Download Zabbix 1.6

With the Zabbix program you can keep an eye on different parts of a network and the services offered on it. The program supports two different ways to retrieve the relevant information. For example, it can send requests from its own host to the various services and network components, which then respond to them. In addition, a Zabbix agent can also be installed on a Windows or Linux machine to collect and forward this information. Last Thursday a new version of Zabbix was released with version number 1.6 and below you can find what has changed:

What’s New in 1.6

• Escalations and Repeated Notifications
• Much Better Performance
• Support of IPv6
• Support of IPMI
• Better Distributed Monitoring
• ZABBIX Proxy Process
• Dashboard
• Dynamic Screens
• Nice Zoom for Graphs
• Pie Charts
• Basic Management Functions
• More Efficient Communication with Agents
• More Efficient ZABBIX Sender
• Improved View of Trigger Statuses
• Support of SNMP Data with Dynamic Index
• Special processing of well known SNMP OIDs
• Added Printable View for All Screens
• Disabling of Login Rights for a Group of uUers
• Added Support of UTF-8
• Added Screen for Better Management of Translations
• Added Maintenance Mode
• Added maintenance mode
• Unlimited Number of Map Link Styles
• Improved User Permission Scheme

Other Improvements

• Queue moved into Administration
• Link to Maps, Screens and Graphs moved to the Dashboard
• Auto login option
• New communication protocol
• Support of themes for ZABBIX front-end
• User “guest” can be disabled
• Disabling of a group of users
• Database down screen
• Duplicated Login removed
• Added sorting for all screens
• Better information message
• Support of import/export of the host template linkage information
• Support of negative values ​​in graphs
• Support of directories in the parameter Include
• Support of new macros
• New after-login greeting message
• Auto-discovery by ICMP ping
• Increased number of log entries sent per second
• Added mass-update functionality for hosts and triggers
• Added full screen icon
• Active only mode for ZABBIX agent
• Added monitoring of Proxy availability
• Added protection against brute force attacks
• Improved event viewing
• More accurate ICMP pings
• Support or bulk acknowledgments
• Added time filter to Availability Report
• History of Actions moved under Administration
• Required server performance value is available
• Added support or auto-login
• Automatic selection of the first element in drop-downs
• Last access time is displayed for users
• More flexible Status or Trigger screen
• Extended host profiles
• Plenty of other improvements

What’s important

• Empty passwords are no longer supported and replaced by password “zabbix”
• User permissions schema differs from 1.4 for Admins and Super Admins

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