Alexei
21-08-2007, 10:16
ZABBIX SIA is proud to announce the availability of ZABBIX 1.4.2.
ZABBIX is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution.
ZABBIX is released under the GPL, thus it is free of charge for both commercial and non-commercial use. A complete text of the license is available at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt.
This document contains the release notes for ZABBIX 1.4.2.
It is strongly recommended to upgrade from ZABIX 1.4 and 1.4.1.
Support of Oracle restored, however it is not well-tested. No Oracle patches for migration from 1.4 exist yet.
The following sections describe the release in detail and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements its main documentation.
What's New in 1.4.2
:: New templates
New user contributed templates: Cisco PIX, Cisco PIX 525, APC Battery, Dell PowerConnect, Dell OpenManage, Dell PowerEdge, HP InsightManager.
:: Pre-CPU statistics
Support of per-CPU system.cpu.util and support of system.cpu.num under Linux and Solaris.
:: More flexible node configuration
New parameters, NodeNoEvents and NodeNoHistory, controls if a node should send events and historical data to a master node.
:: Improved front-end to show data from multiple nodes
ZABBIX GUI can optionally display information of a single node or the node and its all child nodes.
:: Support of new parameter for count(period,value,operator)
New parameter, 'count', can be used to filter data processed by this function.
:: Non-case sensitive function iregexp()
It is a non-case sensitive alternative to already existing regexp().
:: Fixes and minor improvements
fixed '{HOSTNAME}' macros in actions
fixed e-mail sending to the pedantic qmail
fixed communication between systems with different byte orders
fixed frontend to accept trigger function time()
ignore trigger FALSE state if it depends on another trigger
added automatic resolution of DNS names for auto-discovery
fixed processing of triggers on delta items
updated German translation
changed help string for parameter '-s' of zabbix_sender
fixed displaying of text data (EOL) in screens
added missing { and } when displaying trigger expressions
fixed processing of negative SNMP integers
fixed processing of MM in format of log timestamps
added missing index on items_applications.itemid
fixed processing of SNMP octet strings
fixed division by zero in ZABBIX server
fixed upgrade script to correctly process host-template linkage
fixed synchronisation of delete operation between nodes
fixed problem with libresolv under Solaris 8
improved item and trigger filtering
added dotted drawing type for links of map
fixed links drawing type of map
fixed items,graphs,hostgroups deletion
fixed permisions for maps
fixed filtering of items by status
fixed collector for WinXX
fixed definition of serial columns to allow use of older MySQL
decreased required version of libcurl
added timeout handler for http monitoring
more informative report for confiuration script
changed installation directory to '$sbin'
fixed "Reset" button for Web screens
fixed graph items limitation for IE6
added availability of using spaces for trigger expressions
improved inheritance of template graphs
fixed permissions for logfile
changed syntax of keys for external checks
changed syntax of keys for aggregate items
fixed DM configuration exchange in 32-bit environments
fixed agent library dependencies
fixed reset button for graph
fixed item multiple cleaning on mass update
fixed error 'undefined function delete_service'
fixed internal loging system
added non-persistent connection for PostgreSQL to avoid problems with unfinished transactions
fixed housekeeper to process history_text
added support of character ':' for item keys
fixed processing of long data by zabbix_get
fixed shared memory allocation
added server-side transactions for PostgreSQL
fixed housekeeper to run as multiple transations
added support of NOT IN operator for time periods
fixed processing of macro {TRIGGER.VALUE} on 32 bit systems
changed priorities of '|' and '&' in trigger expressions
fixed no graphs for PostgreSQL
fixed and improved eventlog monitoring
improved not supported values processing
fixed processing of user parameters and remote commands having character '%'
Installation and Upgrade Notes
Installation
See ZABBIX Manual (http://../downloads/ZABBIX%20Manual%20v1.4.pdf) for full details.
Upgrade
See ZABBIX Manual (http://../downloads/ZABBIX%20Manual%20v1.4.pdf) for a detailed upgrade procedure. No upgrade of database schema required for upgrade from 1.4 or 1.4.1.
Pre-release testing
ZABBIX Server
ZABBIX Server has been tested on the following platforms:
CentOS Linux 4.4, Intel
CentOS Linux 5.0, Intel
FreeBSD 6.2, Intel
Solaris 10, Intel
Ubuntu Linux, AMD64, kernel 2.6.11, MySQL 4.x
Ubuntu Linux, Intel, kernel 2.6.15, MySQL 5.0.22
ZABBIX Agents
ZABBIX Agents have been compiled and tested on the following platforms:
AIX 5.2
FreeBSD 4.11, 5.4
HP-UX 11.00
Linux 2.6.11 (Ubuntu)
Linux 2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
Linux CentOS
NetBSD 2.0
OS/X 10.2
Solaris 10
Tru64 5.1B
Windows XP
Note that agents are available pre-compiled from http://www.zabbix.com/download.php (http://../download.php) for a limited number of versions and platforms.
Commercial support
ZABBIX Company provides full range of professional services. Please contact our sales (sales@zabbix.com) department for pricing and more details.
References
ZABBIX 1.4 Manual (http://../downloads/ZABBIX%20Manual%20v1.4.pdf)
ZABBIX Forums (http://www.zabbix.com/forum (http://../forum))
ZABBIX Support (http://www.zabbix.com/support.php (http://../support.php))
ZABBIX is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution.
ZABBIX is released under the GPL, thus it is free of charge for both commercial and non-commercial use. A complete text of the license is available at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt.
This document contains the release notes for ZABBIX 1.4.2.
It is strongly recommended to upgrade from ZABIX 1.4 and 1.4.1.
Support of Oracle restored, however it is not well-tested. No Oracle patches for migration from 1.4 exist yet.
The following sections describe the release in detail and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements its main documentation.
What's New in 1.4.2
:: New templates
New user contributed templates: Cisco PIX, Cisco PIX 525, APC Battery, Dell PowerConnect, Dell OpenManage, Dell PowerEdge, HP InsightManager.
:: Pre-CPU statistics
Support of per-CPU system.cpu.util and support of system.cpu.num under Linux and Solaris.
:: More flexible node configuration
New parameters, NodeNoEvents and NodeNoHistory, controls if a node should send events and historical data to a master node.
:: Improved front-end to show data from multiple nodes
ZABBIX GUI can optionally display information of a single node or the node and its all child nodes.
:: Support of new parameter for count(period,value,operator)
New parameter, 'count', can be used to filter data processed by this function.
:: Non-case sensitive function iregexp()
It is a non-case sensitive alternative to already existing regexp().
:: Fixes and minor improvements
fixed '{HOSTNAME}' macros in actions
fixed e-mail sending to the pedantic qmail
fixed communication between systems with different byte orders
fixed frontend to accept trigger function time()
ignore trigger FALSE state if it depends on another trigger
added automatic resolution of DNS names for auto-discovery
fixed processing of triggers on delta items
updated German translation
changed help string for parameter '-s' of zabbix_sender
fixed displaying of text data (EOL) in screens
added missing { and } when displaying trigger expressions
fixed processing of negative SNMP integers
fixed processing of MM in format of log timestamps
added missing index on items_applications.itemid
fixed processing of SNMP octet strings
fixed division by zero in ZABBIX server
fixed upgrade script to correctly process host-template linkage
fixed synchronisation of delete operation between nodes
fixed problem with libresolv under Solaris 8
improved item and trigger filtering
added dotted drawing type for links of map
fixed links drawing type of map
fixed items,graphs,hostgroups deletion
fixed permisions for maps
fixed filtering of items by status
fixed collector for WinXX
fixed definition of serial columns to allow use of older MySQL
decreased required version of libcurl
added timeout handler for http monitoring
more informative report for confiuration script
changed installation directory to '$sbin'
fixed "Reset" button for Web screens
fixed graph items limitation for IE6
added availability of using spaces for trigger expressions
improved inheritance of template graphs
fixed permissions for logfile
changed syntax of keys for external checks
changed syntax of keys for aggregate items
fixed DM configuration exchange in 32-bit environments
fixed agent library dependencies
fixed reset button for graph
fixed item multiple cleaning on mass update
fixed error 'undefined function delete_service'
fixed internal loging system
added non-persistent connection for PostgreSQL to avoid problems with unfinished transactions
fixed housekeeper to process history_text
added support of character ':' for item keys
fixed processing of long data by zabbix_get
fixed shared memory allocation
added server-side transactions for PostgreSQL
fixed housekeeper to run as multiple transations
added support of NOT IN operator for time periods
fixed processing of macro {TRIGGER.VALUE} on 32 bit systems
changed priorities of '|' and '&' in trigger expressions
fixed no graphs for PostgreSQL
fixed and improved eventlog monitoring
improved not supported values processing
fixed processing of user parameters and remote commands having character '%'
Installation and Upgrade Notes
Installation
See ZABBIX Manual (http://../downloads/ZABBIX%20Manual%20v1.4.pdf) for full details.
Upgrade
See ZABBIX Manual (http://../downloads/ZABBIX%20Manual%20v1.4.pdf) for a detailed upgrade procedure. No upgrade of database schema required for upgrade from 1.4 or 1.4.1.
Pre-release testing
ZABBIX Server
ZABBIX Server has been tested on the following platforms:
CentOS Linux 4.4, Intel
CentOS Linux 5.0, Intel
FreeBSD 6.2, Intel
Solaris 10, Intel
Ubuntu Linux, AMD64, kernel 2.6.11, MySQL 4.x
Ubuntu Linux, Intel, kernel 2.6.15, MySQL 5.0.22
ZABBIX Agents
ZABBIX Agents have been compiled and tested on the following platforms:
AIX 5.2
FreeBSD 4.11, 5.4
HP-UX 11.00
Linux 2.6.11 (Ubuntu)
Linux 2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
Linux CentOS
NetBSD 2.0
OS/X 10.2
Solaris 10
Tru64 5.1B
Windows XP
Note that agents are available pre-compiled from http://www.zabbix.com/download.php (http://../download.php) for a limited number of versions and platforms.
Commercial support
ZABBIX Company provides full range of professional services. Please contact our sales (sales@zabbix.com) department for pricing and more details.
References
ZABBIX 1.4 Manual (http://../downloads/ZABBIX%20Manual%20v1.4.pdf)
ZABBIX Forums (http://www.zabbix.com/forum (http://../forum))
ZABBIX Support (http://www.zabbix.com/support.php (http://../support.php))