1.4: Bug + suggestion for the PDF documentation

[Farzad FARID]

Hi,

First of all congratulation for your release of Zabbix 1.4!

I'm glad to see that some of my suggestions were included in the official documentation, but I think I spotted an error:

• Page 108: the argument type of the "str" function should not be "ignored" but "string".

Moreover, I think the chapter on the monitoring of log files should give more information on the way logs files are analyzed. I had to analyse the source code of the agent and the database structure to understand that :

• The server and agent keep a trace of the monitored log's size in a counter
• The agent starts reading the log file from the point it stopped the previous time.
• The number of bytes already analyzed (the counter) is stored in the Zabbix database and is sent to the agent, to make sure it starts reading the log file from this point.
• Whenever the log file become smaller than the log counter known by the agent, the counter is reset to zero and the agent starts reading the log file from the beginning

Could you please add this information to the documentation?

Regards

[Alexei]

Done, thanks for your comments.