default Hostname in zabbix-agentd.conf

[LukaszP]

Hello everyone.

Today I stumbled upon weird configuration issue on a newly installed Agent 6.0.x from Your RHEL8 repository.

One of the defaults is
Hostname=zabbix server
line, which confused the server with other host named "zabbix server" in the past. It resulted in a lot of false positives.

I suggest to comment out that line by default:
#Hostname=
so the Agent will inherit hostname from operating system. I realize that this often will be "localhost.localdomain" and replicate the problem anyway, but at least it will be entirely my fault.

thanks

[Robert09]

Hii,
I appreciate your feedback and suggestion. However, I think that commenting out the hostname line might not be the best solution, as it could lead to other issues such as duplicate or invalid hostnames. A better option might be to use the HostnameItem parameter, which allows you to specify a system command or a key to retrieve the hostname dynamically like :

HostnameItem=system.hostname

[Steven09]

Yes, You are right.
You have to Restart the Zabbix Agent to apply the new configuration:
sudo systemctl restart zabbix-agent