Install Ubuntu Server 16.04 with SSH server

Install LAMP

sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
sudo apt-get install php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-cgi php7.0 libapache2-mod-php7.0 php-bcmath php-mbstring php7.0-xml fping libiksemel3 libltdl7 libmysqlclient20 libodbc1 libopenipmi0 libssh2-1

Check http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix for latest packages. This one is for 3.0.4-1.

wget http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.0/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-mysql_3.0.4-1+xenial_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i zabbix-server-mysql_3.0.4-1+xenial_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-frontend-php
sudo service apache2 reload

Log in to MySQL: mysql -uroot -p – enter password
create database zabbix character set utf8 collate utf8_bin;
grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost identified by ‘zabbix’;
quit;
cd /usr/share/doc/zabbix-server-mysql
zcat create.sql.gz | mysql -uzabbix -p zabbix – enter password (for zabbix user)
sudo vi /etc/zabbix/apache.conf
- Change #php_value date.timezone Europe/Riga to php_value date.timezone Europe/Oslo
- Save and exit
sudo service apache2 restart

Got to http://ip-address/zabbix/setup.php
Correct pre-requisites failures (typical php options) (restart with sudo service apache2 restart if changes)
Set db-options (use root if you haven’t made any users)
Log on with Admin / zabbix

That concludes a complete install with agent. You’re Zabbix Server is now upp and running.

For monitoring there will be separate articles.