Download Zabbix 1.4

With the program Zabbix you can monitor different parts of your network and services on your servers. The program supports two different ways to retrieve the relevant information. It can send requests from its own host to the various services and network components, which then respond to them. In addition, a so-called agent is available that can be installed on the host to be monitored, with which detailed information can be retrieved. For more information about Zabbix, we refer you to this one and this one page. The developers have finally released version 1.4 with the following changes:

What’s New in 1.4:

Installation Wizard

Installation Wizard automatically checks pre-requisites, database connectivity and generates a configuration file for WEB front end.

Distributed monitoring

ZABBIX distributed monitoring is made for complex environments consisting of different locations. ZABBIX supports monitoring of an unlimited number of nodes. Centralized configuration allows all the nodes to be configured from a single location easily.

Auto-discovery

ZABBIX distributed monitoring module allows to deploy ZABBIX systems easily. The discovery supports IP ranges, service checks, agent and SNMP checks for efficient auto-discovery.

WEB monitoring

WEB monitoring module enables flexible and easy monitoringof availability and performanceof WEB sites and WEB-based applications. It supports passing of GET and POST variables.

Support of new database engines

SQLite support has been implemented. It allows to use ZABBIX in embedded environments.

WEB interface improvements

WEB interface speed and usability have been improved greatly.

New notification methods

Native support of Jabber messaging has been introduced.

Many-to-many template linkage

More flexible host-template linkage saves time and make the configuration of hosts more flexible and straight forward.

Database watchdog

ZABBIX server automatically warns the group of users if the database is down and continues normal operations when the database is back.

XML data import/export

New XML data import and export functionality is an excellent way of sharing templates, hosts configuration and items/triggers related information.

Windows Vista Support

ZABBIX Windows agent supports Windows Vista, both 32 and 64 bit versions.

More flexible actions

Multiple operations (notifications, script execution) per action are supported. The choice of action calculation algorithm was introduced.

Server side external checks

The server-side external checks can be used to introduce custom checks executed on ZABBIX server side.

New user permission scheme

The old user permission schema is no longer supported. It was replaced by a new more efficient, yet simple, schema working on the level of user groups and host groups.

Hysteresis support

ZABBIX supports the use of different trigger expressions to go into ON and OFF states.

Support or slide show

Several screens can be grouped into a slide show for better presentation.

ZABBIX server can spread the work load across several servers

Groups of server side processes (discoverer, poller, HTTP poller, trapper, etc) can be located on different physical servers for better performance and availability.

Other improvements

• The same code for UNIX and Windows agents
• New communication protocol
• Increased maximum size of background images
• New default templates
• Flexible refresh intervals
• stacked graphs
• More flexible log rotation
• Support of static linkage
• Color selection for graphs
• Log filtering on agent side
• Improved configuration script
• ZABBIX sender to read configuration parameter from agent’s configuration file
• Support of macros in remote commands
• New configuration parameters
• avg() will support integer type
• An icon can be assigned to hosts having ‘unknown’ status
• other improvements and bug fixes

What’s no longer supported

• Repeated actions and notifications
• Bulk loader was replaced by XML Data Import/Export
• User permissions on per-element level