Release Notes for Zabbix 1.7.0

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.


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

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.

References

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