Zabbix and auto reg clients

[Coma]

I am trying to get Zabbix to work with auto add clients when the discovery process finds a client with a agent on it.

Under actions i have made a action that looks like this:

http://i.imgur.com/nIx5vP4.png

http://i.imgur.com/o492Esu.png

How the client is added into the correct group, but it does not get the templates that is on the group, so i tried to also make the rule add the templates i want on the client, but for some reason it does not do that either.

I can see the clients it found under Configuration->Hosts, but not under Inventory->Hosts?

should they not appear there?

I feel like i am missing something simple to get the rest of it working, can any one point me in the right direction?

[guzzijason]

I don't think you can apply templates by group - that is a host-by-host operation.

However, I would expect that linking the templates via your discovery actions should work. Did you try deleting a host and let it "rediscover" after you changed the discovery actions to add templates?

__Jason

[Coma]

I don't think you can apply templates by group - that is a host-by-host operation.

However, I would expect that linking the templates via your discovery actions should work. Did you try deleting a host and let it "rediscover" after you changed the discovery actions to add templates?

__Jason

No i dident try that, becaus the host cant be seen under Inventory->Host only under Configuration->Hosts..

I have tryed to install the agent on another server, and it does not seem to be getting any templates linked also, but it is added to the correct group. But again this host can also not be seen under Inventory->Host, only under Configuration->Hosts.

[guzzijason]

The inventory thing is the default behavior in Zabbix (which I don't really like). If you want hosts to show up in inventory, you should also create an operation in your discovery rule to "Set host inventory mode" to "Automatic".

I never understood why "Automatic" is not the default behavior. Do people really not want their hosts to show up in inventory?

Anyway, that's inventory. I'm still unsure why your templates aren't being linked, however. Sorry.

__Jason

[kloczek]

I can see the clients it found under Configuration->Hosts, but not under Inventory->Hosts?

should they not appear there?

They will if you will change Administration->General->Other "Default host inventory mode" to Automatic or Manual (and will add per host manually inventory entries).

With existing hosts you can go to Configuration->Hosts -> mark all hosts from "Discovered hosts" group -> Mass update -> Inventory tab -> change "Inventory mode" to Manual or Automatic and apply changes on those hosts.

[Coma]

The inventory thing is the default behavior in Zabbix (which I don't really like). If you want hosts to show up in inventory, you should also create an operation in your discovery rule to "Set host inventory mode" to "Automatic".

I never understood why "Automatic" is not the default behavior. Do people really not want their hosts to show up in inventory?

Anyway, that's inventory. I'm still unsure why your templates aren't being linked, however. Sorry.

__Jason

Thank you, now they are added... automatic.. still no templates though

They will if you will change Administration->General->Other "Default host inventory mode" to Automatic or Manual (and will add per host manually inventory entries).

With existing hosts you can go to Configuration->Hosts -> mark all hosts from "Discovered hosts" group -> Mass update -> Inventory tab -> change "Inventory mode" to Manual or Automatic and apply changes on those hosts.

perfect, thanks now the clients are added automatic, still no templates assigned to the hosts though, any chance i am missing something?

[guzzijason]

They will if you will change Administration->General->Other "Default host inventory mode" to Automatic or Manual (and will add per host manually inventory entries).

I can't believe I've never noticed that before. Thanks!

__Jason

[Coma]

Seems i found the isue..

I had Zabbix Agent, ICMP PING, Windows OS templates, as templates the action should add it self, but it seemed the Windows OS template, already were linked with the Zabbix Agent, so removing Zabbix Agent from the list, made the action work with adding servers into templates...