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 versie 1.1.1 uitgebracht met de volgende veranderingen:
What's New in 1.1.1:ZABBIX Server
What's New in 1.1:ZABBIX Agent
- added new parameter StatFile for ZABBIX server
- added startup script for Fedora Core 5
Fixes
- added support of "system.swap.out" for Linux 2.4
- added support of "system.swap.in" for Linux 2.4
- fixed selection popup if return string contains single quote
- fixed incorrect characters in item key selector
- fixed processing of SNMP having non-standard port
- fixed database data to get rid of zero multiplier for disk spaces
- misc fixes for WEB frontend
- fixed srv_status.php: Cannot use object of type CLink ...
- added removal of stat file on agent shutdown
- fixed processing of web.page.get and long data sent by agent
- fixed B64 en-decoding of large data
- fixed problem with undefined PACKETSZ under Mac OS/X
- disabled excessive debug printing for system.run
- umask(022) changed to umask(002)
- added additional symbols for trigger expressions (slash, space)
- fixed permissions of log files when starting as 'root'
- fixed agent crash while evaluating proc.mem[]
- changed type of lastlogsize to long in structure METRIC
- ZABBIX agent to bind even if TIME_WAIT sockets exist
- ZABBIX server to bind even if TIME_WAIT sockets exist
- fixed notification report for Oracle
- fixed displayin of long history of alarms
- fixed value mapping for latest data
- fixed value mapping for screens
ZABBIX Server
Visualisation
- One server process
- Support of SNMPv3
- Monitoring of log files
- Monitoring of Windows events
- Auto-registration
- Active agent
- Trigger acknowledgements
- Support of Oracle
High-performance agents
- More flexible graphs
- Multi level maps
- Maps with backgrounds
- Overview screens
GUI
- AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Tru64
- *BSD
- Windows XP, 2000, 2003
- Novell
- Max OS/X
Templates
- Fully rewritten
- Audit log
- Localisation (English, French, German, etc)
- Value mapping
- User-defined tactical overview screens
- More flexible user screens
Pro-active monitoring
- One template per thousand of hosts
Aggregate monitoring
- Automatic execution of remote commands
- Flexible definition of actions
Configuration management
- Monitoring of a group of hosts as s signle host
- Hardware details about monitored devices