How To Install zabbix40 on CentOS 8

zabbix40 is Open-source monitoring solution for your IT infrastructure

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install zabbix40 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.