New 1.6 install, MySQL connect issues

[Wayne]

Hello,

Was happy to see that 1.6 has been released, as I was beginning to move to Nagios for monitoring due to a few recurring issues.

Today, I installed a fresh copy of 1.6 onto a sandbox server of ours. Everything went as expected, except I am unable to start the zabbix server. I have setup a db for zabbix, imported the initial data of course, assigned a user, and configured this user during setup of the frontend of zabbix.

From zabbix log:
Starting zabbix_server. ZABBIX 1.6.
**** Enabled features ****
SNMP monitoring: YES
WEB monitoring: YES
Jabber notifications: NO
ODBC: NO
IPv6 support: NO
**************************
Failed to connect to database: Error: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) [1045]

/conf/zabbix.conf.php does contain proper MySQL connection details to the db with a non-root user. Any idea why the zabbix server would be trying to connect as root@localhost?

Thanks!

Edit - Resolved. Was a MySQL configuration issue, entirely unrelated to zabbix.

[Alexei]

Look at zabbix_server.conf, not zabbix.conf.php!

[Wayne]

Yes, sorry I edited the post shortly after making it. The issue was entirely unrelated to Zabbix.

I also wanted to update the post with that exact information that you posted, in case anyone searched for it. It initially wasn't obvious to me that zabbix_server.conf contained the MySQL connection information for the zabbix_server process, though I figured it out after the fact.

Also.... I'm amazingly happy with 1.6 and the changes that have been made. It's great so see such progress. I had started to leave zabbix for a Nagios / Cacti setup mainly due to performance, and though I haven't done any benchmarking yet.... I'm seeing much improved performance on the same set of hosts I was monitoring with an older build.