Macros {HOSTNAME} & {IPADDRESS} in discovery actions

[elgoretto]

According to the documentation:
{HOSTNAME} Hostname of first item of the trigger which caused a notification.
{IPADDRESS} IP address of first item of the trigger which caused a notification.

So that explains why the messages I tried to send on autodiscovery (such as: "new host discovered", or "host removed") reads *UNKNOWN* instead of the value I expected the macros would return.

I think it would be a good idea to extend the usage of this both macros, so that they will be usefull in discovery actions too.

[NOB]

[1.4.2] More problems with Mail-Actions / Auto-discover

Hi,

I'll check, whether I can fix this.

We need both informations to check whether new hosts where discovered and
act accordingly.
Information like *UNKNOWN* for host and IP-address are not
that useful.

However, there is another problem:

I receive a lot of mails, i.e. whenever a server is discovered (again and
again), there is a mail sent !
I don't like to receive around 1900 mails during one night for just one
discovered server and still don't know the name and IP-address !

So is there a way to send this mail just once ?

Regards

Norbert.

[elgoretto]

However, there is another problem:

I receive a lot of mails, i.e. whenever a server is discovered (again and
again), there is a mail sent !
I don't like to receive around 1900 mails during one night for just one
discovered server and still don't know the name and IP-address !

Same thing here.

[r0k5t4r]

Has this thing been fixed??

It's really annoying to receive notifications for newly created hosts all the time that are already in the database. Also the {HOSTNAME} and {IPADDRESS} Macros don't seem to be working yet? I'm using the version that can be installed via apt under Ubuntu: Version: 1:1.6.1-3.

Regards,
r0k

[hirschnf]

Hello,

are there any news about Discovery Emails and the macro functions?
When I test this part I got many emails but the macros won't be replaced with the real value.

I've checked {HOSTNAME}, {IPADDRESS} and so on.

best regards
Frank

[r0k5t4r]

Seems like this issue is still not fixed in 1.8.2. Still receiving emails for hosts that are already in the database and the macros are not working. I would say the send message is completely useless in this this case.

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Repeated auto discovery notifications

Hi Folks,

Running:

Zabbix Server v1.8.2 (revision 11211)
Zabbix Agent (daemon) v1.8.2 (revision 11211) (on all hosts)

Just double checking that there still is NOT a way to turn off repeated auto discovery notifications of host that have already been discovered. Any one have any ideas on how to stop emails of already discovered host running zabbix_agentd?

Thanks,
Don

[hirschnf]

no double discovery messages

Hello Don,

there is a way where you will get only one discovery mail of a host.
On Unix-Systems I have done following in the zabbix_agentd.conf:

UserParameter=system.checkdiscovery,echo `uname``find /var/log/zabbix/ -name "discovered" |wc -l`
UserParameter=system.discovered,echo System discovered >/var/log/zabbix/discovered

Then create a discovery rule and a action like in the attachment.

The trick is the condition where I check "Received value like "AIX 0".
If the file not exists you will get a Discovery mail. If the file exists you get nothing.

For Windows systems you can do the same.

Best regards
Frank

[[email protected]]

system.discovered works

Hi Frank,

Thanks for your clever tips on using system.checkdiscovery and system.discovered in /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf. It works as expected.

Don