Automatic assignment on exisiting hosts

[SanMonitor]

Hello,

we've been using Zabbix for a while now (6.0.5) and are still looking for ways to automate management.

What I would like to have is some discovery rule that for example discovers an SQL service and would then automatically assign this host to our SQL Template.
My idea was to create a discovery rule for this and then link this to a discovery action.

The problem is, since our hosts already exist and all services already discovery by our Windows Template, my discovery rule won't detect anything.
Is there a way to run this discovery rule on already exisiting hosts and already discovered items without having to wipe all of our hosts, maybe I'm missing something.


Thanks in advance!

[MaterazziSan]

Hi,

I do not know for already registered hosts, but for new ones, you can use host metadata to assign windows and SQL templates https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...-host-metadata

Best regards

[SanMonitor]

Hi,

I do not know for already registered hosts, but for new ones, you can use host metadata to assign windows and SQL templates https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...-host-metadata

Best regards

Hey MaterazziSan, thanks for commenting
I am aware of this function, unfortunately our host names don't contain any reference to whether it's an SQL server or not.
And since we're dealing with close to 300 servers I don't feel like manually changing the config file for each SQL server, so I'd need a metadata item that checks if SQL is installed or not and at the moment I don't know how I'd need to configure that item.