Release Notes for Zabbix 1.7.2

13 November 2009

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.7.2.

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 1.7.2. 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

DEV-430	added map labels macro {TRIGGERS.UNACK}
DEV-430	added notification macro {TRIGGER.EVENTS.UNACK}
ZBX-1095	fixed "Link to template" operation for discovered hosts
ZBX-1015	added support of LVM devices for system.swap.in/out under Linux. Thanks to Takanori Suzuki
DEV-429	added support of system.cpu.switches under Linux 2.4/2.6
DEV-413	fixed first parameter in system.cpu.util key for Linux (all; 0..n)
DEV-411	improved performance of trends module
DEV-428	added new TELNET check 'telnet.run[]'
DEV-428	added new SSH check 'ssh.run[]'

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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 1.7.2.

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