How to Install Zabbix Ubuntu 16.04 Easy Guide

Zabix Getting-Started for Ubuntu 16.04

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install Zabbix 6.x Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus LTS GNU/Linux with MySQL Database.

First, the Zabbix Installation on Ubuntu is Easy it’s enough to Download & Install the Zabbix Packages.

And Zabbix is the Ultimate Enterprise-Level Software Designed for Real-Time Monitoring of Servers, Virtual machines and Network Devices.

Especially relevant: Zabbix is Open Source and comes at No Cost!

Finally, the Zabixx main Features are:

• Performance monitoring
• Agents for all platforms
• Agent-less monitoring
• Availability and SLA reporting
• Collection of any data
• Great graphs and network maps
• Up-to 100,000 monitored devices
• Up-to 1,000,000 of metrics
• Thousands of checks per second
• Small to large distributed setups
• Easy maintenance

1. First, Open a Terminal Shell emulator window
   Ctrl+Alt+t on Desktop
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   

2. Then Login as SuperUser
   Just to make easier the comands series:

   sudo su

3. Add Zabbix Repo for Ubuntu 16.04 32/64-bit

   Zabbix Apt Repo

   Zabbix Apt Repo Set-up

4. So to Install Zabbix for Ubuntu
   Server with MySQL DB:

   apt install zabbix-server-mysql

   Then Agent:

   apt install zabbix-agent

   And the Frontend PHP:

   apt install zabbix-frontend-php

   Finally, you need to Install the Web Frontend like here Below…

5. Again Creating Zabbix MySQL Database.

   mysql -uroot -p[root_password]

   Login with your [root_password].
   Then Make the Database:

   create database zabbix character set utf8 collate utf8_bin;

   And Grant the Privileges to the ‘zabbix’ User:

   grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost identified by '[zabix_password]';

   Set a Custom [zabbix_password] for the zabbix User.
   Finally, to Quit:

   quit;

6. And also Edit Zabbix Server Configuration File.

   nano /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf

   Set the password the same one you choose before:

   DBHost=localhost
   DBName=zabbix
   DBUser=zabbix
   DBPassword=[zabix_password]
   

   Ctrl+x to Save & Exit from nano ;)

7. To Start the Zabbix Server.

   service zabbix-server start

   To make it Started at boot:

   update-rc.d zabbix-server enable

8. And so for Starting the Zabbix Agent.

   sudo service zabbix-agent start

9. Follow Editing Zabbix PHP Frontend Config File
   Need to Uncomment the “date.timezone” setting:

   nano /etc/zabbix/apache.conf

   Uncomment this line like:

   php_value date.timezone Europe/Paris

   Set the Right time zone for you…

10. How to Install Zabbix PHP Web Frontend

    Zabbix PHP Web Frontend Installation

    Installing Zabbix Web Frontend

11. Finally, to Achieve the SuperUser Session.

    exit

12. Moreover, see the Zabbix Quick Start Guides

    Zabbix Getting-Started Docs

    Zabbix Quick Start