Zabbix Setup & Installation Troubleshooting

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Zabbix Setup & Troubleshooting.

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MySQL New User TEST

sudo nano /var/lib/zabbix/.my.cnf

[client]
user=zabbixagentuser
password=’YOUR-CHOSEN-DB-PASSWORD‘

mysql -uroot -p

‘ENTER YOUR ROOT PASSWORD FOR YOUR DB‘

zabbixagentuser

YOUR-CHOSEN-DB-PASSWORD-ABOVE‘

create user ‘zabbixagentuser’@’%’ identified by ”YOUR-CHOSEN-DB-PASSWORD-ABOVE”;

grant replication client,process,show databases,show view on *.* to ‘zabbixagentuser’@’%’;

quit;

If the Server cant connect to itself

sudo nano /etc/zabbix/web/zabbix.conf.php

// Uncomment and set to desired values to override Zabbix hostname/IP and port.
$ZBX_SERVER = ‘localhost’;
$ZBX_SERVER_PORT = ‘10051’;
$ZBX_SERVER_NAME = ‘MyZabbixServerName01‘;

apt install zabbix-agent

Try Zabbix Agent 2 Instead

apt install zabbix-agent2 zabbix-agent2-plugin-*

systemctl restart zabbix-agent2

systemctl enable zabbix-agent2

sudo reboot

IPv6 Disable.

sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf

#add lines
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6=1

sudo sysctl -p #restart service

Agent showing as unavailable – Check dbname, user and db password here

sudo nano /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf

sudo nano /var/lib/zabbix/.my.cnf

[client]
user=zabbixagentuser
password=‘YOUR-CHOSEN-DB-PASSWORD-ABOVE‘

mysql -uroot -p

Agent

zabbixagentuser

‘YOUR-CHOSEN-DB-PASSWORD-ABOVE‘

create user ‘zabbixagentuser’@’%’ identified by ”YOUR-CHOSEN-DB-PASSWORD-ABOVE”;

grant replication client,process,show databases,show view on *.* to ‘zabbixagentuser’@’%’;

quit;

DNS Hosts File

sudo nano /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost

192.168.1.1 MyZabbixServerName-01.domain.local myzabbixservername-01.domain.local MyZabbixServerName-01 myzabbixservername-01

192.168.1.2 MyZabbixServerName-02.domain.local myzabbixservername-02.domain.local MyZabbixServerName-02 myzabbixservername-02

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