Release Notes for Zabbix 1.7.0

14 October 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 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

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 documentation for full details.

Upgrade

See Upgrade procedure for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 1.7.0.

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