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Installing Zabbix

The installation instructions given here a valid for Zabbix 5.08, running on Debian 11 with MySQL 5.7.41. You can find installation instructions for other platforms on the Download and install Zabbix page.

Install the database

# mysql -uroot -p
existing-root-password-for-mysql
mysql> create database zabbix character set utf8mb4 collate utf8mb4_bin;
mysql> create user zabbix@localhost identified by 'new-zabbix-database-user-password';
mysql> grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost;
mysql> set global log_bin_trust_function_creators = 1;
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql> quit;

Edit Zabbix configuration file

# nano /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf

Add the following information to the file:

zabbix
zabbix
DBPassword=new-zabbix-database-user-password

# cd /usr/share/zabbix-server-mysql
# zcat schema.sql.gz images.sql.gz data.sql.gz | mysql -p zabbix
Enter password:existing-root-password-for-mysql

Enable the service at startup and restart it.

# systemctl enable zabbix-server
# systemctl restart zabbix-server

Activate Zabbix PHP frontend

Enable Apache configuration and reload the webserver.

# a2enconf zabbix-frontend-php
# service apache2 reload

Configure Zabbix

Zabbix front end is at address https://your.server.addr/zabbix.

Create configuration file filling in the fields. Download file zabbix.conf.php and save it to Zabbix directory /etc/zabbix/. In the same directory there is already a file called zabbix_server.conf. Do not edit this file.

Run Zabbix

Restart Zabbix with command

# systemctl restart zabbix-server

you can find Zabbix log file zabbix_server.log in /var/log/zabbix-server. You can monitor the log with

# cd /var/log/zabbix-server
# tail -f zabbix_server.log
3741187:20230411:212917.295 server #28 started [alerter #2]
3741188:20230411:212917.296 server #29 started [alerter #3]
3741193:20230411:212917.302 server #30 started [preprocessing manager #1]
3741198:20230411:212917.302 server #35 started [lld worker #1]
3741197:20230411:212917.303 server #34 started [lld manager #1]
3741199:20230411:212917.303 server #36 started [lld worker #2]
3741200:20230411:212917.304 server #37 started [alert syncer #1]
3741195:20230411:212917.402 server #32 started [preprocessing worker #2]
3741196:20230411:212917.402 server #33 started [preprocessing worker #3]
3741194:20230411:212917.403 server #31 started [preprocessing worker #1]

Quit the command by pressing ctrl-C.

Start using Zabbix

Go to Zabbix dashboard at https://your.server.addr/zabbix.

Install agent

# apt install zabbix-agent

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