Greetings all,
I've been using Zabbix for quite some time now and have finally come across something I've not found an answer for on the forums. So thanks for the countless other posts that have helped me in the past, and hi!
Background:
Zabbix 4.2, VMWare 5.5, 6.5 & 6.7, vCenter 6.5
I have several standalone VMWare hosts along with a few vCenter servers, and as most are aware the host group names created by the discovery are not always useful and can't be customized on the discovered hosts. I've thought about creating custom templates to suit my needs but it's not really a scalable solution. My second though was to see if there is a way to set a user macro at the host level (alongside the {$URL}, {$USERNAME} and {$PASSWORD} macros) that could then be passed down to the host prototype and set under Groups or Group prototypes.
I'm not all that hopeful as I've been trying out various things for the better part of a day now and I've read through a couple feature requests for the same problem, but perhaps there is someone with a more elegant workaround.
I've been using Zabbix for quite some time now and have finally come across something I've not found an answer for on the forums. So thanks for the countless other posts that have helped me in the past, and hi!
Background:
Zabbix 4.2, VMWare 5.5, 6.5 & 6.7, vCenter 6.5
I have several standalone VMWare hosts along with a few vCenter servers, and as most are aware the host group names created by the discovery are not always useful and can't be customized on the discovered hosts. I've thought about creating custom templates to suit my needs but it's not really a scalable solution. My second though was to see if there is a way to set a user macro at the host level (alongside the {$URL}, {$USERNAME} and {$PASSWORD} macros) that could then be passed down to the host prototype and set under Groups or Group prototypes.
I'm not all that hopeful as I've been trying out various things for the better part of a day now and I've read through a couple feature requests for the same problem, but perhaps there is someone with a more elegant workaround.
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