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.
New user contributed templates: Cisco PIX, Cisco PIX 525, APC Battery, Dell PowerConnect, Dell OpenManage, Dell PowerEdge, HP InsightManager.
Support of per-CPU system.cpu.util and support of system.cpu.num under Linux and Solaris.
New parameters, NodeNoEvents and NodeNoHistory, controls if a node should send events and historical data to a master node.
ZABBIX GUI can optionally display information of a single node or the node and its all child nodes.
New parameter, 'count', can be used to filter data processed by this function.
It is a non-case sensitive alternative to already existing regexp().
- 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 '%'
See ZABBIX Manual for full details.
See ZABBIX Manual for a detailed upgrade procedure. No upgrade of database schema required for upgrade from 1.4 or 1.4.1.
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 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 for a limited number of versions and platforms.
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