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Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition
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Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

by Patrik Uytterhoeven
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
798 pages
20h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Auto-registration metadata

When a Zabbix agent connects to the server, it sends its hostname. But it may additionally send some custom string to the server. What exactly it sends is controlled by a configuration parameter called HostMetadata in the agent daemon configuration file. This could be used to define which type the host is—database or application. Alternatively, it could list individual services running on a host. As we can match against received metadata in the auto-registration action, we could list all the running services, delimited with pipes. In the action conditions, we could look for |MySQL| and link the new host to the appropriate templates.

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ISBN: 9781789340266