Release date: 2021-03-20 | Last major release to support Zabbix server 3.X versions in plugins.
- zabbix_agent - added support for installations on arm64 systems (ansible-collections#320).
- zabbix_proxy - now supports configuring StatsAllowedIP (ansible-collections#337).
- zabbix_server - added support for installtions on arm64 systems (ansible-collections#320).
- zabbix_web - added support for installtions on arm64 systems (ansible-collections#320).
- zabbix_action - no longer exposes remote SSH command password used in operations, recovery & acknowledge operations to system logs (ansible-collections#345).
- zabbix_discovery_rule - no longer exposes SNMPv3 auth and priv passphrases to system logs (ansible-collections#345).
- zabbix_host - no longer exposes SNMPv3 auth and priv passphrases to system logs (ansible-collections#345).
- zabbix_action - now properly filters discovery rule checks by name (ansible-collections#349).
- zabbix_agent - corrected version for Windows agents (ansible-collections#316).
- zabbix_agent - fixed download URL for MacOS (ansible-collections#325).
- zabbix_server - now installs correct MySQL client packages on RHEL8 systems (ansible-collections#343).
- zabbix_template - fixed an issue with Python2 where module wouldn't decode Unicode characters (ansible-collections#322).
- zabbix_web - fixed installation of python3-libsemanage package RHEL7 and older systems (ansible-collections#330).
- zabbix_web - role should now correctly determine naming of PHP packages on older systems (ansible-collections#344).
- zabbix_web - updated default PHP version for Debian10 (ansible-collections#323).
Release date: 2021-01-11 | Last major release to support Zabbix server 3.X versions in plugins.
- Updated the roles to support Zabbix 5.2.
- zabbix_agent - Added a new property zabbix_agent_dont_detect_ip when set to true, it won't detect the ips and no need to install the python module netaddr.
- zabbix_agent - Added parameter zabbix_agent_package_remove when set to true and zabbix_agent2 is set to true it will uninstall the zabbix-agent service and package.
- zabbix_agent - added zabbix_agent_install_agent_only Will only install the Zabbix Agent package and not the zabbix-sender or zabbix-get packages.
- zabbix_template - Fixed to decode Unicode Escape of multibyte strings in an importing template data(ansible-collections#226).
- zabbix_user - added new parameters to set timezone and role_name for users (ansible-collections#260).
- zabbix_user - user_medias now defaults to None and is optional (ansible-collections#264).
- zabbix_web - added zabbix_web_rhel_release which enable scl on RHEL (ansible-collections#266).
- zabbix_web - quality of life improvements when using Nginx (ansible-collections#304).
- When installing the Zabbix packages, we disable all other yum repositories except the one for the Zabbix.
- zabbix_agent - Agent 2 also be able to use userparameters file.
- zabbix_agent - Also work on SLES 12 sp5
- zabbix_agent - Documented the property 'zabbix_proxy_ip' in the documentation.
- zabbix_agent - There was an task that wasn't able to use an http(s)_proxy environment while installing an package.
- zabbix_agent - Windows - Able to create PSK file
- zabbix_agent - Windows - Fixing download links to proper version/url
- zabbix_agent - Windows - Removal of not working property
- zabbix_agent - Zabbix packages were not able to install properly on Fedora. When the packages are installed, the version will be appended to the package name. This is eofr all RedHat related OS'es.
- zabbix_agent - fixed issue with zabbix_agent2_tlspsk_auto having no effect when using zabbix_agent2
- zabbix_agent - fixed issue with zabbix_api_create_hosts and TLS configuration when using zabbix_agent2, where zabbix_agent_tls* settings were used instead of zabbix_agent2_tls*
- zabbix_host - module will no longer require
interfaces
to be present when creating host with Zabbix 5.2 (ansible-collections#291). - zabbix_host - should no longer fail with 'host cannot have more than one default interface' error (ansible-collections#309).
- zabbix_proxy (role) - Added missing paragraph for the SQLite3 as database.
- zabbix_proxy (role) - The become option was missing in some essential tasks when installing the Zabbix Proxy with SQLite3 as database.
- zabbix_proxy (role) - Various documentation fixes removing the Zabbix Server and replaced it with actual Zabbix Proxy information.
- zabbix_proxy - Added new property 'zabbix_proxy_ip' to determine ip for host running the Zabbix Proxy.
- zabbix_proxy - The 'interface' option was missing when creating an Proxy via the API.
- zabbix_template - fixed documentation for
macros
argument (ansible-collections#296). - zabbix_template - fixed encode error when using Python2 (ansible-collections#297).
- zabbix_template - fixed issue when importing templates to zabbix version. >= 5.2
- zabbix_template_info - fixed encode error when using Python2 (ansible-collections#297).
- zabbix_user - disable no_log warning for option override_password.
- zabbix_user - fixed issue where module couldn't create a user since Zabbix 5.2 (ansible-collections#260).
- zabbix_web - fixed issue Role cannot install Zabbix web 5.0 on RHEL 7 (ansible-collections#202).
Release date: 2020-10-22
- all roles - added
zabbix_{agent,web,server,proxy,javagateway}_conf_mode
option for configuring a mode of the configuration file for each Zabbix service. - zabbix_proxy (role) - added an option
innodb_default_row_format
for MariaDB/MySQL if it isn't set todynamic
. - zabbix_server - fixed installation output when using MySQL database to not print PostgreSQL.
- zabbix_user -
passwd
no longer required when ALL groups inusrgrps
use LDAP asgui_access
(see #240). - zabbix_user - no longer requires
usrgrps
whenstate=absent
(see #240). - zabbix_web - added several configuration options for the PHP-FPM setup to configure the listen (socket) file.
- zabbix_web - added support for configuring Zabbix Web with Nginx, same way as with Apache.
- all roles - missing
become
set totrue
was added to each task that requires admin privleges. - zabbix_agent - added new properties and updated documentation to allow for correct Zabbix Agent2 configuration.
- zabbix_agent - fixed bug where Nginx prevented Apache from working as it was part of the FPM configuration.
Release date: 2020-08-16
- Added the possibility to configure the
mode
for thezabbix_{agent,server,proxy}_include
directories. - all roles - added the possibility to configure the
mode
for theyum
repositories files in case it contains credentials. - zabbix_agent -
zabbix-sender
andzabbix-get
will not be installed whenzabbix_repo
is set toepel
, as they are not part of the repository. - zabbix_agent - added option to change between HTTP/HTTPS with
zabbix_repo_yum_schema
. - zabbix_agent - can also install the zabbix-agent2 application when
zabbix_agent2
is set totrue
. - zabbix_proxy (role) - a user and group are created on the host when
zabbix_repo
is set toepel
. - zabbix_proxy (role) - now supports
startpreprocessors
setting and encryption when connecting to database (see #164). - zabbix_server - a user and group are created on the host when
zabbix_repo
is set toepel
. - zabbix_server - added option to change between HTTP/HTTPS with
zabbix_repo_yum_schema
. - zabbix_server - now supports
startpreprocessors
setting and encryption when connecting to database (see #164). - zabbix_web - a property is added
zabbix_web_doubleprecision
which currently is set tofalse
for default installations. For new installations this should be set toTrue
. For upgraded installations, please read database upgrade notes (Paragraph "Enabling extended range of numeric (float) values") before enabling this option. - zabbix_web - added option to change between HTTP/HTTPS with
zabbix_repo_yum_schema
. - zabbix_web - don't remove the files that Zabbix will install during installation when you don't want to configure a virtual host configuration.
- zabbix_javagateway - options
javagateway_pidfile
,javagateway_listenip
,javagateway_listenport
andjavagateway_startpollers
renamed tozabbix_javagateway_xyz
(see UPGRADE.md).
- all roles - a
handler
is configured whenzabbix_http(s)_proxy
is defined which will remove the proxy line from the repository files. This results that execution of the roles are not idempotent anymore. - zabbix_proxy (role) -
StartPreprocessors
only works with version 4.2 or higher. When a lower version is used, it will not be added to the configuration. - zabbix_proxy (role) - only install the sql files that needs to be executed for when
zabbix_repo
is set toepel
. - zabbix_server -
StartPreprocessors
only works with version 4.2 or higher. When a lower version is used, it will not be added to the configuration. - zabbix_server - only install the sql files that needs to be executed for when
zabbix_repo
is set toepel
.
Release date: 2020-07-26
- All roles now support Zabbix 5.0 and by default install this version (see #131 and #121).
- Roles will now install gnupg on Debian OS family if not present.
- zabbix_action - no longer requires
password
andssh_*key_file
parameters at the same time forremote_command
operations of type SSH. - zabbix_action - parameter
ssh_auth_type
for SSHremote_command
operation now correctly identifies which other parameters are required. - zabbix_discovery_rule - refactoring module to use
module_utils
classes and functions, adjust return values on success, add documentation for return values. - zabbix_discovery_rule - refactoring the module to remove unnecessary variables and fix a variable typo.
- zabbix_mediatype - new options
message_templates
,description
and many more related totype=webhook
. - zabbix_mediatype - now supports new
webhook
media type.
- zabbix_action - choices for the
inventory
paramter sub option in*operations
arguments have been clarified tomanual
andautomatic
. - zabbix_action - fixed error on changed API fields
*default_message
and*default_subject
for Zabbix 5.0 (see #92). - zabbix_action - module will no longer fail when searching for global script provided to
script_name
parameter. - zabbix_action - now correctly selects mediatype for the (normal|recovery|update) operations with Zabbix 4.4 and newer.
- zabbix_agent - fixed installation of agent on Windows to directories with spaces.
- zabbix_agent - role should no longer fail when looking for
getenforce
binary. - zabbix_host - module will no longer convert context part of user macro to upper case.
- zabbix_proxy (role) - will now correctly install python3-libsemanage on RHEL OS family.
- zabbix_service - fixed the zabbix_service has no idempotency with Zabbix 5.0.
- zabbix_web - now no longer fails when rendering apache vhost template.
- community.zabbix.zabbix_discovery_rule - Create/delete/update Zabbix discovery rules
- community.zabbix.zabbix_usergroup - Create/delete/update Zabbix user groups
Release date: 2020-06-15
- Documentation for roles moved to
docs/
sub-directory in the collection. - New role zabbix_agent - previously known as dj-wasabi/zabbix-agent (also see UPGRADE.md for each role).
- New role zabbix_javagateway - previously known as dj-wasabi/zabbix-javagateway.
- New role zabbix_proxy - previously known as dj-wasabi/zabbix-proxy.
- New role zabbix_server - previously known as dj-wasabi/zabbix-server.
- New role zabbix_web - previously known as dj-wasabi/zabbix-web.
- zabbix_action - new alias
update_operations
foracknowledge_operations
parameter. - zabbix_host -
macros
now support new macro typestext
andsecret
. - zabbix_host - new option
details
(additional SNMP details) forinterfaces
parameter. - zabbix_host - now supports Zabbix 5.0.
- zabbix_proxy (module) - now supports Zabbix 5.0.
- zabbix_screen -
host_group
parameter now accepts multiple groups.
- zabbix_action - documented
value2
parameter andnotify_all_involved
option. - zabbix_maintenance - changing value of
description
parameter now actually updates maintenance's description. - zabbix_template - is now able to perform
state=dump
when usingansible-playbook --check
. - zabbix_template - no longer imports template from
template_json
ortemplate_xml
when usingansible-playbook --check
.
Release date: 2020-06-15
- zabbix inventory plugin now no longer prints DeprecationWarning when used with Python3 due to SafeConfigParser.
- zabbix_action - arguments
event_source
andesc_period
no longer required whenstate=absent
. - zabbix_host - fixed inventory_mode key error, which occurs with Zabbix 4.4.1 or more (see #65304).
- zabbix_host - was not possible to update a host where visible_name was not set in zabbix.
- zabbix_mediatype - Fixed to support zabbix 4.4 or more and python3 (see #67693).
- zabbix_template - fixed error when providing empty
link_templates
to the module (see #66417). - zabbix_template - fixed invalid (non-importable) output provided by exporting XML (see #66466).
- zabbix_user - Fixed an issue where module failed with zabbix 4.4 or above (see #67475).
- zabbix_proxy (module) - deprecates
interface
sub-optionstype
andmain
when proxy type is set to passive viastatus=passive
. Make sure these suboptions are removed from your playbook as they were never supported by Zabbix in the first place.
- zabbix_action - allow str values for
esc_period
options (see #66841). - zabbix_action - no longer requires
esc_period
andevent_source
arguments whenstate=absent
. - zabbix_host - now supports configuring user macros and host tags on the managed host (see #66777).
- zabbix_host_info -
host_name
based search results now include host groups. - zabbix_hostmacro -
macro_name
now accepts macros in zabbix native format as well (e.g.{$MACRO}
). - zabbix_hostmacro -
macro_value
is no longer required whenstate=absent
. - zabbix_proxy (module) -
interface
sub-optionstype
andmain
are now deprecated and will be removed in community.general 3.0.0. Also, the values passed tointerface
are now checked for correct types and unexpected keys. - zabbix_proxy (module) - added option proxy_address for comma-delimited list of IP/CIDR addresses or DNS names to accept active proxy requests from.
- zabbix_template - add new option omit_date to remove date from exported/dumped template (see #67302).
- zabbix_template - adding new update rule templateLinkage.deleteMissing for newer zabbix versions (see #66747).
- zabbix_template_info - add new option omit_date to remove date from exported/dumped template (see #67302).