HOW TO INSTALL CENTOS 7 ZABBIX 3.4 PROXY
Today, we will set up a proxy for the Zabbix server that I have installed in version 3.4 and enable it to communicate.
First things you need to do;
1-IP configuration
2-Turning off selinux and firewall settings
3-Change hostname (optional, easy to manage large structures)
4-Passing updates.
If the server is ready after the steps mentioned above;
We enter the Zabbix official repo and download the required rpm package.
1 | rpm -Uvh https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/rhel/7/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.4-2.el7.noarch.rpm |
Then we install proxy and MySQL packages for Zabbix.
1 | yum install zabbix-proxy-mysql -y |
We install MariaDB
1 | yum install mariadb-server -y |
We run MariaDB’s service and activate it at startup.
1 | systemctl enable mariadb && systemctl start mariadb |
Database installation.
1 | mysql_secure_installation |
You can use the following commands respectively. DB name and user’s name depending on you can choose yourself.
1 | mysql -u root -p |
create database zabbix_proxy character set utf8 collate utf8_bin;
grant all privileges on zabbix_proxy.* to zabbixuser@localhost identified by “select password”;
flush privileges;
Let’s import the Zabbix schema into the database.
1 | zcat /usr/share/doc/zabbix-proxy-mysql-3.4.14/schema.sql.gz | mysql -u zabbixuser zabbix_proxy -p |
Edit the proxy.conf
file for Zabbix.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_proxy.conf ProxyMode=1 (I use passive mode) Server=<IP of your zabbix server> Hostname=<Zabbix3.X ip address of your server> DBName=<DB name created for proxy> DBUser=<DB user created for proxy> DBPassword=<DB password created for proxy> |
Finally, activate Zabbix service and make it work after boot.
1 2 | systemctl enable zabbix-proxy systemctl start zabbix-proxy |
The next part is to find out the external IP address of your Zabbix proxy server. For this
1 | curl icanhazip.com |
Just type. It will show you the external IP that the server uses to access the Internet.
You can add the rope information from the Administration> Proxies menu as shown below.

I hope it has been a useful article. See you in the next article.