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June 09, 2010
How To Install And Setup Zabbix
By Alex Trent
Zabbix is a network monitoring tool that can aid in development by watching just about any process on your servers. If you're developing a new network application, you can configure Zabbix to monitor it.

Installing Zabbix is not for the weak. A Zabbix install takes some time and some patience, but when fully set up, it is quite powerful. The example I'll be basing this install guide on is for CentOS 5.5 using Andrew Farley's andrewfarley.com pre-compiled version. Zabbix 1.8.1 requires PHP 5.2, which can be found in the CentOS Testing repo, so I'll go over how to add that too. Zabbix can be installed using MySQL, Oracle, or SQLite for a database back-end, but for this example, I'll be using MySQL. This install guide assumes you already have at least Apache and Mysql installed.

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