Hostname not changing on frontend

[Apolymoxic]

Hi all!

First post here. I have searched, and found similar topics, but none of them helped me.

I have installed the Zabbix agents on CentOS7. In the config (/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf), I changed all that was needed for the host to sync with the server, but changing "Hostname" does not seem to help.

The original line was "Hostname=Zabbix server"
I changed this to "Hostname=MyComputer"

After the agent (re)starts, it does sync up on the front end, but the hostname still shows as "Zabbix server".

I read on one of the posts here that the agent name had to be under 8 characters? That doesn't make sense to me, but out of curiosity, I tried that, too. It didn't work. So, I tried to use the "HostnameItem" and set it as it's default "HostnameItem=system.hostname" (I did comment out "Hostname="). Still, that did not work.

Any ideas on what I can do on the host to change the name of the host on the frontend? I do not want to have to configure the hostname on the frontend manually, if at all possible.


Thank you in advance!

[isaqueprofeta]

It doesn't "sync up" just by using the Zabbix agent. If you want to do something like using the Hostname from zabbix_agentd.conf I advise you to use active agent Auto Registration, you can look up about it here: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...o_registration

[Apolymoxic]

My apologies, I should have said that I have auto-registration setup (I believe).
I install the agent, configure it, and then start the agent, and poof - it appears on the front end.

But, I probably have something messed up, because I have just noticed that out of the three hosts configured this way, they all have the same interface (172.26.65.72:10050). That can't be right, can it?

[Apolymoxic]

Well, I figured it out. I had fat fingered the PSK and it wasn't registering with TLS. I figured it wouldn't register at all, but it did.
Oh well.

Thank you!

[isaqueprofeta]

No problem! Great that you figured it out!