Populating Host Inventory

[WilliamSG]

Hi all!

I readed few topics about "how to populate the host inventory", but most of part os those topics are from older versions of zabbix, like 2.0, while running the lastest version of zabbix, the Automatic host inventory + Default templates, we can have some information populated automaticaly on host inventory tab.

That's it ok? Or I'm totally wrong?

Well, take a look into one of my host inventory tab, only my "OS" line are filled



What I need to do to have the other lines populated? Like type, name, MAC, ...

[ingus.vilnis]

Hi,

You need to add items that collect the inventory information and mark which inventory fields each of them will populate.

To get more details on this topic please take a look at Zabbix documentation here https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...osts/inventory

Best Regards,
Ingus

[WilliamSG]

Hi,

You need to add items that collect the inventory information and mark which inventory fields each of them will populate.

To get more details on this topic please take a look at Zabbix documentation here https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...osts/inventory
Best Regards,
Ingus

Hummm ok ok.... my bad...

Well, I'm testing the system.hostname on line Name, like this:



Now I can see a link, and the line is blocked to type, but still empty. I need to do any command to "refresh" the inventory, or something like it?



Edit:

** I changed the type information to Character **
*** Tryied with "key" system.hostname[type], and with just system.hostname ***

[kloczek]

At the moment in inventory are missing IMO almost three things:

• Enable globally automatic inventory or enable per host by action

• Inventory with user defined records/fields (change whole inventory data to json format?)

• Make optional storing inventory data in history tables

[WilliamSG]

Thx all for help, It's working now.

I decreased the update time. Now I'm understanding how it works.