Zabbix web interface frontend

[gen2linuxdude]

First of all, I have to say that from I've read so far, I really like Zabbix.
The installation is very straight forward except for this problem that I
am currently running into.

I downloaded zabbix version 1.1.6 and installed on my gentoo linux box.
I downloaded apache, php, mysql to this box as well. Everything is running
on the same machine.

I followed step-by-step instructions on how to install zabbix and I get both
the zabbix_server and zabbix_agentd running on this box as follow:

zabbix@Gen2Linux /usr/local/src/zabbix-1.1.6 $ ps -eaf | grep zabbix
zabbix 7199 1 0 21:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/zabbix_server -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
zabbix 7201 7199 0 21:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/zabbix_server -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
zabbix 7203 7199 0 21:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/zabbix_server -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
zabbix 7205 7199 0 21:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/zabbix_server -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
zabbix 7210 7199 0 21:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/zabbix_server -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
zabbix 7211 7199 0 21:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/zabbix_server -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
zabbix 7213 7199 0 21:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/zabbix_server -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
zabbix 7215 7199 0 21:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/zabbix_server -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
zabbix 7217 7199 0 21:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/zabbix_server -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
zabbix 7219 7199 0 21:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/zabbix_server -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
zabbix 7222 7199 0 21:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/zabbix_server -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
zabbix 7235 1 0 21:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/zabbix_agentd
zabbix 7236 7235 0 21:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/zabbix_agentd
zabbix 7237 7235 0 21:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/zabbix_agentd
zabbix 7238 7235 0 21:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/zabbix_agentd
zabbix 7239 7235 0 21:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/zabbix_agentd

So as you can see, everything is working fine. Now I would like to connect to
frontend (aka Zabbix Web interface) but I don't know how to do it. I downloaded
Zabbix version 1.4 mannual and it says nothing about how to get this part done.
I am not an expert in linux so these things are very new to me. I would like
to get this working so that I can show management in my company how good this
product is so that we are going to install it and get support for it.

Can someone help me with a step-to-step instructions on how to get the web interface
up and running and what I have to do?

Thanks for your time.

gen2linuxdude

[gen2linuxdude]

more questions

I think I have to modify the apache httpd.conf file but I dont' know how.
Please go easy on my guys. This is my first time installing this product. I
really like it a lot. I have installed both PHP and perl on the box via
"emerge php" and "emerge perl".

Thank you.

[Florin]

On my Ubuntu installation, using apache2, changes in httpd.conf aren't necessary.

Instead there's simply a symbolic link /etc/apache2/conf.d/zabbix which points to /etc/zabbix/apache.conf

The web frontend is accessible at http://localhost/zabbix

Good luck

[gen2linuxdude]

update

hi,
Unfortunately I don't have a spare box to load ubuntu at the moment. I am
stuck with Gentoo Linux. Can someone please show me how to get the Web
interface working? I am at a point now where I don't know what to do since
my linux skill is not that great.

I think Zabbix developers should have a separate section to show people
how to make frontend web interface work with Zabbix so that people who
are not Unix savy as myself can read the instructions on how to proceed with
this part. As of now, the instructions is not clear at all.

Please help. Thanks.

[rajan.s.ravi]

Hi,

Please refer to the manual here -

http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/in...source_web.php

This should help.

Ravi

[James Wells]

Greetings,

I think Zabbix developers should have a separate section to show people how to make frontend web interface work with Zabbix so that people who are not Unix savy as myself can read the instructions on how to proceed with this part. As of now, the instructions is not clear at all.

Actually, with the wiki in place, we have the ability to do just that. Please note, as my signature states, I am not one of the official developers, instead, just like you I am an end user, who has been where you are at now.

I have sent you a private message, and if you follow through with it, not only can we get you hooked up with minimum fuss, but, we, meaning you and me, can get a good set of instructions on building up Zabbix on Gentoo posted to the wiki.

[gen2linuxdude]

thanks james

I just sent you an email. That's an excellent idea. Once we have this work
out, I can post the instructions on my website so that others non-linux
experts like myself can do this in the future.

Thanks again.

[James Wells]

I would like to thank Gen2LinuxDude. He has acted as my guniea pig while I wrote the Zabbix on Gentoo wiki page. For anyone who is having issues getting Zabbix started on Gentoo, please take a look at the
ZABBIX on Gentoo wiki page.

[condor]

The Zabbix Web Ap

Look in your zabbix folder from unpacking the tar file.

In there a folder called php exists -thats the Zabbix folder.

you can:

mv php /var/www/htdocs (or whereever your doc root is)

Then rename it to zabbix.

then http://your_server_IP/zabbix should serve login page

In Suse its like: /srv/www/htdocs

In Redhat it is: /var/www/ or /var/www/something

Also, webmin can make configuration of your apache world easier.

(no, I don't work for webmin, I just like using it)

I am uncertain of the folder permissons, as I am getting occasional error myself on some of the graphics components "Permission Denied" -tried using zabbix, or root or owned by root and group zabbix etc. -hmm probably some nefarious directive somewhere.

[Antixrict]

http://localhot/zabbix-frontends/

in your disk it is in /var/www/htdocs/zabbix-frontends

[tronite]

http://localhot/zabbix-frontends/
in your disk it is in /var/www/htdocs/zabbix-frontends

Cool maybe this will work let me try it as well.

[tronite]

Cool maybe this will work let me try it as well.

/var/www/htdocs/zabbix-frontends

Well I dont see anything there!

[tronite]

/var/www/htdocs/zabbix-frontends

Well I dont see anything there!

Or is this only for the gentoo users?