[funkytwig]

Had a look on the forum and on the web generally but no joy. I have setup zabbix with postgressql and the initial install went fairly well. I had to manually add /etc/zabbix/zabbiz.conf.php and I did this. I then had to change the permissions to get web install to finish (did a+rw for now but will change later).

I then did 'service zabbix-server start' but when I looked at the web interface I cot the message at the bottom 'Zabbix server is not running' so I looked in the server logfile and found

11963:20171211:214329.452 [Z3001] connection to database 'zabbix' failed: [0] fe_sendauth: no password supplied

/etc/zabbix/zabbix.conf.php is:

<?php
// Zabbix GUI configuration file.
global $DB;

$DB['TYPE'] = 'POSTGRESQL';
$DB['SERVER'] = 'localhost';
$DB['PORT'] = '0';
$DB['DATABASE'] = 'zabbix';
$DB['USER'] = 'zabbix';
$DB['PASSWORD'] = '<pass>';

// Schema name. Used for IBM DB2 and PostgreSQL.
$DB['SCHEMA'] = '';

$ZBX_SERVER = 'localhost';
$ZBX_SERVER_PORT = '10051';
$ZBX_SERVER_NAME = '';

$IMAGE_FORMAT_DEFAULT = IMAGE_FORMAT_PNG;

Ben

[funkytwig]

PS

$ PGPASSWORD=<pass> psql -d zabbix -U zabbix

loges me into to db fine.

[funkytwig]

Should I maybe use mysql instead? Shame zabbix does not work with postgress.

[wawoodwa]

I had the same problem. You need to edit this file:

/etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf

You will see the DBPassword= line is commented out. Uncomment it and add the password <pass> there.

Do a sudo service zabbix-server restart

It worked for me. But then another problem...I checked the log and saw many of these errors:

Cannot adopt OID in ...

To resolve that, had to do a

sudo apt install snmp-mibs-downloader

A restart and I was underway.

Good luck!