Download Zabbix 1.1 beta 10

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 released the tenth beta version of Zabbix 1.1 with the following announcement:

Version 1.1 beta 10:

• Oracle support.
  This is an experimental feature. So please do not use it for any serious work. The functionality will be finalized in next release.
• Improved performance of ZABBIX with MySQL database.
  Internal MySQL access routines have been rewritten to get rid of performance heavy MySQL calls.
• Better logic for handling timeout situations.
  ZABBIX 1.1beta9 didn’t handle timeout situations correctly. The algorithm has been improved for better flexibility and performance. New parameters for ZABBIX server: UnreachableDelay, UnreachablePeriod, UnavailableDelay.
• New reports
  New reports: “Most Busy Triggers Top 100”, “Notification Report”.
• New special unit ‘unix time’
  Item value having this unit will be automatically translated to human readable timestamp.
• Grouping items by applications
  A set of applications can be defined for a host. An item may belong to one or more applications.
• Performance improvements for WEB frontend
  Performance and memory usage of PHP scripts significantly improved.
• Trigger displaying on graphs
  Simple triggers will be displayed on simple graphs and optionally on user-defined graphs.
• Support of working time
  Working time can be configured and displayed on graphs.
• Added selection of item’s keys
  This will greatly simplify configuration of items.
• Replaced old naming of items by new naming for win32 agent. Consult ZABBIX Manual for full details.
• UNIX agent improvements
  Better support of proc.num, proc.mem and Solaris, Tru64, AIX.
• Fixes:
  • fixed confugration of triggers having logseverity()
  • fixed evaluation or simple checks
  • fixed ‘EventLog’ monitoring for Win32 ZABBIX agent
  • fixed random Win32 ZABBIX agent crash
  • fixed history cleaning for logs
  • fixed left axis calculation of graphs
  • fixed Win32 ZABBIX agent log monitoring
  • fixed evaluation of max,min,count,sum for item having integer values
  • fixed new map link adding
  • fixed host group adding
  • fixed map display
  • fixed ‘No permissions’ for ‘Latest data’,’Triggers’,’Alarms’ screens
  • fixed permission deletion
  • fixed ‘get_map_by_sysmapid’ function calls
  • fixed zabbix_sender for sending values ​​from a file
  • integer values ​​will not be treated a sunsupported for items having type float
  • fixed server hanging in calculation of aggregate functions
  • fixed status changing of triggers when all displayed
  • fixed action adding
  • Other fixes.

Version 1.1 beta 9:

• A separater poller process will be used for unreachable hosts.
  This will unload standard pollers improving overall ZABBIX performance in timeout situations.
• New screen for analyzing multiple log files.
  Search, highlighting, analyzing and merging of multiple log files, and more in one WEB screen.
• More command line parameters for ZABBIX binaries
  Parameters -t, -h and -v have been introduced. See output of -h for more details.
• Added support or aggregate items
  It makes possible keeping track of statistical data or per host group level. For example, ZABBIX is able to monitor average CPU load for a group of servers. Or overall amount of free memory (or disk space) for a group of servers.
• Vertical hostnames in overview screen
  Overview screen will use vertical hostnames to improve general layout.
• Disabling/enabling or template items.
  Change of template item status will be propagated to related items.
• ZABBIX server parameter StartSuckers renamed to StartPollers.
  Don’t forget to adjust zabbix_server.conf before upgrade.
• Experimental parameter NoTimeWait is no longer supported.
  Don’t forget to adjust configuration files if you use this parameter.
• Fixes:
  • fixed aggregate functions to work with uint data type
  • fix compilation if no function atoll()
  • fixed compilation issue in run_command()
  • better function is_double()
  • fixed host conditions in actions
  • fixed processing of trapped items when a key contains ‘\’
  • Other fixes.