Installing the Zabbix server
Before doing anything within Zabbix, we need to install it and get ready to start working with it. In this recipe, we are going to discover how to install Zabbix server 5.
Getting ready
Before we actually install the Zabbix server, we are going to need to fulfill some prerequisite requirements. We will be using MariaDB mostly throughout this book. MariaDB is popular and a lot of information is available on the use of it with Zabbix.
At this point, you should have a prepared Linux server in front of you running either an RHEL- or Debian-based distribution. I'll be installing CentOS 8 and Ubuntu 20 on my server; let's call them lar-book-centos and lar-book-ubuntu.
When you have your server ready, we can start the installation process.
How to do it…
- Let's start by adding the Zabbix 5.0 repo to our system.
For RHEL-based systems, use the following:
rpm -Uvh https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/5.0/rhel/8/x86_64/zabbix...
