Download Zabbix 1.3.1 beta

With the Zabbix program you can monitor various parts of your network and services on your servers. The program supports two different options to retrieve the relevant information. It can send requests from its own host to the various services and network components, which then respond to them. In addition, there is a so-called agent that can be installed on the host to be monitored with which detailed information can be retrieved. For more information about Zabbix, we refer you to this one and this one page. The developers have released beta version 1.3.1 with the following changes:

This document contains the release notes for ZABBIX 1.3.1. The release supports MySQL and SQLite only. Support of Oracle and PostgreSQL will be restored in next beta. Do not use this release in production! It is for early beta testing only.

XML Import/Export

New XML based import/export allows manipulation with hosts, items and triggers making it an excellent choice for sharing common templates. Old bulk loader has been removed.

Support of SQLite3

SQLite is an excellent choice for running zero-administration ZABBIX nodes on an embedded hardware. Not recommended for large setups due to inefficient locking mechanism.

ZABBIX Manual in PDF format

Download, read and print ZABBIX manual! Find it in directory doc/ of ZABBIX source distribution.

Transactional approach for ZABBIX Server

Use of transactions improves performance of ZABBIX, it also maintains better integrity and security of ZABBIX data.

New configuration parameters for ZABBIX server

• LaunchPingers
• StartPollersUnreachable

New definition of some parameters of ZABBIX server

• StartPollers
• Start Trappers

Misc functionality

• better editing of custom graphs
• support of ‘-n’ flag for ZABBIX Server: change Node ID
• improved error display
• added ‘Host Group’ element to graphs
• other improvements and bug fixes