Release Notes for Zabbix 1.5.3

4 June 2008

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.5.3.

Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution. Zabbix is released under the GPL, thus it is free of charge for both commercial and non-commercial use. A complete text of the license is available at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt.

This document contains the release notes for Zabbix 1.5.3. Download it from 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-380	added support of directories for Include in configuration file
DEV-171	added support of notification escalations on frontend side
DEV-173	added support of macros {EVENT.DATE},{EVENT.TIME},{EVENT.AGE} and {ESC.HISTORY}
DEV-173	added support of notification escalations on server side
DEV-172	added support of Apache authentication
DEV-170	improved charts period & start time selection
DEV-163	added support of perf_counter[path<,period>]
DEV-169	improved msg functionality in GUI
DEV-149	added hosts mass update functionality
DEV-167	added support of Host Template=<template> in actions
DEV-168	added more supported items in FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD
DEV-161	changed greeting message
DEV-157	added fullscreen icon to monitoring screens

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbixマニュアル for full details.

アップグレードサービス

See Upgrade procedure for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 1.5.3.

Commercial support

Zabbix Company provides a full range of Professional Services. We also provide trouble-free Upgrade Service for easy migration from earlier versions of Zabbix. Please 営業への問い合わせ for pricing and more details.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix トレーニング
• Zabbix Development Services

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References

Zabbix 1.5 Manual