zabbix install problem opensuse 10.2

[Jeffj]

HI, I am new to Linux and trying to test the Zabbix.

I am useing opsensuse 10.2 and belive I have all the pre-req software installed. Everything up to this point int he instructions is working.

shell> mysql -u<username> -p<password>
mysql> create database zabbix;
mysql> quit;
shell> cd create/mysql
shell> cat schema.sql |mysql -u<username> -p<password> zabbix

When i get to the last line I am getting

"bash:mysql command not found"

I can see the schema.sql file so I think i am running it from the correct location. Any help would be apprciated.

[glut0r]

HI, I am new to Linux and trying to test the Zabbix.

I am useing opsensuse 10.2 and belive I have all the pre-req software installed. Everything up to this point int he instructions is working.

shell> mysql -u<username> -p<password>
mysql> create database zabbix;
mysql> quit;
shell> cd create/mysql
shell> cat schema.sql |mysql -u<username> -p<password> zabbix

When i get to the last line I am getting

"bash:mysql command not found"

I can see the schema.sql file so I think i am running it from the correct location. Any help would be apprciated.

I'd check if there is mysql util in your path, like this:

$ which mysql

I guess you miss mysql-client or whatever package that contains mysql utility.

[Jeffj]

Thanks glut0r it was the Mysql_client. The mysql Database and tables are built.

I am still haveing some issues getting Zabbix installed. I am useing http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/in...rce_server.php as my guide.

./configure --enable-server --with-mysql --with-net-snmp # for MySQL seems to run ok don't see any errors.

make install seems to run ok no errors that I can see.

At this point I cannot find /etc/zabbix so i am not sure what happened. When i go to http:\\localhost\~zabbix I just get a parent directory.
I also don't see Zabbix running as a service but if I try zabbix_server -v it responds with the version.

So I am kinda confused at to what I should be doing at this point. Any help would be apprciated.

Jeff

[glut0r]

First of all, try finding zabbix.conf which is supposed to be somewhere after successfull make install
I bet you will find it under /usr/local/etc/zabbix , as if you did not use --prefix parameter to configure script, defaults point to /usr/local (I may be wrong, please correct me if so) and sysconfdir uses $prefix/etc/zabbix.
If you want zabbix conf dir to be somewhere else, try recompiling server with --sysconfdir=/etc/zabbix parameter.

Second question http://localhost/~zabbix will not work, you'd rather use Alias directive (I assume your're running apache) and point /zabbix to /usr/local/share/zabbix (I think so, locate the right dir by finding graphs.php)

Alias /zabbix /usr/local/share/zabbix

Then point your browser to http://localhost/zabbix and feel the power of logging as Admin
If your life depends on having zabbix under user dir, perform the folowing trick:

Setup UserDir in apache to its defaults, like public_html or so. You had to create zabbix user, otherwise zabbix-server refused to start at all. This user has to have $homedir. Mkdir it. Make symlink from inside user dir to /usr/local/share/zabbix, like this:

$ pwd
/home/zabbix
$ ln -s /usr/local/share/zabbix public_html

make sure all rights are fine, and if you did all things right, you may point your browser to http://localhost/~zabbix

I find it a bit useless, so use Alias, Luke


Third question, did you start zabbix_server? running zabbix-server -v only proves that zabbix binary is there. Do you have it running ? Check output of

 $ ps -ef | grep -i zabbix_server