Installing Zabbix

In this section, we will see how to install Zabbix and configure it to monitor the Proxmox cluster and network devices. We are going to install the Zabbix version 3.0 on CentOS 7. Zabbix can be installed very easily on other major distributions, such as Debian or Ubuntu.

Tip

For stability and performance when monitoring a large production environment, using CentOS as the base operating system is highly recommended.

Always make sure that you set up a separate node or a virtual machine to offer maximum performance. A fully configured Zabbix with thousands of items will run frequent checks, which is resource heavy. Using Zabbix in a node or VM, which serves other roles, will greatly affect the performance.

Zabbix also provides preinstalled and preconfigured downloadable appliances for evaluation purposes. It is useful for learning and testing purposes but not recommended for production use. Zabbix appliances can be downloaded from http://www.zabbix.com/download.php.

Zabbix will...