Replace IP by hostname in the agent

[opierre]

Hello,

Is it possible to replace the IP of the server by a hostname like jdoe.myserver.com ?

Is seems impossible now, is it planned for a news release ?

Tank you in advance.

Oliver

[James Wells]

Greetings,

At present, no, though there are two patches floating around that provide this feature.

[opierre]

Thank you for the quick answer

Do you know where these patchs could be ? I couldn't find anything.

[James Wells]

Do you know where these patchs could be ? I couldn't find anything.

I posted one to the forums here about a month ago, and the original, which I based mine off of, was over on Sourceforge in the patches section for Zabbix.

[opierre]

I found this post http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1280

where you submitted a patch for zabbix 1.1alpha12
based on this http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index...94&atid=378685

Can you tell me which one I should use ? And how ? (I'm using ZABBIX 1.1beta2)

Should I use the patch on the server or the client or both ?

Thank you for your help

Oliver

Edit : I found this one http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1290 but it looks like it's not finished, right ?

[James Wells]

It's the third one, but I will have to look into it again. I had forgotten that there was an issue with it.

Anyway, the patch is applied to the source code for the zabbix_agent, the agent is then recompiled and deployed as normal from there.

[opierre]

Thank you very much for your help.

I'm in the same case as another user you helped before. I want my agent to connect to the server located on a adsl dynamic ip server, which causes problem when the ip changes

I will write a php or shell script for the client which will check if the ip changes, and if so, rewrite the conf file and restart the agent

I think it's the best way, what's your opinion ?

regards

Oliver

[James Wells]

Okay, I just posted a fixed version in the Zabbix Patches forum if you want to give it a try.
PATCH: Allow use of server Hostname or IP in agent config