Zabbix 6.2 Feature Release

Ich habe eine alte Zabbix 6.0 Installation und möchte diese aktualisieren. Zabbix 6.2 ist die aktuelle Stable Version und bereits seit Juli 2022 raus.

Zabbix 6.2 Requirements

Alle Anforderungen an Zabbix 6.2 unter: 2 Requirements (zabbix.com). Grundsätzlich orientieren sich diese nach der Anzahl der zu monitorenden Opbjeckte. Grundlegend kann man jedoch damit starten:

• Server läuft auf Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS X und Solaris, nicht auf Windows 🙂
• CPU +2Cores
• RAM +8GB
• Datenbank mit MySQL, Percona, PostgreSQL oder MariaDB
• MySQL ab 8.0.x, MariaDB 10.5-10.8.x
• Apache +1.3.12
• PHP +7.4.0

Zabbix 6.2 New features

• Ability to suppress individual problems
  • Suppress problems indefinitely or until a specific point in time
• Support of CyberArk vault for secret storage
• Official AWS EC2 template
  • discover and monitor AWS EC2 performance statistics, alarms, and AWS EBS volumes
• Ability to synchronize Zabbix proxy configuration directly from Zabbix frontend
  • Configuration synchronization is supported by active and passive proxies
• Improved flexibility for hosts discovered from host prototypes
  • Link additional templates
  • Create and modify user macros
  • Populate the host with new tags
• New items for VMware monitoring
• The ability to further customize the hosts discovered by VMware discovery
• Active agent check status can now be tracked from Zabbix frontend
• Incremental configuration synchronization
  • Faster configuration synchronization
  • Reduced configuration synchronization performance impact
• Newly created items are now checked within a minute after their creation
• Execute now functionality is now available from the Latest data section
• A warning message is now displayed when performing Execute now on items that do not support it
• Templates are now grouped in template groups, instead of host groups
  • Improved host and template filtering
• Multiple LDAP servers can now be defined and saved under Authentication – LDAP settings
• Ability to collect Windows registry key values with the new registry monitoring items
• New item for OS process discovery and collecting individual process statistics
• New digital clock widget
• The default Global view dashboard has been updated with the latest Zabbix widgets
• The Graph widget has been further improved
  • Added stacked graph support
  • Legend now provides additional information
  • Added support of simple trigger display
• UI forms now provide direct links to the relevant documentation sections
• Many other improvements and features

New templates and integrations

Zabbix 6.2 comes pre-packaged with many new templates for the most popular vendors:

• Envoy proxy
• HashiCorp Consul
• AWS EC2 Template
• CockroachDB
• TrueNAS
• HPE MSA 2060 & 2040
• HPE Primera
• The S.M.A.R.T. monitoring template has received improvements

Alle Infos unter: Zabbix 6.2 is out now! – Zabbix Blog