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  • onallion
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2016
    • 131
    #1

    Installing Zabbix 3.2 on Amazon Linux AMI

    Hey all,

    I want to install Zabbix 3.2 on the latest Amazon Linux AMI. Following the RHEL/CentOS steps does not work (dependencies like systemd are missing), so I guess this is not compatible.

    Has anyone had success doing this and can guide me perhaps, or link to a resource? I already have MySQL on RDS.

    Thanks
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    • kloczek
      Senior Member
      • Jun 2006
      • 1771
      #2
      Originally posted by onallion
      Has anyone had success doing this and can guide me perhaps, or link to a resource? I already have MySQL on RDS.
      Yes but it is not as same as with using DB engine on fully controlled system where you can do binary snapshot of the database.
      Zabbix with Amazon RDS will be working up to only some scale because beyond some scale cost of running Amazon RDSeson scale required by zabbix are way higher than cost of HW + powering, cooling and management if you know how to do this.
      Kye factor to have descend speed of the zabbix DB backend is have enough big memory to cache last +half day data + indexes cached in memory.
      With database used by zabbix stack +2k NVPS it mean use +64GB RAM used by DB backend. Try to check price of such instances per hour.
      Sharing the same hardware with other EC2 or RDS instances on the hardware which cannot guarantee CPU caches partitioning means as well very unstable performance (at the moment only CPU capable to provide such functionality is M5/M7 USparc hardware)

      Using AWS RDS is OK in case very small or small databases used mainly in RO. Usually zabbix DB is not such case where you have constant RW flow with high demand well cased data where impact delivery of desync SELECT data to the DB frontend app is null.
      In case AWS MySQL RDS Amazon is not able to change engine transaction semantics
      settings to READ-COMMITTED (transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED) which is key settings minimize write operations impact on blocking reads. In other words cost of running DB in AWS RDS are even faster growing with growing minimum required performance (using even faster HW is only way to guarantee enough write ops latency).
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        • Atsushi
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2013
          • 2028
          #3
          Are you trying to install packages for RHEL 7 on Amazon Linux?

          Amazon Linux should be based on RHEL 6, so you can not use for RHEL 7.
          However, compatibility with RHEL 6 may not be maintained because each package or library has been updated considerably from RHEL 6.
          Also, SMTP authentication can not be used for packages for RHEL 6.

          The package installation procedure for RHEL 6 will be as follows.

          Code:
          $ sudo yum install http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.2/rhel/6/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.2-1.el6.noarch.rpm
$ sudo yum install zabbix-agent
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=zabbix-deprecated install zabbix-server-mysql
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=zabbix-deprecated install zabbix-web-mysql
          It is necessary to specify and install httpd and PHP separately.

          ex.
          Code:
          $ sudo yum install httpd24 php56 php56-gd php56-bcmath php56-mbstring php56-xml php56-ldap php56-mysqlnd
$ sudo chown -R apache:apache /usr/share/zabbix/
$ sudo chown -R apache:apache /etc/zabbix/web/
          It is also necessary to arrange the setting file for httpd.

          ex.
          Code:
          $ sudo cp /usr/share/doc/zabbix-web-3.2.6/httpd24-example.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/zabbix.conf

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            • onallion
              Senior Member
              • Mar 2016
              • 131
              #4
              Originally posted by kloczek
              Yes but it is not as same as with using DB engine on fully controlled system where you can do binary snapshot of the database.
              Zabbix with Amazon RDS will be working up to only some scale because beyond some scale cost of running Amazon RDSeson scale required by zabbix are way higher than cost of HW + powering, cooling and management if you know how to do this.
              Kye factor to have descend speed of the zabbix DB backend is have enough big memory to cache last +half day data + indexes cached in memory.
              With database used by zabbix stack +2k NVPS it mean use +64GB RAM used by DB backend. Try to check price of such instances per hour.
              Sharing the same hardware with other EC2 or RDS instances on the hardware which cannot guarantee CPU caches partitioning means as well very unstable performance (at the moment only CPU capable to provide such functionality is M5/M7 USparc hardware)

              Using AWS RDS is OK in case very small or small databases used mainly in RO. Usually zabbix DB is not such case where you have constant RW flow with high demand well cased data where impact delivery of desync SELECT data to the DB frontend app is null.
              In case AWS MySQL RDS Amazon is not able to change engine transaction semantics
              settings to READ-COMMITTED (transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED) which is key settings minimize write operations impact on blocking reads. In other words cost of running DB in AWS RDS are even faster growing with growing minimum required performance (using even faster HW is only way to guarantee enough write ops latency).
              Thanks for the insight. In this case I am at a client and that database was already established in RDS. Regardless, this will be a small installation, probably max 200nvps...so I don't worry too much.

              I ended up just installing RHEL7, btw. Thanks for the help

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                • bachancellor
                  Junior Member
                  • Feb 2018
                  • 2
                  #5
                  Installing Zabbix Agent on Amazon Linux AMI

                  Prereq: Open port 10050 TCP inbound via Security Group in EC2

                  rpm -Uvh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/2.4/rh...el6.x86_64.rpm
                  rpm -Uvh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/2.4/rh...el6.x86_64.rpm

                  vim /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf

                  Find and change both values:
                  Server=127.0.0.1 to you Zabbix Server IP
                  ServerActive=127.0.0.1 to your Zabbix Server IP

                  To run zabbix on boot run the following command
                  chkconfig zabbix-agent on

                  service zabbix-agent restart x2 <typically fails first try>
                  I had better luck just rebooting the machine.

                  Run netstat to verify listening port:
                  netstat -ltpn | grep 10050

                  netstat -ltpn | grep 10050
                  tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:10050 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4198/zabbix_agentd
                  tcp 0 0 :::10050 :::* LISTEN 4198/zabbix_agentd

                  If you need help setting up the host in Zabbix server just make sure to use the agent server hostname or ip in the Agent Interfaces

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                    • njader
                      Junior Member
                      • Mar 2018
                      • 5
                      #6
                      Originally posted by Atsushi
                      Are you trying to install packages for RHEL 7 on Amazon Linux?

                      Amazon Linux should be based on RHEL 6, so you can not use for RHEL 7.
                      However, compatibility with RHEL 6 may not be maintained because each package or library has been updated considerably from RHEL 6.
                      Also, SMTP authentication can not be used for packages for RHEL 6.

                      The package installation procedure for RHEL 6 will be as follows.

                      Code:
                      $ sudo yum install http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.2/rhel/6/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.2-1.el6.noarch.rpm
$ sudo yum install zabbix-agent
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=zabbix-deprecated install zabbix-server-mysql
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=zabbix-deprecated install zabbix-web-mysql
                      It is necessary to specify and install httpd and PHP separately.

                      ex.
                      Code:
                      $ sudo yum install httpd24 php56 php56-gd php56-bcmath php56-mbstring php56-xml php56-ldap php56-mysqlnd
$ sudo chown -R apache:apache /usr/share/zabbix/
$ sudo chown -R apache:apache /etc/zabbix/web/
                      It is also necessary to arrange the setting file for httpd.

                      ex.
                      Code:
                      $ sudo cp /usr/share/doc/zabbix-web-3.2.6/httpd24-example.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/zabbix.conf
                      Hi Atsushi, do you mean it is not possible to use email notification (SMTP). I followed the command you posted. Zabbix is now working but I can't send email notification. Error says "Support for SMTP authentication was not compiled in". To enable SMTP authentication on zabbix, should I reinstall it zabbix to Amazon Linux the other way? How? Thank you

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                        • Atsushi
                          #6.1
                          Atsushi commented
                          19-03-2018, 06:58
                          Editing a comment
                          Hi njader,
                          It is necessary to compile from sources on Amazon Linux.
                          • njader
                            #6.2
                            njader commented
                            20-03-2018, 09:21
                            Editing a comment
                            I downloaded zabbix-4.0.0alpha3.tar.gz and tried to compile zabbix but error as well.

                            ./configure --enable-server --enable-agent --with-mysql=/usr/bin/mysql --enable-ipv6 --with-net-snmp --with-libcurl --with-libxml2
                            make install error shows:

                            db.c:27:20: fatal error: mysql.h: No such file or directory
                            # include "mysql.h"
                            ^
                            compilation terminated.
                            make[3]: *** [libzbxdb_a-db.o] Error 1
                            make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ec2-user/zabbix-4.0.0alpha3/src/libs/zbxdb'
                            make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
                            make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ec2-user/zabbix-4.0.0alpha3/src/libs'
                            make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
                            make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ec2-user/zabbix-4.0.0alpha3/src'
                            make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
                            • Atsushi
                              #6.3
                              Atsushi commented
                              20-03-2018, 11:42
                              Editing a comment
                              The fact that mysql.h can not be found means that MySQL developer package is not installed.
                              Please install the package mysql-devel.
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