Installing the database ----------------------- The Zabbix server needs an SQL database to run. The following command(s) can be used to initialize SQLite3 backend: # zcat /usr/share/zabbix-server-sqlite3/{schema,images,data}.sql.gz \ | sqlite3 /var/lib/zabbix/zabbix.sqlite3 # chown -R zabbix:www-data /var/lib/zabbix # chmod -R g+w /var/lib/zabbix Remember to check if DBname configuration parameter is set as follows in /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf DBName=/var/lib/zabbix/zabbix.sqlite3 See also: http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/appendix/install/db_scripts