16 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.12

16.1 Multiple server support in active agent

Previously, Zabbix agent was able to communicate with one server or proxy in the active mode. In 1.8.12, a new parameter ServerActive has been added. If it is defined, only the hosts in this list will be used for active checks.

For each host in the list, a separate process will get list of items and process them - thus each server or proxy can send a totally different list of active checks to the agent and only get their values.

Zabbix sender does not use ServerActive parameter - it still takes the first value from Server parameter only.

16.2 New macros

Support for macros {ITEM.ID<1-9>} and {TRIGGER.EXPRESSION} has been added in notifications and commands.

See also

1. Differences in the Zabbix agent configuration for active and passive checks starting from version 1.8.12