We start of installing stunnel and prerequisites on the zabbix server (and not proxy) Yum -y install stunnel gcc openssl-devel When we first install stunnel, we have to make our certificates that we then can use to encrypt our zabbix traffic. To make the keys (note the -days on the openssl) mkdir /etc/stunnel cd /etc/stunnel […]
We have our zabbix server, next we plan to install a proxy on a remote location. This proxy will activly send (initiate) the connection to the zabbix server. Therefore, no firewall changes are required. To setup a Zabbix Proxy, we start off installing nano: sudo yum -y install nano wget ntp net-tools epel-release and updating […]
After you have setup a clean minimal Centos 7.3 server (x64), we begin install nano, wget, ntp time, net-tools: (some scripts use ruby and/or ruby snmp, therefore i’ll install these as a ‘prerequisite’ , also gem install snmp should be installed from the user you will launching your script, so sudo gem install snmp it, […]