Recently I’ve been playing around with Zabbix, as a potential replacement for my existing Nagios+Cacti monitoring system. As part of this I’ve decided to instrument all own equipment through Zabbix, to get the hang of it.

The zabbix packages available for Debian Stable/Wheezy are somewhat out of date, v1.8 and although v2.2 is available through the backports repository I decided I may as well get them straight from the source, as Zabbix have a Debian repository of their own with the latest packages.

This is fine for i386 and x86_64 architectures, but they do not provide packages for the armhf architecture that Raspbian uses, nor is there a backports repo available (that I could find)

v1.8 is OK, but I wanted some specific features from 2.2 in my agent, so I decided I might as well compile them myself from source, and once I had, it made sense to share them in case anyone else had the same need.

They are available from the packages.osnz.co.nz repository, you can easily install the repo and it’s public key by downloading and installing:

http://packages.osnz.co.nz/debian/osnz-release-wheezy.deb

Once that’s done, you can install any of the zabbix packages by running “apt-get install zabbix-packagename”

I plan to keep this repo up to date as the upstream zabbix repo releases source files.

Luke.