ZABBIX Agent Auto Registration

Zabbix Active Agent Auto Registration explained with examples and best practices

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[maxtissera]

👏👏👏 Amazing! Just i wanted to know. Thanks again for your time doing these wonderful tutorials. Thumbs up for this channel, more subs are comming ;)

[StefanoPompa]

thanks a lot for this video. It was very clear and pertinent for my needs. it changes the way i am using zabbix in a much better way! thanks

[rajewell]

thanks for this, works like a charm just a few tweaks for unbuntu distro and the rules but the principles worked

[azatuni]

Hi, thanks for a great video.

One question, for example I have a host example.com which already passed auto registration, and someday it become unused or become unreachable. So does delete of it manual procedure or Iit automatic?
Thanks beforehand

[lanceeilers]

Brilliant brilliant Dmitri, really enjoyed your tutorial, thanks again for taking the time, very much appreciated will dig in, and try and replicate at home have a great one and keep up the good work :-), stay cool

[minhphuoc]

It's great video, tks a lot that I can learn the new function of Zabbix helping to save so much time to add all servers from Front-End. I just have a question about the Metadata Item which you choose "release" for Linux, how about windows? Thanks so much

[Nojo]

Hey is it possible to filter by subnet? Or just an IP or an IP segment?

Kinda dont know how to implement it to the agent and proxy.
Setup:


Zabbix Server (--->)Proxy (Passive) (<----) Agent (active)

[ariprince]

Good video, just started using zabbix my self by any chance do you have one for how to install and configure a zabbix proxy?
To be honest i tried yesterday with my little knowledge, the host shows green but on the dashboard it says the zabbix lost connection to the agent, maybe am missing something some where.

[IngeLeoJRodrig]

Great, simple and easy. Thanks for sharing

[mateeshbhave]

Hi Dmitry, can you please make a video on how to add network devices in the frontend (active discovery) like you mentioned at the end of your video.
Thanks!

[Tommyhillpicker]

Hey Dmitry (hopefully you see this), I am having some trouble setting up Auto Discovery and Registration in an Amazon EC2 environment, I was wondering if you could help.

I have 3 ec2 instances set up like so | (1) Zabbix Server | <--- | (2) Zabbix Proxy | <---- | (3) Zabbix Agent |

I was able to configure discovery rules properly so that, when I connect start the Zabbix_agentd process on instance (3), it is discovered by the Zabbix server and represented in the web frontend. Also, I configured it to apply create place it in a relevant Host Group and apply some Templates to it. I can even see the items associated with agent (3) in the 'Latest data' section of Monitoring.

It seems as though the data items are not being sent properly over the network, though. I made a standard CPU Load item that never gets a 'Last Value' (an actual check never happens), for example.

The Host that is automatically created for the agent uses the *public DNS hostname for the instance* (something like Looking at the logs on agent (3), it looks like I will need to find a way to use HostMetadataItems to get the public DNS. I tried using the following UserParameter to do this:


The problem I am encountering now is that, while my curl gives me the proper public DNS on the command line, when the Zabbix agent uses it seems to *resolve to my private hostname* (somthing like I cannot figure out how to configure the UserParameter properly to achieve this.

I am wondering if you have any experience with this issue (or if there is a better way using Zabbix itself to solve this). The documentation itself mentions that one of the main uses for for Active Agents is the automatic monitoring of new cloud nodes, so I thought that this would be straightforward to set up (so I think I may be missing something easy and important).

I am using Zabbix 4.0.23 by the way.

Thank you for the great video!

[BharathKumar-ieso]

Sir, please explain how to monitor logs using zabbix active checks.

[djaniffan]

hello, This is great videos. I was wondering, can I use it for snmp devices such as routers nor switches? As far as I know their were passive. Thanks

[jeenchirayath]

@Dmitry Lambert Zabbix status was showing in red colour when I tried like this. I don't need passive checks. What can I do here?

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[balamelangi]

Great video Thanks. Can tell me How to do Auto Registration for network devises using SNMP protocol. Can you create a video on that or share with me any Doc.

[vishwasgautam]

Hi Dmitry, Thanks for the video. I was wondering instead of a UserParamater, can we add straight to HostMetadata. In the documentation above this line it says:
If not defined, value will be acquired from HostMetadataItem. so If we define it as "HostMetadata=system.uname
" it should work. But it doesn't work. However if I define "HostMetadataItem=system.uname", it works. I am confused what does the front end look at, is it HostMetadata or HostMetadataItem?

[BaranyaiGergely]

Is there any way to setup an auto registration rule to register the client interfaces with DNS by default? I use Zabbix for manage thousands of Win10 clients but I can only use auto registration with IP instead of DNS named interface. I tried to search about but I cant find any useful information. Thanks for useful videos, good work, keep it up :)

[charlieespinosa]

How add host (network devices) on dashboard

[Asiabiko]

Hi, Thank you for your video, just a quick question: In your example you have used /ServerActive which are active checks (Agent-->Server) and require 10051/TCP. If this is true why on the Zabbix front end there is 10050 port displayed for this host?