This article will describe installing Zabbix which is a web-base system monitor tool.
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1 Install Zabbix
The following script will install Zabbix server and Zabbix agent. You need to use "localhost" as Zabbix agent host name (Configuration -> Hosts -> Create Host).
ZABBIX_PASSWD is password of zabbix user in MariaDB.
#!/bin/sh set -e [ -z "${ZABBIX_PASSWD}" ] && ZABBIX_PASSWD=zabbix zabbix_install() { sudo apt install -y zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-frontend-php \ php-mysql libapache2-mod-php mariadb-server sudo a2enconf zabbix-frontend-php sudo systemctl enable mariadb sudo systemctl start mariadb timezone=$(cat /etc/timezone) sudo sed -e 's/^post_max_size = .*/post_max_size = 16M/g' \ -e 's/^max_execution_time = .*/max_execution_time = 300/g' \ -e 's/^max_input_time = .*/max_input_time = 300/g' \ -e "s:^;date.timezone =.*:date.timezone = \"${timezone}\":g" \ -i /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini cat <<EOF | sudo mysql create database zabbix character set utf8 collate utf8_bin; grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost identified by '${ZABBIX_PASSWD}'; exit EOF for sql in schema.sql.gz images.sql.gz data.sql.gz; do zcat /usr/share/zabbix-server-mysql/"${sql}" | \ sudo mysql -uzabbix -p${ZABBIX_PASSWD} zabbix; done sudo sed -e 's/# ListenPort=.*/ListenPort=10051/g' \ -e "s/# DBPassword=.*/DBPassword=${ZABBIX_PASSWD}/g" \ -i /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf # Skip setup.php cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/zabbix/zabbix.conf.php <?php // Zabbix GUI configuration file. global \$DB; \$DB['TYPE'] = 'MYSQL'; \$DB['SERVER'] = 'localhost'; \$DB['PORT'] = '0'; \$DB['DATABASE'] = 'zabbix'; \$DB['USER'] = 'zabbix'; \$DB['PASSWORD'] = '${ZABBIX_PASSWD}'; // Schema name. Used for IBM DB2 and PostgreSQL. \$DB['SCHEMA'] = ''; \$ZBX_SERVER = 'localhost'; \$ZBX_SERVER_PORT = '10051'; \$ZBX_SERVER_NAME = ''; \$IMAGE_FORMAT_DEFAULT = IMAGE_FORMAT_PNG; ?> EOF sudo a2enmod ssl sudo a2ensite default-ssl sudo systemctl enable apache2 zabbix-server sudo systemctl restart apache2 zabbix-server # This Hostname is used for Host name in # Configuration -> Hosts -> Create Host. sudo apt install -y zabbix-agent sudo sed -e "s/^Hostname=.*/Hostname=localhost/g" \ -i /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf sudo systemctl enable zabbix-agent sudo systemctl restart zabbix-agent } zabbix_install
2 Access to Zabbix
Access to Zabbix via http or https. If you use https, please allow certification file to exception.
http://<server>/zabbix https://<server>/zabbix
Input Admin to Username, zabbix to Passowrd (This passowrd is not ZABBIX_PASSWD).