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    Overview

    Official Zabbix packages are available for RHEL 7, CentOS 7 and Oracle Linux 7. In this documentation
    we will refer to all 3 using the term RHEL.

    Some agent and proxy packages are available for RHEL 6 and RHEL 5 as well.

    Adding Zabbix repository

    Install the repository configuration package. This package contains yum (software package manager)
    configuration files.

    RHEL 7:

    # rpm -ivh
    https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/rhel/7/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.4-2.el7.no
    arch.rpm

    RHEL 6:

    # rpm -ivh
    https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/rhel/6/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.4-1.el6.no
    arch.rpm

    RHEL 5:

    # rpm -ivh
    https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/rhel/5/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.4-1.noarch
    .rpm

    Frontend installation prerequisites

    Zabbix frontend requires additional packages not available in basic installation. You need to enable
    repository of optional rpms in the system you will run Zabbix frontend on:

    RHEL 7:

    # yum-config-manager --enable rhel-7-server-optional-rpms

    Server/proxy/frontend installation

    To install Zabbix server (available for RHEL 7, deprecated on RHEL 6) with MySQL support:

    Zabbix Documentation 3.4 - https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.4/


    Last
    update:
    manual:installation:install_from_packages:rhel_centos https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.4/manual/installation/install_from_packages/rhel_centos
    2018/09/11
    08:16

    # yum install zabbix-server-mysql

    To install Zabbix proxy with MySQL support:

    # yum install zabbix-proxy-mysql

    To install Zabbix frontend (available for RHEL 7, deprecated on RHEL 6) with MySQL support:

    # yum install zabbix-web-mysql

    Substitute 'mysql' in the commands with 'pgsql' to use PostgreSQL, or with 'sqlite3' to use SQLite3
    (proxy only).

    Creating database

    For Zabbix server and proxy daemons a database is required. It is not needed to run Zabbix agent.

    If Zabbix server and proxy are installed on the same host, their databases must be created with
    different names!

    Create the database using the provided instructions for MySQL or PostgreSQL.

    Importing data

    Now import initial schema and data for the server with MySQL:

    # zcat /usr/share/doc/zabbix-server-mysql*/create.sql.gz | mysql -uzabbix -p


    zabbix

    You will be prompted to enter your newly created database password.

    With PostgreSQL:

    # zcat /usr/share/doc/zabbix-server-pgsql*/create.sql.gz | sudo -u


    <username> psql zabbix

    For proxy, import initial schema:

    # zcat /usr/share/doc/zabbix-proxy-mysql*/schema.sql.gz | mysql -uzabbix -p


    zabbix

    For proxy with PostgreSQL (or SQLite):

    # zcat /usr/share/doc/zabbix-proxy-pgsql*/schema.sql.gz | sudo -u <username>


    psql zabbix
    # zcat /usr/share/doc/zabbix-proxy-sqlite3*/schema.sql.gz | sqlite3

    https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.4/ Printed on 2021/03/25 09:18


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    zabbix.db

    Configure database for Zabbix server/proxy

    Edit zabbix_server.conf or zabbix_proxy.conf to use the created database. For example:

    # vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
    DBHost=localhost
    DBName=zabbix
    DBUser=zabbix
    DBPassword=<password>

    In DBPassword use Zabbix database password for MySQL; PosgreSQL user password for PosgreSQL.

    Use DBHost= with PostgreSQL. You might want to keep the default setting DBHost=localhost (or
    an IP address), but this would make PostgreSQL use a network socket for connecting to Zabbix. See
    SELinux configuration below for instructions.

    Starting Zabbix server process

    It's time to start Zabbix server process:

    # service zabbix-server start

    and make it start at system boot:

    RHEL 7 and later:

    # systemctl enable zabbix-server

    RHEL prior to 7:

    # chkconfig --level 12345 zabbix-server on

    Substitute 'zabbix-server' with 'zabbix-proxy' if you are installing Zabbix proxy.

    Zabbix frontend configuration

    For RHEL 7 and later the Apache configuration file for Zabbix frontend is located in
    /etc/httpd/conf.d/zabbix.conf.

    If you use RHEL 6 please read the section about using Zabbix frontend on RHEL 6 on how to configure
    the frontend.

    Some PHP settings are already configured. But it's necessary to uncomment the “date.timezone”
    setting and set the right timezone for you.

    Zabbix Documentation 3.4 - https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.4/


    Last
    update:
    manual:installation:install_from_packages:rhel_centos https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.4/manual/installation/install_from_packages/rhel_centos
    2018/09/11
    08:16

    php_value max_execution_time 300


    php_value memory_limit 128M
    php_value post_max_size 16M
    php_value upload_max_filesize 2M
    php_value max_input_time 300
    php_value max_input_vars 10000
    php_value always_populate_raw_post_data -1
    # php_value date.timezone Europe/Riga

    Now you are ready to proceed with frontend installation steps which will allow you to access your
    newly installed Zabbix.

    Zabbix official repository provides fping, iksemel, libssh2 packages as well. These packages are
    located in the non-supported directory.

    SELinux configuration

    Having SELinux status enabled in enforcing mode, you need to execute the following commands to
    enable communication between Zabbix frontend and server:

    RHEL 7 and later:

    # setsebool -P httpd_can_connect_zabbix on
    If the database is accessible over network (including 'localhost' in case of
    PostgreSQL), you need to allow Zabbix frontend to connect to the database
    too:
    # setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect_db on

    RHEL prior to 7:

    # setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect on
    # setsebool -P zabbix_can_network on

    As frontend and SELinux configuration is done, you need to restart Apache web server:

    # service httpd restart

    Agent installation

    To install the agent, run

    # yum install zabbix-agent

    To start the agent, run:

    # service zabbix-agent start

    https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.4/ Printed on 2021/03/25 09:18


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    Zabbix frontend and server on RHEL 6

    Zabbix frontend on RHEL 6 is not supported because of PHP version. Since Zabbix 3.0 the
    requirements are to have PHP 5.4.0 or later while RHEL 6 latest version is 5.3.3 .

    In most cases Zabbix server and frontend are installed on the same machine. When upgrading 2.2 to
    3.0 Zabbix server will perform database upgrade and frontend will stop working. There is no way to
    roll back the database changes so users will be forced to upgrade PHP using 3rd party packages. This
    is why Zabbix server is also deprecated on RHEL 6.

    If you still want to use Zabbix frontend on RHEL 6 and upgraded your PHP using 3rd party packages
    you would need to enable zabbix-deprecated repository first:

    open file /etc/yum.repos.d/zabbix.repo


    find section [zabbix-deprecated]
    set enabled=1
    save the file

    You will have to do some more manual configuration. This is because we cannot identify the Apache
    version required for your PHP which makes it impossible for us to provide proper Apache configuration
    for Zabbix frontend. We have included 2 Apache configuration files to our zabbix-web package, one
    for Apache 2.2 and another for 2.4, which you would need to integrate with the Apache configuration
    yourself:

    httpd22-example.conf
    httpd24-example.conf

    To get the full path to the files execute:

    $ rpm -ql zabbix-web | grep example.conf

    From:
    https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.4/ - Zabbix Documentation 3.4

    Permanent link:
    https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.4/manual/installation/install_from_packages/rhel_centos

    Last update: 2018/09/11 08:16

    Zabbix Documentation 3.4 - https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.4/

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