Download Zabbix 1.3.6 beta

With the Zabbix program you can monitor different parts of your network and services on your servers. The program supports two different options 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, there is a so-called agent 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 released beta version 1.3.6 early this month with the following changes since the previous entry in the junk tracker:

Version 1.3.6:

Misc functionality and fixes:

• added export of applications and linkage of value maps
• new default templates
• support or host template actions
• support of actions: link to template, unlink, remove host
• fixed compilation of agent under OpenBSD
• support of parameter LogFileSize for server and agent
• fixed configuration file processing for WinXX
• fixed system.uname for WinXX
• updated Spanish translation
• misc fixes for static build
• more strict processing of response codes of all passive checks
• new logic for poller for unreachable hosts
• fixed fatal error in cbutton.inc.php for some platforms
• fixed zabbix_server’s option -V
• fixed compilation under Solaris
• added discovery based on data received from ZABBIX and SNMP agents
• other improvements and bug fixes

Version 1.3.5:

More improvements of auto-discovery

Some actions based on event from discovery are implemented, yet most critical ones (link to template) are not implemented yet. Also SNMP and ZABBIX agent auto-discovery will be implemented soon.

Support or slideshows

Several screens can be grouped into a slideshow. Nice!

Misc functionality and fixes

• removed support of autoregistration, use autodiscovery instead
• fixed creation of Sqlite schema
• fixed dependences of deleted elements for actions
• fixed loop in frontend installation screen
• fixed processing of COUNTER64 SNMP values
• added frontend-side support or external checks
• fixed trigger dependencies for templated triggers
• fixed support or ‘curl’ library
• added support of ‘automake’ v1.6
• fixed oracle support
• added support of MySQL v3.23
• fixed unnecessary check of MySQL if other database is selected in Wizard
• fixed remembering of previous charts viewed
• fixed color validation
• fixed template graph editing
• fixed trigger overview status
• ZABBIX won’t start HTTP poller if libcurl is not included
• fixed function diff for integer items
• fixed SMS sender
• improved ZABBIX sender
• added filering of log items by regexp on agentside
• removed check of function bcpowmod() in GUI Wizard
• updated poller to have current system date
• removed unnecessary dependencies fron autoconf script
• added generation of service up/down events
• fixed ‘–with-ldap’ compilation
• added popup menu for quick hosts controlling in configuration screen
• other improvements and bug fixes

Version 1.3.4:

Support of auto-discovery

Added support of auto-discovery by IP range and TCP services. At the moment it is not fully usable as there is no way to react on events generated by the auto-discovery module. Please wait for 1.3.5.

Support of macros in remote commands

Remote commands accept all macros supported by notifications.

Support or external checks

New item check type, external, can be used to upgrade functionality of ZABBIX server by writing a custom scripts.

Support of multiple actions

One set of conditions can generate multiple actions (remote commands, user notifications).

Support of different types of conditions

Different algorithms of evaluation of notification conditions are supported.

Misc functionality and fixes

• fixed calculation of some functions where item is integer
• added new table slides and slideshows
• fixed incorrect SQL statement for ICMP check
• added quick help for overview
• fixed processing of text items
• fixed processing or aggregate items
• added events.object
• developed PopUp menu for overview
• fixed “system.cpu.util”[]†
• removed housekeeper warnings from front-end
• HTTP poller won’t verify SSL certificates to enable self-signed fixed warning when enabling/disabling action
• added support of avg() for items having integer type
• added user group for database down messages
• removed support or action repeats
• fixed upgrade of rights,sysmaps,sysmaps_elements
• fixed initial creation of user rights in data.sql
• fixes of PostgreSQL compile
• added icons for elements of map having Unknown status
• added installation check for ‘BC math’
• added actions.evaltype
• fixed processing of Text items
• NetBSD compilation fixes
• other improvements and bug fixes

Version 1.3.3

Upgrade patches for easy migration from 1.1.x to 1.4

These patches are under upgrades/dbpatches/1.3/, for MySQL and PostgreSQL only.

Scenarios based WEB monitoring

Performance, availability and integrity of WEB applications can be monitored by ZABBIX.

Added “Clone” functionality in ZABBIX WEB GUI

Items, triggers and other elements can be easily duplicated!

Support of hysteresis

Different trigger conditions can be defined depending on trigger value.

Native support of Jabber notifications

New media type, Jabber, can be used to send messages to Jabber network (Google Talk, other).

Hostname split into host name and DNS name

Host name will be used for informational purposes only.

Better default templates

Please let us know how we can improve the templates further.

New command line parameters for zabbix_sender

See ZABBIX Manual (PDF) for details.

Database watchdog

ZABBIX server will not shutdown but notify users and recover nicely if database is not available. MySQL only. Other databases will be supported as well.

Mass update for items

Mass updates of items made easy!

Misc functionality and fixes

• ZABBIX Manual 1.4 release 4
• new macro {TRIGGER.VALUE}
• highlighting for second level menu
• new parameter system.boottime
• data precision is preserved for integer data types
• item key length increased to 255 characters
• new server parameter ‘StartHTTPPollers’
• fixed compilation issues under FreeBSD and HP-UX
• other improvements and bug fixes