Install Zabbix Proxy on CentOS 6.5

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　　Zabbix Proxy Platform: CentOS 6.5 x86_64
　　

　　Note: please setup NTP for time synchronization
　　

　　1.Set Up MySQL

　　for Database:
　　yum -y install mysql mysql-server mysql-devel
　　

　　for server:
　　yum -y install zlib-devel glibc-devel libcurl-devel OpenIPMI-devel libssh2-devel net-snmp-devel openldap-devel

　　yum -y install fping iksemel-devel(using fedora epel repo -- rpm -ivh http://mirrors.sohu.com/fedora-epel/6Server/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm)
　　

　　2. vi /etc/my.cnf
　　在[mysqld]加入
　　default-storage-engine=INNODB
　　

　　service mysqld start
　　chkconfig mysqld on
　　

　　3. Install the repository configuration package
rpm -ivh 　　http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/2.2/rhel/6/x86_64/zabbix-release-2.2-1.el6.noarch.rpm

　　

　　4. for Zabbix proxy with mysql database
　　yum -y install zabbix-proxy-mysql
　　

　　5. Create zabbix proxy database and user on MySQL.
　　# mysql -u root

　　mysql> create database zabbix character set utf8;

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

　　mysql> flush privileges;

　　mysql> exit
　　

　　Import initial schema and data.
# cd /usr/share/doc/zabbix-proxy-mysql-2.2.1/create
# mysql -uroot zabbix < schema.sql　　

　　6.Edit database configuration in zabbix_proxy.conf
　　# vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_proxy.conf

　　ProxyMode=0
　　Server=[zabbix server ip]
　　Hostname=[Hostname of proxy]
　　#hostname value set on the proxy should exactly match the ”Proxy name” configured for the host in the web frontend (Administrator > DM> Create proxy)

　　DBHost=localhost

　　DBName=zabbix

　　DBUser=zabbix

　　DBPassword=zabbix
　　

　　Start Zabbix proxy process.
　　# service zabbix-proxy start
　　chkconfig zabbix-proxy on
　　

　　7. on Zabbix server web -- Administrator > DM > Create proxy

　　

　　8. for Linux agent client
　　vi /etc/zabbix_agentd.conf
　　#Hostname=[ Hostname of client system ]

　　#hostname value set on the agent side should exactly match the ”Host name” configured for the host in the web frontend
　　

　　Server=[proxy server ip]
　　ServerActive=[proxy server ip]
　　Hostname=Linux Client
　　

　　service zabbix-agent restart
　　

　　Note: you will see info in /var/log/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.log
　　5803:20140104:194929.390 no active checks on server [192.168.1.18:10051]: host [linux client] not found
　　and on proxy server also info in /var/log/zabbix/zabbix_proxy.log
　　3242:20140104:194929.937 cannot send list of active checks to [192.168.1.11]: host [linux client] not found
　　you can just ignore it as you will get it working in step 11

　　

　　9. for Windows agent client, please refer above setting
　　

　　10. go to Zabbix server web -- Configuration > Hosts > Create host

　　

　　11. service zabbix-proxy restart
　　now it's working
　　4494:20140104:195048.462 enabling Zabbix agent checks on host "linux client": host became available