My Favourite Version and Why:
Important there currently two LTS (Long Term Support) versions which are available right now Version 5.0 and 6.0, this means if you intend to buy Support your best going with one of these versions to get the longest support without a upgrade to stay within the supported version. After trying to use version 6.0 at the team i faced problems with Azure SQL Servers, but i didn’t have these issues with version 6.4 at the time 2nd February 2024, plus the below seems to work better with 6.4:
ZBXNEXT-7977 Added Azure Microsoft SQL templates
ZBXNEXT-7902 Added templates for Azure MySQL servers
ZBXNEXT-7912 Improved media type configuration
ZBXNEXT-276 Added LDAP and SAML user provisioning
Significant to note is that there are presently two Long-Term Support (LTS) versions accessible: Version 5.0 and 6.0. This implies that if you plan to purchase support, it’s advisable to opt for one of these versions to ensure the longest support duration without requiring an upgrade to remain within the supported version. Following an attempt to utilize Version 6.0 within the team, issues arose with Azure SQL Servers. However, these complications were absent with Version 6.4 as of February 2nd, 2024.
Read more here https://www.zabbix.com/rn/rn6.4.0. Please also note version 7.0 LTS will be released very soon.
I will set up guides soon on Azure & AWS, to help you setup, email me and let me know if you need anything else.
as of 2nd February 2024 this is the only server where all the features worked, definitely use this exact setup.
sudo apt install mysql-server
sudo systemctl start mysql.service
wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/6.4/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_6.4-1+ubuntu22.04_all.deb
dpkg -i zabbix-release_6.4-1+ubuntu22.04_all.deb
apt update
apt install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-frontend-php zabbix-nginx-conf zabbix-sql-scripts zabbix-agent
mysql -uroot -p
* You will be prompted for a database password here (DB) *
create database zabbix character set utf8mb4 collate utf8mb4_bin;
create user zabbix@localhost identified by ‘YOUR-CHOSEN-DB-PASSWORD-ABOVE‘;
grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost;
set global log_bin_trust_function_creators = 1;
quit;
ALTER USER zabbix@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ‘YOUR-CHOSEN-DB-PASSWORD-ABOVE‘;
mysql -zabbix -p
Enter your chosen DB password
show databases;
show users;
use zabbix;
show tables;
zcat /usr/share/zabbix-sql-scripts/mysql/server.sql.gz | mysql –default-character-set=utf8mb4 -zabbix -p
Enter your chosen DB password
set global log_bin_trust_function_creators = 0;
quit;
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