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ZABBIX Manual v1.6
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ZABBIX Manual v1.6
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
1.ABOUT....................................................................................................................20
1.1.Revision History...........................................................................................................201.2.Conventions..................................................................................................................201.3.Distribution list.............................................................................................................211.4.Overview of ZABBIX.....................................................................................................22
1.4.1.What is ZABBIX? ............................................................................................221.4.2.What does ZABBIX offer? ..............................................................................221.4.3.Why use ZABBIX? ..........................................................................................231.4.4.Users of ZABBIX .............................................................................................23
1.5.Goals and Principles....................................................................................................23
1.5.1.Main Goals of ZABBIX Development ..............................................................231.5.2.Main principles of ZABBIX development..........................................................23
1.6.What’s new in ZABBIX 1.6...........................................................................................24
1.6.1.Escalations and Repeated notifications...........................................................241.6.2.Much Better Performance................................................................................241.6.3.Support of IPv6................................................................................................241.6.4.Support of IPMI................................................................................................241.6.5.Better Distributed Monitoring...........................................................................241.6.6.ZABBIX Proxy Process....................................................................................241.6.7.Dashboard.......................................................................................................241.6.8.Dynamic Screens.............................................................................................251.6.9.Nice Zoom for Graphs.....................................................................................251.6.10.Pie Charts......................................................................................................251.6.11.Basic Management Functions........................................................................251.6.12.More Efficient Communication with Agents....................................................251.6.13.More Efficient ZABBIX Sender.......................................................................251.6.14.Improved View of Trigger Statuses................................................................251.6.15.Support of SNMP Data with Dynamic Index...................................................251.6.16.Special Processing of Well-known SNMP OIDs.............................................251.6.17.Added Printable View for All Screens............................................................26
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1.6.18.Disabling of Login Rights for a Group of Users..............................................261.6.19.Added Support of UTF-8................................................................................261.6.20.Added Screen for Better Management of Translations..................................261.6.21.Added Maintenance Mode.............................................................................261.6.22.Unlimited Number of Map Link Styles............................................................261.6.23.Improved User Permission Schema...............................................................261.6.24.Other Improvements......................................................................................261.6.24.1.Queue moved into Administration...............................................................261.6.24.2.Link to Maps, Screens and Graphs moved to the Dashboard.....................261.6.24.3.Auto-login option.........................................................................................271.6.24.4.New communication protocol......................................................................271.6.24.5.Support of themes for ZABBIX front-end....................................................271.6.24.6.User ‘guest’ can be disabled.......................................................................271.6.24.7.Disabling of a group of users......................................................................271.6.24.8.Database down screen...............................................................................271.6.24.9.Duplicated Login removed..........................................................................271.6.24.10.Added sorting for all screens....................................................................271.6.24.11.Better informative message......................................................................271.6.24.12.Support of import/export of the host template linkage information............271.6.24.13.Support of negative values in graphs........................................................281.6.24.14.Support of directories in the parameter Include........................................281.6.24.15.Support of new macros.............................................................................281.6.24.16.New after-login greeting message............................................................281.6.24.17.Auto-discovery by ICMP ping....................................................................281.6.24.18.Increased number of log entries sent per second.....................................281.6.24.19.Added mass-update functionality for hosts and triggers...........................281.6.24.20.Added full-screen icon..............................................................................281.6.24.21.Active only mode for ZABBIX agent..........................................................281.6.24.22.Added monitoring of Proxy availability......................................................281.6.24.23.Added protection against brute-force attacks............................................291.6.24.24.Improved event viewing............................................................................291.6.24.25.More accurate ICMP pings........................................................................291.6.24.26.Support of bulk acknowledgements..........................................................291.6.24.27.Added time filter to Availability Report.......................................................291.6.24.28.History of Actions moved under Administration.........................................291.6.24.29.Required server performance value is available.......................................291.6.24.30.Added support of auto-login......................................................................291.6.24.31.Automatic selection of the first element in drop-downs.............................291.6.24.32.Last access time is displayed for users.....................................................291.6.24.33.More flexible Status of Trigger screen......................................................291.6.24.34.Extended host profiles..............................................................................30
1.7.Installation and Upgrade Notes...................................................................................30
1.7.1.Installation........................................................................................................301.7.2.Version compatibility........................................................................................301.7.3.Important.........................................................................................................301.7.4.Upgrade procedure..........................................................................................301.7.4.1.Stop ZABBIX server......................................................................................30
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