Installing Zabbix 2.2 on a redhad based system

[louigi600]

Although there is now a repository on repo.zabbix.com (set up by installing this package zabbix-release-2.2-1.el6.noarch.rpm) it's missing some dependencies that are not on the RedHat/CentOS repositories, but can be found on epel.
Epel on the other hand, at the time of writing, lacks the zabbix 2.2 packages.

Until all the required packages get into a repo this makes it a little troublesome to install anc upgrade zabbix.
I've worked around this by creating a local repository with all that is neaded:

Z_VER=2.2
PLATFORM=$(uname -m)
case $PLATFORM in
 i?86) PLATFORM=i386;;
 x86_64|amd64) PLATFORM=x86_64;
esac
OS_REL=$(lsb_release -r | awk '{print $NF}')
OS_REL_M=$(echo "$OS_REL" |awk -F. '{print $1}')
OS_DIST=$(lsb_release -i | awk '{print tolower($NF)}')

case $OS_DIST in
  centos*|redhat*) DISTRO_TYPE=rhel ;;
esac

REPO_NAME="Zabbix $Z_VER for $DISTRO_TYPE $OS_REL_M $PLATFORM based systems"
mkdir -p /var/zabbix
cd /var/zabbix
rm -rf ./*
wget -q -nd -r -l 1 -L -X '' -X ..,Parent\ Directory,index\*  http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/$Z_VER/$DISTRO_TYPE/$OS_REL_M/${PLATFORM}/
EXTRA_PACKAGES=$(links -dump http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/$OS_REL_M/$PLATFORM/ |grep -E "/iksemel|/fping" |awk '{printf("%s ",$NF)}')
wget -q -nd -r -l 1 -L -X '' -X ..,Parent\ Directory,index\*  $EXTRA_PACKAGES
rm -f index.html*
createrepo -S --content "$REPO_NAME" --repo zabbix .

cat << EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/Zabbix.repo
# Name: Zabbix RPM Repository
# URL: http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/$Z_VER/$DISTRO_TYPE/$OS_REL_M/${PLATFORM}/
[zabbix]
name = $REPO_NAME
baseurl=file:///var/zabbix
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
EOF

I've tested this on a CentOS 6 and it works fine, it might need som editing for other redhat based distros.

After running the above shell script you may simply install/upgrade zabbix with yum:

yum install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-web-mysql

Hope this is helpfull.