Release-Hinweise für Zabbix 1.8.6rc2

29 July 2011

Das Zabbix Team freut sich, Ihnen Zabbix vorzustellen 1.8.6rc2.

Zabbix ist eine Open-Source-Lösung für das verteilte Monitoring und dabei für Unternehmen ausgelegt (Enterprise-Klasse). Zabbix wird unter der GPL veröffentlicht und ist daher zur Verwendung kostenlos, ob kommerziell oder nicht. Den vollständigen Text der Lizenz finden Sie unter http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt.

Dieses Dokument enthält die Release-Hinweise für Zabbix 1.8.6rc2. Sie finden es unter download.

Die folgenden Abschnitte beschreiben den Release im Detail und stellen später hinzugekommene oder sonstige Informationen bereit, um die hauptsächliche Dokumentation zu ergänzen.

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Fixes and minor improvements

ZBX-3990	fixed exiting proxy and server on cache reload using runtime control options
ZBX-3835	fixed possible security vulnerability in redirects
ZBX-3968	fixed issues with filtering in monitoring->events in Internet Explorer 7
ZBX-3469	fixed setting UNKNOWN trigger status when agent goes down
ZBX-3973	added logging of proxy mode (active/passive) at startup
ZBX-3902	fixed possible zombie states in UNIX, moved watchdog (server) and heartbeats (proxy) to separate processes (main process just waits), added more logging to exiting Windows agent
ZBX-3166	fixed application updating in Template linking event. Changed linked Template color in application page. Added param NOEMPTY for popup page witch allows hide Empty button in application and item pages
ZBX-3565	reformatting media types in notifications page, adding links to media types
ZBX-3784	added validation on duplicate discovery rule name
ZBX-3733	make possible to save Device uniqueness criteria status (discovery rule) in cloning event
ZBX-3845	check, if this user group is used in the config, if so it cannot be deleted
ZBX-3911	fixed wrong trigger expression parsing when key parameters contained "("
ZBX-3856	fixed new group creation from template page
ZBX-3840	fixed possible path disclosure
ZBXNEXT-849	added example MySQL UserParameter to monitor database and table size
ZBX-3935	fixed possible function redeclaration error
ZBX-3944	added support of multibyte NIC names for the net.if.* checks under Windows
ZBX-3947	fixed compilation under AIX 5.2 with fileset lower than 5.2.0.40
ZBX-3947	fixed compilation under AIX 5.2 with enabled IPv6
ZBX-3426	fixed application unlink and clear when it is linked from template
ZBX-1074	fixed compilation errors regarding sem_lock and sem_unlock on HP-UX; thanks to Brian Collins
ZBX-3877	fixed slow Housekeeper for PostgreSQL 7.4+; thanks to Ildefonso Camargo
ZBXNEXT-816	added support for reloading configuration cache from the command line
ZBX-3063	added compatibility with PostgreSQL 9+; thanks to Andrey Groshev for patch
ZBX-3890	added logging of ORACLE warning messages while connecting to the database
ZBX-3880	fixed repeated processing of log-files through proxy when disabling a host or item
ZBX-3420	fixed wrong error message being logged in case of DNS resolution errors
ZBX-3519	fixed unterminated processes when system.run[,wait] times out and added proper output handling for system.run[,nowait] on UNIX
ZBX-3768	fixed 'uptime' and 's' units as according to the documentation
ZBX-3490	added support for LVM devices and full path to devices to vfs.dev.read and vfs.dev.write; thanks to Takanori Suzuki
ZBX-3862	fixed broken popups in frontend in Internet Explorer 7
ZBX-3463	fixed MaxHousekeeperDelete configuration parameter being ignored for IBM DB2
ZBX-3854	added saving of state of dynamic/fixed setting for time lines on all pages
ZBX-3847	fixed item history clearing not deleting data in trends_uint table
ZBX-3797	fixed processing of vfs.dev.* checks under FreeBSD
ZBXNEXT-799	added support of SRV records to net.tcp.dns.query[]; thanks to Edward Rudd
ZBX-1029	added lookup of Jabber SRV records to Jabber notifications; thanks to Edward Rudd
ZBXNEXT-792	added type parameter for system.hostname[] on Windows to support both NetBIOS and host names
ZBXNEXT-791	added HostnameItem to Agent and Proxy configuration for setting the default Hostname
ZBX-3192	fixed SNMP index cache to support SNMP target for each entry; thanks to Ilia Sotnikov
ZBX-3825	fixed errors with single quotes in javascript messages
ZBXNEXT-782	added support of not-supported items in the history cache
ZBX-3072	fixed MySQL error when shutting down server
ZBX-3105	added processing of garbage in configuration files
ZBX-2083	fixed audit.details field cutting
ZBX-3824	fixed unnecessary synchronization of "profiles" table in DM setup
ZBX-3821	removed warning messages about failed evaluation of trigger expressions
ZBX-3826	fixed recovering unsupported icmpping* items when a key has been entered incorrectly
ZBX-3766	fixed "Do" button in item form
ZBX-3417	removed trailing and leading space from phrase " - all groups - "
ZBX-3806	fixed HTTP pollers being started on Zabbix proxy
ZBX-3808	updated Brazilian Portuguese translation; thanks to Murilo Moreira de Oliveira
ZBX-3682	fixed import of map elements having empty label; thanks to Takanori Suzuki
ZBX-3679	fixed incorrect "No nodes defined" when screen selection popup has no elements
ZBX-3638	fixed displaying of vertical text in case of special HTML characters
ZBX-3582	fixed screen import
ZBX-3801	added check for duplicate template IDs when creating host through API
ZBX-3802	fixed error when try to open custom screen from history link
ZBX-3794	added timeout support to vfs.file.* commands
ZBX-3747	replaced strcpy() and vsnprintf() calls with safer ones and strerror() with zbx_strerror() which also prints the error code
ZBX-3760	fixed the CPU collector for processing the non-contiguous CPU IDs
ZBX-3796	select a graph with the same name if it exists when changing host in monitoring -> graphs
ZBX-3776	treat duplicate UserParameter as error
ZBX-3728	fixed a warning message when removing a user script
ZBX-3731	fixed possible SQL errors when updating trends
ZBX-3772	improved performance of the history syncer
ZBX-3547	Rewrote performance counters and CPU stats collection for Windows
ZBX-3677	added unit blacklist on the server side
ZBX-3746	Fixed parsing of trigger expressions containing \\
ZBX-3744	updated Japanese translation; thanks to Kodai Terashima
ZBX-3681	fixed API to leave internal PHP encoding in UTF-8
ZBX-3353	fixed skipping web items in the host "Full clone" operation
ZBX-3503	fixed "incorrect usage of quotes" error
ZBX-3740	fixed compilation errors due to undefined SOL_IPV6
ZBX-2952	added Base64 data line wrapping in Email notifications
ZBX-3698	fixed error in log wizard when expression had internal parentheses
ZBX-524	added log messages when syncing a proxy configuration data
ZBX-3671	fixed ORACLE SQL error when processing of the trigger function count()

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Installations- und Upgrade-Hinweise

Installation

Siehe das Zabbix Handbuch für alle Details.

Upgrade

Siehe das Upgrade-Verfahren for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 1.8.6.

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• Zabbix Enterprise-Support
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Referenzen

Zabbix 1.8 Manual