Release Notes for Zabbix 1.6.1

4 November 2008

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.6.1.

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 1.6.1. 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

ZBX-586	added simple check tcp_perf into help_items
ZBX-585	added support of macros {HOSTNAME},{HOST.CONN},{IPADDRESS},{HOST.DNS} in item keys
DEV-250	added support of vfs.dev.read/write under Linux 2.4/2.6
ZBX-576	added IPMI authentication algorithms
ZBX-573	made SQL optimization for PGSQL
ZBX-572	fixed warning messages while updating template linkage
ZBX-570	fixed possible server crash if flexible interval delay is 0 sec.
ZBX-565	fixed filtering of conf->triggers
ZBX-562	fixed improper host group delete action
ZBX-527	fixed possible poller crash
ZBX-533	fixed incorrect SNMP string to float conversion
ZBX-534	fixed problem with email messages for discovery events
ZBX-540	DM: fixed sql error while processing configuration data
ZBX-557	fixed wrong audit action for items enable/disable
ZBX-403	added support of commas in UserParameter's
ZBX-541	fixed overwriting proxies on host import issue
ZBX-542	added processing of nextcheck for active checks
ZBX-504	fixed date selector issue for log items in latest values screen
ZBX-529	removed links from dynamic screen graphs
ZBX-538	fixed wrong theme pick up in login screen issue
ZBX-536	fixed problem with "Unable to add performance counter"
ZBX-535	added support of monitoring files larger than 2GB in windows
ZBX-520	removed action condition "event ack" due to not supported
ZBX-480	fixed patches for sysmaps_links table
ZBX-521	fixed problem in FreeBSD with threads in proc.num and proc.mem items
ZBX-519	removed proxy hosts from applications hosts list
DEV-238	added support of sec|#num for function count()
DEV-238	added support of text items for function count()
ZBX-471	fixed problem with graphs with big values
ZBX-501	fixed undefined values in server info screen
ZBX-469	fixed problem with linking extra graph
ZBX-495	fixed DB upgrade script when doing 1.1->1.4->1.6
ZBX-488	fixed memory leak in ZABBIX server code
ZBX-500	added more debug information for icmpping processing
ZBX-499	fixes problem with IPMI authorization; added field "IPMI IP"
ZBX-484	fixed host-group selection in templates page
ZBX-464	fixed user creation under LDAP
ZBX-468	fixed user online status in administration panel
ZBX-492	fixed wrong url "next 100" in audit actions
ZBX-490	fixed undefined variable in latest data
ZBX-481	fixed permission issue in slideshow
ZBX-474	fixed deleting hosts with postgres-backend
ZBX-475	added message on missed php-ldap module
DEV-168	added support of system.cpu.util[] for OpenBSD agents

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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 1.6.1.

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 1.6 Manual