Zabbix server is not running: the information disp

Question

So all of a sudden, after a week of using it, I get an error message on my zabbix server gui (http://localhost/zabbix/.)

The error says: Zabbix server is not running: the information displayed may not be current.

Any idea why is this happening ll of a sudden and out of the blue? I restarted the machine - which should automatically restore the zabbix server upon startup - but it's still not running.

I also researched for a startup or restart command but true to form with zabbix helpful, clear documentation is non-existent.

EDIT:

Some more info:

MySQL is running normally. I'm able to select, insert into, whatever I want.

Doing /etc/init.d/zabbix-server status results in * zabbix_server is not running

The last entry in zabbix_server.log is Zabbix Server stopped. Zabbix 2.2.9 (revision 52686).

Doing sudo /etc/init.d/zabbix-server start results in * Starting Zabbix server zabbix_server but the status is still not running and the log file doesn't have any new entries.

Answer 1

To solve the problem zabbix server is not running you have to :

First - Check that all of the database parameters in zabbix.conf.php ( /etc/zabbix/web/zabbix.conf.php) and zabbix_server.conf ( /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf) to be the same. Including:
• DBHost
• DBName
• DBUser
• DBPassword

Second- Change SElinux parameters:

#setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect on
#setsebool -P httpd_can_connect_zabbix 1
#setsebool -P zabbix_can_network 1

After all, restart all services:

#service zabbix-server restart
#service httpd restart

worth a try.

Answer 2

I was in the same trouble. For my case, that was a conflict between /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf and zabbix_server.conf parameters. I adjusted

"DBHost=localhost", 
"DBName=zabbix",
"DBUser=zabbix",
"DBPassword=******", 
"DebugLevel=3"
"ListenPort".

If you run the default installation, you should keep ListenPort=10051 for the server and 10050 for the agent.

Cheers!

Answer 3

Never had the problem until it suddenly appeared once, for me, the solution was to add (uncomment) the following line in /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf

 ListenIP=0.0.0.0

Answer 4

#getsebool -a
//httpd_can_network_connect off
#setsebool httpd_can_network_connect on
#getsebool httpd_can_network_connect
#service zabbix-server restart

Answer 5

I had the same issue.

I forgotten selinux conf, not all is ok:

setsebool -P httpd_can_connect_zabbix on

Answer 6

In my case, this occurred because the password in the server config file was commented out.

Open the server config file: # sudo vim /etc/zabbix/zabbix-server.conf

Scroll down to db user and below there will be the password with a # commenting out. Remove the hash and insert your DB password.