Step‑by‑Step Guide to Install Zabbix 3.4.6 on CentOS 7 with MariaDB

Preparation

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

Disable firewall and SELinux:

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

Reboot the system after completing the preparation steps.

1. Install MariaDB

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

systemctl start mariadb && systemctl enable mariadb

2. Install Zabbix 3.4.6

Key features of Zabbix 3.4.6:

New dashboard

Improved map navigation tree

Proxy‑based remote command execution

Parallel alarm processing

Configure 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 server, web, and agent packages:

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

3. Create the Zabbix database

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

4. Import initial schema and data

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

5. Configure Zabbix server to use the database

(Edit the Zabbix server configuration file to set DBHost, DBName, DBUser, DBPassword as needed.)

6. Start and enable Zabbix services

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

7. Adjust PHP settings for the Zabbix front‑end

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

8. Reboot the system

reboot

9. Access the Zabbix web interface

Open a browser and navigate to http://<your_server_ip>/zabbix/.

Appendix – Zabbix package names and purposes

zabbix-server-mysql-3.4.6-1.el7.x86_64 – Zabbix server core

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

zabbix-web-3.4.6-1.el7.noarch – Web interface

zabbix-get-3.4.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm – Pull data from agents (server side)

zabbix-sender-3.4.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm – Push data to server (agent side)

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

zabbix-release-3.4.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm – Repository configuration

Verify installation with rpm -q <package_name>. The Zabbix monitoring system is now fully set up.