Step‑by‑Step Guide: Deploy Zabbix 7.0 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS – Deploy Zabbix 7.0

Environment preparation

IP

Hostname

Configuration

10.0.0.50

zabbix-01

2c4G

10.0.0.51

zabbix-agent

2c4G

10.0.0.52

db

2c4G

1. Add Zabbix repository

# wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/7.0/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_latest_7.0+ubuntu22.04_all.deb
# dpkg -i zabbix-release_latest_7.0+ubuntu22.04_all.deb
# apt update

2. Install Zabbix packages

# apt install -y zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-frontend-php zabbix-nginx-conf zabbix-sql-scripts zabbix-agent

3. Install MySQL

# apt install -y mysql-server-8.0
# netstat -tnulp | grep 3306

4. Create initial database

# mysql
mysql> create database zabbix character set utf8mb4 collate utf8mb4_bin;
mysql> create user zabbix@'%' identified by 'zabbix';
mysql> grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@'%';
mysql> set global log_bin_trust_function_creators = 1;
mysql> quit;

Import the initial schema and data:

# scp /usr/share/zabbix-sql-scripts/mysql/server.sql.gz 10.0.0.52:/root
# zcat server.sql.gz | mysql --default-character-set=utf8mb4 -uzabbix -p zabbix
# mysql
mysql> set global log_bin_trust_function_creators = 0;
mysql> quit;

5. Configure Zabbix server database

# egrep '^DBHost|^DBName|^DBUser|^DBPassword' /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
DBHost=10.0.0.52
DBName=zabbix
DBUser=zabbix
DBPassword=zabbix

6. Configure PHP for Zabbix frontend

# cat /etc/zabbix/nginx.conf
server {
    listen 8080;
    server_name 10.0.0.50;
    ...
}

7. Start Zabbix server and agent services

# systemctl restart zabbix-server zabbix-agent nginx php8.1-fpm
# systemctl enable zabbix-server zabbix-agent nginx php8.1-fpm

8. Set Chinese web interface locale

# locale -a
C
C.utf8
POSIX
en_US.utf8
# sed -n '/zh_CN.UTF-8 UTF-8/p' /etc/locale.gen
# sed -i 's/# zh_CN.UTF-8 UTF-8/zh_CN.UTF-8 UTF-8/' /etc/locale.gen
# locale-gen
# systemctl restart zabbix-server zabbix-agent nginx php8.1-fpm

9. Install Zabbix via web interface

Follow the web wizard, set the timezone to (UTC+08:00) Asia/Shanghai, and complete the installation.

10. Access the web interface

10.0.0.50:8080
Username: Admin
Password: zabbix

Monitoring Hosts

1. Install Zabbix agent on target host

# apt -y install zabbix-agent

2. Edit agent configuration

# vim /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
... 
Server=10.0.0.50
...

3. Restart agent service

# systemctl restart zabbix-agent.service

4. Add host in web interface

Use the Zabbix UI to create a new host and assign the previously installed agent.

5. View host monitoring

After adding the host, its metrics appear on the dashboard.