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Setting up Zabbix with PostgreSQL 9.6 on Debian9

I recently decided to change my internal monitoring at home from nagios to Zabbix. The main reason was that I won't have to write config files with zabbix. I used a raspberry pi 3 running raspbian 9 which I had idling around and for homeuse this should be enough since I will only monitor around 4-5 devices using the agent. The shown steps should be the same on a updated debian9 system. Anyway, I'd suggest to push the database (in my case postgresql) to a separate HDD or anything else not on the sd-card since the db will have a lot of write-cycles which will tear the flash down very quickly. I checked the internet for some good HowTo's but even the documentation on the zabbix page was missing some information. So I decided to write down the steps it took me to get up and running with zabbix. First you'll have to install the zabbix-server-pgsql package and if you want the webfrontend, also install the zabbix-webfrontend-php package. [archy@zabbix ~]$ sudo apt-