Zabbix installation （from source）

1、download src package

2、Create database

shell> mysql -u<username> -p<password> mysql> create database zabbix character set utf8; mysql> quit; shell> cd create/schema shell> cat mysql.sql | mysql -u<username> -p<password> zabbix shell> cd ../data shell> cat data.sql | mysql -u<username> -p<password> zabbix shell> cat images_mysql.sql | mysql -u<username> -p<password> zabbix

3、Configure and compile

 

shell> ./configure --enable-server --with-mysql --with-net-snmp --with-jabber --with-libcur 

Error 1：configure: error: Jabber library not found

download and compile the source 

http://code.google.com/p/iksemel/downloads/list

after installed successfully，use the parameter like.--with-jabber=/usr/local/ 

Error 2：configure: error: Curl library not found

yum install curl-devel 

Error 3：configure: error: Invalid NET-SNMP directory - unable to find net-snmp-config

yum install net-snmp-devel 

4、Configure 

#mkdir /etc/zabbix

copy example configuration file

#cp misc/conf/zabbix_proxy.conf /etc/zabbix/

#cp misc/conf/zabbix_agentd.conf /etc/zabbix/

#cp misc/conf/zabbix_server.conf /etc/zabbix/

 

 

5、Run zabbix server & agent processes

 

shell> cd sbin shell> ./zabbix_server shell> cd bin shell> ./zabbix_agentd