Zabbix

Zabbix

ZABBIX 1.1 alpha 6 running under Linux
Developer(s) Zabbix SIA
Stable release 1.8.10 / December 28, 2011; 49 days ago (2011-12-28)
Preview release 1.9.8 / November 25, 2011; 2 months ago (2011-11-25)
Development status active
Written in C (server), PHP (frontend)
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Network management system
License GNU General Public License
Website http://www.zabbix.com/

Zabbix is a network management system created by Alexei Vladishev. It is designed to monitor and track the status of various network services, servers, and other network hardware.

It uses MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle or IBM DB2 to store data. Its backend is written in C and the web frontend is written in PHP. Zabbix offers several monitoring options. Simple checks can verify the availability and responsiveness of standard services such as SMTP or HTTP without installing any software on the monitored host. A Zabbix agent can also be installed on UNIX and Windows hosts to monitor statistics such as CPU load, network utilization, disk space, etc. As an alternative to installing an agent on hosts, Zabbix includes support for monitoring via SNMP, TCP and ICMP checks, as well as over IPMI, SSH, telnet and using custom parameters. Zabbix supports a variety of real-time notification mechanisms, including XMPP.

Released under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License, Zabbix is free software.

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History

Zabbix started as an internal software project in 1998. After 3 years, in 2001, it was released to the public under GPL.[1] It took three more years until first stable version, 1.0, was released in 2004.

Timeline of releases
Date Release
Zabbix 1.0
1998 Zabbix started as an internal project in a bank by Alexei Vladishev[1]
7 April 2001 Zabbix 1.0alpha1 is released as GPL[2]
23 March 2004 Zabbix 1.0 released[3]
Zabbix 1.1
6 February 2006 Zabbix 1.1 released[3]
Zabbix 1.4
29 May 2007 Zabbix 1.4 released[3]
Zabbix 1.6
11 September 2008 Zabbix 1.6 released[3]
Zabbix 1.8
7 December 2009 Zabbix 1.8 released[3]

Development

Zabbix today is primarily developed by a dedicated company, Zabbix SIA.

Source code

Zabbix consists of several separate modules:

While server and agents are written in C, frontend is implemented in PHP and Javascript.

Releases

Since the first stable version was released as 1.0, Zabbix versioning has only increased minor version numbers. Each minor release actually implements many new features, while change level releases mostly introduce bugfixes.

Zabbix version numbering scheme has changed. While first two stable branches were 1.0 and 1.1, after 1.1 it was decided to use odd numbers for development versions and even numbers for stable versions. As a result, 1.3 followed 1.1 as a development release to be released as 1.4.

Timeline


Support sites

Books

English:

Japanese:

See also

Third-party libraries and tools

References

  1. ^ a b Presentation, containing early history
  2. ^ Freshmeat announcement page
  3. ^ a b c d e Zabbix news list