installation of zabbix

[safaa]

Hello everybody,
I installed zabbix agent on windows xp,when i execute zabbix_agentd.exe--start ,i get" zabbix_agentd.exe [3396]: Service "ZABBIX Agent" started successfully."Please i want to continue the installation to be able to work with zabbix,Can anyone tell me what to do next ?Thanks in advance.(It's emergency ,please).

[troffasky]

Are you intending to install Zabbix server on Windows XP? You won't be able to do this directly, but you could try installing it in a virtual machine on XP, or there may be a Zabbix Virtual Appliance you can download and run.

[safaa]

I don't know really what to do,is it impossible to install zabbix server on win xp ? and if yes ,what can i do with only zabbix agent ?Thanks in advance.

[hiacine]

Think it's not possible.

Zabbix server is only for unix system

2.2.2.Supported Platforms
Due to security requirements and mission-critical nature of monitoring server,
UNIX is the only operating system that can consistently deliver the necessary
performance, fault tolerance and resilience. ZABBIX operates on market leading
versions.

[safaa]

Thanks so much hiacine.

[safaa]

Please,can anyone tell me how to install a virtual appliance of zabbix on windows xp ?

[troffasky]

If you cannot find a Zabbix appliance specifically, choose a LAMP stack appliance as that will have 80% of what you want already installed.

[hiacine]

Why don't you install a virtual machine with linux and install zabbix on it ?

At home I have a vmware virtual machine with centos 5.3 where zabbix is installed.

It work fine

[jthakrar]

I have created a Zabbix Virtual Appliance and is available at Mikoomi.com.
I intend to keep on improving the appliance and adding more "monitoring capabilities/agents" to it.
In this initial version here's what you get in the appliance -

- Zabbix 1.8 (with a small fix from 1.8.1 that fixes a bug in template import)
- Ubuntu LAMP 9.10 (Karmic)
- DB2 Express-C (Free DB2 edition) -for DB2 monitoring

The web-site had download for the appliance as well as flash videos for setup and configuration (which is minimal).

Some of the "enhancements" that I have done include a weekly maintenance that does MySQL datafile optimization, seperating the different tables into their own tablespaces, keeping all the binaries, configuration, log and other files under /home/zabbix.

Since this is in the US and the Virtual Appliance is about 3.7 GB, I think it might be easier to make it available "closer" to other sites, say in Europe.

Will appreciate any feedback that you can provide regarding the appliance.

-- Jayesh

[jthakrar]

Apologies to everyone who may have downloaded the files from the ftp site, got the VM up and running but were having problems after going through the setup.

Essentially, there was a bug in the setup script which caused the network configuration file to be faulty.

Below is a sample of how a good Ubuntu network configuration file should look like.

The "fault" would most likely cause your VM not to boot up after running through the setup. So you will have to either disable your network interface or re-import the appliance.

Once you have done the above, either you can edit your network file generated by the setup.sh script manually or replace the setup.sh script with the attached file (the file is called setup.sh.txt - copy it to your virtual machine and rename it to setup.sh and also set execute permissions on the file).


##############################################
# Thu Mar 4 21:43:05 CST 2010
# Created by Mikoomi based on user-input
##############################################

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.51.21
# network - this was empty before - need to set it to the user-input value.
# network
network 192.168.51.0
broadcast 192.168.51.255
gateway 192.168.51.254
dns-nameservers 192.168.51.254

##############################################