Visible Name

[DSL]

Good morning,

I set the Discovery of Zabbix and bringing multiple hosts being added normally.

SNMPv2 agent ".1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0"
SNMPv2 agent ".1.3.6.1.2.1.1.5.0"
ICMP ping

Device uniqueness criteria: IP address.
Active.

You can automate the Zabbix to add the host, also add the information from the Visible Name field with the OID SNMPv2-MIB :: sysName.0 = STRING: Test Client MikroTik?

How?

I'm not using Zabbix agent, I am collecting only via SNMP.
I'll have to manually add the visible name of each Mikrotik router I have?

Thank you!

[tfqzab]

I also met this question,have'nt found solution yet.
it is useful for we usually give a name to our network device,so i hope we dont need to type a name again to the host in the zabbix-frontend.

[sbusko]

New to Zabbix and also in a similar situation with SNMP as the other two users. Looking for a solution ...

[JeromeB]

Network discovery

As of 2.2 (I'm not sure about 2.4) there were only 2 ways a network discovery process would name a discovered host.
With the IP address.
Zabbix does a nslookup against the ip address when doing network discover so, if it's nameserver has a enter for the IP it will use that as the host hame.

I don't believe there is any way to use SNMP info to name a discovery host

[sbusko]

After not finding an existing solution, I researched the API and built a script to solve my situation. Direct the SNMP output to the inventory->name field. With a little modification, it hopefully can help others too.

Enjoy - Steve
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#!/usr/bin/python

from pyzabbix import ZabbixAPI

URL = 'http://zabbix.com/zabbix/api_jsonrpc.php'

# init the API and Authenticate
zapi = ZabbixAPI(URL,timeout=5)
zapi.login(USER, PSWD)

# Get all hosts in a specific Template
for hosts in zapi.host.get(
output=['extend'],
templateids=[11111],
selectInventory=['name']
):
print hosts['hostid'], "-", hosts['inventory']['name'] # For testing
# Update the host's visible name as taken from the inventory
zapi.host.update(
hostid=hosts['hostid'],
name=hosts['inventory']['name']
)

[syntax53]

FYI, here is the script I wrote for updating the visible name from the inventory and a couple other things via the API and python: https://pastebin.com/DvcWyC5r