Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Host prototypes

If we go to Configuration | Templates and click on Discovery next to Template VM VMware, we'll see that there's a single host prototype in the Discover VMware hypervisors LLD rule. Click on Host prototypes and then click on {#HV.NAME} in the Name column:

Here, LLD macros are used again. We looked at their use in item and trigger prototypes, but here they're used for the Host name and Visible name in the host prototype. The interesting part is the use of different macros in these fields. Host name, the one used to identify the host, isn't the hypervisor name, but its UUID. The human-friendly name goes in the Visible name field. ...