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ZABBIX 1.6.6

Riga, 26 August 2009

ZABBIX SIA is proud to announce the availability of ZABBIX 1.6.6.

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.

It is recommended to upgrade from previous releases of 1.6.x.

This document contains the release notes for ZABBIX 1.6.6.

The following sections describe the release in details and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements its main documentation.

Important

It is recommended to create the following indexes in order to speed up performance of ZABBIX front-end as well as server side (ignore it if the indexes already exist):

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX history_log_2 on history_log (itemid,id);
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX history_text_2 on history_text (itemid,id);
CREATE INDEX graphs_items_1 on graphs_items (itemid);
CREATE INDEX graphs_items_2 on graphs_items (graphid);
CREATE INDEX services_1 on services (triggerid);

What's New in 1.6.6

No new major features were introduced in this release.

:: Other Improvements and Bug Fixes

  • [ZBX-1014] fixed gaps on graph with fixed y axis
  • [ZBX-1013] fixed evaluation of aggregate items for proxy hosts
  • [ZBX-1011] zabbix_sender will send data in blocks of 250 values per TCP connection
  • [DEV-417] added services[] metric for Windows agents
  • [ZBX-1005] fixed evaluations of functions diff, change and abschange for character items if received value more than 255 characters
  • [ZBX-1004] made snmp parameters editable in templated items
  • [ZBX-1001] fixed possible server crash while processing macros {ITEM.LASTVALUE}
  • [ZBX-999] fixed query in availability reports
  • [ZBX-996] fixed possible server crash with enabled StartDBSyncers option
  • [ZBX-993] fixed possible vulnerability of trapper
  • [ZBX-964] added check on item in trigger expression
  • [ZBX-987] fixed shutting down server/proxy after connection lost to remote mysql server
  • [ZBX-809] fixed memory leak while processing perf_counter metric under Windows
  • [ZBX-959] fixed windows agent crash while processing performance counters under Windows 2000. Thanks to Takanori Suzuki
  • [ZBX-733] added checks on value map creation/update
  • [ZBX-768] improved menu linebreaking
  • [ZBX-853] fixed item massdelete if not zabbix item selected
  • [ZBX-963] removed sid from users map element url
  • [ZBX-980] removed sid from users trigger url
  • [ZBX-981] fixed aggregate item helper text
  • [ZBX-213] added sql patches for graphs_items color field
  • [ZBX-933] fixed user profile auto-logout behavior
  • [ZBX-908] fixed item nextcheck recalculation on item update
  • [ZBX-965] fixed color in graph legend
  • [ZBX-966] added sorting in map creation form
  • [ZBX-824] fixed net.tcp.service to work with host DNS name
  • [ZBX-967] cosmetic changes in --help output of zabbix_get and zabbix_sender
  • [ZBX-898] fixed slow performance of events component on a screen
  • [ZBX-920] addedd missing indexes to DB upgrade patch for 1.6
  • [ZBX-854] added support of template triggers for actions
  • [ZBX-916] phrase 'delete selected' replaced by translatable S_DELETE_SELECTED
  • [ZBX-960] fixed confirmation questions in Configuration->Hosts->Host groups
  • [ZBX-975] TRUE/FALSE was replaced to Problems/Ok in Availability Report
  • [ZBX-137] added new indexes for tables: httptest, httptest, actions, dhosts, dservices, escalations
  • [ZBX-946] fixed drawing trigger line in graphs with trigger function "avg"
  • [ZBX-968] added dropdown with time periods for IT services
  • [ZBX-953] added informative note to zabbix_agentd --help output about user parameters and -t switch
  • [ZBX-962] removed "Found: 0" from media type config form

Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See ZABBIX Manual for full details.

Upgrade

Recompile ZABBIX binaries and update front-end PHP files, no database patching needed. See ZABBIX Manual for a detailed upgrade procedure. No upgrade of agents required, yet recommended.

Pre-release testing

ZABBIX Server

ZABBIX Server has been 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

ZABBIX Agents have been compiled and tested on the following platforms:

  • AIX 5.2
  • FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x, 6.x
  • HP-UX 10.x, 11.x
  • Linux 2.4.x, 2.6.x
  • Linux CentOS
  • NetBSD 2.0
  • OS/X 10.2
  • Solaris 8, 9, 10
  • Tru64 5.1B
  • Windows XP, 2000, 2003, 2008, Vista

Note that agents are available pre-compiled from http://www.zabbix.com/download.php for a limited number of versions and platforms.

Commercial support

ZABBIX Company provides a full range of professional services. Please contact our sales department for pricing and more details.

References

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*Stable: Zabbix v1.8.3