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1. German Japanese Latvian Spanish Russian Ukrainian 8 2 API improvements https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew203 Page 3 of 4 8 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 3 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM trigger get and triggerprototype get methods have a new parameter expandExpression maintenance get method has a new parameter selectTimeperiods 8 3 Daemon improvements Notification macro ESC HISTORY will include remote commands now Suffixes KMGTsmhdw are now supported in the second parameter of count trigger function Previously it was possible to send large amount of data to the Zabbix server potentially exhausting memory This is now limited to accept only 128MB when using Zabbix protocol Any other data including older Zabbix protocols stays limited at 16MB Zabbix server and proxy will now retry connections to MySQL if connecting to a DNS name and resolution fails When encoding email subject from UTF 8 to Base64 lines longer than 75 bytes will be split up to conform with RFC 2047 8 4 Miscellaneous improvements Database patch performance for upgrading 1 8 to 2 0 was significantly improved especially for systems with lots of events 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew203 txt Last modified 2012 11 23 17 23 by martins v Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http c
2. 0 manual introduction whatsnew204 Page 1 of 2 9 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 4 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM a Russian a Ukrainian 9 2 API improvements Method templatescreen copy has been added 9 3 Daemon improvements Macro TRIGGER COMMENT has been renamed to TRIGGER DESCRIPTION to match the field name Old macro is still supported Default disks checked have been improved for vfs dev read and vfs dev write items when using Zabbix agent daemon with t or p flags On Linux FreeBSD OpenBSD and Solaris disks that have higher probability of existing will be used Macros HOST HOST HOST NAME HOST IP HOST DNS and HOST CONN are now supported in the parameters field for SSH telnet and DB monitor items 9 3 1 Improved SNMPv3 failure handling Previously Zabbix server and proxy would handle all SNMPv3 querying failures as a failure of the whole host Since 2 0 4 if SNMPv3 security name or security auth passphrase are wrong this will be detected and such items will turn unsupported Item information will be updated with a proper error message which will be visible in the item configuration list 9 3 2 Java gateway improvements Zabbix Java gateway now supports dots in attribute name To use such an attribute name dots must be escaped with backslashes 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew204 txt Last modified 2013 05 03 15 13 by martins v Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the followin
3. CPU on Solaris systems is more efficient in Zabbix 2 0 7 This reduces CPU utilization by Zabbix agent especially on systems with many cores system swap size calculation algorithm is changed to imitate swap s This change is reverted in Zabbix 2 0 9 where system swap size is calculated again as in Zabbix 2 0 6 imitates swap l 12 2 5 No invalid recovery escalations Escalation handling has been improved in case of trigger events Before there was a possibility that for a trigger event invalid records could be added to the escalation table resulting in extra work on adding deleting records which in case of big installations could affect performance of the database 12 2 6 Zabbix agent on Solaris 64 bit platforms will be compiled as 64 bit application By default now in case of a 64 bit Solaris the agent sender and get will be compiled as 64 bit applications previously they were compiled as 32 bit The reason is that otherwise some functionality like proc mem reports wrong values for 64 bit processes If you don t need support for large numbers on a 64 bit platform you will have to recompile Zabbix agent and make sure a compiler produces 32 bit application Also note that some older compilers produce only 32 bit executables 12 2 7 Improved performance of zabbix queue internal check Before during queue calculations a configuration lock was made for every active item Now the queue is calculated without acquiring configu
4. can now be configured in the frontend instead of modifying include defines inc php file 5 2 13 Inventory report Ability to report on hosts by their gathered inventory data has been added to Monitoring gt Inventory view 5 2 14 Event export to CSV Events from Monitoring gt Events page can now be exported to a CSV file by using a button in the upper right corner https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 8 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM Displaying 1 to 7 of 7 found Export to CSV Time Host Description Status Severity Duration Actions 24 Jan 2011 18 28 19 A Test Host Apache error 1 PROBLEM Not classified 19h 24m 31s 24 Jan 2011 18 11 18 A Test Host Apache error 1 PROBLEM Not classified 17m 1s 24 Jan 2011 15 18 35 A Test Host Apache error 1 PROBLEM Not classified 2h 52m 435 23 Jan 2011 21 25 27 A Test Host Apache error 1 PROBLEM Not classified 17h 53m 8s 20 Jan 2011 22 59 13 A Test Host apache error 1 PROBLEM Not classified 2d 22h 26m 20 Jan 2011 19 29 06 A Test Host Apache error 1 PROBLEM Not classified 3h 30m 7s 20 Jan 2011 15 40 17 A Test Host Apache error 1 PROBLEM Not classified 3h 48m 49s Zabbix 1 9 2 Copyright 2001 2010 by SIA Zabbix Connected as Admin Only currently visible events are exported 5 2 15 User executable script improvements Confirmation for user executable scripts User scripts that can be
5. lt 1 9 gt has been renamed to ITEM KEY lt 1 9 gt Hosts Interface IP DNS Interface port Passive proxy Items Interface port SNMPv3 security name SNMPv3 auth pass SNMPv3 priv pass SNMPv1 v2 community SNMPv1 v2 OID DB monitor additional parameters SSH username SSH public key SSH private key SSH password SSH script Telnet username Telnet password Telnet script Calculated item expression Discovery SNMPv3 security name SNMPv3 auth pass SNMPv3 priv pass SNMPv1 v2 community SNMPv1 v2 OID 5 5 7 Boolean item type 12 4 13 3 32 PM New item type has been added boolean It translates textual representation into either O or 1 All values are matched in a case insensitive way TRUE is stored as 1 and FALSE is stored as 0 Currently recognised values are true false https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 18 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM running unused enabled disabled available unavailable Additionally any non zero numeric value is considered to be TRUE and zero is considered to be FALSE 5 5 8 API access changes User group access property API access has been removed Starting with Zabbix 2 0 all users have full access to the API 5 5 9 Unified time format In previous versions of Zabbix specifying time till midnight differed depending on the location in some locations it was 23 59 in o
6. query condition calculation Time required on 100 000 unsorted values has been reduced from 133 seconds to 2 5 seconds This low level improvement should help with frontend performance on large installations 12 2 Daemon improvements 12 2 1 Improved performance with Oracle Zabbix 2 0 5 improved performance by adding a 2MB prefetch In some cases this could lead to worse performance thus Zabbix 2 0 7 changes the prefetch to be row based which would improve the performance https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew207 Page 1 of 3 12 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 7 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 33 PM in those edge cases 12 2 2 Improved performance of configuration cache update Previously Zabbix used a configuration cache mutex and string pool mutex Starting with Zabbix 2 0 7 only one mutex is used This change reduces the amount of time needed for the initial updating of the configuration cache by 20 on average 12 2 3 Improved proxy performance Zabbix proxy performance has been improved by reducing the amount of database queries on the proxy side during configuration updates Previously configuration updates changed all fields in the records that were to be modified This has been modified to only update the values that have changed The improvement is important for Zabbix proxies with a large number of items hundreds of thousands and more 12 2 4 Zabbix agent on Solaris Getting detailed statistics about each
7. 051 111 Connection refused active check configuration update from 127 0 0 1 10051 started to fail cannot connect to 127 0 0 1 10051 111 Connection refused active check data upload to 127 0 0 1 10051 is working again active check configuration update from 127 0 0 1 10051 is working again 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew206 txt Last modified 2013 05 02 15 42 by martins v Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew206 Page 2 of 2 12 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 7 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 33 PM 12 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 7 12 1 Frontend improvements 12 1 1 Completed translations The following translations are 100 completed for this release American English Brazilian Portuguese French German Greek Japanese Russian Slovak a Ukrainian 12 1 2 Updated translations Brazilian Portuguese Latvian 12 1 3 Value mapping in map labels Value mapping support has been added in map labels so that raw values can be represented in a human readable way 12 1 4 Improved performance of System status widget The performance of the dashboard System status widget has been improved by 3 7 on average for both memory usage and execution time 12 1 5 Improved performance of SQL
8. 2 04 22 31 by richlv Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction overview Page lof 1 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 5 1 Major new features 5 1 1 Low level discovery Low level discovery documentation 5 1 1 1 Network interface discovery Network interface discovery support has been added for the following platforms a Linux Windows Solaris HP UX AIX 5 1 1 2 Mounted filesystem discovery Mounted filesystem discovery returns filesystem names along with their types Network interface discovery support has been added for the following platforms Linux Windows Solaris a HP UX a AIX FreeBSD OpenBSD NetBSD a MacOS X It is possible to filter by regular expression on the filesystem name or type 5 1 2 Automatic inventory data collection Host inventory now can be populated automatically Items have a property that allows to store their value in any of the inventory fields if inventory is set to Automatic mode 5 1 3 WEB monitoring by Zabbix proxies WEB scenarios could be monitored by remote proxies It allows monitoring of WEB applications from various geographical locations Also new items Last error message of scenario 1
9. 3 3 32 PM Host popup menu has been added to the Monitoring gt Events Event details and Monitoring gt Overview pages In Monitoring gt Overview this menu is available only when hosts are displayed on the left hand side 5 2 26 New option Expand macros for maps configuration screen In 2 0 macros expanding is turned off by default and new option is introduced for map configuration screen that allows to enable or disable it Maps that utilize a lot of macros should benefit greatly from turning macro expanding off performance wise 5 2 27 Improved debug layout In the frontend debug functionality SQL query formatting has been improved for better readability 5 2 28 Allow deleting trigger dependencies during mass update If no trigger dependencies are added and their controlling checkbox is marked in the trigger mass update all dependencies for selected triggers will be removed now 5 2 29 New and updated translations 5 2 29 1 New translations a Turkish 5 2 29 2 Updated translations Czech a Dutch a French Greek German Japanese Latvian a Polish a Ukrainian Russian a Spanish 5 3 New and improved items 5 3 1 Item descriptions added and description is now name Added ITEM DESCRIPTION and ITEM KEY macros https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 13 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM 5 3 2 Improved items
10. AX value O ATest Host Outgoing traffic on interface ethO avg Simple Lett Filed region f Down Items C ATest Host Incoming traffic on interface ethO avg Simple Left Filled region jj Up Preview Save Clone Delete Cancel Stacked network traffic 1h wi et et N et N o a 02 12 12 57 5 2 17 Improved popup placement Popups with additional information that appear on mouse roll over are designed to better fit within smaller screens such as in mobile devices 5 2 18 Improved IT services view and configuration monitoring shows 80 100 upon mouseover and a tooltip reordered sla values aligned by decimal point removed graph show link now it s on the bar link to report is on the service name expected sla shown in black not green more multiple service dependencies can be selected now 5 2 19 Templated host screens https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 11 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM Screens can be defined in templates They are available for all hosts that are linked to the template They can be accessed from the host popup menu everywhere and from the search results 5 2 20 Ability to sort triggers in screens Triggers element by host or by host group in screens now can be sorted by severity host or date Resource Group Select Show lines Sort trigg
11. PAE EEA AAO E E A ATAA Help Get support Print Profile Debug Logout Administration Zabbix 2 0 Appliance Installation If mouse cursor is moved over the message it is hidden to reveal contents below 6 1 2 Improved availability displaying in host properties Displaying of host availability in host properties was improved Instead of single word describing only agent availability 4 icons were added same as in the list of hosts Added bonus is that they now take less space than previous textual representation CONFIGURATION OF HOSTS Hostlist Host Zabbix server Monitored Availability Available Availability in host properties before 2 0 1 CONFIGURATION OF HOSTS Hostlist Host Zabbix server Monitored AH Availability in host properties since 2 0 1 6 1 3 Miscellaneous frontend improvements Action properties conditions and operations have been updated to use direct Remove links instead of checkboxes and buttons XML import now accepts all valid empty tags in all locations previously it required specific empty tag syntax depending on the location Since 2 0 1 both lt tag gt lt tag gt and lt tag gt may be used 6 1 4 Updated translations Brazilian Portuguese French Greek Japanese Ukrainian Russian 6 2 Daemon improvements Zabbix Windows agent previously included the trailing backslash in disk drive discovery for example the returned va
12. RL handling Multiple URLs for map elements In previous Zabbix versions it was possible to add single URL for each network map element Now it is possible to add multiple while also giving a label for each This can be done on two levels Map element level Map level For example here two URLs have been defined on the element host level https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 4 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM Edit map element Host A Test Host Icon default Server Use advancedicons _ Coordinate X Coordinate Y Name URL On the map level URLs can be defined for all element types Here URL is defined for each available element type https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 5 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix System map Eurasia UTF8 Name Width Height 573 Background mage Icon highlighting v Mark elements on triggers status change Expand single problem v on be ye Icon label location Prove apa Name URL unis rigger events ents php trigger Of course it is also possible to add multiple URLs for the same element type Element Host group z Remove Remove Remove Remove Triger Z Remove Save f Dette j Cancel 12 4 13 3 32 PM When these URLs have been configured in the monitoring section clicking on a map element will list them by name in the popup me
13. Zabbix Manual Zabbix 11 21 13 4 25 PM Zabbix Manual Welcome to the user manual for Zabbix 2 0 software These pages are created to help our users successfully manage their monitoring tasks with Zabbix from the simple to the more complex 2 0 manual txt Last modified 2012 05 23 11 27 by martins v Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual Page 1 of 1 1 Manual structure Zabbix 12 4 13 3 31 PM 1 Manual structure Structure The content of this Zabbix 2 0 manual is divided into sections and subsections to provide easy access to particular subjects of interest When you navigate to respective sections make sure that you expand section folders to reveal full content of what is included in subsections and individual pages Cross linking between pages of related content is provided as much as possible to make sure that relevant information is not missed by the users Sections Introduction provides general information about current Zabbix software Reading this section should equip you with some good reasons to choose Zabbix Zabbix concepts explain the terminology used in Zabbix and provides details on Zabbix components Installation and Quickstart sections should help you to get started with Zabbix Zabbix appliance is an al
14. ain users can be limited to certain views Full featured and easily extensible agent deployed on monitoring targets can be deployed on both Linux and Windows Binary daemons a written in C for performance and small memory footprint easily portable Ready for complex environments remote monitoring made easy by using a Zabbix proxy 2 0 manual introduction features txt Last modified 2011 12 28 10 11 by martins v Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction features Page 2 of 3 3 Zabbix features Zabbix 12 4 13 3 31 PM Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction features Page 3 of 3 4 Zabbix overview Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM 4 Zabbix overview Architecture Zabbix consists of several major software components the responsibilities of which are outlined below Server Zabbix server is the central component to which agents report availability and integrity information and statistics The server is the central repository in which all configuration statistical and operational data are stored Database storage All configuration information as well as the data gathered by Zabbix is stored in a database Web interface For an easy access to Zabbix from anywhere and from any platfor
15. al scripts 5 3 2 6 Time postfix support in aggregate items Aggregate items now support time postfixes 5 3 3 New items vfs file contents allows to retrieve full file contents with each check limited to 64KB will turn unsupported if file is bigger Items that are especially useful for automated inventory data collection system hw chassis full type vendor model serial default is full root permissions needed a system hw cpuf all cpunum full maxfreq vendor model curfreq default is all full a system hw devices pci usb default is pci system hw macaddr interface short full default is all full interface is regex system sw arch system sw os name short full default is name system sw packages package manager short full default is all all full package is regex A status item has been removed as it was not easy to use and understand Instead a new internal item zabbix host lt type gt available has been added It allows to properly monitor host availability by each of states Zabbix agent SNMP IPMI JMX and returns values for available unavailable and unknown The database upgrade process doesn t convert all existing status keys and associated triggers to the new syntax so they have to be converted manually 5 4 Daemon performance improvements 5 4 1 Improved housekeeper performance on PostgreSQL 5 4 2 Caching of general configuration Multiple general configuration parameters
16. ance being active was indicated in Monitoring gt Triggers with a string printed next to the host in Monitoring gt Dashboard by colouring host name in orange https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew203 Page 2 of 4 8 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 3 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM In the triggers page this was increasing the cell width considerably and in the dashboard it did not allow to nicely provide access both to host context menu and maintenance details This was changed in both locations to use a new icon orange round background with white wrench on it Host Zabbix scl oral nance with data collection Regular daily maintenance We break and fix things during this time Host Zabbix server 8 1 6 Miscellaneous frontend improvements In item mass update field length limits have been extended In availability report dropdown labels have been renamed from Template and Template group to Host and Host group Map links in the editor will now be sorted first by From then by To element If a single element is selected it will be used as From for all links If multiple elements are selected for each link the element with the lower selementid will be used for From Performance for the screen host screen and graph sections was improved 8 1 7 New translations American English Chinese Taiwan 8 1 8 Updated translations Brazilian Portuguese Chinese China French
17. ator processes have to do for escalations has been reduced which resulted in improved performance when processing large amount of events 5 5 Other improvements 5 5 1 Nanosecond support 5 5 2 Database integrity 5 5 2 1 Database creation Order of database file import has been changed images must be imported before data sqlI now 5 5 3 Improved active agent auto registration https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 16 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM Active agent auto registration now supports monitoring added hosts with passive checks When active agent asks for checks if it has configuration parameters ListenIP or ListenPort defined in the configuration file these are sent along to the server If multiple IP addresses are specified the first one is sent to the server Server when adding a new auto registered host uses received IP address and port to configure the agent If no port value is received 10050 is used If no IP address value is received the one used for incoming connection is used For active agent auto registration notifications there are also two new macros supported HOST IP or its deprecated version IPADDRESS HOST PORT 5 5 4 Automatic filling of DNS names For network discovery and active agent autoregistration host DNS entry is now populated by doing a reverse lookup from Zabbix server or Zabbix proxy if discovery is performe
18. configured on the frontend in Administration gt Scripts can now display a confirmation message before being executed A custom message confirmation message can be entered by the administrator This feature should be especially useful with potentially dangerous operations like a reboot script or ones that might take a long time Enable confirmation WF Confirmation text Remote system will be rebooted Are you sure Test confirmation Confirmation can be tested in the configuration form In that case Execute button is disabled Execution confirmation x Remote system will be rebooted Are you sure Ability to specify script type Before if a user script would have to be an IPMI command it had to follow a syntax of IPMI lt command gt Starting with Zabbix 2 0 it is an option in the script editing form Ability to execute scripts on Zabbix agent https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 9 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM Before Zabbix 2 0 user scripts could be executed on the Zabbix server only Starting with 2 0 a script can be configured to be executed on the agent instead For this feature to work agent must be configured to allow remote commands Execute on C Zabbix agent Zabbix server 5 2 16 Media type improvements Displaying of actions that use media types In media type configuration screen it s now possible to view and access a
19. ctions that directly refer to this media type it s selected in the Send only to dropdown When sorting by that column entries are only sorted by whether they are referenced actions referencing media types do not influence the sort order It is possible to go directly to action configuration from this page as well MEDIA TYPES Displaying 1 to 5 of 5 found Description Type Used in actions Details SMS SMS GSM modem dev ttyS0 coc Email action no user intearity SMTP server localhost SMTP helo localhost SMTP email zabbix locaihost Jabber Jabber a Jabber identifier jabber company com Email Email some action Test Action SMTP server mail zabbix com SMTP helo zabbix com SMTP email zabbix company com Test Soups Script SNMP Action Script name testscript Enabling and disabling media types 5 2 16 1 Disabling graph legend For graphs with many items added legend could grow pretty huge and there might be other reasons why somebody might want to hide the legend Starting with Zabbix 2 0 0 that is possible for custom graphs with a simple checkbox https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 10 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM Graph Stacked network traffic 2 Stacked network traffic Name Width Height Graph type Stacked Show legend g Show working time Show triggers Y axis MIN value Cakulated v Y axis M
20. d by a proxy 5 5 5 Event redesign The way Zabbix handles unknown events has been redesigned Before in Monitoring gt Events section if event flow was OK gt UNKNOWN gt OK hiding unknown events would display two successive OK events Starting with 2 0 0 only the oldest OK event would be display in such a case An exception is triggers with Multiple PROBLEM events for these multiple successive events would be always shown should document how acknowledges work from server amp frontend side Trigger status UNKNOWN has been removed triggers will always be in OK or PROBLEM state although they might get additional unknown status This status will only be used for informational purposes 5 5 6 Supported macro changes 5 5 6 1 Common macros In interface IP and DNS fields the following macros are supported HOST HOST or its deprecated version HOSTNAME HOST NAME HOST CONN HOST DNS HOST IP or its deprecated version IPADDRESS In trigger names additional following macros are supported HOST HOST or its deprecated version HOSTNAME HOST NAME HOST CONN HOST DNS HOST IP or its deprecated version IPADDRESS https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 17 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 5 5 6 2 User macro support For 2 0 user macros can now be used in these additional locations Additionally macro TRIGGER KEY
21. ding Message size exceeds the maximum size bytes would be reported instead Since 2 0 10 the correct error message will be reported 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew210 txt Last modified 2013 11 08 12 35 by richlv Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew2 10 Page lof 1
22. ed to usr local share zabbix externalscripts and depends on compile time installation variable datadir This location can be changed using configuration parameter ExternalScripts server and proxy 5 5 13 3 Alert scripts location Before 2 0 the default location for alert scripts that are used for actions was home zabbix bin Since 2 0 this changed to usr local share zabbix alertscripts and depends on compile time installation variable datadir This location can be changed using configuration parameter AlertScriptsPath server 5 5 14 Configuration files and directories added during installation If you are using a packaged version of Zabbix the following information can be irrelevant because the locations might depend on a distribution policy When installing Zabbix the following configuration files are created if missing a usr local etc zabbix_server conf a usr local etc zabbix_proxy conf usr local etc zabbix_agent conf usr local etc zabbix_agentd conf usr local etc is default value of compile time installation variable sysconfdir The following directories are created for includes usr local etc zabbix_server conf d a usr local etc zabbix_proxy conf d usr local etc zabbix_agent conf d usr local etc zabbix_agentd conf d These directories are not automatically handled as Include directories you would have to set them in appropriate configuration file The following directory is created when installing ser
23. em Since 2 0 support for files exceeding 2GB is available also on 32 bit systems in all components including tasks like logfile monitoring file size monitoring etc See large file support section for more information See also 1 Differences in the Zabbix agent configuration for active and passive checks starting from version 2 0 0 http blog zabbix com multiple servers for active agent sure 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 txt Last modified 2013 09 26 10 48 by asaveljevs Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 21 of 21 6 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 1 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM 6 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 1 6 1 Frontend improvements 6 1 1 Warning message about server being down A warning message will be shown in the frontend if Zabbix server is not reachable for example not running This message can be configured on the Zabbix installation level in Administration gt General gt GUI Show warning if Zabbix server is down wv When server has been detected to be down a message will be displayed at the top of the browser window This message will be visible even if user has scrolled down in the page ZABBIX DM Authentication Users Media types Scripts Audit Queue Notifications
24. ers by Vertical align Severity desce i Host ascending ad Column span Row span 0 https support zabbix com browse ZBXNEXT 746 https support zabbix com browse ZBXNEXT 746 In the monitoring section this sorting can only be viewed but not changed Additionally in the monitoring section this element shows how many triggers are visible if not all of them can be shown 5 2 21 Warning when a too large file is attempted to be uploaded Previously it was not easy to debug why some upload failed if it exceeded PHP option max_upload_filesize limit Now Zabbix shows a warning when uploading a too large XML or image file 5 2 22 Improved configuration wizard For configuration wizard requirements step Recommended column was removed as it did not serve any real purpose Additionally for failed PHP configuration requirements exact configuration parameters are now listed in the error messages Better text visuals removed 2nd and 8th steps 5 2 23 Trigger config helper Trigger configuration helper does not allow setting parameter in seconds for trigger function last anymore 5 2 24 Improved search results page In the search results page individual blocks have been placed below each other They can also be collapsed and expanded now 5 2 25 Host popup menu added to more pages https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 12 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 1
25. erver SNMP Device Duy can A Test Host WEB service is down F Edit SNMP Device Hub small x 8 1 3 Filtering triggers by maintenance status It is possible to filter Monitoring gt Triggers page by maintenance status now https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew203 Page 1 of 4 8 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 3 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM amp Filter 2 Triggers status Problem xf Acknowledge status Any zi Events Hide all zi Min severity All J Age less than 14 days Show details C Filter by name Show hosts in maintenance R 8 1 4 Improved classic theme tab colours Previously classic theme tab colours were slightly confusing The active tab had grey background which made it look inactive while other tabs had light background This was changed so that the active tab now has a light background while the inactive ones blue Active tab also lost the lower border so that it indeed looks like one with the visible tab Templates IPMI Macros Host inventory Host properties before 2 0 3 Host name Zabbix server Host Templates IPMI Macros Host inventory Host properties since 2 0 3 Host name Zabbix server Previous theming was even more confusing when there were two tabs only and it was not that clear which is the active one Web scenario properties before 2 0 3 Web scenario properties since 2 0 3 8 1 5 Maintenance indicated by an icon Previously mainten
26. f selected elements is displayed above properties themselves was displayed below before When editing multiple elements properties that are not marked for updating using the checkbox on the left hand side are not editable Only one endpoint of a link may be changed when editing a link Endpoint that is currently selected can not be changed in this view anymore Additionally endpoints are sorted by type in the dropdown Host SNMP Device Another Host A Test Host ss A Test Host 2 E autoreg_2 mias HP laserjet Edit Image PMI Host aes A Test Host Edit Image ackmacros D Edit Image booklet Drag and drop map Edit Image Trigger A Test Host CPU Load too high on A Test Host for last 3 minutes amp lt gt 4 w ON A Test Host Severity 1 missing on A Test Host Label A Test Host Severity 2 missing on A Test Host A Test Host Severity 3 missing on A Test Host Host group r Connect to i 5 2 11 Customisable trigger severity names and colours Trigger severity names and colours can now be easily customised in Administration gt General gt Trigger severities 5 2 12 Customisable problem displaying The way triggers are displayed in the frontend can now be customised in Administration gt General gt Trigger displaying options That includes both OK PROBLEM and acknowledged not acknowledged Additionally time for how long OK triggers are shown after changing state and for how long trigger is blinking after changing state
27. g license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew204 Page 2 of 2 10 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 5 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 33 PM 10 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 5 10 1 Frontend improvements Frontend overall performance was improved by optimising performance checks SQL query count was reduced and performance improved in T services and most pages that access trigger information Graphs in web monitoring will use new flicker free refresh method now Error messages for screen row and column span validation were improved Reduced the amount of persistent connections and to Oracle backend and changed to suggested Oracle access functions 10 1 1 New translations Bulgarian 10 1 2 Completed translations The following translations are 100 completed for this release American English Brazilian Portuguese a French German Greek Japanese a Portuguese Portugal Russian a Ukrainian 10 1 3 Updated translations American English a Brazilian Portuguese Dutch a Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Japanese Latvian https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew205 Page 1 of 3 10 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 5 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 33 PM a Polish a Portuguese Portugal Russian Slovak Spanish Swedish a Tu
28. gnificantly improved Already discovered items will be updated only if some of their properties have changed Only changed fields will be updated The amount and size of the SQL statements has been reduced Field validation LLD macro resolution has been improved validity of UTF 8 sequences validity of field length In a test run the amount of SQL queries in the initial LLD run was reduced 64 times In further runs when there are no changes to the discovered entities the amount of SQL queries was reduced 250 times In further runs when there were changes the amount of SQL queries was reduced 210 times Note that the total size of SQL queries was reduced even more 11 3 2 Miscellaneous daemon improvements The amount of traffic that is exchanged between Zabbix server and Java gateway was reduced The Zabbix server escalator process generates alerts while processing escalations Previously these alerts were not available to the alerter process immediately but only after the escalator finished its job This has been fixed by splitting one transaction to handle all escalations into a separate transaction for each which results in alerts becoming available to the alerter while the escalator is busy Logging failed active check connection Zabbix agent now generates log warnings when an active check connection to server proxy fails active check data upload to 127 0 0 1 10051 started to fail connect cannot connect to 127 0 0 1 10
29. hinese China Italian Lithuanian Romanian Slovak system swap size item calculation algorithm is changed back to imitate swap l as in Zabbix 2 0 6 Zabbix versions 2 0 7 and 2 0 8 imitated swap s calculation which was later recognized as a mistake 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew209 txt Last modified 2013 10 09 10 29 by martins v Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew209 Page lof 1 15 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 10 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 33 PM 15 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 10 Zabbix 2 0 10 is not released yet 15 1 Frontend improvements 15 1 1 Improved global script API calls The loading speed of several Monitoring section screens Last 20 issues Latest data Status of triggers Latest events with a large number of global scripts was improved 15 1 2 Completed translations The following translations are 100 completed for this release 15 1 3 Updated translations American English Brazilian Portuguese Czech Dutch French German Greek Japanese Italian Romanian Russian Slovak Spanish a Ukrainian 15 2 Daemon improvements Sometimes connection problems could have been interpreted as erroneous data package and thus mislea
30. hosts are there would be visible Since 2 0 2 configuration section of search results has been expanded with templates entry and both host and template columns have object count as well This is also more consistent with other blocks in the global search results Before 2 0 2 Since 2 0 2 Host groups Host groups Host group Latest data Triggers Events Edit hosts Host group Latest data Triggers Events Hosts Templates Zabbix servers Latest data Triggers Events Edit hosts Zabbix servers Latest data Triggers Events Hosts 2 Templates 0 Displaying 1 of 1 found Displaying 1 of 1 found Change in Monitoring gt Latest data for unixtime units has been improved Instead of interpreting change using the same unit as for the item it will now use uptime unit Before 2 0 2 Since 2 0 2 Last value Change Last value Change 2012 07 04 14 12 56 1970 01 01 03 00 30 2012 07 04 14 13 56 00 00 30 7 1 1 Updated translations French German Japanese Russian 7 2 Daemon improvements https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew202 Page 1 of 2 7 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 2 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM Previously HOST CONN HOST IP and HOST DNS macros only resolved to the main agent interface This was not convenient for devices that only had SNMP interface Since 2 0 2 these macros will use the main agent interface however if it is not present main SNMP interface will be used If SNMP is also not pre
31. ic Commercial support http www zabbix com support php is available and provided by Zabbix Company Learn more about Zabbix features Users of Zabbix Many organisations of different size around the world rely on Zabbix as a primary monitoring platform 2 0 manual introduction about txt Last modified 2011 12 28 10 11 by martins v Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction about Page lof 1 3 Zabbix features Zabbix 12 4 13 3 31 PM 3 Zabbix features Overview Zabbix is a highly integrated network monitoring solution offering a multiplicity of features in a single package Data gathering a availability and performance checks support for SNMP both trapping and polling IPMI JMX monitoring custom checks a gathering desired data at custom intervals performed by server proxy and by agents Flexible threshold definitions you can define very flexible problem thresholds called triggers referencing values from the back end database Highly configurable alerting sending notifications can be customized for the escalation schedule recipient media type notifications can be made meaningful and helpful using macro variables a automatic actions include remote commands Real time graphing mon
32. itional parameter mode controls this all default skip skipping processing of older data 5 3 2 2 Simple check format changed The format of simple checks has been changed The possibility of using IP addresses in simple checks has been added The upgrade process converts all existing simple checks 5 3 2 3 Ability to send empty strings User parameters external checks and other item types that return text character log text types of information now may send an empty string which will be accepted as a valid value Before this an empty value returned by an user parameter or external check would be treated as an unsupported item and ignored for other item types by the Zabbix server https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 14 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM 5 3 2 4 External check parameter changes External check parameter handling was changed Previously only one parameter was accepted Starting with Zabbix 2 0 the key syntax conforms to other types of items and multiple comma separated parameters may be passed Additionally the hardcoded first parameter HOST CONN for external checks has been removed and now external check parameters may be fully customised Upgrade process adds this macro as a first parameter to all existing external checks 5 3 2 5 Multi line value support for external checks Multi line values can now be stored for the output of extern
33. itored items are immediately graphed using the built in graphing functionality Web monitoring capabilities Zabbix can follow a path of simulated mouse clicks on a web site and check for functionality and response time Extensive visualisation options ability to create custom graphs that can combine multiple items into a single view network maps custom screens and slide shows for a dashboard style overview reports high level business view of monitored resources Historical data storage a data stored in a database configurable history built in housekeeping procedure https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction features Page 1 of 3 3 Zabbix features Zabbix 12 4 13 3 31 PM Easy configuration a add monitored devices as hosts hosts are picked up for monitoring once in the database apply templates to monitored devices Use of templates grouping checks in templates templates can inherit other templates Network discovery automatic discovery of network devices agent auto registration discovery of file systems network interfaces and SNMP OIDs Fast web interface a web based front end in PHP accessible from anywhere you can click your way through audit log Zabbix API Zabbix API provides programmable interface to Zabbix for mass manipulations 3rd party software integration and other purposes Permissions system a secure user authentication cert
34. ll hosts in a group In that case area can be specified where hosts will be placed Icon mapping Automatic icon selection for host type map elements has been added It utilises values from host inventory fields to select icon for map elements Icon maps are configured in Administration gt General gt Icon maps Each icon map has a unique name default icon and a list of mappings Each mapping has a match order expression for matching PCRE regular expression or Zabbix expression icon and reference to an inventory field Icon map can be assigned to a map in the map configuration form and overridden on map element level When deciding on which icon should be used regular expression will be matched against specified inventory field Order in which mappings are tried depends on match order Select elements by dragging You can now drag a rectangle in map configuration view and select all elements in it Highlighting selected link Selected map link now is highlighted in the list of links Changed element highlighting Instead of filled rectangle to indicate selection elements are now highlighted with a thick rectangular border https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 7 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM Element properties window changes Map element properties window has received multiple modifications Links are only shown when one element is selected List o
35. lues would include C Since 2 0 1 the returned values have the trailing backslash stripped for example C This allows to use these values in Windows performance counters as well Previously on FreeBSD a monitored disk device had to be specified without dev prefix Now the prefix may be optionally used Previously Zabbix agents were limited to monitoring 8 disks or partitions on a system This limit has been increased to 1024 now Note that monitoring a large amount of disks will increase the memory usage Previously Zabbix agents allocated a static amount of memory for monitoring 8 disks or partitions This amount is now dynamic and is allocated only if monitoring of a specific disk or a partition is requested thus reducing the memory usage on systems where less than 8 disks are being monitored If no disks are being monitored Zabbix agent memory usage will decrease by approximately 400 KB Memory is allocated incrementally as more disk monitoring is being requested The steps for this increase and approximate memory usage for disk monitoring only in MB are as follows Disks Jo i 2 3 4 8 16 Memory o 0 05 0 1 0 15 0 2 0 4 0 8 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew201 Page 1 of 2 32 1 5 64 3 1 128 256 512 768 1024 6 2 12 4 24 8 37 2 49 6 6 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 1 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM 2 0 manual introduc
36. m the web based interface is provided The interface is part of Zabbix server and usually but not necessarily runs on the same physical machine as the one running the server Zabbix web interface must run on the same physical machine if SQLite is used Proxy Zabbix proxy can collect performance and availability data on behalf of Zabbix server A proxy is an optional part of Zabbix deployment however it may be very beneficial to distribute the load of a single Zabbix server Agent Zabbix agents are deployed on monitoring targets to actively monitor local resources and applications and report the gathered data to Zabbix server Data flow In addition it is important to take a step back and have a look at the overall data flow within Zabbix In order to create an item that gathers data you must first create a host Moving to the other end of the Zabbix spectrum you must first have an item to create a trigger You must have a trigger to create an action Thus if you want to receive an alert that your CPU load it too high on Server X you must first create a host entry for Server X followed by an item for monitoring its CPU then a trigger which activates if the CPU is too high followed by an action which sends you an email While that may seem like a lot of steps with the use of templating it really isn t However due to this design it is possible to create a very flexible setup 2 0 manual introduction overview txt Last modified 2012 0
37. merican English Brazilian Portuguese French German Greek Japanese Russian Slovak Ukrainian 11 2 3 Updated translations a American English Brazilian Portuguese Dutch French German Greek Hungarian Japanese Latvian Russian Slovak Spanish Turkish Ukrainian 11 2 4 Miscellaneous frontend improvements Dashboard performance was improved by reducing the amount of SQL statements Action conditions with deleted objects are handled differently Starting with Zabbix 2 0 6 if any object host template trigger etc that is used in the action condition is deleted the condition is deleted and the action is disabled to avoid incorrect execution of the action Before 2 0 6 the missing object was displayed as unknown and the condition remained in place The value part of an action condition is now displayed in italics to make action conditions easier to read like this Host New host https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew206 Page 1 of 2 11 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 6 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 33 PM 11 3 Daemon improvements 11 3 1 Improved LLD performance Previously low level discovery could generate a large amount of database queries and even result in deadlocks Starting with Zabbix 2 0 6 each low level discovery prototype will be processed in its own transaction avoiding the deadlocks Item prototype processing has also been si
38. nu If the element has it s own URLs and there are map level URLs for its type defined they will be combined in the same menu Process list Traceroute Go to Links Wikipage age Web management interface Saudi Arabia 4 92 17 From the already existing macros in map URLs macro TRIGGER ID can be used https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 6 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM Additionally 3 new macros have been added that also can be used in element URL fields HOST ID HOSTGROUP ID MAP ID Grid selection saving In previous versions map grid options like whether to display grid or align to it were discarded after the map configuration form was closed Starting with 2 0 0 selected grid options are saved for each map individually Setting label type per map element type In previous versions one could select map label type for all map elements in the map Starting with 2 0 0 it is possible to enable Advanced labels feature per map and choose map element label per element type image trigger host host group and map Advanced labels M Host Group label type Host label type Element name Trigger label type Status only Nothing Custom label Map label type Image label type Displaying hosts from a host group For host group element it is now possible to specify that it should display a
39. ogin timeout for ODBC Database monitor items had a fixed value 5 seconds Now it is configurable and equal to Timeout parameter in server proxy configuration file 3 seconds by default More detailed ODBC error messages 13 2 2 Improved warnings for messages exceeding size limits Previously when a message exceeded size limits Zabbix ignored it by writing a simple warning to the log file 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew208 txt Last modified 2013 09 26 10 50 by asaveljevs Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew208 Page lof 1 14 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 9 Zabbix 14 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 9 14 1 Frontend improvements 14 1 1 Faster loading graphs 12 4 13 3 33 PM The initial loading of graphs could be noticeably slow especially with PostgreSQL This was much improved by faster working SQL statements significantly up to 100 1000x improving the loading times with all databases 14 1 2 Completed translations The following translations are 100 completed for this release American English Brazilian Portuguese French German Greek Japanese Russian Slovak Ukrainian 14 1 3 Updated translations 14 2 Daemon improvements 14 2 1 Zabbix agent on Solaris Brazilian Portuguese C
40. ollowing license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew202 Page 2 of 2 8 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 3 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM 8 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 3 8 1 Frontend improvements 8 1 1 Flicker free screens Previously an automatic page refresh or change in the timeline scrollbar in the monitoring section reloaded the whole page This was especially visible in screens where it may take some time for all screen elements to load properly and the result often was a page where elements jumped around for a while Since Zabbix 2 0 3 screens in monitoring do not refresh the whole page but all the individual elements are reloaded in the background and replaced Additionally image background reloading was implemented in Latest data graphs and slideshows This should result in a better user experience and reduced network traffic for all of these pages 8 1 2 Displaying of multiple map links In previous 2 0 versions map links were not available for editing when multiple elements were selected Since 2 0 3 it is possible as follows fa single map element is selected all links that are connected to it are listed When multiple map elements are selected links that connect any two of them are listed A From To Link indicators Edit Server Hub small l A Test Host clamd is not running Edit S
41. ration locks improving performance on systems with a large number of items 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew207 txt Last modified 2013 09 03 18 37 by andris Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew207 Page 2 of 3 12 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 7 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 33 PM https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew207 Page 3 of 3 13 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 8 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 33 PM 13 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 8 13 1 Frontend improvements 13 1 1 Completed translations The following translations are 100 completed for this release American English Brazilian Portuguese French German Greek Japanese a Russian Slovak a Ukrainian 13 1 2 Updated translations Dutch 13 1 3 Suppressed warning messages about deprecated mysql extension Before Zabbix 2 0 8 PHP version 5 5 users would get a warning message about the mysql PHP extension being deprecated Starting with Zabbix 2 0 8 warning messages about the deprecated mysql PHP extension are suppressed Note using the mysqli PHP extension becomes an official requirement in the next major Zabbix 2 2 0 version 13 2 Daemon improvements 13 2 1 ODBC monitoring improvements Before Zabbix 2 0 8 the l
42. reativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew203 Page 4 of 4 9 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 4 Zabbix 9 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 4 9 1 Frontend improvements 9 1 1 Shading of screen elements that failed to update 12 4 13 3 32 PM Since 2 0 3 screen elements are updated in background without reloading the whole page Zabbix 2 0 4 will darken elements that have failed to update for some reason 9 1 2 Miscellaneous frontend improvements Full cloning a template will now clone templated screens as well It is now possible to have empty recovery message body Previously if a trigger had no events it was shown as acknowledged in Monitoring gt Triggers Now a string No events will be shown instead Page refresh should now reload less files thus improving overall frontend performance and decreasing the network traffic In network maps HOST HOST macro will now work in trigger elements Screen editing will not allow to set row or column span that would exceed row or column count In Monitoring gt Overview vertically displayed text that used to be made up by images now is actually vertical text New translations Finnish Indonesian Persian 9 1 4 Updated translations Brazilian Portuguese Chinese China Chinese Taiwan Czech French German Hungarian Italian Japanese Latvian Polish Slovak https www zabbix com documentation 2
43. rg licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction manual_structure Page lof 1 2 What is Zabbix Zabbix 12 4 13 3 31 PM 2 What is Zabbix Overview Zabbix was created by Alexei Vladishev and currently is actively developed and supported by Zabbix SIA Zabbix is an enterprise class open source distributed monitoring solution Zabbix is software that monitors numerous parameters of a network and the health and integrity of servers Zabbix uses a flexible notification mechanism that allows users to configure e mail based alerts for virtually any event This allows a fast reaction to server problems Zabbix offers excellent reporting and data visualisation features based on the stored data This makes Zabbix ideal for capacity planning Zabbix supports both polling and trapping All Zabbix reports and statistics as well as configuration parameters are accessed through a web based front end A web based front end ensures that the status of your network and the health of your servers can be assessed from any location Properly configured Zabbix can play an important role in monitoring IT infrastructure This is equally true for small organisations with a few servers and for large companies with a multitude of servers Zabbix is free of cost Zabbix is written and distributed under the GPL General Public License version 2 It means that its source code is freely distributed and available for the general publ
44. rkish a Ukrainian 10 2 Daemon improvements Source IP setting for SNMP checks was not supported with all Net SNMP versions Since Zabbix 2 0 5 this setting should work in all cases Performance for Oracle as the Zabbix backend database was improved by prefetching 2MB of data in SELECT statements a Zabbix Windows agent now supports Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 in the system uname item Zabbix Windows agent now supports non ASCII interface names on Windows Vista Server 2008 and later User macros and global regular expressions now are supported in SNMP trap item key parameters Zabbix agent user parameter output previously was limited to 64KB It can now return up to 512KB of data Additionally peak memory usage of agent in cases when the output size is smaller may be reduced by up to 60KB 10 2 1 Improved SNMP performance Performance of the SNMP normalize function was improved Previously each dynamic index was obtained individually when requested On systems with thousands of dynamic indexes Zabbix pollers were 100 busy for more than 10 minutes until the cache was built up Now the first dynamic index request will cause all indexes in the same SNMP table to be looked up and processed in one go This greatly speeds up the cache building and reduces the SNMP query count Note that all entries are looked up even if only some would be used later 10 2 2 Increased cache size limits The limit for Zabbix server and prox
45. s IT services monitoring and configuration sections Availability report 5 2 6 New network map icons For Zabbix 2 0 a completely new set of network icons is provided and several new icons have been introduced lt list of icons gt 5 2 7 More intuitive range selecting Previously selecting a range of entities in Zabbix frontend was not very intuitive one had to hold down Ctrl both for the range start and range end Starting with 2 0 range selection works as in most other software One just clicks on a checkbox that should start range selection then holding down shift clicks on the checkbox that should be the end for the range It works the same way for selecting and unselecting taking the choice from the very first click 5 2 8 Customisable dashboard Dashboard elements can now be arranged in a custom layout by dragging and dropping them in the desired location They can be placed in up to 3 columns 5 2 9 Translations managed by gettext Frontend translations are now managed by gettext This means that standard tools like Pootle http translate sourceforge net wiki pootle index Poedit http www poedit net or Virtaal http translate sourceforge net wiki virtaal index can be used to translate Zabbix frontend That should also allow working on smaller sections of the translation and improve collaboration possibilities 5 2 10 Network map improvements Network maps have received a couple of improvements regarding U
46. sent main JMX interface will be used If JMX is not present either main IPMI interface will be used Windows agent binaries will now include version information resource For example on Windows 2008 the improvement will look like this IN zabbix_agentd Properties xi G zabbix_agentd Properties xi General Compatibility Security Details Previous Versions General Compatibility Security Details Previous Versions Property Description File description Type Application File version Product name Product version Property Description File description Zabbix agent is deployed on a host to mo Type Application File version 2 0 2 29212 Product name Zabbix Product version 2 0 2 Copyright Copyright Copyright C 2000 2012 Zabbix SIA Size 242 KB Size 242 KB Date modified 27 06 2012 18 43 Date modified 31 07 2012 12 59 Language Language English United States Remove Properties and Personal Information Remove Properties and Personal Information File information in 2 0 1 File information in 2 0 2 7 3 Miscellaneous improvements Zabbix sender manpage now explains which parameters are supported from the agent configuration file Item reference for frontend now includes all items and its syntax matches the syntax used in the manual 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew202 txt Last modified 2012 11 23 17 23 by martins v Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the f
47. st name has been implemented UTF8 support new macros HOST HOST HOST NAME HOST IP IPADDRESS HOSTNAME deprecated 5 1 7 SNMP trap monitoring SNMP trap item documentation 5 2 Frontend improvements 5 2 1 A new look Zabbix frontend has received a redesign The login page table view configuration wizard default trigger severity colours all have a fresh new look 5 2 2 Reworked frontend The frontend has been changed to be more user friendly especially on smaller screens Many pages that previously required horizontal scrolling now fit in the screen thanks to improved layout and tabbed interface The following pages have been redone Host and template properties Host properties now also include host navigation interface making it easy to jump from host https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 2 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM properties to editing items triggers graphs or other entities for that host screenshots to compare 1 8 vs 2 0 Proxy properties Item properties Trigger properties Action properties Graph properties Graph item reordering now isn t done by repeated clicks on Up and Down links Instead drag n drop reordering is possible 5 2 3 Dropping IE6 support Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 will not be provided anymore While we were at that we also dropped IE7 support 5 2 3 1 Outdated bro
48. system localtime key now supports parameters a utc default returns Unix timestamp like before local returns time in the yyyy mm dd hh mm ss nn hh mm format net tcp dns and net tcp dns query have been renamed to net dns and net dns record respectively Old syntax still supported as an alias They are alSo now supported on Windows Additional functionality IP as the first parameter is not ignored anymore thus it is possible to specify different DNS server than localhost Both items gained ability to specify timeout and retry count not supported on Windows net dns gained support for specifying DNS record type like A CNAME and MX net dns record already supported that See item documentation for more information net tcp service and net tcp service perf now support https and telnet system cpu util on Solaris was unified with other platforms kerne parameter was changed to system and wait parameter was changed to jowait system cpu num is now supported for OSX system cpu load now accepts percpu as the first parameter if specified total load divided by online CPU count is returned default is still a and returns normal load value vm memory size now supports more modes for various platforms See supported by platform and vm memory size parameters pages for more information 5 3 2 1 Skipping older data in log monitoring added optional suppressing of processing of older data in log logrt and eventlog add
49. ternative for getting a quick taster of what it is like to use Zabbix Configuration is one of the largest and more important sections in this manual It contains loads of essential advice about how to set up Zabbix to monitor your environment from setting up hosts to getting essential data to viewing data to configuring notifications and remote commands to be executed in case of problems IT services section details how to use Zabbix for a high level overview of your monitoring environment Web monitoring should help you learn how to monitor the availability of web sites Maintenance Regular expressions Event acknowledgment and XML export import are further sections that reveal how to use these various aspects of Zabbix software Discovery contains instructions for setting up automatic discovery of network devices active agents file systems network interfaces etc Distributed monitoring deals with the possibilities of using Zabbix in larger and more complex environments Web interface contains information specific for using the web interface of Zabbix Detailed lists of technical information are included in Appendixes This is where you will also find FAQ and Zabbix API sections 2 0 manual introduction manual_structure txt Last modified 2012 02 03 10 38 by martins v Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons o
50. that previously were only read upon server startup are now also stored in the configuration cache They are updated together with common configuration cache update Refresh unsupported items https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 15 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM Discovery group Custom severity names For how long alerts are stored For how long events are stored Refresh unsupported items is now also synchronised to the Zabbix proxy 5 4 3 Trigger cache Trigger cache has been introduced Currently it holds the following information about triggers description expression error severity type value value_flags Trigger cache is part of the configuration cache and is updated the same way and at the same time as other parts of it Note that upgrading to 2 0 0 may increase configuration cache usage especially if Zabbix instance has lots of triggers This should improve trigger related operation performance and reduce the load on the database 5 4 4 User macro caching improvements In Zabbix 1 8 individual daemon processes for example pollers cache user macros and update this information every 5 minutes In Zabbix 2 0 user macros are included in the general configuration cache and updated every CacheUpdateFrequency seconds 5 4 5 Improved history DB syncer and escalator performance The amount of work history syncer and escal
51. thers 24 00 Starting with Zabbix 2 0 this has been unified so midnight is always specified as 24 00 5 5 10 Host profiles renamed to host inventory and merged Before Zabbix hosts had normal and extended profile In Zabbix 2 0 both profiles were merged into single host inventory 5 5 11 Escalations enabled by default Starting with Zabbix 2 0 escalations are always enabled and can not be disabled By default a condition Trigger value PROBLEM is added to new actions so only problem notifications are sent This makes recovery message checkbox operate in a more intuitive way This action condition can be removed by the user 5 5 12 Remote command improvements Specify IPMI as a type instead of obscure syntax Execute custom global scripts Execute SSH and telnet commands For custom scripts ability to execute on the Zabbix server or agent was added 5 5 13 Changed default locations 5 5 13 1 Configuration files location Before 2 0 this was hard coded to etc zabbix Since 2 0 the default changed to usr local etc and depends on compile time installation variable sysconfdir which was ignored before Zabbix 2 0 5 5 13 2 External scripts location https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 19 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM Before 2 0 the default location for external scripts was etc zabbix externalscripts Since 2 0 this chang
52. tion whatsnew201 txt Last modified 2012 11 23 17 22 by martins v Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew201 Page 2 of 2 7 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 2 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM 7 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 2 7 1 Frontend improvements Filters in host host inventory and audit pages were improved to fit in screens less than 1024 pixels wide Performance in graph related pages was improved Performance in the dashboard s Host status widget was improved especially on setups with many groups Global messages previously appeared in all pages including popups for example for item or host selection Now they will only appear in pages that would also display the main menu Frontend will now validate time periods entered in item flexible intervals working time definition and other locations More XML import status messages can now be translated More specific reasons will be given when template linking fails in some cases Item value macros in map labels now support multiplier suffixes for example host item function 5m In the global search results host and template configuration links for host group results are now separated Previously only link to host editing would be displayed and no indication of how many
53. ver or proxy usr local share zabbix externalscripts The following directory is created when installing server usr local share zabbix alertscripts usr local share is default value of compile time installation variable datadir 5 5 15 Unsupported item information sent by proxies Information about unsupported items is now passed from Zabbix proxies to the server 5 5 16 Simplified ServerActive logic Zabbix agent daemon parameter ServerActive has been simplified Instead of overriding Server parameter https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 20 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM ServerActive now is the only parameter that s used for active checks Additionally ServerPort parameter has been removed host ports now should be specified in the ServerActive parameter See the See also section at the bottom of this page to read more details about these changes 5 5 17 Simplified Zabbix agent daemon configuration Zabbix agent daemon configuration has been simplified by removing DisableActive and DisablePassive parameters Instead not specifying ServerActive will not do any active item processing and specifying StartAgents 0 will disable processing of incoming connections for passive items 5 5 18 Monitoring of files larger than 2GB While Zabbix did offer monitoring of files larger than 2GB before this support was not consistent it varied by platform and by it
54. with key web test error lt a scenario name gt will be added https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew2 00 Page 1 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM to all existing scenarios during database upgrade 5 1 4 Multi homed host support Zabbix now supports multiple interfaces per host You can configure several interface host pairs in the host properties and specify which should be used as the default for several item types Zabbix agent SNMP and IPMI Additionally you can override interface on the item level When a template is linked to a host that has multiple interfaces defined default interface for that type used which currently is the first interface in the list A single item can only be monitored on a single interface Interfaces that are used in any items can not be removed and link Remove is greyed out for them Together with the ability to use user macros in any of the port fields this should provide a flexible and powerful way to monitor multi homed hosts For SNMP items port on the item level if specified overrides the interface port Interface for an item can be selected in item properties Both in item properties and item mass update form interfaces are grouped by their type 5 1 5 Direct JMX monitoring support Ability to monitor JMX without deploying additional software has been introduced in the form of a Java gateway 5 1 6 Visible host name Visible ho
55. wser warning If an outdated browser will be detected by Zabbix frontend a warning page will be displayed It will link to download pages for multiple more recent browsers User would not be blocked from accessing Zabbix frontend though that would still be possible via the link in the lower right corner r 7 ZA B B X WARNING You are using an outdated browser Zabbix frontend is built on advanced modern technologies and does not support old browsers Itis highly recommended that you choose and install a modern browser It is free of charge and only takes a couple of minutes oeeo Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox internet Explorer Opera browser Apple Safari Download page Download page Download page Download page Download page Why is it recommended to upgrade the web browser New browsers usually come with support for new technologies increasing web page speed better privacy settings and so on They also resolve security and functional issues Continue despite this warning 1 hi d 5 2 4 SQLite supported by frontend https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew200 Page 3 of 21 5 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 0 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 32 PM 5 2 5 Improved frontend performance Multiple sections of frontend have their performance improved including a Dashboard performance has been improved for systems with lots of events Network maps for non superusers Screens for non superuser
56. y configuration parameters CacheSize HistoryCacheSize and HistoryTextCacheSize as well as server parameter TrendCacheSize was increased from 1GB to 2GB 10 3 Miscellaneous improvements Zabbix sender now supports ServerActive parameter from the agent daemon configuration file The first IP address is used 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew205 txt Last modified 2013 02 12 13 30 by richlv https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew205 Page 2 of 3 10 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 5 Zabbix 12 4 13 3 33 PM Except where otherwise noted content on this wiki is licensed under the following license CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported http creativecommons org licenses by nc sa 3 0 https www zabbix com documentation 2 0 manual introduction whatsnew205 Page 3 of 3 11 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 6 Zabbix 11 What s new in Zabbix 2 0 6 11 1 New notification macros 12 4 13 3 33 PM Macros TRIGGER TEMPLATE NAME and TRIGGER HOSTGROUP NAME will return the list of templates and host groups respectively in which the trigger is defined Macros TRIGGER NAME ORIG ITEM NAME ORIG and ITEM KEY ORIG will return the original name key with macros not expanded See macros supported by location for details 11 2 Frontend improvements 11 2 1 New translations Lithuanian 11 2 2 Completed translations The following translations are 100 completed for this release A

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