[Zabbix-users] self registration based on discovery and dns

[Jan M. <jan...@gm...>]

Hi all, thank you for a lovely source of information.

I'm coming to Zabbix from Nagios/Icinga1 and a bit of Icinga2 knowledge and
trying to figure out whether we should use it instead of heading towards
Icinga2.


I have created discovery rule in Configuration -> Discovery (IP range
10.10.0.0/16,  ICMP ping check )
and it nicely discovers hosts on my network and shows them in Monitoring ->
Discovery ( with proper DNS entries as monitored hosts )

I wanted now to start adding these discovered hosts to various groups based
on their DNS names as we have quite strict rules I can rely on.
so in Configuration -> Actions
I have created a new action called 'web servers'  (with Event source:
Discovery )
with
Condition: 'Received value like web'
and
Operation: 'Add to host groups: webs'

I assumed reverse DNS entry would somehow be in 'Received Value'
but since it is not automatically adding any hosts into the host group, I'm
guessing I was wrong.



I have done some googling and clearly, I am not the first one who is trying
to do this, but I either can not google good enough or there really was no
answer to this in past.

So, here goes the question :)
Am I missing some concept in Zabbix that would prevent me from doing this
or am I just doing it wrong?

with best regards
Jan