Zabbix

Updated 23 April 2021

Introduction

Zabbix is a free system for monitoring and tracking the status of many network services, servers and network equipment. A Zabbix server is the core of the system, which remotely controls network services and is the repository containing all configuration, stats and runtime data. It is the part of Zabbix that alerts the administrator of any monitored hardware problem.

This article explains how to install and configure the server part of Zabbix on a Calculate Scratch Server with a Web interface and agent.

Creating LXC container

We recommend that you install Zabbix in a separate container, that you would have created and configured according to the manual.

Installing and configuring PostgreSQL

Install and configure PostgreSQL, as explained in the manual. Replace dbtest with zabbix, and test with zabbix.

Installing and configuring Nginx

Install and configure your Nginx server, then setup PHP-FPM as described in the manual.

Installing and configuring a Zabbix server

Before installing, add the required USE flags for the Zabbix package for Web interface and server support:

Install Zabbix:

Add open port settings for Zabbix to run:

Required PHP settings for Zabbix

# Max allowed data size
post_max_size = 16M

# Max time in seconds for the script to fully load
max_execution_time = 300


# Max time in seconds for the script to handle all input data
max_input_time = 300

Once the settings have been saved, restart PHP and Nginx:

Importing database layout for Zabbix

Reset your database layout:

Setting up a web interface

To be able to use the Web interface, first copy the Zabbix files to the corresponding directory on the server:

Start both the Zabbix server and agent:

Add the Zabbix server and agent to autostart:

Go to http://example.org/zabbix in your browser and complete the configuration process:

Specify the connection details for the database:

The connection port must not change:

Use Admin as user and zabbix as password for authentication: