Installing the database ----------------------- The Zabbix server needs an SQL database to run. As you chose to install this zabbix-server-mysql package you apparently want to use a MySQL server as a storage backend. Set up a MySQL database server on any system - you are not forced to run it on the same computer as the Zabbix server: -> apt-get install mysql-server Create a new database (let's call it "zabbix"): -> mysql -p -e "CREATE DATABASE zabbix CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_bin" Create a MySQL user that has access rights to the database (please use another password than 'SECRETPASSWORD'): -> mysql -p -e "grant all on zabbix.* to 'zabbix'@'localhost' identified by 'SECRETPASSWORD'" Create the database schema: -> zcat /usr/share/zabbix-server-mysql/{schema,images,data}.sql.gz \ | mysql -uzabbix -pSECRETPASSWORD zabbix Then enter the database access credentials into "/etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf". See also: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/6.0/manual/appendix/install/db_scripts https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/6.0/manual/appendix/install/db_charset_coll