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    How to Install Zabbix Server on Debian 10/9/8

    By RahulSeptember 10, 20194 Mins Read

    Zabbix is an open source software for networks and application monitoring. Zabbix provides agents to monitor remote hosts as well as Zabbix includes support for monitoring via SNMP, TCP and ICMP checks. Click here to know more about zabbix.

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    This article will help you to step by step install Zabbix on Debian 9 and Debian 8 Systems. If you are using CentOS, RHEL or Fedora then Click here to install Zabbix on CentOS, RHEL or Fedora

    Step 1 – Setup LAMP Stack

    You must have a LAMP environment on your server to use Zabbix server. If you already have LAMP configured, just skip this step, else install Apache, MySQL, and PHP using the following commands.

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install apache2
    sudo apt-get install mysql-server
    sudo apt-get install php php-mbstring php-gd php-xml php-bcmath php-ldap php-mysql
    

    Update timezone in php configuration file /etc/php/PHP_VERSION/apache2/php.ini. Like below:

    [Date]
    ; http://php.net/date.timezone
    date.timezone = 'Asia/Kolkata'
    

    Step 2 – Configure Apt Repository

    Before installing Zabbix first configure Zabbix package repository in your system using following commands. Use commands as per your operating system.

    ## For Debian 10:
    
    wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.0/debian/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_4.0-3+buster_all.deb
    sudo dpkg -i zabbix-release_4.0-3+buster_all.deb
    
    ## For Debian 9:
    
    wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.0/debian/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_4.0-3+stretch_all.deb
    sudo dpkg -i zabbix-release_4.0-3+stretch_all.deb
    
    ## For Debian 8:
    
    wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.0/debian/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_4.0-3+jessie_all.deb
    sudo dpkg -i zabbix-release_4.0-3+jessie_all.deb
    

    Step 3 – Install Zabbix Server

    After adding the Zabbix repository in your system use following command to install Zabbix server. Here zabbix-server-mysql package includes Zabbix server with MySQL support. The zabbix-frontend-php package provides and web interface is written in PHP for the Zabbix server management

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-frontend-php zabbix-agent
    

    Step 4 – Create Database Schema

    Now create a database schema for your Zabbix server. Login to your MySQL server using administrative privileges and use the following queries to create MySQL database and user for the Zabbix server.

    mysql -u root -p
    
    mysql> CREATE DATABASE zabbixdb character set utf8 collate utf8_bin;
    mysql> CREATE USER 'zabbix'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
    mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON zabbixdb.* TO 'zabbix'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
    mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
    

    Also, load the Zabbix database schema to the database created above.

    cd /usr/share/doc/zabbix-server-mysql
    zcat create.sql.gz | mysql -u zabbix -p zabbixdb
    

    Step 5 – Edit Zabbix Configuration File

    Edit Zabbix server configuration file /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf in your favorite text editor and update the following database configurations. This will be used by Zabbix server to connect to the database.

      DBHost=localhost
      DBName=zabbixdb
      DBUser=zabbix
      DBPassword=password
    

    Step 6 – Restart Apache and Zabbix

    Zabbix creates its own apache configuration file /etc/zabbix/apache.conf and make a link to Apache configuration directory. Let’s use the following command to restart Apache service.

    sudo systemctl restart apache2.service
    

    Zabbix server configuration file are located at /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf. Restart Zabbix server.

    sudo systemctl restart zabbix-server
    sudo systemctl restart zabbix-agent
    

    After starting the Zabbix service, let’s go to the Zabbix web installer and finish the installation.

    Step 7 – Run Zabbix Web Installer

    Zabbix web installer can be accessed on /zabbix subdirectory URL on your servers IP or domain. For example, host.tecadmin.net is pointed to my Zabbix server. Now access the Zabbix using the following URL. You must change FQDN as per your setup.

    http://host.tecadmin.net/zabbix/
    

    and follow the steps as per given screenshots below.

    Zabbix Setup Welcome Screen

    This is the welcome screen of Zabbix web installer. Go forward by click on next button.

    Check for pre-requisities

    Check if your system has all required packages, if everything is ok click next.

    Configure DB Connection

    Enter database details created in Step #4 and click next to continue.

    Zabbix Server Details

    This is the host and port of running Zabbix server. As your Zabbix server is running on the same host, so keep the values unchanged. You can give a name for your instance.

    Pre-Installation Summary

    In this step will show the summary you have entered the previous steps, so simply click next.

    Install Zabbix

    If everything goes correctly, you will see a successful installation message on this page. This will also show you a message for the created configuration file.

    Zabbix Login Screen

    Login to Zabbix using default credentials.

     Username:  Admin
     Password:  zabbix
    

    After successful login, You will get Zabbix dashboard like below.

    Zabbix Server Installation

    Congratulation! Your Zabbix setup has been completed. Read our next article to Install Zabbix Agent and Add Host in Zabbix Server.

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    3 Comments

    1. Cristian on December 16, 2020 1:01 pm

      Thanks for the tutorial Rahul

      Reply
    2. Lokha on November 16, 2019 8:21 pm

      nice tnx!

      Reply
    3. Guy on March 31, 2019 1:16 am

      Thanks for the tutorial!

      It’s maybe out-dated, but to avoid errors while loading the db, it should be created as utf8 with the following command:

      create database zabbix character set utf8 collate utf8_bin;

      Personnaly, I would also run mysql_secure_installation to be safe !

      Thanks again!

      Reply

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