ZABBIX 1.1beta3 released
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 licence is available at
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt.
ZABBIX can be installed on any UNIX platform. It acts as a server
that monitors client systems running on different platforms as well
as other network devices. ZABBIX has a quick install and can be
up and running in less than 15 minutes.
Introduction
This document contains the release notes for ZABBIX version 1.1beta3. The
following sections describe the release in detail and provide late-breaking or
other information that supplements the main documentation.
What's New
:: New naming schema for ZABBIX agent parameters
New naming convention has been introduced. For example,
check_service[*] renamed to net.tcp.service[service <,ip> <,port>].
Note that not all parameters are taking advantage of new naming
convention yet. Windows agent still uses old naming. See ZABBIX Manual
for complete list of new parameters.
:: Better support of UNIX architectures by ZABBIX agent
ZABBIX agent, zabbix_agentd, has been improved to support new metrics
on UNIX platforms. It also supports new value type, UINT64, for better
precision.
:: Automatic recovery of unsupported values
ZABBIX supports automatic periodical change of unsupported parameter to
monitored state. The feature can be disabled.
:: More flexible parameters for user-defined metrics
Up to nine parameters can be passed to user-defined metric. For example:
UserParameter=wc[*],wc -$2 $1|cut -f1 -d" ". It can be used as
wc[/var/log/syslog,w] to get word count in /var/log/syslog.
:: Better pre-release testing procedure has been introduced
ZABBIX development team introduced set of regression tests for ZABBIX
GUI. More tests and testing of server and agents will be added soon. Almost
all compilation warnings have been eliminated.
:: Double sided graphs
Each metric shown on graph can by linked either to left or right Y axis.
Scaling of Y axes is independent.
:: Bulk loader
The loader will simplify management of large number of hosts, metrics and
other objects.
:: New calculation of MAX value for Y axis
The maximum will be calculated for displayed values to avoid situations
when everything is displayed at very bottom of a graph.
:: Improved installation floppy (shell script) for Windows agent
New BAT script has been created to simplify or automate installation of
ZABBIX agent under Windows platforms.
:: Configurable refresh rate
Refresh rate is configurable in user profiles.
:: Japanese translation for ZABBIX GUI
Japanese and other translations have been improved and updated.
:: Fixes
This release does not include fixes for template-related functionality in
ZABBIX GUI. This will be addressed in ZABBIX 1.1beta4 which is scheduled
to be released until end of 2005. ZABBIX Development Team is aware of
these issues and we are treating them with the highest priority.
ZABBIX 1.1beta4 will be focused on quality and usability of GUI.
Installation and Upgrade Notes
Installation
See the Installation Guide http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/install.php
for full details.
Upgrade
In order to upgrade from previous release, execution of database patches
required. See Upgrade Guide http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/config_upgrading.php for full details on
upgrade procedure.
For ZABBIX Agents, UserParameters have to be updated to take advantage
of new passing of user-defined parameters if needed.
Pre-release testing
ZABBIX Server
ZABBIX Server has been compiled and tested on the following platforms:
Ubuntu Linux, AMD64, kernel 2.6.11
ZABBIX Agents
ZABBIX Agents have been compiled and tested on the following platforms:
www.zabbix.com/download.php. The agents are compatible with ZABBIX
v1.0 and all releases in 1.1 series.
Use in production environments
ZABBIX 1.1beta3 is BETA software, therefore we cannot recommend it for
immediate use in production. Although tested throughout our release cycle,
this release introduces many changes and does not have the benefit of use
in production environments that ZABBIX v1.0 has and therefore should be
treated with the same level of caution as a new product.
References
ZABBIX is released under the GPL, thus it is free of charge for both
commercial and non-commercial use. The full licence is available at
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt.
ZABBIX can be installed on any UNIX platform. It acts as a server
that monitors client systems running on different platforms as well
as other network devices. ZABBIX has a quick install and can be
up and running in less than 15 minutes.
Introduction
This document contains the release notes for ZABBIX version 1.1beta3. The
following sections describe the release in detail and provide late-breaking or
other information that supplements the main documentation.
What's New
:: New naming schema for ZABBIX agent parameters
New naming convention has been introduced. For example,
check_service[*] renamed to net.tcp.service[service <,ip> <,port>].
Note that not all parameters are taking advantage of new naming
convention yet. Windows agent still uses old naming. See ZABBIX Manual
for complete list of new parameters.
:: Better support of UNIX architectures by ZABBIX agent
ZABBIX agent, zabbix_agentd, has been improved to support new metrics
on UNIX platforms. It also supports new value type, UINT64, for better
precision.
:: Automatic recovery of unsupported values
ZABBIX supports automatic periodical change of unsupported parameter to
monitored state. The feature can be disabled.
:: More flexible parameters for user-defined metrics
Up to nine parameters can be passed to user-defined metric. For example:
UserParameter=wc[*],wc -$2 $1|cut -f1 -d" ". It can be used as
wc[/var/log/syslog,w] to get word count in /var/log/syslog.
:: Better pre-release testing procedure has been introduced
ZABBIX development team introduced set of regression tests for ZABBIX
GUI. More tests and testing of server and agents will be added soon. Almost
all compilation warnings have been eliminated.
:: Double sided graphs
Each metric shown on graph can by linked either to left or right Y axis.
Scaling of Y axes is independent.
:: Bulk loader
The loader will simplify management of large number of hosts, metrics and
other objects.
:: New calculation of MAX value for Y axis
The maximum will be calculated for displayed values to avoid situations
when everything is displayed at very bottom of a graph.
:: Improved installation floppy (shell script) for Windows agent
New BAT script has been created to simplify or automate installation of
ZABBIX agent under Windows platforms.
:: Configurable refresh rate
Refresh rate is configurable in user profiles.
:: Japanese translation for ZABBIX GUI
Japanese and other translations have been improved and updated.
:: Fixes
- Fixed memory leaks, hangs and other issues of Windows agent.
- Fixed functionality of autoregistration.
- SNMPv3 related fixes.
- Fixed vfs.file.regmatch
- Corrected processing of SNMP Counter64 values.
- Many different fixes for ZABBIX GUI.
- Other fixes.
This release does not include fixes for template-related functionality in
ZABBIX GUI. This will be addressed in ZABBIX 1.1beta4 which is scheduled
to be released until end of 2005. ZABBIX Development Team is aware of
these issues and we are treating them with the highest priority.
ZABBIX 1.1beta4 will be focused on quality and usability of GUI.
Installation and Upgrade Notes
Installation
See the Installation Guide http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/install.php
for full details.
Upgrade
In order to upgrade from previous release, execution of database patches
required. See Upgrade Guide http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/config_upgrading.php for full details on
upgrade procedure.
For ZABBIX Agents, UserParameters have to be updated to take advantage
of new passing of user-defined parameters if needed.
Pre-release testing
ZABBIX Server
ZABBIX Server has been compiled and tested on the following platforms:
Ubuntu Linux, AMD64, kernel 2.6.11
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)
- NetBSD 2.0
- OS/X 10.2
- Solaris 5.9
- Tru64 5.1B
www.zabbix.com/download.php. The agents are compatible with ZABBIX
v1.0 and all releases in 1.1 series.
Use in production environments
ZABBIX 1.1beta3 is BETA software, therefore we cannot recommend it for
immediate use in production. Although tested throughout our release cycle,
this release introduces many changes and does not have the benefit of use
in production environments that ZABBIX v1.0 has and therefore should be
treated with the same level of caution as a new product.
References
- ZABBIX v1.1 Manual http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/index.php
- ZABBIX Forums (http://www.zabbix.com/forum)
- ZABBIX Support (http://www.zabbix.com/support.php)