Setup Zabbix Centos7 step by step

Install apache marialDB php

Apache

sudo yum install httpd
sudo systemctl start httpd.service

If you have nginx installed. need to stop it first (systemctl stop nginx)

MarialDB

sudo yum install mariadb-server mariadb
sudo systemctl start mariadb
sudo mysql_secure_installation

Php

sudo yum install php php-mysql

test installation

sudo vi /var/www/html/info.php

add line

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

curl http://localhost/info.php

Install Zabbix

sudo rpm -Uvh https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.2/rhel/7/x86_64/zabbix-release-4.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum clean all
sudo yum install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-web-mysql
sudo yum install zabbix-agent

config zabbix database

mysql -u root
create database zabbix character set utf8 collate utf8_bin;
grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost identified by ‘secret’;
flush privileges;
quit;

Import zabbix database

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

update mysql config in conf

sudo vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
DBHost=localhost
DBName=zabbix
DBPassword=secret

update timezone

sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/zabbix.conf
# php_value date.timezone {YOUR_TIMEZONE}

timezone list can be find here https://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.asia.php

Restart services

sudo systemctl restart httpd
sudo systemctl start zabbix-server
sudo systemctl start zabbix-agent
sudo systemctl enable zabbix-server
sudo systemctl enable zabbix-agent
sudo systemctl status zabbix-server

sudo systemctl status zabbix-agent

open http://your_ip/zabbix/setup.php

make sure all status are ‘ok’

key in your database password

credential for first login : Admin/zabbix

Done

Fix error — “Zabbix server is not running”

#1 vi /etc/zabbix/web/zabbix.conf.php

Make sure mysql server/username/password/hostname is correct

#2 vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf

make sure dbhost dbname dbpassword is correct

#3 Important: If SELinux is running in enforcing mode, you need to put it into permissive mode

sudo setenforce 0