HELP - server dies when built with net-snmp

[psigurdson]

Hello,

I am trying to install and evaluate Zabbix on Redhat Linux 3 ES. We want to monitor all our client machines using SNMP. However, the zabbix server starts and then dies right away.

I've already followed the user manual and forum hints (and can run it without snmp), but I'm not able to get the zabbix server running with snmp configured. The zabbix_server.log file shows...

Starting zabbix_server. ZABBIX 1.1.
server #1 started [Alerter]
server #2 started [Timer]
server #3 started [ICMP pinger]
server #6 started [Trapper]
server #7 started [Trapper]
server #8 started [Trapper]
server #9 started [Trapper]
One server process died. Shutting down...
ZABBIX server is down.

No error is shown in the log, even when the the debug setting is set to 4.
No core file is created.

Yes, the server will run if we exclude the "--with-net-snmp" flag from the zabbix build configuration, but we must have snmp (so excluding the snmp flag is not an option for us).

Here is a list of the libraries that I've already installed on my server...

mysql 5.0.22
apache 2.2.2
libxml2 2.6.26
jpeg 6b
libpng 1.2.10
GD 2.0.33
PHP 5.1.4
Beecrypt 4.1.2
net-snmp 5.3.0.1
zabbix 1.1

I wonder if I have used the proper "configure" flags when building the net-snmp and zabbix libraries.

For net-snmp I used these configure flags...

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-zlib=/usr --with-default-snmp-version=2 --with-persistent-directory=/var/net-snmp

For zabbix I used these configure flags...

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-mysql --with-net-snmp=/usr/local --enable-server --enable-agent

Can someone point me to a "How To install zabbix with SNMP support" for Redhat Linux 3 ES?

Also, once I get the zabbix server running with snmp configured, how can I use it to monitor a Linux box by snmp traps. Do I need to install/run an snmp server? If so, what is recommended.

Cheers,
Paul