Software Update: Zabbix 2.2.6

Version 2.2.6 of Zabbix has been released. With this program, the status of network services, servers and other network equipment can be monitored. Although the program can only display simple information, more detailed information can also be obtained by installing a so-called agent on the server.

More information about Zabbix can be found on this page be found and here are some screenshots. The changelog for this release looks like this:

Performance improvements

• Improved performance of deleting triggers by API and server – events will be deleted only by the housekeeper.

List of Improvements included into 2.2.6

• [ZBX-8275] added a feature to automatically clone web scenarios when cloning a host or template
• [ZBX-8473] improved performance of deleting triggers by API and server – events will be deleted only by the housekeeper
• [ZBX-1357] updated Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Polish, Slovak and Spanish translations; thanks to Zabbix translators

Complete List of Bug Fixes and Improvements included into 2.2.6

• [ZBX-7721] added support for discovering more than 100 hypervisors on large vcenter installations to vmware collector
• [ZBX-8629] fixed crash in get_string() function when checking “Database monitor” items
• [ZBX-4800] replaced JSON.org library with Android JSON library; thanks to Volker Fröhlich for legal research
• [ZBX-4800] fixed typo in item name in “Template JMX Generic”: “mpTenured” -> “mp Tenured”
• [ZBX-8488] fixed items being shown in queue with a delay of more than 44 years
• [ZBX-8444] increased the interval for checking sleeping escalations to improve performance
• [ZBX-8608] added support of IP masks for action conditions
• [ZBX-8603] fixed web scenario fields “http_proxy” and “retries” not updating properly when linking template to host
• [ZBX-8415] fixed possible server crash on lld hosts or host groups update
• [ZBX-8236] fixed few memory leaks in Windows agent
• [ZBX-8563] added field “logtimefmt” to exported items
• [ZBX-7621] changed virtual machine disk and network discovery to use device name instead of instance id in discovered item name
• [ZBX-8338] fixed SNMP walking code so that it intelligently chooses either a string or numeric representation for an OID index
• [ZBX-8577] added wmi.get[] to the list of suggested items
• [ZBX-8216] fixed screen import error
• [ZBX-8510] fixed possible deadlocks when updating IT services
• [ZBX-8512] fixed processing of web.page.regexp without a newline character in the end of http GET response
• [ZBX-8424] fixed finding last event for triggers
• [ZBX-8424] changed range limit when looking up eventids to the upper bound of a 64bit integer
• [ZBX-8493] fixed usergroup.massadd API call to not create duplicate entries in “rights” table
• [ZBX-8492] fixed maintenance periods without hosts/hostgroups to be accessible by both admins and superadmins
• [ZBX-8428] fixed item.get API call to return values ​​for “lastvalue”, “lastclock”, “lastns”, “prevvalue” only for last 24 hours
• [ZBX-8371] fixed issue when maintenance items with their hosts/host groups removed are not accessible in configuration
• [ZBX-8366] fixed table header display in Monitoring -> Overview for IE11