Monitoring Systems With Zabbix - Initial Configuration - Part 1
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Zabbix is an open source (GPL) monitoring system with a database back end. The system can be configured via a web browser. We used CentOS 4 for this install. Do set this up in a lab, first. Read NetAdminTools.com's terms of use. Let's jump in, shall we?
Grab the source from here, extract it, and enter the root of the source tree:
[root@srv-1 src]# ls -l zab*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1080323 Mar 28 06:32 zabbix-1.1beta8.tar.gz
[root@srv-1 src]# tar -xzf zab*.gz
[root@srv-1 src]# cd zab*
[root@srv-1 zabbix-1.1beta8]#
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Set up a zabbix group and user with a useless shell. We used /sbin/login, but /usr/bin/false would probably work fine as well:
[zabbix-1.1beta8]# /usr/sbin/groupadd zabbix
[zabbix-1.1beta8]# /usr/sbin/useradd -g zabbix -s /sbin/nologin zabbix
[root@srv-1 zabbix-1.1beta8]#
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Create a blank zabbix database:
[root@srv-1 zabbix-1.1beta8]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 2 to server version: 4.1.12
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
mysql> create database zabbix;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.04 sec)
mysql> quit
Bye
[root@srv-1 zabbix-1.1beta8]#
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Populate the database:
[root@srv-1 zabbix-1.1beta8]# cd create/mysql
[root@srv-1 mysql]# cat schema.sql | mysql -u root -p zabbix
Enter password:
[root@srv-1 mysql]# cd ../data
[root@srv-1 data]# cat data.sql | mysql -u root -p zabbix
Enter password:
[root@srv-1 data]#
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Verify the database:
[root@srv-1 data]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 5 to server version: 4.1.12
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
mysql> connect zabbix
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Connection id: 7
Current database: zabbix
mysql> show tables
-> ;
+------------------+
| Tables_in_zabbix |
+------------------+
| acknowledges |
| actions |
| alarms |
| alerts |
| audit |
| autoreg |
| conditions |
| config |
| escalation_log |
| escalation_rules |
| escalations |
| functions |
| graphs |
| graphs_items |
| groups |
| history |
| history_log |
| history_str |
| history_uint |
| hosts |
| hosts_groups |
| hosts_profiles |
| hosts_templates |
| housekeeper |
| images |
| items |
| mappings |
| media |
| media_type |
| profiles |
| rights |
| screens |
| screens_items |
| service_alarms |
| services |
| services_links |
| sessions |
| stats |
| sysmaps |
| sysmaps_elements |
| sysmaps_links |
| trends |
| trigger_depends |
| triggers |
| users |
| users_groups |
| usrgrp |
| valuemaps |
+------------------+
48 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> quit
Bye
[root@srv-1 data]#
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