Comments on How to Install Zabbix Monitoring Tool on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

already 20.04

That new operating system versions get published after a tutorial has been written is quite common I guess ;)

It seems this tutorial installs Zabbix on a server to monitor services running on that same server. I was expecting Zabbix is used to monitor a bunch of servers and services running on those other servers. I can not see anything about that kind of setup on this tutorial. Quick browsing of Zabbix manual table of contents, and I did not see how this is set up.

Hey bro I can help you here. 

Each machine you want to monitor is a Host. Each host will need the Zabbix Agent installed.Once the Agent is installed, you can either add it as a Host manually in the Zabbix front-endOr you can use the Zabbix auto-discover function to scan an IP range for machines with the agent installed

Once the Host is recognised, you need to configure the items you are monitoring

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/4.0/manual/quickstart

This guide is really good.

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Installing the agent will vary depending on the OS of your target host. I tested it with CentOS 8 so these were my steps:

1. install https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.4/rhel/8/x86_64/zabbix-release-4.4-1.el8.noarch.rpm -y2. install zabbix zabbix-agent3. systemctl start zabbix-agent4. systemctl enable zabbix-agent5. nano /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf (yeah I use nano lol)6. In the zabbix_agentd.conf file I changed the server and hostname fields Server=192.168.0.whatever Hostname=Server1 7. firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=10050/tcp8. firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=10051/tcp9. firewall-cmd --reload10. systemctl restart zabbix-agentThe agent is now set up. I gave both machines a reboot for good measure (although this is not necessary)Then I followed the Zabbix Documentation link I posted above.ALl monitoring working fine! I am getting CPU load graphs.

 

Excellent guide. Set up was easy and (unlike other Zabbix instructions) there are no latin1/utf8 charset conflicts. 18.04 LTS is a perfect OS for this, no need for 20.04 yet :)

Just one question...

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

Is this meant to be -uzabbix or -u zabbix, or doesn't it matter?

 

This should not matter, but you can add a white space for clarity.

Thank you! The server installed with no errors, so I guessed it wasn't vital, but I wanted to double check. I am learning this all as I go :) Thank you again bro 

sudo apt install maraidb-server mariadb-client ERROR WORD maraidb-server - mariadb-server