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 7.0.
Getting ready
Before we actually install the Zabbix server, we are going to need to fulfill some prerequisites. We will be using MariaDB mostly throughout this book. MariaDB is popular, and a lot of information is available on using it with Zabbix.
At this point, you should have a prepared Linux server in front of you running either a RHEL- or Debian-based distribution. I’ll be installing Rocky Linux 9 and Ubuntu 22.04 on my server; let’s call them lar-book-rocky 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 7.0 repository to our system.
For RHEL-based systems, run the following:
rpm -Uvh https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/7.0/rocky/9/x86_64/zabbix...
