Met het programma Zabbix kan je verschillende onderdelen van je netwerk en services op je servers in de gaten houden. Het programma ondersteunt twee verschillende mogelijkheden om de relevante informatie binnen te halen. Het kan vanaf zijn eigen host requests uitsturen naar de verschillende services en netwerkonderdelen die daar vervolgens op reageren. Daarnaast is er een zogenaamde agent aanwezig die geïnstalleerd kan worden op de in de gaten te houden host waarmee gedetailleerde informatie binnen gehaald kan worden. Voor meer informatie over Zabbix verwijzen we jullie door naar deze en deze pagina. De ontwikkelaars hebben de zesde bètaversie van Zabbix 1.1 uitgebracht met de volgende aankondiging:
This release introduces unified look & feel for the frontend and other improvements. Several important issues have been fixed. The release can be used in production environments. Note that feature freeze will be announced after release of next beta.
What's New
- Better GUI
Look and feel and security of the ZABBIX frontend has been significantly improved. The frontend has better user forms and ability to select/deselect all table elements.- Maps: configurable label location.
Location of labels is configurable.- Configurable unavailability period for hosts
Previously ZABBIX considered a host as not supported if more than 3 network errors occured. Now it will change status of a host to not supported if and only if a host was unavailable for configurable (default is 20 seconds) number of seconds. New server parameter has been introduced: UnavailablePeriod.- Better processing of server startup/shutdown
The release introduce better handling of signals and improved shutdown sequence for ZABBIX server.- Improved proc.num under Linux
Now it accepts new parameter 'comm'.- New trigger functions
Logseverity() will return severity of most recent log entry. Logsource() returns source of event. Windows only.- New macro: {TRIGGER.KEY}
The macro is expanded to a key of the first trigger item.- Fixes
- Fixed processing of item's multiplier.
- Fixed compilation issues of SNMP support.
- Fixed warning when deleting a trigger.
- Fixed two different units in two graph axes.
- Fixed crash in processing of autoregistration.
- Minor fix for schema of table 'rights'.
- Fixed processing of SNMP Counter32 metric.
- Fixed synchronisation of template graphs when using a template.
- Overview screen will not show disabled items.
- Renamed renamed latestalarms.php and alerts.php.
- Other fixes.