Release Notes for Zabbix 1.3.3

2 March 2007

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.3.3.

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 1.3.3. Download here.

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

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Fixes and minor improvements

	support of hysteresis
	support of macro {TRIGGER.VALUE} in trigger expressions
	added new table 'ids' which will store last IDs for all tables
	added highlighting for second level menu
	added "Clone" functionality
	added Watchdog for database availability
	developed configuration of Jabber messaging
	split hostname and DNS name in frontend
	improved detection of started ZABBIX applications
	fixed large SQLs calling
	new templates Unix_t, Windows_t, Standalone_t
	added media_type.username, media_type.passwd
	added hosts.dns. Host name is for informational purposes only.
	new command line parameters for zabbix_sender
	added support of system.boottime
	fixed permissions for triggers
	developed 'mass update' functionality for items
	changed type of items.prevorgvalue to preserve data precision
	added possibility of hostname using
	new communication library and protocol
	developed configuration interface of http monitoring
	added support of 'eventlog[*]' for WinXX
	fixed compilation on FreeBSD
	misc HP-UX fixes
	misc FreeBSD fixes
	fixed false "Database corrupted" situations
	item key length increased to 255 characters
	fixed popups for screen of graph editing
	improved databases determination of configuration script
	new server parameter 'StartHTTPPollers'

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix documentation for full details.

Upgrade

See Upgrade procedure for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 1.3.3.

Commercial support

Zabbix Company provides a full range of Professional Services. We also provide trouble-free Upgrade Service for easy migration from earlier versions of Zabbix. Please Contact sales for pricing and more details.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix Training
• Zabbix Development services

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References

Zabbix 1.3 Manual