Step-by-Step Guide to Install Zabbix 3.4.6 on CentOS 7

1. Preparation

OS: CentOS 7.4 Zabbix version: 3.4.6 (released 2018‑01‑15) Database: MariaDB

Disable the firewall and SELinux:

systemctl stop firewalld
systemctl disable firewalld
setenforce 0  # temporary
sed -i 's/SELINUX=enforcing/SELINUX=disabled/' /etc/selinux/config  # permanent

Reboot the system after completing the preparation.

2. Install MariaDB

Overview: MariaDB is a community‑maintained fork of MySQL, fully compatible with MySQL APIs and command‑line tools. yum -y install mariadb-server mariadb Start MariaDB and enable it at boot:

systemctl start mariadb && systemctl enable mariadb

3. Install Zabbix 3.4.6

3.4.6 new features

1) New dashboard
2) New map navigation tree
3) Proxy support for remote commands
4) Parallel alarm processing

Add the Zabbix YUM repository:

rpm -i http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/rhel/7/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.4-2.el7.noarch.rpm

Install Zabbix server, web frontend, agent and utilities:

yum -y install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-web-mysql zabbix-agent zabbix-get zabbix-sender

Create the Zabbix database and grant privileges:

mysql -uroot
create database zabbix character set utf8 collate utf8_bin;
grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost identified by 'zabbix';
quit

Import the initial schema and data:

zcat /usr/share/doc/zabbix-server-mysql*/create.sql.gz | mysql -uzabbix -p zabbix

Configure Zabbix server to use the database (illustrated below):

Start Zabbix server, agent and Apache, and enable them at boot:

systemctl start zabbix-server zabbix-agent httpd && systemctl enable zabbix-server zabbix-agent httpd

Configure PHP for the Zabbix frontend (set timezone):

vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/zabbix.conf
php_value date.timezone Asia/Shanghai

Reboot the system: reboot Access the Zabbix web interface:

http://<your_server_ip>/zabbix/

Appendix: Zabbix Package Overview

zabbix-server-mysql-3.4.6-1.el7.x86_64 – main server binary

zabbix-agent-3.4.6-1.el7.x86_64 – agent binary

zabbix-web-3.4.6-1.el7.noarch – web frontend

zabbix-get-3.4.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm – pulls data from agents

zabbix-sender-3.4.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm – pushes data to server

zabbix-web-mysql-3.4.6-1.el7.noarch.rpm – web‑MySQL integration

zabbix-release-3.4.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm – creates YUM repo

Use rpm -q <package_name> to verify installation. The zabbix-get tool runs on the server to pull data from agents, while zabbix-sender runs on agents to push data to the server.