Help to configure Discovery

[Bastien]

Hi,

I configure auto-discovery like this :

Name : ....
IP Range : ....
Delay : 42300
Check : zabbix agent "system.uname"
Device uniqueness criteria : IP address
Status : Active

It's ok, zabbix found all of my host with a installed zabbix agent.
Now, i want to put all my linux server on the "Linux Servers" group. In order to do that, i created the following "Action" :

Name : Auto discovery. Linux servers
Action conditions :
(A) Received value like "Linux"

Action opérations :
Add to group "Linux Servers"

Ok, it works ! Linux servers were put into "Linux Servers", however hostnames are sometime false or not as what i wanted..

Sometime the hostname is the IP address of the server, sometime the hostname is the FQDN and sometime the hostname is right.

How can i check the hostname attributed for the server ? I can't use the auto-discovery if the host assignation is unstable..

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

[Bastien]

Maybe could i use a script that will write into the database to create hosts ?
Someone got an idea ?

[dale]

Discovery Provisioning Howto

This should work fine.

* Set the Discovery Action Conditions to something like this:

Received value like "Linux"
Discovery status = "Discovered"
Service type = "Zabbix agent"

* Set the Discovery Action Operations to something like this:

Add host
Enable host
Link to template "Template_Linux"
Add to group "Linux servers"

* Update your /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf on all your machines something like this:

sed -i.dist \
	-e "s/^Server=127.0.0.1/Server=zabbix.domain.com/" \
	-e "s/^\(Hostname=\).*$/\1`hostname --fqdn`/" \
	-e "s/^#.*\(Include=\/etc\/zabbix\/zabbix_agentd\/\).*$/\1/" \
	/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf

[Bastien]

I have to use the domain name, the auto-discovery use reverse DNS to resolve hostname, so i just make a good config on my DNS.

Now all of hostname are look like that : myhost.mydomain