Topic: Zabbix 1.0 How-to

[kangkc]

After 2 days of testing and trying. I managed to install Zabbix 1.0 onto SME Server 6.0.1-01. Unfortunately I am still very new to SME Server and will not be able to put everything into a RPM.
These are the steps invole:

1. Find a development machine as you will need to install GCC compiler to compile the Zabbix module.

2. Download the following rpm from www.rpmfind.net:
   cpp-2.96-113.i386.rpm
   kernel-headers-2.4.9-34.i386.rpm
   glibc-devel-2.2.5-44.i386.rpm
   gcc-2.96-113.i386.rpm

   for ucd-snmp support, you will need:
   ucd-snmp-devel-4.2.5-8.73.1.i386.rpm
   ucd-snmp-4.2.5-8.73.1.i386.rpm
   openssl-devel-0.9.6b-35.7.i386.rpm

   to use icmpping for Zabbix, you will need:
   fping-2.4b2-2.i386.rpm

3. Install the above rpms in the above order

4. Upgrade the php to 4. I am using the following scripts to upgrade the php:
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmusty/SME6.0/scripts/php4.3.6-upgrade.sh

5. I assume from you here you know how to get Zabbix into an ibay. To compile the various daemons for Zabbix. read the Zabbix manual for detail regarding this. For my case I perform the following:
    ./configure --with-mysql -with-ucd-snmp
then do a
    make

6. Copy the required daemon modules into /usr/local/bin

7. Copy the various conf files from zabbix-1.0/misc/conf to /etc/zabbix

8. Copy the php scripts from /zabbix-1.0/frontends/php/* to the designated ibays html directory

9. Create the mysql database for zabbix. Change the various conf files in /etc/zabbix to reflect the mysql setting. Change the db.inc.php in the include directory of the php frontend scripts as well.  

10. Start the daemons according to the Zabbix manual. For me I started ./zabbix_suckerd and ./zabbix_trapperd

11. Now you can access the Zabbix Web front ends to continue with you configuration.

12. For clean up, I would suggest removing the various compiler and devel rpm from the server.

Good luck.

[CKConsulting]

How do you like Zabbix after using it for a while?
Any words of wisdom?

Rick

[ajkeane]

kangkc

I have compiled zabbix and attempted to follow the instructions along with your how to but have been unable to get zabbix running.

Whenever i try to start the service it comes back as failed.

Do you have any ideas or could you expand on how you got this running so that I could have a better idea of where I am going wrong.

Thanks

Tony

[kangkc]

Hi,

This was done about a year ago and I have not updated the Zabbix on the machine since then. As far as the machine is concern, it's running till now.

Unfortunately I don't have the time/machine for the next 1 month to test the latest Zabbix distribution.

What I can suggest now is make sure the building from source is error free. And try to follow the Zabbix document to see if you missed out any configuration step, MSSQL password etc as I didn't document that in detail in the how-to. The Zabbix domentation is quite detail in this area.

Let me know if you have any error messages.

[ajkeane]

kangkc

Thanks for your reply.

I have gone through the manual and checked the sites forums but have been unable to get the zabbix_suckerd or zabbix_trapperd to start whenever I try I get the following error. The web interface and everything is working I just can't start the service.

[root@test-server bin]# ./zabbix_trapperd start
Starting zabbix_trapperd: Usage: /usr/local/bin/zabbix_trapperd {start|stop|restart|condrestart}
                                                           [ FAILED ]

If you have the time and could tel me what files you moved to the usr/local/bin directory and the etc/zabbix directory I would really appreciate it.

I am positive that I am missing something really basic but for the life i=of me cannot see what it is.

Thanks again

Tony

[ajkeane]

Just thought I would let you know that I have now succeeded in getting the configure and make to work. Turned out to be a mysql error that is known but it took time to find the fix.

Once I have everything configured and know that it works and have tried it on a test server I will look at putting something together for the community.

Thanks for the help.

Tony

[ajkeane]

Is anybody interested in setting this up on there test server?

If so let me know and I will supply you with the info to install it.

Tony

[Wietse]

yes, I am... trying to get it to work myself...

[ajkeane]

O.K.

I have tarred up the compiled version of Zabbix and done up a wee install doc for you to follow.

It is available at http://keane.co.nz in the downloads area.

I have tested on SME Server 6.01 and have not had any issues.

Please let me know how you get on.

Tony

[drywalldude]

Well I made it to the front end !! . Never new phpmyadmin had such a cool impoting feature right out of my windows box, thanks for that educational experience. I don't have time now to finish the configuration but so far all the questions I was going to post have been answered in the zabbix doc (espicially regarding mysql) thanks for the great post, I am a addicted to graphing and statistics having been a cacti user http://ericswww.com/cacti/graph_view.php?action=tree&tree_id=1&leaf_id=7&select_first=true
I think this will be a really great addition to contribs capabillities, keep up the great work  

[ajkeane]

Good to know you have made it that far. I would be keen to know where you had trouble/difficulty during the install.

This is merely so that I can tidy up the how to.

Keep us informed on your progress as I am still struggling to get anything out of the system. I have not been able to get the agents to work as yet. My fault I believe. Just don't understand the printed word at times. I will keep at it and see where I end up.

Tony

[drywalldude]

Ok got past the log in, the problem that I had here that probably should be put into the howto is explained on page 22 of the manual and it involves editing the /frontends/php/include/db.inc and removing the postgresql entry leaving the mysql, removing the "root" entry and supplying "zabbix" as user (DO NOT RUN AS ROOT). At this point I have got to the configuration page and it looks really cool  

My suggestions are as follows :
1:This post probably needs to be moved to the Experienced user forum, as there will need to be some template writing.
2:More people at this post need to check out
http://www.zabbix.com/screenshots.php and see what it is that is being worked on here, this makes all the other network solutions look sad.

ajkeane, I will let you know of progress as my time is limited during the week(about 1hr per day) but by the end of this weekend I would hope to be making graphs.
Thanks again for the great post you have started here I'm sure the community will follow up on this one

[Skydiver]

Please can someone follow up on this addition to SME its way above my head..But i feel this is something i would love to have working on my SME server.

Great work so far and thanks for sharing.

[kangkc]

Glad to know that the problem has been resolved. I didn't put much of the detail from Zabbix manual into the how-to. Could have done so...my sincere apology.

Just to share with everyone how Zabbix been used in our environment. I'm using Zabbix more for the alert purposes and whenever a server is down, I'll receive a SMS text message to alert me.
I'm also monitoring the temperature of the server room, likewise when the temperature hit a certain threshold, SMS text message will be sent.

I've been looking for a SMS gateway on the SME Server platform but no luck so far. Currently using a M$ platform SMS gateway whcih I would like to move that into a Linux platform (or more specfically SME based). Will try to branch out a discussion on SMS gateway.

[drywalldude]

My firewall will probably prevent my webserver from access to my workstation, so what do I need to run to monitor the localhost?? a quick small howto would be greatly appreciated, and I don't think I fully understand what a SMS gateway is, I know it has something to do with wireless .