1. What’s new in
3.0
Paris monitoring Meetup
September 2nd 2015

2. Who am I ?
Consultant at SOMONE (@Somone_IT)
@stevedestivelle
http://steve.destivelle.me

3. Agenda
• Zabbix presentation
• Typical architecture
• What’s new

5. 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

6. Typical architecture
Frontend server
Database server
Zabbix server
Zabbix proxyFirewall

7. What’s new
in
3.0

8. Today

9. Tomorrow

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. What’s new 4/4
• Other
– Performance improvements
– Item changes/improvements
– Function improvements
– Commandline utilities improvements