Release Notes for Zabbix 1.7.0

14 Oct 2009

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.7.0.

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 1.7.0. Download it from downloads.

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

ZBX-1056	Fixed failed attempt counter not reset after successful login via api
DEV-333	Added configuration data cache module
DEV-427	Frontend is php 5.3.0 compatible
ZBX-1034	Fixed maps tooltip url view
ZBX-899	Added "show last" to "status of triggers" events filter
ZBX-924	Added check for not empty resource
DEV-310	Improvements in graph visualisation and time line scrolling
DEV-357	Modified oracle schema for support of unicode
ZBX-1046	Add dbport description; note that socket is used for mysql if dbhost is localhost
DEV-411	Database cache is permanently enabled
ZBX-482	Fix incorrect mysql userparameter keys in template
ZBX-298	Fix missing item parameter descriptions and examples; unify active/passive item descriptions
DEV-420	Fixed "add host" operation for auto-discovered devices
DEV-423	Added filtering of the windows event log by type, source and event id on the agent side
DEV-9	Added support of function macros
DEV-422	Updated the list of supported checks in the item configuration form
DEV-421	Added additional parameter `maxlines' to `log[]' and `eventlog[]' checks
DEV-137	Add aix initscript for agentd by faustino ramos
DEV-420	Auto-discovery of multiple-ip devices
DEV-419	Added support of basic authentication for web monitoring
DEV-325	New check for dns 'net.tcp.dns.query' was added; added additional 'type' parameter
DEV-416	New simple check 'icmppingloss' added; icmp checks now support additional parameters
DEV-9	Added support of global, template and host level macros on the server side
DEV-414	Created basic man pages for all zabbix binaries
DEV-340	Auto registration of active agents
DEV-137	Sql file "data.sql" was fixed, a default value was added
DEV-137	Sql file "data.sql" was fixed, some default values were added
DEV-412	Improved timeline in charts
DEV-353	Discovery: added support of ip masks
DEV-137	Poller will continue processing of other items after enabling a host
DEV-137	Modified makefile to use tr instead of sed for better compatibility
DEV-339	Added a dummy function for db cache monitoring
DEV-411	Database cache is enabled by default now
DEV-399	Added information about monitored hosts to the discovery screen
DEV-358	Added notification macros {node.*[1..9]}
DEV-358	Added notification macros {item.log.*[1..9]}
DEV-358	Added notification macros {item.value} and {item.value[1..9]}
DEV-358	Added notification/trigger description macros {item.lastvalue[1..9]}
DEV-358	Added notification macros {host.conn[1..9]} {host.dns[1..9]} {ipaddress[1..9]}
DEV-358	Added notification macros {trigger.key[1..9]}
DEV-358	Added notification/trigger description macros {hostname[1..9]}
DEV-358	Added notification macros {item.name[1..9]}
DEV-358	Added notification macros {profile.*[1..9]}
DEV-405	Added highlighting of selected rows
DEV-397	Added user name to output of {esc.history} macros
DEV-397	Added notification macros {event.ack.status} and {event.ack.history}
DEV-405	Proxies, nodes moved under "administration->dm"
DEV-405	Items, triggers, graphs moved under "configuration->hosts"
DEV-405	Host groups, maintenances moved under "configuration"
DEV-406	Added milliseconds to log files of all zabbix daemon processes
DEV-350	Cleanup of sample config files, added sample of windows agent config
DEV-404	Improved web history
ZBX-961	Fixed history strings saved not by reference
DEV-403	Added debug mode for user groups in order to simplify gui troubleshooting
ZBX-773	Fixed typo 'attribures'
ZBX-974	Recompressed most frontend images with pngcrush
DEV-400	Added necessary link between hosts and groups
ZBX-944	Fixed changelog reference
DEV-394	Added easy access when not logged in
DEV-398	Added hostgroup filter for hostgroup and templatelinkage twinboxes
DEV-377	Added search for hosts and host-groups
DEV-388	Discovery: added new action operations - enable/disable host
ZBX-949	Fixed undefined constant s_add_to
DEV-137	Operation interval steps n-n will be displayed as n
DEV-318	Notifications: fixed messaging for discovery events
DEV-391	Notifications: added new {discovery.*} macros
DEV-390	Discovery: added support of port intervals
DEV-317	Added new action conditions (node, discovery rule/check, proxy)
DEV-389	Added snmpv3 discovery check
DEV-320	Added macros for windows events logs in notifications
DEV-332	Added media selection for notifications
DEV-385	Added event id field for eventlogs
DEV-382	Added support of ipv6 for monitoring of the snmp devices
DEV-328	Implemented printing of stopped zabbix process pid for better debugging
DEV-137	Now snmp keys with dynamic indexes use only one connection
ZBX-921	Fixed processing of snmp strings
DEV-341	Rework of events history, as consequences changes in audit screen, some reports and other pages
DEV-356	Moved dropdown configuration from defines to frontend
DEV-355	Changed node management interface
DEV-341	Added hint with previous 20 events in dashboard's widget "last 20 issues" on mouse-over
DEV-326	Admins are allowed to change medias in user profile
DEV-330	Extended template trigger dependencies functionality
DEV-137	Changed the minimal maintenance time from 1 hour to 5 minutes
DEV-319	Empty fields aren't shown in hosts inventory
ZBX-750	Added multiple choice for trigger dependencies
DEV-313	Added user group configuration window gui improvements
DEV-312	Fixed wrong selection of selection box on graph border
ZBX-758	Fixed wrong template linking
ZBX-757	Fixed "bar reports" add item permission problem for users
ZBX-752	Fixed wrong audit logs for trigger actions
ZBX-483	Added sorting to selection box
DEV-287	Support of php4 is removed from source
ZBX-714	Fixed "no groups defined" message in items list when group is defined
ZBX-646	Audit log entries added for screen edit actions
ZBX-645	After new installation, filter for audit log is set not to filter anything
ZBX-643	Fixed no print data for bar reports
DEV-231	Improved dynamic graph usability in slideshow screen
DEV-258	Added additional reports based on bar graphs
DEV-257	Added bar graph class
DEV-252	Improved audit log of host groups,hosts,items and media types
DEV-266	Added support of octal and hexadecimal data
DEV-253	Improved audit log filtering
DEV-261	Added triggers status to screens
DEV-256	Improved multiple labels in maps and support of macros
DEV-265	Added popups with links to "status of trigger" & "events history" pages
DEV-262	Added group filtering for "trigger info"
DEV-259	Added internal links
DEV-251	Added improved screen editing
DEV-249	Added support of advanced regular expressions
DEV-247	Added enhancement to the graph function
DEV-233, DEV-237	Added support of scheduled maintenance periods

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix Manual for full details.

Upgrade

Recompile Zabbix binaries and update front-end PHP files. Execute a database patch if migrating from Zabbix 1.8.x. See Zabbix Manual for a detailed upgrade procedure.

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 1.7 Manual