14 What’s new in Zabbix 5.0.9

S.M.A.R.T. plugin for agent 2

A plugin for S.M.A.R.T. monitoring has been added out-of-the-box to Zabbix agent 2.

VictorOps webhook integration

A new integration is available allowing to use the webhook media type for pushing Zabbix notifications to VictorOps.

HTTP authentication in webhooks

HTTP authentication is now possible in webhooks using the new SetHttpAuth(bitmask, username, password) method in the CurlHttpRequest object of the JavaScript code.

JavaScript functions for MD5 and SHA256 calculation

The functions for MD5 and SHA256 hash calculation have been added to global JavaScript functions.

JavaScript memory limit

The memory limit available for JavaScript scripts has been raised from 10MB to 64MB.

New templates

The following template is now available for out-of-the-box monitoring:

You can get this template:

  • In Configuration → Templates in new installations;

  • If you are upgrading from previous versions, you can download new templates from Zabbix Git repository or find them in the templates directory of the downloaded latest Zabbix version. Then, while in Configuration → Templates you can import them manually into Zabbix.