How to install Zabbix server 3.0 with RDS MySQL on Amazon linux

1) Create Mysql RDS

2) yum install mysql

3) check the connection : mysql -h <name of endpoint  in RDS> -u root -p PASSWORD 

create database and give permissions: 

create database zabbix character set utf8 collate utf8_bin;

grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@'%' identified by 'zabbix';

    FLUSH PRIVILEGES; 

4) download zabbix: curl -O http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.0/rhel/6/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm (NOT EL7 or centos 7! only 6!)

5) rpm -ivh zabbix-release-3.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm

6) yum install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-web-mysql zabbix-agent zabbix-java-gateway

7) chkconfig zabbix-server on

set connection to RDS: 

vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf

DBHost=<name of endpoint  in RDS>

DBName=zabbix

DBUser=zabbix

DBPassword=PASSWORD

8) create zabbix schema from  the template:

zcat /usr/share/doc/zabbix-server-mysql-3.0.9/create.sql.gz | mysql zabbix -u zabbix -pPASSWORD -h <name of endpoint  in RDS> 

9) yum install httpd24 php54 (PHP 5.4.0 is required for Zabbix 3.0 web frontend) 

yum install php54-mysqlnd.x86_64 php54-gd php54-bcmath php54-pdo php54-xml php54-mbstring 

if httpd and php 5.3 was installed (max versions in amazon linux) - do this 

    sudo yum list installed | grep "php"

       sudo yum remove httpd*

   sudo yum list installed | grep "php"

  yum remove php-cli.x86_64 php-common.x86_64

   sudo yum install httpd24 php54 php54-mysqlnd.x86_64 php54-gd php54-bcmath php54-pdo php54-xml php54-mbstring

chkconfig httpd on

10) sudo chown -R apache:apache /usr/share/zabbix/

11) sudo chown -R apache:apache /etc/zabbix/web/

12) vi  /etc/httpd/conf.d/zabbix.conf 

Alias /zabbix /usr/share/zabbix/

<Directory /usr/share/zabbix>

RemoveHandler .php

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

php_admin_value open_basedir /usr/share/zabbix:/usr/share/zabbix-agent:/usr/share/zabbix-server:/etc/zabbix:/tmp:.:..:./:../

AllowOverride All

Require all granted

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

13) Go to PUBLIC (PRIVATE) IP with /zabbix (http://34.226.45.64/zabbix in my case) and look at
 Check of pre-requisites and change what's needed

14) change php.ini settings 

vim /etc/php.ini

post_max_size = 16M

max_input_time = 600

max_execution_time = 300

date.timezone = Asia/Jerusalem

15) Configure DB connection settings via web interface - endpoint url instead of localhost

16) Finish the installation and start zabbix agent:

vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf

        change ServerActive and Hostname

/etc/init.d/zabbix-agent start

chkconfig zabbix-agent on