Introduction
“Zabbix is the ultimate enterprise-grade software designed to monitor millions of metrics collected from thousands of servers, virtual machines and network devices in real time.” It can monitor not only Linux but also Windows, Solaris, IBM AIX. . It has functions to monitor applications, services, databases, and more.
In this guide, we will install Zabbix Server in the latest Debian 10 (Buster). Please complete our work together.
The dependencies of this setting are:
- Nginx web server
- PHP with the required extension
- MySQL / MariaDB database server
Step 1: Add Zabbix repository
sudo wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.4/debian/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_4.4-1+buster_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i zabbix-release_4.4-1+buster_all.deb
sudo apt update
Step 2: Install Zabbix server
Zabbix comes with three components, a server, a proxy, and a front end. The proxy is optional.
Install Zabbix server
This will install the MariaDB database server for the Zabbix server.
sudo apt install zabbix-server-mysql
Check installed version by running
$ mariadb --version
mariadb Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.3.22-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2
Step 3: Configure and create Zabbix server database
Protect your database
Run the following command and say “Yes (Y) (Y)” to delete anonymous users, delete the test database and disable remote root login.
$
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Enter current password for root (enter for none):
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n]
y
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n]
y
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n]
y
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n]
y
Log in to MariaDB
sudo mysql -u root -p
Create Zabbix database and Zabbix user:
CREATE DATABASE zabbixdb character set utf8 collate utf8_bin;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON zabbixdb.* TO [email protected] IDENTIFIED by 'SafePassWord';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
QUIT;
Import data
Now, import the server’s initial schema and data using MySQL:
sudo zcat /usr/share/doc/zabbix-server-mysql/create.sql.gz | mysql -uuserzabbix -p zabbixdb
Step 3: Install Zabbix front end:
This will install Nginx and PHP.
sudo apt install zabbix-frontend-php zabbix-nginx-conf
Check the installed version of Nginx and PHP
$ nginx -v
nginx version: nginx/1.14.2
$ php -v
PHP 7.3.11-1~deb10u1 (cli) (built: Oct 26 2019 14:14:18) ( NTS )
Configure the PHP date.timezone parameter used by Zabbix in its settings
sudo vim /etc/php/7.3/fpm/php.ini
##
Navigate till "Date" category
[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; https://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone =Africa/Nairobi
## Set your timezone here as shown
Restart php-fpm
sudo systemctl restart php7.3-fpm
Start and enable Nginx
sudo systemctl enable nginx
sudo systemctl start nginx
Configure Nginx
Zabbix creates his own Nginx configuration file. Open and uncomment “Listen” and “ name of server “Part as shown below
sudo vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/zabbix.conf
server {
listen 80;
## Uncomment this part
server_name zabbix.computingforgeeks.com;
## Uncomment this part too
change” default Nginx files in Debian can listen on other ports so that they don’t conflict with Zabbix configured above.
sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
server {
listen 82 default_server;
## Change from 80 to 82
listen [::]:82 default_server;
## Change from 80 to 82 as well
Change permissions on Zabbix root folder
sudo chmod -R 775 /usr/share/zabbix/
Restart Nginx
sudo systemctl restart nginx
Step 4: Configure database for Zabbix server
Open the Zabbix server configuration file and make the changes shown below. If you used different databases and user names, update them accordingly.
sudo vim /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
DBHost=localhost
DBName=
zabbixdb
DBUser=
userzabbix
DBPassword=
SafePassWord
Replace these values with the correct database settings.
Step 5: Install Zabbix Agent on Debian 10
The agent will monitor the server itself, but you can easily install
To install the agent, run
sudo apt -y install zabbix-agent
Start and enable Zabbix proxy and server
sudo systemctl enable zabbix-server zabbix-agent
sudo systemctl start zabbix-server zabbix-agent
Step 5: Set up Zabbix web interface
Open your favorite browser and enter the IP of your Zabbix server. My picture below
https://172.17.37.54
You should see a page similar to the one below. Click “ Next step “.
Make sure all prerequisites are recorded as green OK and click Next step “
Enter the database details we set up before and click “ Next step “
Enter your Zabbix server details
View settings summary
Complete setup
Now let’s log in and enter the dashboard. The default username is “ administrator “, Password is” zabbix “.allowable management After login, enter the tab page.
Navigation Administration> User> Administrator> Password> Change Password
in conclusion
Zabbix Server is now running on Nginx, and we hope everything goes well. Thank you for taking the time to blog.
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