Pushing out zabbix in bulk and configuring hosts

[oliverm]

Hi

We want to push out Zabbix to about a thousand machines. We can do the agent side via our existing Windows based remote management system. This is a great tool for remote scripting and viewing, and company compliance, but isn't great at monitoring and alerting.

So we can push out the agents and make it live on each machine but we need to add 1000 machines to zabbix server. We also want to have new machines automatically appear in zabbix (we can push the agent out automatically using our management tool).

We dont want to have to add each machine manually to zabbix as it will take forever.

Is there a way to 'unlock' zabbix so that any zabbix agent checking in is configured using a default set of templates, or templates are automatically tried against the machine based on rules until one fits? In this way we could push the agent out and not worry about tasking someone with adding each machine to the zabbix server.

Olly

[tchjts1]

Depending on the version of Zabbix you have, you can use auto-registration which does exactly what you are talking about. The only thing it cannot currently do is determine what OS is on the server and attach the matching OS template.

This allows you to deploy a standard zabbix_agentd.conf file to your servers.

See this link: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...o_registration

[krishopper]

The only thing it cannot currently do is determine what OS is on the server and attach the matching OS template.

It should easy enough to write a quick script to use the API to pull that information and apply the proper templates though.