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  • philjans
    Junior Member
    • Aug 2021
    • 3

    #1

    Zabbix pre-package appliances don't work!

    Hi,
    We want to trial Zabbix but so far, it has been impossible.
    We tried with the ISO first but after booting up it was stuck

    "Been trying for 2 days to get an install to work, keep getting the centos stream 8-stream started then get Service org.fedoraproject.anaconda.modules.storage has failed to start: Failed to activate service 'org.fedoraproject.anaconda.modules.storage': timed out ( service_start_timeout=6000000ms)"


    After we tried with the OFV.... but it was not build for VMware but for virtual box .... so we had to modify the ovf file to fix all that was incompatible... and then we also got stuck at many errors post boot.
    I was trying to import a virtual image in OVA format inside a Vmware ESXi (or vSphere Hypervisor as it is dubbed today) when I stumbled in this error: This OVF package requires unsupported hardware. Details: Line 33: Unsupported hardware family 'virtualbox-2.2'. As you che see in the following image: This error is mentioning some kind of unsupported hardware by vSphere hypervisor, what happened? It usually occur when an OVA appliance exported by VirtualBox is imported in vSphere, the default hardware format used by VirtualBox doesn’t fit the vSphere one, so it is unable to understand how to …

    Didn't work

    So we then went with the Vmware .vmx but it wasn't compatible with Vcenters but for VmWare workstation so we needed to convert it fist and then this one also didn't work and now my techs are trying to fix the postgress errors in that "appliance).




    We then decided to abandon the "pre-package easy appliance route" and we also build a CentOS from scrach and tried installing it manually on it ... my techs are trying to fix issues like
    connection refused - database error
    1174:20210819:141854.648 [Z3001] connection to database 'zabbix' failed: [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)
    1174:20210819:141854.649 database is down: reconnecting in 10 seconds

    So how can we make it work easily and fast: kind of tired trying to trial this software.
    Thanks

    We are using vmware Vcenter 5.5.
  • philjans
    Junior Member
    • Aug 2021
    • 3

    #2
    Tried again with Zabbix ISO version but 5.2 instead: = same problem!
    I don't get how come a pre-package non working appliance would be build and provided as a download....!
    I boots and then at
    "Starting installer, one moment...
    anaconda 33.16.5.4-1.el8 for CentOS... " it would just time out and noting working.
    It is not even stated installing on the HD because when I reboot it says "no bootable OS".

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    • dimir
      Zabbix developer
      • Apr 2011
      • 1080

      #3
      Looks like you need VMWare at least of 6.5 version. Our images will not work on 5.5 .

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      • philjans
        Junior Member
        • Aug 2021
        • 3

        #4
        That would explain...
        So: if I install CentOS from scrach in a vm on my vcenter 5.5 and then install Zabbix : I presume that would work?

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        • dimir
          Zabbix developer
          • Apr 2011
          • 1080

          #5
          Yes, select your options at https://www.zabbix.com/download, follow the instructions and your VM should be "filled" with Zabbix. :-)

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