20 August 2012
Zabbix SIA is proud to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.15.
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 1.8.15. Download it from http://www.zabbix.com/download.php.
This release fixes known issues of Zabbix 1.8.x. A nice overview of the new functionality is at http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/manual/about/what_s_new_1.8.15.
If you are using Zabbix 1.8 with node-based distributed setup, please run the following SQL patch. It should improve performance of configuration syncing a lot.
MySQL:
DROP INDEX node_cksum_1 ON node_cksum;
CREATE INDEX node_cksum_1 on node_cksum (nodeid,cksumtype,tablename,recordid);
ORACLE:
DROP INDEX node_cksum_1;
CREATE INDEX node_cksum_1 on node_cksum (nodeid,cksumtype,tablename,recordid);
PostgreSQL:
DROP INDEX node_cksum_1;
CREATE INDEX node_cksum_1 on node_cksum (nodeid,cksumtype,tablename,recordid);
The following sections describe the release in details and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements its main documentation.
- [ZBX-4527] removed limitation of alerter script command line
- [ZBX-5367] fixed assignment of elements to a maintenance mode by a timer process
- [ZBX-5348] fixed validation of itemid parameter for popup_bitem.php
- [ZBX-5357] fixed typos in help_items item key descriptions
- [ZBX-5319] fixed incorrect calculation of action escalation steps delay
- [ZBX-5264] fixed 'undefined variable: nodeids [api/classes/class.cscreen.php:286]'
- [ZBX-5316] fixed incorrect screen items can be deleted when deleting hosts
- [ZBX-3782] fixed {HOSTNAME} macro not working in map labels trigger expression macro
- [ZBX-5236] fixed some map element rendering ignoring the "Problem display" map option
- [ZBX-3245] fixed trigger item selection pop up not working with items from child nodes
- [ZBX-4929] optimized host group SQL queries
See Zabbix Manual for full details.
Recompile Zabbix binaries and update front-end PHP files. Execute a database patch if migrating from Zabbix 1.6.x. See Zabbix Manual for a detailed upgrade procedure.
Zabbix Server has been tested on the following platforms:
- Ubuntu Linux, AMD64, kernel 2.6.11, MySQL 5.x
- Ubuntu Linux, Intel, kernel 2.6.15, MySQL 5.0.22, PostgreSQL 8.3
- RedHat EL 5.3, Intel, kernel 2.6.18, Oracle 11gR2
- Slackware Linux, x86, kernel 2.6.29.6, MySQL 5.1.x
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.
Zabbix Company provides a full range of professional services. We also provide trouble-free upgrade service for easy migration from earlier versions to Zabbix 1.8.x. Please contact Sales for pricing and more details.
- Zabbix 1.8 Manual
- Zabbix Forums (http://www.zabbix.com/forum)
- Zabbix Support (http://www.zabbix.com/support.php)