Zabbix 2.0.6 on CentOS 6.4 using source

This article is a modified version of a good article install Zabbix 1.8

Download and extract Zabbix

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/zabbix/files/ZABBIX%20Latest%20Stable/2.0.6/zabbix-2.0.6.tar.gz/download
tar -zxvf zabbix-2.0.6.tar.gz
cd zabbix-2.0.6

Setting up the user accounts

The Zabbix server and client both need a user account that they can run on, so may as well set this up first. This also needs to be done on every monitored machine that is running the Zabbix agent:

groupadd -g 130 zabbix
useradd -u 130 -g zabbix -c 'Zabbix monitoring' zabbix

I have added the ”-u 130” parameter – this ensures that the zabbix user gets created with the same user ID on every server that we created it on, as well as with the zabbix group (which will be group id 130).
Dependencies

First install all the dependencies with yum using the command

yum install zlib-devel mysql-devel glibc-devel curl-devel gcc automake mysql libidn-devel openssl-devel net-snmp-devel rpm-devel OpenIPMI-devel

Configure the EPEL repository from
You need to go to EPEL and download relevant rpm for your centos, for my case i downloaded and installed for EL6 as I am using centOS 6.4

su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm'
yum --enablerepo=epel install iksemel iksemel-devel

Install Zabbix 2.0.6
Navigate to directory where you have extracted zabbix, and use following to configure

./configure --enable-server --with-mysql --with-net-snmp --with-jabber --with-libcurl --with-openipmi --enable-agent

You should be able to see something like this

Enable server:         yes
With database:         MySQL
WEB Monitoring via:    cURL
Native Jabber:         yes
SNMP:                  net-snmp
IPMI:                  openipmi
Enable agent:          yes

if Everything is fine then make and install.

make
make install

You are done with installation,

Creating the MySQL DB
If you have MySql pre installed and you have set the root user and password you just need to login and create database, you just skip next step
start Mysql

service mysqld start

if you are starting your MySql first time you need to set the root password.

mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password-here'

Login to Mysql and create Database and user

mysql -u root -p
create database zabbix character set utf8;
grant all privileges on zabbix.* to 'zabbix'@'localhost' identified by 'set-password-here';
quit;

Create Database Schema.
Mysql scripts are located in database directory in your source, please make sure to execute mysql script in this order.

cd database/mysql/
mysql -uzabbix zabbix < schema.sql -p
mysql -uzabbix zabbix < images.sql -p
mysql -uzabbix zabbix < data.sql -p
&#91;/code&#93;

Once we are done with installation and Mysql, it is time to configure the Zabbix and run it.

<strong>Configure Zabbix</strong>
zabbix 2.0.6 installation will place its conf file at following location (atleast for me :) )

[code]
/usr/local/etc/zabbix_server.conf

we need to edit this file and add Database details in. we need to locate followings in the conf file

DBName=
DBUser=
DBPassword=

edit the zabbix_server.conf

nano /usr/local/etc/zabbix_server.conf
DBName=zabbix
DBUser=zabbix
DBPassword=your-zabbix-mysql-password

Permissions and Running Zabbix Server
It is recommended to change the file permissions for the Zabbix config so not every user can just read the password out of our file

chmod 400 /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
chown zabbix /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf

Now we can execute the script zabbix_agentd and zabbix_server which are found in /usr/local/sbin/

/usr/local/sbin/zabbix_agentd
/usr/local/sbin/zabbix_server

if all went well you shouldn’t get any error messages.

just to make sure that zabbix is running try this

ps -e | grep zabbix

Creating startup scripts
i have noticed that zabbix 2.0.6 do not contain start-up script for centos so i copied from zabbix 1.8 and a small modification made it run on centos6.4 here is the start-up script

#!/bin/bash
#
# chkconfig: - 55 45
# description: zabbix_server
# probe: false

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network

# Check that networking is up. If you are running without a network, comment this out.
[ "${NETWORKING}" = "no" ] && exit 0

RETVAL=0
progdir="/usr/local/sbin/"
prog="zabbix_server"

start() {
        # Start daemons.
  if [ -n "`/sbin/pidof $prog`" ]; then
        echo -n "$prog: already running"
        failure $"$prog start"
        echo
        return 1
  fi
        echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
  # we can't seem to use daemon here - emulate its functionality
        su -c $progdir$prog - $USER
  RETVAL=$?
  usleep 100000
  if [ -z "`/sbin/pidof $progdir$prog`" ]; then
        RETVAL=1
  fi
  [ $RETVAL -ne 0 ] && failure $"$prog startup"
  [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/$prog && success $"$prog startup"
  echo
  return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
  RETVAL=0
  pid=
        # Stop daemons.
        echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
  pid=`/sbin/pidof -s $prog`
  if [ -n "$pid" ]; then
   kill -TERM $pid
        else
   failure $"$prog stop"
   echo
   return 1
        fi
  RETVAL=$?
  [ $RETVAL -ne 0 ] && failure $"$prog stop"
  [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog && success $"$prog stop"
  echo
  return $RETVAL
}
restart() {
  stop
sleep 5
  start
}

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
        start
        ;;
  stop)
        stop
        ;;
  restart)
        restart
        ;;
  condrestart)
        [ -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog ] && restart
        ;;
  *)
         echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|condrestart}"
        exit 1
esac

exit $?

copy the above script

nano /etc/init.d/zabbix_server

paste above copied content and save it.

You also need to create zabbix Agent Startup script

#!/bin/bash
#
# chkconfig: - 55 45
# description: zabbix_agentd
# probe: false

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network

# Check that networking is up. If you are running without a network, comment this out.
[ "${NETWORKING}" = "no" ] && exit 0

RETVAL=0
progdir="/usr/local/sbin/"
prog="zabbix_agentd"

start() {
        # Start daemons.
  if [ -n "`/sbin/pidof $prog`" ]; then
        echo -n "$prog: already running"
        failure $"$prog start"
        echo
        return 1
  fi
        echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
  # we can't seem to use daemon here - emulate its functionality
        su -c $progdir$prog - $USER
  RETVAL=$?
  usleep 100000
  if [ -z "`/sbin/pidof $progdir$prog`" ]; then
        # The child processes have died after fork()ing, e.g.
        # because of a broken config file
        RETVAL=1
  fi
  [ $RETVAL -ne 0 ] && failure $"$prog startup"
  [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/$prog && success $"$prog startup"
  echo
  return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
  RETVAL=0
  pid=
        # Stop daemons.
        echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
  pid=`/sbin/pidof -s $prog`
  if [ -n "$pid" ]; then
   kill -TERM $pid
        else
   failure $"$prog stop"
   echo
   return 1
        fi
  RETVAL=$?
  [ $RETVAL -ne 0 ] && failure $"$prog stop"
  [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog && success $"$prog stop"
  echo
  return $RETVAL
}
restart() {
  stop
# wait for forked daemons to die
  usleep 1000000
  start
}

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
        start
        ;;
  stop)
        stop
        ;;
  restart)
        restart
        ;;
  condrestart)
        [ -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog ] && restart
        ;;
  *)
         echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|condrestart}"
        exit 1
esac

exit $?

Copy the above agent start-up script and edit

nano /etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd

paste the copied text in and save,

**Please note**: In above scripts you might need to change the “progdir”. progdir is the physical path of zabbix server binary. you can use whereis to locate it

whereis zabbix_server
/usr/local/sbin/zabbix_server

Now let us add it to the services with

chkconfig --add zabbix_server
chkconfig --add zabbix_agentd

all that is left, it to tell the system on which runlevels it should start them, we are going to use runlevel 3 and 5.

chkconfig --level 35 zabbix_server on
chkconfig --level 35 zabbix_agentd on

to verify that the changes have been made, we can use chkconfig to list all configurations with

chkconfig --list

or to just show the zabbix services we can customize our output with grep

chkconfig --list | grep zabbix

All that is left to be done, is to make these scripts executable, this is done with the following command

chmod 755 /etc/init.d/zabbix_server
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd

Now we can control our scripts with

service zabbix_server {start|stop|restart|condrestart}

Installing the Web frontend

yum install php-mysql php-gd php-bcmath php-mbstring php-xml

batter to add mysql and httpd to startup

/sbin/chkconfig --add httpd
/sbin/chkconfig httpd on
/sbin/chkconfig --add mysqld
/sbin/chkconfig mysqld on

copy the frontend to your httpd root

cp -r frontends/php/ /var/www/html/
mv /var/www/html/php/ /var/www/html/zabbix

access the zabbix frontend

http://[SERVER-IP]/zabbix

you will see the a wizard and follow that.

Please Note you will face this error, this write fail for zabbix conf.
do this

cd /var/www/html/zabbix/
chmod 777 conf

then press retry and you will see this screen.

You are done.