Release Notes for Zabbix 1.7.3

1 December 2009

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.7.3.

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 1.7.3. 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

DEV-369	added item check "log.regexp" with file log rotation, the parameter "fileformat" has a format [path][regexp]
DEV-242	add dynamic map creation
DEV-435	Improvements in monitoring triggers screen
ZBX-1340	fixed cancel button in forms
ZBX-1366	fixed dashboard last 20 issues showing events from different triggers
ZBX-1382	improved performance in dashboard latest 20 issues
ZBX-1392	fixed representing of Uptime/Downtime times and slavery discovered devices in STATUS OF DISCOVERY screen
ZBX-1363	fixed user deletion with PostgreSQL
ZBX-1155	fixed host profiles groups selecting if previously selected group was deleted
DEV-386	get functions now always return array of objects
ZBX-1303	fixed usergroup linkage to users
ZBX-1287	fixed operations with user medias
ZBX-1328	better naming for mass operations in the list of host groups
DEV-137	help link redirected to on-line documentation at www.zabbix.com/documentation/
ZBX-1329	fixed activating/deactivating host groups
ZBX-1383	fixed selection after mass operations, performance imrovements and links to host configuration in proxies screen
ZBX-1377	fixed adding template with linked template
ZBX-1369	make more strings translatable
ZBX-974	recompressed png images with pngcrush. max size reduction 28%, average reduction 10%
ZBX-1373	fixed auto discovery by proxy module
ZBX-1368	fixed evaluating of "<=" operator in Uptime/Downtime Action condition
ZBX-1369	make time units translatable in graphs; patch by alixen
ZBXNEXT-146	added support of numeric values with plus sign
ZBX-1358	make more graph strings translatable; patch by alixen
ZBX-1346	fix Timeout directive description in server and proxy configuration files
DEV-436	improved display of ZABBIX/SNMP/IPMI agents availability information in hosts configuration screen
ZBX-1337	rename maintenance types for clarity
DEV-333	fixed processing of not supported active and trapper items
DEV-333, ZBX-1254	fixed queue screen with separated availability of SNMP,IPMI and others items
ZBX-1324	replaced user visible string ZABBIX with Zabbix
DEV-137	added file CREDITS
DEV-333	fixed possible server crash while processing remote commands
ZBX-998	modified PostgreSQL schema for support of uint64 history values
ZBX-1317	fixed resource type for maintenance in audit
DEV-369	added support of file log rotation
ZBX-1310	fixed template creating form
ZBX-1312	removed huge, unused Japanese fonts
ZBX-1272	server name is now shown in page title too
DEV-137	PDF manual replaced by a README file with a link to on-line documentation
ZBX-1302	fixed references to missing items.nextcheck in the GUI
ZBX-1230	IP address is made a default selection in host details form
ZBX-1222	fixed default Debug Log level for agents
DEV-434	added support of host availability for proxy hosts
ZBX-1289	fixed memory leak in server pollers
DEV-433	added generation events after maintenance period if trigger status changed during this period
DEV-137	updated French translation. Thanks to alixen

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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 1.7.3.

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 1.7 Manual