How To Install zabbix40 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zabbix40 on CentOS 8.
What is zabbix40
Zabbix is software that monitors numerous parameters of a network and the health and integrity of servers. Zabbix uses a flexible notification mechanism that allows users to configure e-mail based alerts for virtually any event. This allows a fast reaction to server problems. Zabbix offers excellent reporting and data visualization features based on the stored data. This makes Zabbix ideal for capacity planning. Zabbix supports both polling and trapping. All Zabbix reports and statistics, as well as configuration parameters are accessed through a web-based front end. A web-based front end ensures that the status of your network and the health of your servers can be assessed from any location. Properly configured, Zabbix can play an important role in monitoring IT infrastructure. This is equally true for small organizations with a few servers and for large companies with a multitude of servers.
We can use yum or dnf to install zabbix40 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install zabbix40.
Install zabbix40 on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install zabbix40 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install zabbix40
Install zabbix40 on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install zabbix40 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install zabbix40
How To Uninstall zabbix40 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the zabbix40 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove zabbix40
zabbix40 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/zabbix
/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf
/usr/bin/zabbix_get
/usr/bin/zabbix_sender
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/956a47cfe6ca26c668174d052ab77e40a89a01
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/33fd0af49a4a75100d7965b53d7606d1234b2c
/usr/share/doc/zabbix40
/usr/share/doc/zabbix40/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/zabbix40/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/zabbix40/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/zabbix40/README
/usr/share/doc/zabbix40/zabbix-fedora-epel.README
/usr/share/licenses/zabbix40
/usr/share/licenses/zabbix40/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/zabbix_get.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zabbix_sender.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zabbix40 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.