How to Install Zabbix 4.4 on Ubuntu 18.04 / 16.04 and Debian 9/8

Install Apache, MySQL and PHP

You must have a LAMP environment on your server to use Zabbix. Please run these commands as root.

apt-get update

apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php

apt-get install mysql-server

apt-get install php php-mbstring php-gd php-xml php-bcmath php-ldap php-mysql

Update timezone in php configuration file /etc/php/PHP_VERSION/apache2/php.ini. Like below:

[Date]

; http://php.net/date.timezone

date.timezone = 'Asia/Kolkata'

Enable zabbix Repository

On Debian 9 run:

# wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.4/debian/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_4.4-1+stretch_all.deb
# dpkg -i zabbix-release_4.4-1+stretch_all.deb

On Debian 8 run:

# wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.4/debian/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_4.4-1+jessie_all.deb
# dpkg -i zabbix-release_4.4-1+jessie_all.deb

On Ubuntu 18.04 run:

# wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.4/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_4.4-1+bionic_all.deb
# dpkg -i zabbix-release_4.4-1+bionic_all.deb

On Ubuntu 16.04 run:

# wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.4/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_4.4-1+xenial_all.deb
# dpkg -i zabbix-release_4.4-1+xenial_all.deb

On Ubuntu 14.04 run:

# wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.4/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_4.4-1+trusty_all.deb
# dpkg -i zabbix-release_4.4-1+trusty_all.deb

Update the repository information.

# apt-get update

Install Zabbix Server

After adding Zabbix apt repository in your system use following command to install Zabbix server. Here zabbix-server-mysql package includes Zabbix server with MySQL support.

apt-get update

apt-get install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-frontend-php zabbix-agent

Set Mariadb root Password:

Please refer mysql_secure_installation.

Edit create and import initial zabbix database and user

First we need to create zabbix database (zabbixdb) and create a zabbix user (zabbixuser).

[root@zabbixserver ~]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.Your MariaDB connection id is 10Server version: 5.5.60-MariaDB MariaDB ServerCopyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE zabbixdb CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON zabbixdb.* TO zabbixuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "Your Password";
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> exit
Bye
[root@zabbixserver ~]#

After creating the Zabbix database and user we need to import the zabbix initial database using the below commands:

[root@zabbixserver ~]# zcat /usr/share/doc/zabbix-server-mysql*/create.sql.gz | mysql -u zabbixuser -p zabbixdb
Enter password:

Now we need to edit database configuration in the Zabbix server configuration file zabbix_server.conf

[root@zabbix ~]# vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
Specify the database name for zabbix , database user name and the password

DBHost=localhost
DBName=zabbixdb
DBUser=zabbixuser
DB Password=YOUR_PASSWORD

Restart Apache and Zabbix

Zabbix creates its own apache configuration file /etc/zabbix/apache.conf and make a link to Apache configuration directory. Let’s use the following command to restart Apache service.

service apache2 restart

Zabbix server configuration file are located at /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf. Restart Zabbix server.

service zabbix-server restart

After starting the Zabbix service, let’s go to Zabbix web installer and finish the installation.