Steps to Install Zabbix Server on Ubuntu

Step 1: Choose you platform

• Zabbix version: 6.0 LTS
• OS Distrubution: Ubuntu
• OS Version: 22.04(Jammy)
• Zabbix Component: Server, Frontend, Agent
• Database: MYSQL
• Web Server: Apache

Step 2: Install and configure Zabbix for your platform

• Install Zabbix repository

# wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/6.0/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_6.0-4+ubuntu22.04_all.deb

# dpkg -i zabbix-release_6.0-4+ubuntu22.04_all.deb

# apt update

• Install Zabbix server, frontend, agent

# apt install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-frontend-php zabbix-apache-conf zabbix-sql-scripts zabbix-agent

• Create initial database

Make sure you have database server up and running.

Run the following on your database host.

# mysql;

mysql> create database zabbix character set utf8mb4 collate utf8mb4_bin;

mysql> create user zabbix@localhost identified by ‘password’;

mysql> grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost;

mysql> set global log_bin_trust_function_creators = 1;

mysql> quit;

On Zabbix server host import initial schema and data. You will be prompted to enter your newly created password.

# zcat /usr/share/zabbix-sql-scripts/mysql/server.sql.gz | mysql –default-character-set=utf8mb4 -uzabbix -p zabbix

Disable log_bin_trust_function_creators option after importing database schema.

# mysql;

mysql> set global log_bin_trust_function_creators = 0;

mysql> quit;

• Configure the database for Zabbix server

Edit file:  nano /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf

DBPassword=password

• Start Zabbix server and agent processes

Start Zabbix server and agent processes and make it start at system boot.

# systemctl restart zabbix-server zabbix-agent apache2

# systemctl enable zabbix-server zabbix-agent apache2

• Open Zabbix UI web page

The default URL for Zabbix UI when using Apache web server is http://localhost/zabbix

After accessing UI:

Default Username: Admin

Password: password

Zabbix Dashboard