1 Getting Zabbix [Zabbix]
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1. Run zabbix_server on the server side Make sure that your system allows allocation of 36MB or a bit more of shared memory otherwise the server may not start and you will see Cannot allocate shared memory for lt type of cache gt in the server log file This may happen on FreeBSD Solaris 8 See the See also section at the bottom of this page to find out how to configure shared memory Run zabbix_agentd on all the monitored machines Make sure that your system allows allocation of 2MB of shared memory otherwise the agent may not start and you will see Cannot allocate shared memory for collector in the agent log file This may happen on Solaris 8 If you have installed Zabbix proxy run zabbix_proxy tee les eo Se oS ee Se Sete See see see St se Seve see ete see ele tee eee See Cee oe Soe ee oe tee oe ee ee eo oe 2 Installing Zabbix web interface https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation install Page 3 of 10 4 Installation from sources Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM Copying PHP files Zabbix frontend is written in PHP so to run it a PHP supported webserver is needed Installation is done by simply copying the PHP files from frontends php to the webserver HTML documents directory Common locations of HTML documents directories for Apache web servers include usr local apache2 htdocs default directory when installing Apache from source a srv www htdocs OpenSUSE SLES a var www html Fedor2. character set server utf 8 instead Then start mysqld San et ae ee a ee a ee ee a ae ee E E a S P a ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee er ee Installing Zabbix packages Install Zabbix packages dbconfig common will create the database and populate the initial schema and data automatically If backend db is located on a different server please set dbc_remote_questions_default true in etc dbconfig common config Example for Zabbix server and web frontend with mysql database PAE Stee See a eke a SS Slave ee eae Sa ee eee eee aterats oie ever ate cee eet Se Seteie oS heer ae SF ihe he Bena ye St ihe iat ann E O ee The zabbix frontend php package during installation will configure a font which is used on generated images If you updated the package from any other repository and text is empty on graphs or maps please check if a ttf dejavu core package is installed and try to execute dpkg reconfigure zabbix frontend php command https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation install_from_packages Page 3 of 4 3 Installation from packages Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM Example for installing Zabbix agent only i ai ei an iim lie ale a i ie iii a a i an a iad a i a pai Saa a a a Editing PHP configuration for Zabbix frontend Apache configuration file for Zabbix frontend is located in etc apache2 conf d zabbix Some PHP settings are already configured i php_value max_execution_time 300 php _value memory
3. be around 30 24 3600 50 129 600 000 or about 130M of values Depending on the database engine used type of received values floats integers strings log files etc the disk space for keeping a single value may vary from 40 bytes to hundreds of bytes Normally it is around 50 bytes per value In our case it means that 130M of values will require 130M 50 bytes 6 5GB of disk space Housekeeper setting for trends Zabbix keeps a 1 hour max min avg count set of values for each item in the table trends The data is used for trending and long period graphs The one hour period can not be customised Zabbix database depending on database type requires about 128 bytes per each total Suppose we would like to keep trend data for 5 years Values for 3000 items will require 3000 24 365 128 3 4GB per year or 16 8GB for 5 years Housekeeper settings for events Each Zabbix event requires approximately 130 bytes of disk space It is hard to estimate the number of events generated by Zabbix daily In the worst case scenario we may assume that Zabbix generates one event per second It means that if we want to keep 3 years of events this would require 3 365 24 3600 130 12 3GB The table contains formulas that can be used to calculate the disk space required for Zabbix system Formula for required disk space in bytes Zabbix configuration Fixed size Normally 10MB or less days items refresh rate 24 3600 bytes items num
4. https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation upgrade_notes Page 3 of 4 7 Upgrade notes for 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM IPADDRESS macro deprecated use HOST IP Host profiles were renamed to host inventory New host inventory macros INVENTORY were introduced PROFILE macros are still supported but it s highly recommended to change those to INVENTORY See this page for details 2 0 manual installation upgrade_notes txt Last modified 2013 02 28 18 02 by Alexei Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation upgrade_notes Page 4 of 4 8 Upgrade notes for 2 0 1 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM 8 Upgrade notes for 2 0 1 In 2 0 0 XML export used a mix of short and long forms for empty tags both lt tag gt lt tag gt and lt tag gt Since 2 0 1 all empty tags use the empty form lt tag gt Updating Zabbix agent from 2 0 0 to 2 0 1 on Windows systems might result in historical data loss See ZBX 5094 https support zabbix com browse ZBX 5094 page com atlassian jira plugin system issuetabpanels comment tabpanel amp focusedCommentid 5 972 7 comment 59727 for more details 2 0 manual installation upgrade_notes_201 txt Last modified 2013 02 28 18 02 by Alexei Except wh
5. 13 3 40 PM 2 Requirements Hardware Memory Zabbix requires both physical and disk memory 128 MB of physical memory and 256 MB of free disk space could be a good starting point However the amount of required disk memory obviously depends on the number of hosts and parameters that are being monitored If you re planning to keep a long history of monitored parameters you should be thinking of at least a couple of gigabytes to have enough space to store the history in the database Each Zabbix daemon process requires several connections to a database server Amount of memory allocated for the connection depends on configuration of the database engine The more physical memory you have the faster the database and therefore Zabbix works CPU Zabbix and especially Zabbix database may require significant CPU resources depending on number of monitored parameters and chosen database engine Other hardware A serial communication port and a serial GSM modem are required for using SMS notification support in Zabbix USB to serial converter will also work Examples of hardware configuration The table provides several examples of hardware configurations Ubuntu Linux 64 bit AMD Athlon 3200 2GB MySQL InnoDB Ubuntu Linux 64 bit Intel Dual Core 6400 4GB RAID10 MySQL InnoDB or PostgreSQL gt 1000 Very large RedHat Enterprise Intel Xeon 2xCPU 8GB Fast RAID10 MySQL InnoDB or PostgreSQL gt 10000 Actual configuration depends on
6. machines 2 0 manual installation requirements txt Last modified 2013 06 11 10 09 by richlv Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation requirements Page 5 of 5 3 Installation from packages Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM 3 Installation from packages Overview Zabbix SIA provides official RPM and DEB packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Debian and Ubuntu LTS Package files are available at repo zabbix com yum and apt repositories are also available on the server A step by step tutorial for installing Zabbix from packages is provided here Red Hat Enterprise Linux CentOS Supported for versions RHELS and RHEL6 Installing repository configuration package Install the repository configuration package This package contains yum configuration files Zabbix 2 0 for RHELS miele Sele oS See Soe se See ee Se See eee eS She oe ee eee eee eee ee eee eee ee ee eee Bee eee eS ey Installing Zabbix packages Install Zabbix packages Example for Zabbix server and web frontend with mysql database Zabbix official repository provides fping iksemel libssh2 packages as well These packages are located in the non supported directory Sea eee Se a eee Sele eae a eee eee Selec epee Se US Se eee ae Sel ere eee eS eletetee A E E
7. sysconfdin external scripts etc zabbix externalscripts gt usr local share zabbix externalscripts depends on compile time installation variable datadin alert scripts home zabbix bin gt usr local share zabbix alertscripts depends on compile time installation variable datadin include directories recommended etc zabbix zabbix_server gt usr local etc zabbix_server conf d etc zabbix zabbix_proxy gt usr local etc zabbix_proxy conf d etc zabbix zabbix_agent gt usr local etc zabbix_agent conf d etc zabbix zabbix_agentd gt usr local etc zabbix_agentd conf d 6 Installation procedure changes Schema file sqlite sql has been renamed to sqlite3 sql Image file images_pgsql sql has been renamed to images_postgresql sql Database creation files have been moved in database directory It contains one directory per supported database type Option with pgsql for configure script has been changed to with postgresql Directory misc conf was moved to be just conf in the top level source directory 7 Item changes net tcp dns and net tcp dns query have been renamed to net dns and net dns record respectively Old syntax still supported as an alias All items that return text character log text types of information including user parameters and external checks now can return whitespace only as well setting the return value to an empty string Internal item zabbix log has been removed https www zab
8. the number of active items and refresh rates very much It is highly recommended to run the database on a separate box for large installations Supported platforms Due to security requirements and mission critical nature of monitoring server UNIX is the only operating system that can consistently deliver the necessary performance fault tolerance and resilience Zabbix operates on market leading versions Zabbix is tested on the following platforms a Linux IBM AIX a FreeBSD https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation requirements Page lof 5 2 Requirements Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM NetBSD OpenBSD HP UX Mac OS X Solaris Windows 2000 Server 2003 XP Vista Server 2008 7 Server 2012 Zabbix agent only Zabbix may work on other Unix like operating systems as well Software Zabbix is built around a modern Apache web server leading database engines and PHP scripting language Database management system MySQL Required if MySQL is used as Zabbix back end database InnoDB engine is required 10g or 3 Oracle later Required if Oracle is used as Zabbix back end database 8 1 or Required if PostgreSQL is used as Zabbix back end database PostgreSQL l tef It is suggested to use at least PostgreSQL 8 3 which introduced much better VACUUM performance http www postgresql org docs 8 3 static release 8 3 html SQLite 3 3 5 or Required if SQLite is used as Zabbix back end data
9. Note that enable static does not work under Solaris http blogs sun com rie entry static_linking_where_did_it Using enable static option is not recommended when building server In order to build the server statically you must have a static version of every external library needed There is no strict check for that in configure script Command line utilities zabbix_get and zabbix_sender are compiled if enable agent option is used Use with ibm db2 flag to specify location of the CLI API Use with oracle flag to specify location of the OCI API with ucd snmp flag can be used instead of with net snmp If no SNMP support is required both with net snmp and with ucd snmp may be skipped 5 Make and install everything If installing from SVN it is required to run first make dbschema ace Soe ee ee eee eee eee ee ee eee eee eee eee eee eee ee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee Cee eee eee ee ees eee eee This step should be run as a user with sufficient permissions commonly root or by using Sudo Running make install will by default install the daemon binaries zabbix_server zabbix_agentd zabbix_proxy in usr local sbin and the client binaries zabbix_get zabbix_sender in usr local bin https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation install Page 2 of 10 4 Installation from sources Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM To specify a different location than usr local use a prefix key in the pre
10. SCS https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation install Page 5 of 10 4 Installation from sources Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM PHP memory_limit 128MB In php ini option memory_limit 128M PHP post_max_size 16MB In php ini option post_max_size 16M In php ini A nua 2MB upload_max_filesize 2M In php ini max_execution_time 300 seconds max_execution_time 300 PHP max_input_time 300 seconds In php ini option max_input_time 300 In php ini OREA must be disabled session auto_start 0 option Required since Zabbix 2 0 4 version One of IBM DB2 MySQL One of the following modules must be installed Database support Oracle cate ee i SQLite ibm_db2 eoo oci8 pgsql sqlite3 lbcmath Po php bemath a bcmath mbstring a SSCSCSCS SCSY sockets __ hp net socket Required for user script suppor jd zoorhiger php gd PHP GD extension must support PNG images with png din JPEG with jpeg dir images and FreeType 2 with freetype dir pxmiwrier E SSCS femireader OOO i ores C SSS idemepe SSOSCSCS SCSCSY session OOO ess ewa OOO O o i ee Step 3 Enter details for connecting to the database Zabbix database must already be created https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation install Page 6 of 10 4 Installation from sources Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM ZA B B x 3 Configure DB connection 2 0 0 Please create database manualy and set the comfgumton parameters
11. Se eietnoets ania eee es 2 eee eee ee ere eerste ee eee ere at be eee Se eee eee eS eo eee ee ee eee eee ee eee he eS eee ee ee eee ee eee ee A Creating initial database Create zabbix database and user on MySQL Ee ee ee ae ee ee ee ee ee ee ep eee Be TED Ge Ie Ege ee ee Me eae PIN eee ee Me ee te aD gee Oe a ger ape ee a at SAE er Se ee eee TN ee ep ee Te ye ee ee a mysql uroot mysql gt create database zabbix character set utf8 mysql gt grant all privileges on zabbix to zabbix localhost identified by zabbix mysql gt exit 1 1 Dian cece a cad ata D ca ay ea a aN S a a E age ey Sar E ep EA NE apt r a Fa ENE ER PE B eae E A hn Baa Sess Shae R E A Ss E AAAS OA AES aap a Import initial schema and data cd usr share doc zabbix server mysql 2 0 4 create mysql uroot zabbix lt schema sql https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation install_from_packages Page 1 of 4 3 Installation from packages Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM mysql uroot zabbix lt images sql i mysql uroot zabbix lt data sql Starting Zabbix server process Edit database configuration in zabbix_server conf zare a Seen Chae etd Se tel te oe cd a Nat a Ak de tat oe A eae a Ee et el a ek aE z vi etc zabbix zabbix_server conf i DBHost localhost i DBName zabbix i DBUser zabbix i DBPassword zabbix gee a aE reg ae en a Mae E rely ae a Core EEE ae PAT A EEE SU ate rar ee ee ee A Bae Reha here Bras ee ieee ee rere
12. Unease ee roan reer VA ae brs Preys Mele an weer yg ear Reise area YEYET AEE hy Uae eee Te Ne rene rene ee renee eRe ery E rae bere Fa pee at ey ay aha gg ec SN me ek aca a E E ES A aR AAS a PP PA ATAA AETA A AR A a A E EREN SAN A O SENER E PA c E SERIE AE ER A E E BA A a E ar A A aa a Rana A aR Editing PHP configuration for Zabbix frontend Apache configuration file for Zabbix frontend is located in etc httpd conf d zabbix conf Some PHP settings are already configured aed EE EOT EEOAE E E EE ge eet aes E eae gi E E ep ge E E A dee eee ede E PE E E E E eh tee aber php_value max_execution_time 300 php_value memory_limit 128M php_value post_max_size 16M php_value upload_max filesize 2M php value max_input_time 300 php value date timezone Europe Riga It s necessary to uncomment the date timezone setting and set the right timezone for you After changing the configuration file restart the apache web server ee ee ee a i ee ee ee ee ee ee ee eee ee ee ee ee eee ee ee ee ee ee ee a A Zabbix frontend is available at http zabbix frontend hostname zabbix http zabbix frontend hostname zabbix in the browser Default username password is Admin zabbix Debian Ubuntu Supported for version Debian 6 Squeeze Debian 7 Wheezy Ubuntu 10 04 LTS Lucid Lynx Ubuntu 12 04 LTS Precise Pangolin Installing repository configuration package Install the repository configuration package This package contains
13. Zabbix Manual Zabbix 11 21 13 4 25 PM Zabbix Manual Welcome to the user manual for Zabbix 2 0 software These pages are created to help our users successfully manage their monitoring tasks with Zabbix from the simple to the more complex 2 0 manual txt Last modified 2012 05 23 11 27 by martins v Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual Page 1 of 1 1 Getting Zabbix Zabbix 12 4 13 3 39 PM 1 Getting Zabbix Overview There are three ways of getting Zabbix Install it from the packages Download the latest source archive and compile it yourself Download the virtual appliance To download the latest sources or the virtual appliance go to the Zabbix download page http www zabbix com download php where direct links to latest versions are provided To download older versions see the link below stable version downloads 2 0 manual installation getting_zabbix txt Last modified 2013 05 07 10 30 by martins v Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation getting_zabbix Page 1 of 1 2 Requirements Zabbix 12 4
14. _limit 128M php_value post_max_size 16M php_value upload_max_filesize 2M php value max_input_time 300 php_value date timezone Europe Riga It s necessary to uncomment the date timezone setting and set the correct timezone for you After changing the configuration file restart the apache web server mete ine Se Sle etna aie Ste ct Sh ee at a Sak Se hen totale a plaka ecg Se Sle T a os Slate fare Xe I E e ohn a A A a coal et ele a ht Go ete ohn cee teta eer ce EOE a ete aera a E Zabbix frontend is available at http zabbix frontend hostname zabbix http zabbix frontend hostname zabbix in the browser Default username password is Admin zabbix 2 0 manual installation install_from_packages txt Last modified 2013 10 15 09 40 by martins v Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation install_from_packages Page 4 of 4 4 Installation from sources Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM 4 Installation from sources Overview You can get the very latest version of Zabbix by compiling it from the sources A step by step tutorial for installing Zabbix from the sources is provided here 1 Installing Zabbix daemons 1 Download the source archive Go to the Zabbix download page http www zabbix com download php and download
15. a RHEL CentOS var www Debian Ubuntu It is suggested to use a subdirectory instead of the HTML root To create a subdirectory and copy Zabbix frontend files into it execute the following commands replacing the actual directory mkdir lt htdocs gt zabbix i cd frontends php cp a lt htdocs gt zabbix i If installing from SVN and planning to use any other language than English you must generate translation files To do so run msgfmt utility from gettext package is required Additionally to use any other language than English its locale should be installed on the web server See the See also section in the User profile page to find out how to install it if required Installing frontend Step 1 In your browser open Zabbix URL http lt server_ip_or_name gt zabbix You should see the first screen of the frontend installation wizard https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation install Page 4 of 10 4 Installation from sources Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM 2 0 0 1 Welcome 2 Check of pre requisites 3 Configure DB connection ann server eta Welcome to 5 Pre installation summary 6 install Step 2 Make sure that all software prerequisites are met ZABBIX 2 Check of pre requisites 2 0 0 1 Welcome 2 Check of pre requisites 3 Configure DB connection 4 Zabbix server detalis 5 Pre installation summary 6 Install RRRRARARARRRARRz fpiPverson T S
16. ailable if PHP is compiled with bundled GD which is not the case in Debian and other distributions WEB browser on client side Cookies and Java Script must be enabled Latest versions of Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Microsoft Internet Explorer and Opera are supported Other browsers Apple Safari Konqueror may work with Zabbix as well Server Open IPMI Required for IPMI support libssh2 Required for SSH support Version 1 0 or higher Required for ICMP ping items Database size Zabbix configuration data require a fixed amount of disk space and do not grow much Zabbix database size mainly depends on these variables which define the amount of stored historical data Number of processed values per second This is the average number of new values Zabbix server receives every second For example if we have 3000 items for monitoring with refresh rate of 60 seconds the number of values per second is calculated as 3000 60 50 It means that 50 new values are added to Zabbix database every second Housekeeper settings for history Zabbix keeps values for a fixed period of time normally several weeks or months Each new value requires a https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation requirements Page 3 of 5 2 Requirements Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM certain amount of disk space for data and index So if we would like to keep 30 days of history and we receive 50 values per second total number of values will
17. apt configuration files Zabbix 2 0 for Debian 6 i wget http repo zabbix com zabbix 2 0 debian pool main z zabbix release zabbix release_2 0 1squeeze_all de dpkg i zabbix release_2 0 lsqueeze_all deb 1 apt get update 1 Zabbix 2 0 for Debian 7 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation install_from_packages Page 2 of 4 3 Installation from packages Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM wget http repo zabbix com zabbix 2 0 debian pool main z zabbix release zabbix release _2 0 lwheezy_all deb dpkg i zabbix release_2 0 lwheezy_all deb apt get update wget http repo zabbix com zabbix 2 0 ubuntu pool main z zabbix release zabbix release_2 0 llucid_all deb dpkg i zabbix release_2 0 llucid_all deb apt get update wget http repo zabbix com zabbix 2 0 ubuntu pool main z zabbix release zabbix release_2 0 lprecise_ all deb dpkg i zabbix release_2 0 lprecise_all deb apt get update Installing and configuring MySQL database This step is for Debian 6 and Ubuntu 10 04 with MySQL database only dbconfig common on Debian 6 and Ubuntu 10 04 cannot create database with utf 8 encoding It is necessary to install mysql server package and configure mysql configuration to use utf 8 in advance For Debian 7 and Ubuntu this step is not necessary Install MySQL server package mysqld default character set utf8 The encoding setting above is for MySQL 5 1 If you use MySQL 5 5 or later please use
18. base later IBM DB2 Required if IBM DB2 is used as Zabbix back end database IBM DB2 support is experimental SQLite3 support for use with Zabbix server is experimental Frontend The following software is required to run Zabbix frontend ater a PO eS es later Pee Fl later PHP GD extension must support PNG images with png dir JPEG with jpeg din images and FreeType 2 with freetype dir lbcmath php bcmath enable bcmath ctype p php ctype enab e ctype libXML ee or php xml or php5 dom if provided as a separate package by the distributor php xmlreader if provided as a separate package by the distributor xmlwriter php xmlwriter if provided as a separate package by the distributor 2 0 or later https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation requirements Page 2 of 5 2 Requirements Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM session php session if provided as a separate package by the distributor php net socket enable sockets Required for user script support php mbstring enable mbstring Zabbix may work on previous versions of Apache MySQL Oracle and PostgreSQL as well php gettext with gettext For other fonts than the default DejaVu PHP function imagerotate http php net manual en function imagerotate php might be required If it is missing these fonts might be rendered incorrectly in Monitoring gt Overview header and other locations This function is only av
19. bbix proxy database needs only the schema while Zabbix server database requires also the dataset on top of the schema Having created a Zabbix database proceed to the following steps of compiling Zabbix 4 Configure the sources https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation install Page 1 of 10 4 Installation from sources Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM When configuring the sources for a Zabbix server or proxy you must specify the database type to be used Only one database type can be compiled with a server or proxy process at a time To see all of the supported configuration options inside the extracted Zabbix source directory run baa Sete ae eee eee eee ee eee ee eee ee ee Be eee ee ee eee eee cee Ree eee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee ee ea LBS ete eta ata cata a aveten ate ete aba ale cate ete etetete ete eta ater eta ete T areata ahaa a eetetevetevate atelaba ata etade abate Ste veta Zhe usta ate veta cena ete E a A ye Glave EEE E EAE EAN S pa ek a Me a Oa sea ge a peg a ek es TN em ge a he ea cee Ae a Seca Te ae as AS ee a ce tec Te gcse ec Sa gen i wen cs Sees Te cua Neu Te gc See va cee Ms cok TON Ge Sede Decca esate ee gc ee Te gk ewe Te cca See Des Yas ek Tas gee ees el gem a a a D e dad Ga e cee pak es py Use can add enable static flag to statically link libraries If you plan to distribute compiled binaries among different servers you must use this flag to make these binaries work without required libraries
20. ber of items History days number of days to keep history refresh rate average refresh rate of items bytes number of bytes required to keep single value depends on database engine normally 50 bytes days items 3600 24 3600 bytes items number of items days number of days to keep history bytes number of bytes required to keep single trend depends on database engine normally 128 bytes days events 24 3600 bytes events number of event per second One 1 event per second in worst case scenario days number of days to keep history bytes number of bytes required to keep single trend depends on database engine normally 130 bytes Trends Events So the total required disk space can be calculated as Configuration History Trends Events The disk space will NOT be used immediately after Zabbix installation Database size will grow then it will stop growing at some point which depends on hosekeeper settings Disk space requirements for nodes in distributed setup are calculated in a similar way but this also depends on a total number of child nodes linked to a node Time synchronisation It is very important to have precise system date on server with Zabbix running ntpd http www ntp org is the https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation requirements Page 4 of 5 2 Requirements Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM most popular daemon that synchronizes the host s time with the time of other
21. bix com documentation 2 0 manual installation upgrade_notes Page 2 of 4 7 Upgrade notes for 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM External check parameter handling was changed Previously only one parameter was accepted Starting with Zabbix 2 0 key syntax conforms to other types of items and multiple comma separated parameters may be passed Multi line values can now be stored for the output of external checks Hardcoded first parameter HOST CONN for external checks has been removed and now external check parameters may be fully customised Upgrade process adds this macro as a first parameter to all existing external checks After upgrading it is recommended to manually review all external checks that have more than one parameter in the key for any possible conversion errors to correct The format of simple checks has been changed The possibility of using IP addresses in simple checks has been added Database upgrade process converts all existing simple check keys to the new syntax A status item has been removed Instead of it a new internal item zabbix host agent available has been added The database upgrade process doesn t convert all existing status keys and associated triggers to the new syntax so they have to be converted manually 8 Upgrade notes for proxies Older Zabbix proxies 1 6 and 1 8 cannot be used with Zabbix 2 0 server similarly a Zabbix 2 0 proxy cannot be used with Zabbix 1 8 or older server All proxies must b
22. censes by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation upgrade Page 2 of 2 7 Upgrade notes for 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM 7 Upgrade notes for 2 0 0 1 Requirement changes Dropping MSIE 6 and 7 support for Zabbix frontend MySQL 5 0 Windows 2000 should specify minimum SP level a Minimum supported PHP version has been changed to 5 1 6 Note that with the use of jQuery for the Zabbix frontend browser compatibility might have suffered somewhat most notably Konqueror does not work anymore Minimum supported PostgreSQL version has been changed to 8 1 Frontend now requires PHP gettext PHP XML Reader a PHP XML Writer 2 Frontend specific upgrade notes User group access property API access has been removed Starting with Zabbix 2 0 all users have full access to the API Variables TRIGGER_FALSE_PERIOD and TRIGGER_BLINK_PERIOD in include defines inc php have been removed These settings may now be configured in Administration gt General gt Trigger displaying options Graph item type Aggregated has been removed If such items are present upgrade procedure will convert them to normal items Sorting by State column in Configuration gt Maintenance has been removed Sorting by IP range and Delay columns in Configuration gt Discovery have been removed After upgrading sorting in all locations tables will be reset to defaults Multiple element selecting in ma
23. e upgraded at the same time as the server Zabbix 1 8 proxies may continue collecting data while the server database is upgraded In this case proxy database must be converted before the new server is started up Proxy will send all collected and converted values to the server once both server and proxy are upgraded and started up 9 Upgrade notes for agents Server parameter has been changed Entries in it will never be used for active checks only for passive Only entries from ServerActive will be used for active checks Parameter ServerPort has been removed If it will be still specified in the configuration file agent will not start up Parameters DisableActive and DisablePassive have been removed Instead not specifying ServerActive will not do any active item processing and specifying StartAgents 0 will disable processing of incoming connections for passive items If these parameters will be still specified in the configuration file agent will not start up See also Version compatibility 10 Upgrade notes for web monitoring If a host was assigned to be monitored by a proxy before upgrading to 2 0 and it had a web scenario assigned to it this web scenario would be performed from the Zabbix server After upgrade such a web scenario may stop working After upgrading to 2 0 the proxy that this host is assigned to should be compiled with web monitoring support and be able to access websites used in the scenario 11 General notes
24. ere otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation upgrade_notes_201 Page 1 of 1 9 Upgrade notes for 2 0 3 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 41 PM 9 Upgrade notes for 2 0 3 Accepted data limit of 128MB was introduced when using Zabbix protocol Any other data including older Zabbix protocols stays limited at 16MB 2 0 manual installation upgrade_notes_203 txt Last modified 2013 02 28 18 01 by Alexei Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation upgrade_notes_203 Page 1 of 1 10 Upgrade notes for 2 0 4 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 41 PM 10 Upgrade notes for 2 0 4 Requirement changes Zabbix frontend will now require PHP session auto start disabled session auto_start parameter in php ini file API changes API version has been bumped to 2 0 4 and will match Zabbix version from now on 2 0 manual installation upgrade_notes_204 txt Last modified 2013 02 28 18 01 by Alexei Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licens
25. es by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation upgrade_notes_204 Page 1 of 1 11 Upgrade notes for 2 0 8 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 41 PM 11 Upgrade notes for 2 0 8 Configuration changes Upgrade to Zabbix 2 0 8 changes the ODBC login timeout for Database monitor items from a fixed value 5 seconds to the value of configurable Timeout parameter in server proxy configuration file 3 seconds by default 2 0 manual installation upgrade_notes_208 txt Last modified 2013 08 02 00 57 by richlv Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation upgrade_notes_208 Page 1 of 1
26. for conmecton to thes database Press Test conmecton bution when done 3 Configure DB connection __0 0 use defaut port pabr zat o pae Step 4 Enter Zabbix server details ZA B B X 4 Zabbix server details 2 0 0 Please enter host name or host IP address ANG por number of Zabbix server as wel as the mame of the mstailation optonal 4 Zabbix server details ocahost Pot 1005 Step 5 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation install Page 7 of 10 4 Installation from sources Zabbix Review a summary of settings ZAB P X 5 Pre Installation summary 2 0 0 Please check configuraton parameters H al is conect press Next button or Previous button to change configuration parameters 5 Pre installation summary Step 6 Download the configuration file and place it under conf 2 0 0 Configuration fie lsrwewethidocs zabbocontizabba cont php created Fail _ Retry Unable to create the configuration tie Please instal t manualy or fx permessions on the cont dwectory Press the Download configuration fie bution download the configuration fle and save it as Vsrwenwwhidocs zabbovcontizabba cont php When done press the Retry button https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation install 12 4 13 3 40 PM Page 8 of 10 4 Installation from sources Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM Opening zabbix conf
27. on restart Known issues for 2 0 1 Event exporting to CSV also exports extra data fixed for 2 0 2 Known issues for 2 0 4 2 0 6 It is not possible to redirect line info from server from Zabbix sender output fixed for 2 0 7 2 0 manual installation known_issues txt Last modified 2013 08 26 12 09 by martins v Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation known_issues Page 1 of 1 6 Upgrade procedure Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM 6 Upgrade procedure Overview This section provides the steps required for a successful upgrade from Zabbix 1 8 x to 2 0 Database upgrade to version 2 0 may take a long time as all the historical data tables have to be upgraded Make sure to read upgrade notes before proceeding with the upgrade 1 Stop Zabbix server Stop Zabbix server to make sure that no new data is inserted into database 2 Back up the existing Zabbix database This is a very important step Make sure that you have a backup of your database It will help if the upgrade procedure fails lack of disk space power off any unexpected problem 3 Back up configuration files PHP files and Zabbix binaries Make a backup copy of Zabbix binaries configuration files and PHP files 4 Install new server binaries Y
28. ou may use pre compiled binaries or compile your own 5 Review server configuration parameters Some parameters of zabbix_server conf might have changed from 1 8 new parameters added You may want to review them 6 Upgrade the database Before you upgrade a Make sure the database user has enough permissions create table drop table create index drop index Make sure you have enough free disk space Database upgrade scripts are located in the upgrades dbpatches 2 0 lt db engine gt directory Run the scripts MySQL upgrades dbpatches 2 0 mysql patch sq PostgreSQL upgrades dbpatches 2 0 postgresql patch sql a Oracle upgrades dbpatches 2 0 oracle patch sq IBM DB2 upgrades dbpatches 2 0 ibm_db2 patch sq These scripts are only for upgrading Zabbix 1 8 x to 2 0 For upgrading from earlier versions first use upgrade scripts from Zabbix 1 6 x or Zabbix 1 8 x https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation upgrade Page 1 of 2 6 Upgrade procedure Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM 7 Install new Zabbix web interface Follow installation instructions 8 Start new Zabbix binaries Start new binaries Check log files to see if the binaries have started successfully 2 0 manual installation upgrade txt Last modified 2013 02 28 18 03 by Alexei Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org li
29. php 3 Step 7 Finish the installation 2 0 0 Step 8 Zabbix frontend is ready The default user name is Admin password zabbix https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation install Page 9 of 10 4 Installation from sources Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM Help Support ssword Remember me for 30 days Signin Login as Guest Zabbix 2 0 0 Copyright Proceed to getting started with Zabbix See also 1 How to configure shared memory for Zabbix daemons http www zabbix org wiki How_to configure_shared_memory 2 0 manual installation install txt Last modified 2013 03 01 11 47 by martins v Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation install Page 10 of 10 5 Known issues Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM 5 Known issues Known issues for 2 0 0 Reordering entries in lists by dragging them sometimes moves elements inside the entry to the left hand side this is a JQuery issue Known issues for 2 0 0 2 0 4 IT services custom service times representation in the frontend could get broken after upgrading from 1 8 to 2 0 fixed in the upgrade patch of 2 0 5 Known issues for 2 0 0 2 0 8 Log size was not stored on Zabbix proxy making the agent re read the whole file up
30. ps while holding down Shift was removed On Mac OSX multiple elements can now be selected by holding down Command Dropdown choice in Administration gt General is not remembered anymore 3 Database upgrading notes Database upgrade to 2 0 for MySQL will run UPDATE statement that fixes web monitoring item units for all items including the ones with correct unit This should be harmless and only result in some additional UPDATESs For better performance especially with large databases on MySQL increasing innodb_buffer_pool_size http dev mysql com doc refman 5 5 en innodb parameters html sysvar_innodb_buffer_pool_size before upgrading is highly suggested Also disable binlog if it is not needed or increase binlog_cache_size http dev mysql com doc refman 5 1 en replication options binary log html sysvar_binlog_cache_size During database upgrade with MySQL ERROR 1436 HYOOO Thread stack overrun increase thread_stack in https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual installation upgrade_notes Page 1 of 4 7 Upgrade notes for 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 40 PM my cnf 256K should be enough 4 Zabbix server related notes Upgrading to 2 0 0 may increase Zabbix server configuration cache usage because it now additionally caches general configuration and trigger information 5 Changed default configuration directories configuration files location etc zabbix gt usr local etc depends on compile time installation variable
31. the source archive Once downloaded extract the sources by running Meteo eee eee ee eee eee ee ele ee ee Re eee eee eee ee See Bee Re eee eee ee eee ee eee eee ee eee Enter the correct Zabbix version in the command It must match the name of the downloaded archive 2 Create user account For all of the Zabbix daemon processes an unprivileged user is required If a Zabbix daemon is started from an unprivileged user account it will run as that user However if a daemon is started from a root account it will switch to a zabbix user account which must be present To create such a user account in its own group zabbix on Linux systems run groupadd zabbix useradd g zabbix zabbix A separate user account is not required for Zabbix frontend installation If Zabbix server and agent are run on the same machine it is recommended to use a different user for running the server than for running the agent Otherwise if both are run as the same user the agent can access the server configuration file and any Admin level user in Zabbix can quite easily retrieve for example the database password Running Zabbix as root bin or any other account with special rights is a security risk 3 Create Zabbix database For Zabbix server and proxy daemons as well as Zabbix frontend a database is required It is not needed to run Zabbix agent SQL scripts are provided for creating database schema and inserting the dataset Za
32. vious step of configuring sources for example prefix home zabbix In this case daemon binaries will be installed under lt prefix gt sbin while utilities under lt prefix gt bin Man pages will be installed under lt prefix gt share 6 Review and edit configuration files edit the Zabbix agent configuration file usr local etc zabbix_agentd conf You need to configure this file for every host with zabbix_agentd installed You must specify the Zabbix server IP address in the file Connections from other hosts will be denied edit the Zabbix server configuration file usr local etc zabbix_server conf You must specify the database name user and password if using any With SQLite the full path to database file must be specified DB user and password are not required The rest of the parameters will suit you with their defaults if you have a small installation up to ten monitored hosts You should change the default parameters if you want to maximize the performance of Zabbix server or proxy though See the Performance tuning section for more details if you have installed a Zabbix proxy edit the proxy configuration file usr local etc zabbix_proxy conf You must specify the server IP address and proxy hostname must be known to the server as well as the database name user and password if using any With SQLite the full path to database file must be specified DB user and password are not required 7 Start up the daemons
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