7 What’s new in Zabbix 5.4.2

Media types

In media types, the maximum number of attempts to send an alert has been increased from 10 to 100; the maximum attempt interval has been increased from 60 seconds to 1 hour.

VMware discovery

The vmware.vm.discovery item, used for virtual machine discovery, now returns an additional field {#VM.FOLDER} with the chain of virtual machine parent folders.

Default dashboards

The Zabbix server health default dashboard widgets now display problems for the selected items only.

New templates

The following templates are now available for out-of-the-box monitoring:

DELL PowerEdge

• DELL PowerEdge R720 by HTTP - monitoring of DELL PowerEdge R720 servers with iDRAC 8/9 firmware 4.32 and later with Redfish API enabled via HTTP (see setup instructions);
• // DELL PowerEdge R720 SNMP// - monitoring of DELL PowerEdge R720 servers with iDRAC version 7 and later via SNMP;
• DELL PowerEdge R740 by HTTP - monitoring of DELL PowerEdge R740 servers with iDRAC 8/9 firmware 4.32 and later with Redfish API enabled via HTTP (see setup instructions);
• DELL PowerEdge R740 SNMP - monitoring of DELL PowerEdge R740 servers with iDRAC version 7 and later via SNMP;
• DELL PowerEdge R820 by HTTP - monitoring of DELL PowerEdge R820 servers with iDRAC 8/9 firmware 4.32 and later with Redfish API enabled via HTTP (see setup instructions);
• DELL PowerEdge R820 SNMP - monitoring of DELL PowerEdge R820 servers with iDRAC version 7 and later via SNMP;
• DELL PowerEdge R840 by HTTP - monitoring of DELL PowerEdge R840 servers with iDRAC 8/9 firmware 4.32 and later with Redfish API enabled via HTTP (see setup instructions);
• DELL PowerEdge R840 SNMP - monitoring of DELL PowerEdge R840 servers with iDRAC version 7 and later via SNMP.

You can get these templates:

• 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.

Breaking changes

Datastore discovery

The output format of the vmware.datastore.discovery item has been changed. Returned JSON no longer contains the “data” object. Now the item returns a normal JSON containing an array, thus allowing to apply item value preprocessing steps directly to the returned data without additional workarounds.