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Zabbix

Installation

Find an installation guide under www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.2/manual/installation.

Under Debian Wheezy the steps are:

# add zabbix repo to apt sources
wget http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/2.2/debian/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_2.2-1+wheezy_all.deb
dpkg -i zabbix-release_2.2-1+wheezy_all.deb
apt-get update
 
# install MySQL server
apt-get install mysql-server
 
# edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf
[mysqld]
character-set-server=utf-8
 
# restart MySQL server
service mysql start
 
# install zabbix server and GUI
apt-get install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-frontend-php
 
# edit /etc/apache2/conf.d/zabbix and restart Apache
php_value date.timezone Europe/Bern
service apache2 restart
 
#For using SNMP with Zabbix the following steps have to be done:
apt-get install snmp
sudo apt-get install snmp-mibs-downloader download-mibs

GUI: Enter the user name Admin with password zabbix to log in as a Zabbix superuser.