ZABBIX SIA is proud to announce the availability of ZABBIX 1.3.
ZABBIX is an all-in-one 24x7 monitoring solution without high cost. ZABBIX is released under the GPL, thus it is free of charge for both commercial and non-commercial use. The full license is available at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt.
This document contains the release notes for ZABBIX 1.3. This is the first release in a series of pre-1.4 releases. The release supports MySQL only.
Do not use this release in production! It is for early beta testing only.
The following sections describe the release in detail and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements the main documentation.
This release introduces functionality for distributed monitoring. ZABBIX distributed setup supports up-to 1000 nodes which all can be configured either locally or from a central location.
The Installation Wizard provides a convinient way of installing and configuring ZABBIX frontend.
A host may have unlimited number of linked templates. This simplifies configuration and maintenance of ZABBIX setup very much.
Permissions are defined for user group on per host group level only.
SLA downtimes are supported for better calculation of service availability.
Yes, stacked graphs!
Items may have different refresh intervals for different period of time.
- numerous fixes and improvements
See the Installation Guide http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.4/install.php for full details. See http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.4/install_source_web.php for information about Installation Wizard.
No upgrade script are provided for migration from 1.1.x. Please do not upgrade! The release may or may not work on your system. It has been tested on a very limited number of systems.
ZABBIX Server has been compiled and tested on the following platforms:
- Ubuntu Linux, AMD64, kernel 2.6.11, MySQL 4.x
- Ubuntu Linux, Intel, kernel 2.6.15, MySQL 5.0.22
ZABBIX Agents have been compiled and tested on the following platforms:
- Linux 2.6.11 (Ubuntu)
- Windows XP
- Windows XP 64bit
Note that agents are available pre-compiled from http://www.zabbix.com/download.php for a limited number of versions and platforms.
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- ZABBIX v1.1 Manual http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/index.php
- ZABBIX v1.3 (beta) Manual http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.4/index.php
- ZABBIX Forums (http://www.zabbix.com/forum)
- ZABBIX Support (http://www.zabbix.com/support.php)