Its pretty straight forward to get Zabbix running on FreeBSD. Its worth noting that after install i wasnt all that impressed with zabbix so I continued my question for a monitoring platform. In any case there isnt any documentation on how to do a FreeBSD Zabbix install via ports.

Start off with going to ports and installing it

cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/zabbix
make && make install

Then create the zabbix mysql database and users (note the user here is zabbix, password is z4bb1x.

echo "create database zabbix" | mysql
echo "grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost identified by z4bb1x' | mysql
mysql < etc

Edit the zabbix_server.conf file as needed...

[root@batou /usr/local/etc/zabbix]# vi zabbix_server.conf

Enable the zabbix service in rc.conf

vi /etc/rc.conf

# zabbix
zabbix_server_enable="YES"

Start up zabbix

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/zabbix_server start

Configure apache for zabbix

[root@batou /usr/local/etc/apache22/Includes]# vi zabbix.conf

Alias /zabbix "/usr/local/share/zabbix/php"


    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all


Edit the zabbix web interface config...


[root@batou /usr/local/share/zabbix/php/conf]# cat zabbix.conf.php
/*
** ZABBIX
** Copyright (C) 2000-2005 SIA Zabbix
**
** This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
** it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
** the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
** (at your option) any later version.
**
** This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
** but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
** MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
** GNU General Public License for more details.
**
** You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
** along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
** Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
**/

global $DB;

$DB["TYPE"]             = "MYSQL";
$DB["SERVER"]           = "localhost";
$DB["PORT"]             = "0";
$DB["DATABASE"]         = "zabbix";
$DB["USER"]             = "zabbix";
$DB["PASSWORD"]         = "z4bb1x";
$ZBX_SERVER             = "localhost";
$ZBX_SERVER_PORT        = "10051";


$IMAGE_FORMAT_DEFAULT   = IMAGE_FORMAT_PNG;

?>


Make some changes to the php.ini file, you will need to tailor some of these to your region.

vi /usr/local/etc/php.ini


[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
date.timezone = Australia/Sydney

Restart apache

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 restart

Log in to the zabbix www server with user 'Admin' and password 'zabbix'

http://yourserver/zabbix/


Thats it.