Release Notes for Zabbix 1.5

12 March 2008

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.5.

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. Download 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

DEV-127	improved system status widget in dashboard screen
DEV-125	added "Discovery status" widget
DEV-123	screen "queue" moved to administration section
DEV-126	moved graphs,maps,screens to dashboard, implemented quick add to favourites
DEV-116	added option to remember user login
DEV-117	added support of BufferSize and BufferSend parameters
DEV-118	added dashboard screen to monitoring
DEV-117	support of data buffering on agent side
DEV-115	enhanced sender to use only one TCP connection
DEV-112	added themes option in frontend
DEV-114	special processing of simple SNMP OIDs like ifDescr, ifInOctets, etc
DEV-114	monitoring of SNMP objects having flexible Index
DEV-104	added maintenance mode
DEV-103	added support of disabling login rights for a users group
DEV-102	added support of UTF8 for GUI
DEV-97	added screen for easier creation of locales
DEV-96	added availability to disable default user "guest"
DEV-95	added group status enabled/disabled
DEV-94	added processing of the "database down" event
DEV-93	added availability to select all hosts in specified group in "Monitoring" section
DEV-91	added printable view for pages
DEV-89	improved trigger tables view
DEV-88	removed duplicated entry "Login"
DEV-87	fixed problem with unlinking templates
DEV-52	added "Unlimited number of link styles for maps"
DEV-86	DM: Synchronizing all history data with master node
	bulk acknowledge with empty comment
	performance improvement of processing events in frontend
DEV-66	added sorting to screens
	The last character for last value is unreadable
DEV-60	added availability of setting hosts view style in overview
DEV-53	added different style for dependent triggers in "Status of triggers"
DEV-62	added availability to select all hosts in "Availability report"
DEV-54	added zoom for graphs
DEV-48	Support of Ping and Traceroute in Status of Triggers screen
DEV-57	added better "hosts info" selection in screens
DEV-56	added better item selection in screens
DEV-48	added scripts form,scripts list, script call menu
DEV-44	more flexible generation of trigger events
DEV-45	added new design of Status of Triggers
DEV-47	added support of selection of events and bulk acknowledge of events
DEV-1	added new graph bar
	support of database cache for history and trends
	basic support of database caching
	added pie graphs
	added new columns graphs.show_legend, graphs.show_3d
	added frontend-side support of quotes and trigger expression validation
	added availability to show negative values in graphs
	developed database monitoring via ODBC
	added availability to export/import templates for hosts
	changed how is showed messages
	added login/logout

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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 1.5.

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.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix Training
• Zabbix Development services

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References

Zabbix 1 Manual