macro function as macro value

[MopedHelena]

Hi!

I'm monitoring Tomcats via jmx. Further I want to add some web scenarios to the same host. On our old Zabbix installation I made a bunch of macros in a template for the web scenarios and had to adjust some (e.g. domain, port, etc.) of the macros at host level for each new host.

Since all of our Tomcats follow a specified scheme I actually could build all necessary values from {HOST.HOST} and {HOST.PORT} with Macro functions in the template for the web scenarios. Eg. the host part of a FQDN is a substring of {HOST.HOST}.

But Macros do not accept Macro functions as values. Do you have an advice how to solve this to reduce the amount of effort to add new hosts?

Regards

[cyber]

But if you ditch the user macro? instead of doing {$MACRO}=value and then using that {$MACRO} in item key parameters, write to key parameters "{HOST.NAME}.regsub(<your regex>)" .. HOST.NAME is usable in item key parameter, thus it accepts macro functions... HOST.PORT unfortunately cannot be used in key parameters..

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/appendix/macros/supported_by_location

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/config/macros/macro_functions