What’s new in 3.0

Paris monitoring MeetupSeptember 2nd 2015

Who am I ?

Consultant at SOMONE (@Somone_IT)

@stevedestivelle

http://steve.destivelle.me

Agenda

• Zabbix presentation• Typical architecture• What’s new

Zabbix presentation

• Created by Alexei Vladishev (@avladishev)• Developed by Zabbix SIA

(http://www.zabbix.com)• Open Source Software Monitoring Solution– All-in-one solution– Supports small to very large distributed

environments– Rich visualization capabilities, featured by

dashboard, custom graphs and network maps

Typical architecture

Frontend server

Database server

Zabbix server

Zabbix proxyFirewall

What’s newin

3.0

Today

Tomorrow

What’s new 1/4

• General– Redesign of Zabbix front-end– Mass editing buttons instead of dropdown– Miscellaneous front-end improvements– Dropping IE8 support– Filtering options– Ability to graph log items– Resolution of user macros made transparent– User agent options in web monitoring– XML import/export– VMware monitoring improvements

What’s new 2/4

• Security– SMTP authentication options

• Discovery– Multiple OID support in SNMP discovery– Defining dependencies between trigger prototypes– Linking to applications based on discovery values– Macro improvements

What’s new 3/4

• Agent and Server side improvements– Forced housekeeper execution– Default configuration file improvements– Zabbix agent crash log on Windows platforms– TCP connection timeout on Windows platforms– Support for IPv6 addresses in Java gateway– Proxy configuration size increase– Logging IP addresses of incoming/outgoing connections

between Zabbix server and Zabbix proxy– Setting DebugLevel=5 in daemon configuration file– Database recovery message on DebugLevel=2

What’s new 4/4

• Other– Performance improvements– Item changes/improvements– Function improvements– Commandline utilities improvements