different size around the world rely on Zabbix as a primary monitoring platform. 2 Goals and Principles 2.1 Main Goals of Zabbix Development There are several goals Zabbix is trying to achieve: • become recognized we will start by looking at many new features and improvements in Zabbix 1.8 for the web frontend. 2.1 Bar reports Zabbix already has easy to use simple graphs that do not require any configuration - these package, however it is also included into number of OS distributions pre-compiled. 2 Requirements 2.1 Hardware requirements 2.1.1 Memory Requirements Zabbix requires both physical and disk memory. 128

Updated translations • Chinese (China) • French • German • Korean • Persian 2 Daemon improvements 2.1 ODBC monitoring Now there is no answer size limitation for ODBC requests (ZBX-8489). 2.2 VMware monitoring with counters on the other pages. 29 Before Zabbix 3.0.8 In Zabbix 3.0.8 2 Frontend improvements 2.1 Updated translations • Czech • French • Japanese • Polish • Portuguese (Brazil) 3 Daemon improvements Comments logback-core-0.9.27.jar EPL 1.0, LGPL 2.1 http://logback.qos.ch/ Tested with 0.9.27, 1.0.13, and 1.1.1. logback-classic-0.9.27.jar EPL 1.0, LGPL 2.1 http://logback.qos.ch/ Tested with 0.9.27, 1

0.X • MariaDB 10.0.37-10.5.X • PostgreSQL 10.9-13.X • Oracle 12.1.0.2 - 19c • TimescaleDB 1.5-2.1 • SQLite 3.3.5-3.34.X Direct connections to database removed from pollers Direct connections to performance. PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB Timescale DB 1.5-2.1 PostgreSQL 12 with TimescaleDB 1.7/2.0 or PostgreSQL 13.2 or newer with TimescaleDB 2.1 Required if TimescaleDB is used as Zabbix backend Comments logback-core-1.2.3.jar EPL 1.0, LGPL 2.1 http://logback.qos.ch/ Tested with 0.9.27, 1.0.13, 1.1.1 and 1.2.3. logback-classic-1.2.3.jar EPL 1.0, LGPL 2.1 http://logback.qos.ch/ Tested with 0.9.27

Comments logback-core-0.9.27.jar EPL 1.0, LGPL 2.1 http://logback.qos.ch/ Tested with 0.9.27, 1.0.13, and 1.1.1. logback-classic-0.9.27.jar EPL 1.0, LGPL 2.1 http://logback.qos.ch/ Tested with 0.9.27, 1 configuration Appliance Zabbix setup has the following passwords and other configuration changes: 2.1 Credentials (login:password) System: • appliance:zabbix Database: • root: • zabbix: SSH2 support. Attention: The minimum supported libssh2 library version is 1.0.0. 2 Configuration 2.1 Passphrase authentication SSH checks provide two authentication methods, a user/password pair and

Comments logback-core-1.2.3.jar EPL 1.0, LGPL 2.1 http://logback.qos.ch/ Tested with 0.9.27, 1.0.13, 1.1.1 and 1.2.3. logback-classic-1.2.3.jar EPL 1.0, LGPL 2.1 http://logback.qos.ch/ Tested with 0.9.27 Zabbix configuration Zabbix appliance setup has the following passwords and configuration changes: 2.1 Credentials (login:password) System: • root:zabbix Zabbix frontend: • Admin:zabbix Database: functions in the Zabbix module API, only one of which is mandatory and the other five are optional. 2.1 Mandatory interface The only mandatory function is zbx_module_api_version(): int zbx_module_api_version(void);

Comments logback-core-0.9.27.jar EPL 1.0, LGPL 2.1 http://logback.qos.ch/ Tested with 0.9.27, 1.0.13, and 1.1.1. logback-classic-0.9.27.jar EPL 1.0, LGPL 2.1 http://logback.qos.ch/ Tested with 0.9.27, 1 configuration Appliance Zabbix setup has the following passwords and other configuration changes: 2.1 Credentials (login:password) System: • appliance:zabbix Attention: Use ”sudo su” command with ”appliance” functions in the Zabbix module API, only one of which is mandatory and the other five are optional. 2.1 Mandatory interface The only mandatory function is zbx_module_api_version(): int zbx_module_api_version(void);

Comments logback-core-0.9.27.jar EPL 1.0, LGPL 2.1 http://logback.qos.ch/ Tested with 0.9.27, 1.0.13, and 1.1.1. logback-classic-0.9.27.jar EPL 1.0, LGPL 2.1 http://logback.qos.ch/ Tested with 0.9.27, 1 Changes to SUSE configuration There are some changed applied to the base OpenSUSE configuration. 2.1 MySQL configuration changes • Binary log is enabled and set to expire in one day • Maximum packet support. 177 Attention: The minimum supported libssh2 library version is 1.0.0. 2 Configuration 2.1 Passphrase authentication SSH checks provide two authentication methods, a user/password pair and

Comments logback-core-0.9.27.jar EPL 1.0, LGPL 2.1 http://logback.qos.ch/ Tested with 0.9.27, 1.0.13, and 1.1.1. logback-classic-0.9.27.jar EPL 1.0, LGPL 2.1 http://logback.qos.ch/ Tested with 0.9.27, 1 Zabbix configuration Zabbix appliance setup has the following passwords and configuration changes: 2.1 Credentials (login:password) System: • root:zabbix Zabbix frontend: • Admin:zabbix Database: functions in the Zabbix module API, only one of which is mandatory and the other five are optional. 2.1 Mandatory interface The only mandatory function is zbx_module_api_version(): int zbx_module_api_version(void);

Comments logback-core-1.2.3.jar EPL 1.0, LGPL 2.1 http://logback.qos.ch/ Tested with 0.9.27, 1.0.13, 1.1.1 and 1.2.3. logback-classic-1.2.3.jar EPL 1.0, LGPL 2.1 http://logback.qos.ch/ Tested with 0.9.27 Zabbix configuration Zabbix appliance setup has the following passwords and configuration changes: 2.1 Credentials (login:password) System: • root:zabbix Zabbix frontend: 119 • Admin:zabbix Database: functions in the Zabbix module API, only one of which is mandatory and the other five are optional. 2.1 Mandatory interface The only mandatory function is zbx_module_api_version(): int zbx_module_api_version(void);

Comments logback-core-1.2.3.jar EPL 1.0, LGPL 2.1 http://logback.qos.ch/ Tested with 0.9.27, 1.0.13, 1.1.1 and 1.2.3. logback-classic-1.2.3.jar EPL 1.0, LGPL 2.1 http://logback.qos.ch/ Tested with 0.9.27 Zabbix configuration Zabbix appliance setup has the following passwords and configuration changes: 2.1 Credentials (login:password) System: • root:zabbix Zabbix frontend: • Admin:zabbix Database: functions in the Zabbix module API, only one of which is mandatory and the other five are optional. 2.1 Mandatory interface The only mandatory function is zbx_module_api_version(): int zbx_module_api_version(void);