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Log in and Configure Zabbix Server Front End

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Log in and Configure Zabbix Server Front End Log in and Configure Zabbix Server Front End

Description

We can now visit our new Zabbix Server at,

http://your-server-ip-address/zabbix

Welcome to Zabbix 7.0

Press Next Step a few times and then enter your database password when required.

And then at the end, you will then log into the new completed installation of Zabbix Server using the default credentials of,

Username : Admin

Password : zabbix

Troubleshooting

Forgot Admin Password

If you ever forget your Admin password, you can reset it by changing it directly in the database.

SSH onto your server and open the MySQL prompt

#
mysql

Change the password back to default.

mysql>
mysql>
mysql>
use zabbix;
update zabbix.users set passwd=md5('zabbix') where alias='Admin';
quit

After logging, change your Admin users password straight away.

The server requested authentication method unknown to the client

Q. When logging into Zabbix for the first time, you are asked to enter the database connection details, you put in the complicated password, and you get the error "The server requested authentication method unknown to the client."

A. This is possibly due to the PHP front end not being aware if the MySQL password hashing requirement. So you can alter the Zabbix user in the database to use the mysql_native_password option.

Log into the MySQL prompt as the root

#
mysql

Alter the Zabbix user

mysql>
mysql>
ALTER USER 'zabbix'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'your-really-complicated-password-for-the-zabbix-user';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

And restart MySQL

#
service mysql restart

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