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  • J_Adatasol
    Member
    • Dec 2018
    • 74
    #1

    Change the machine name discovered by the Zabbix Agent on install

    Hey all,

    I was wondering if there was a way to change the name of the machine that the Zabbix agent finds and uses when it is installed?

    I have an AWS instance I want to monitor; when I installed the Zabbix agent (this is a custom installer that someone made for me...not sure what it does under the hood...) the Windows OS Service says something like "Zabbix_Agent (EC2SRRR-9TETHEAR.newHost.com)". And when the agent phones home to the server, it shows up with the same name.

    This machine has a fixed IP and I have assigned it a FQDN. I would like the service and internal name used by the Agent to reflect that FQDN, instead of the machine name.

    Is this something that I can change on the Service itself, and perhaps in the config file for the Agent? Any other ideas?

    Thanks,
    Justin
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    • kloczek
      Senior Member
      • Jun 2006
      • 1771
      #2
      Look on Hostaname and HostnameItem in zabbix agent configuration parameters.
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        • J_Adatasol
          Member
          • Dec 2018
          • 74
          #3
          Long time to get back to this - sorry for the delay.

          But my Agent config file is set with a more common name. And when the Service gets installed on Windows, that is happening before I can edit the Agent config file. (It's an EXE installer that someone made - just installs the Zabbix agent and sets up the Service.) So I don't have the ability to edit that before it gets setup.

          Maybe the name comes from the Computer Name defined by the Windows. I'm not sure that I can edit that...but does it have to come from there? Or...how can I edit the Service definition after it has been installed?

          Thanks.

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            • J_Adatasol
              Member
              • Dec 2018
              • 74
              #4
              Circling back on this issue... I'm trying to install these Agents on a new server, and I would love to be able to specify/control the Service Name and the machine name reported back to the Zabbix Server.

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                • J_Adatasol
                  Member
                  • Dec 2018
                  • 74
                  #5
                  It think it is a bit clearer now... I think the piece that I was missing was that there is the implied step to these requirements: that you set this configuration BEFORE you install the client. Changing these settings in the configuration file does NOT cause the name of the Service being started to change.

                  I can't say for sure about how the phone-home name changes at the Zabbix server, when making a change to the config file.

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