TSTool / Zabbix Data Web Services Plugin / Release Notes

Changes in Version 1.0.3

Maintenance release - fix bug when viewing documentation.

[1.0.1] Maintenance release:
- This version requires TSTool 14.8.5 to enable web service request timeouts.
[1.0.3] The online documentation has been updated:
- Help documentation for the ReadZabbix command was not displaying from the command editor due to a bad URL. The documentation can be viewed from the plugin download website.
- TSTool has been updated to allow documentation for a plugin version to be displayed, and if not found the latest documentation is displayed.
[1.0.3] Zabbix web service requests now default to a timeout of 2 minutes, meaning that if a connection is not established or data are not made available to read in 2 minutes, an error will result. This has been implemented to prevent TSTool from hanging if Zabbix web services are unavailable, for example during system maintenance.

Maintenance release - fix bugs related to identifying and reading time series.

[1.0.2] Enhance code that reads Zabbix time series:
- Hosts that belong to more than one host group were previously using the first group as the data source in time series identifiers, which can lead to confusion. This is still the default.
- The datastore configuration property PreferredHostGroupName has been added and can be set to comma-separated list of patterns using * as a wildcard. This ensures that the group name that is used for time series identifiers is appropriate.
- Fix the query filter for host (was ignored).
[1.0.2] Update the ReadZabbix command:
- Fix bug where the period end for reading time series was not being handled correctly (was set to the start).

Maintenance release - fix bugs found in the initial release.

[1.0.1] Initial maintenance release:
- This version requires TSTool 14.8.2 to use multiple time series raster graphs.
- Add examples to test data for raster graphs (heat maps) of key system performance data (disk, memory, CPU utilization).
[1.0.1] Update the time series catalog (list):
- Item type and item value type have separate text and number columns to facilitate automated processing.
- History data that contain text values are no longer with corresponding trends time series (trends only contain numerical data).
[1.0.1] Update the ReadZabbix command:
- Fix so that the TimeZone command parameter is recognized (previously was ignored).
- Fix so that the InputStart and InputEnd command parameters are recognized (previously were ignored due to a bug in the web service request).
- Fix so that time series properties are set using time series catalog data.
- Add the TextValue command parameter to provide a numerical value for history time series that contain text. The text is set as the data flag and the numerical value is used for graphs.

Feature release - initial production release.