I just updated the CentOS RPMs and spec file in my repository for Zabbix 1.8. This is a minor version bump to 1.8.1 of Zabbix. See their changelog for changes to Zabbix. Also, I added some new features based on requests from users…

IPMI Support
Jabber support
NOTE (corrected): SSH did not make it into [...]

Thanks to your feedback, and a patch (thanks Tom) I just updated the CentOS RPMs and spec file in my repository for Zabbix 1.8. Rev. 5 of the Zabbix RPMs adds…

Zabbix-Proxy RPM
LibCURL support (web scenarios work now)
Fixed x86_64 repo (was missing repodata)
Package upgrade issue (thanks Tom for catching this)
Fixed some file permissions (thanks ericgearhart)
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A popular method of communicating to fellow team members that you committed data to a subversion repository is to send an automatic email out to all users of that repository. I developed a simple two-script method that is extensible and easy to implement [...]

I tend to build RPMs, packages and/or spec files for recent versions of various linux packages for my preferred operating systems (CentOS, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and OS-X). The first package inside is Zabbix 1.8 packaged for CentOS 5, but the RPMs should work on any RHEL-compatible linux.
My repository can be found at http://repo.andrewfarley.com
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Recently Zabbix, a server monitoring utility released version 1.8 with a brand spanking new API! This means that finally, the world can begin to write software the digests the Zabbix API to pull data into various other portals, services, and platforms. My first foray into embedding Zabbix into various other portals required me to first start with a simple class to access Zabbix. And… ::drum roll please:: here it is! This is a fully open-sourced project of mine. [...]