interoperability 1.1 - 1.4

[fips]

Hi,
If I understood the new version 1.4 right it shout be interoperable with the old versions? If I try to get a value from a 1.4 agent with a 1.1 version I get following result:

zabbix_get -s "HOSTNAME" -kagent.version
ZBXD

If I use a 1.4 version to get the value I get

zabbix_get -s "HOSTNAME" -kagent.version
1.4

Is this normal or not ????

[Andrew]

Hi,
If I understood the new version 1.4 right it shout be interoperable with the old versions? If I try to get a value from a 1.4 agent with a 1.1 version I get following result:

zabbix_get -s "HOSTNAME" -kagent.version
ZBXD

If I use a 1.4 version to get the value I get

zabbix_get -s "HOSTNAME" -kagent.version
1.4

Is this normal or not ????

To my expirience - it is NORMAL
I change agent after ALL subrelease...

[Alexei]

It is backward compatible! It means that you may upgrade ZABBIX server to 1.4 and collect data from the old agents. Not the other way around!

[dagof]

Then please fix documentation:

2.3.2. Version compatibility
[...]
ZABBIX 1.4 agents can be used with earlier versions of ZABBIX. Note that the
newest agents do not support old keys of ZBABIX 1.0.

Congratulations for the work