[ZBXNEXT-7132] FQDN support in system.hostname key for Windows and other platforms Created: 2021 Dec 20  Updated: 2024 Jun 27  Resolved: 2023 Apr 17

Status: Closed
Project: ZABBIX FEATURE REQUESTS
Component/s: Agent (G)
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: 7.0.0alpha1, 7.0 (plan)

Type: Change Request Priority: Medium
Reporter: Aleksey Volodin Assignee: Andrejs Kozlovs
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 10
Labels: None
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
Original Estimate: Not Specified

Attachments: PNG File fqdn.png    
Issue Links:
Causes
Duplicate
duplicates ZBXNEXT-2106 Windows agent system.hostname[host] a... Closed
duplicates ZBXNEXT-6540 Zabbix agent 2 hostname as FQDN Closed
duplicates ZBX-18529 FQDN hostname autoregistration Closed
Epic Link: Zabbix 7.0
Team: Team C
Sprint: Sprint 97 (Feb 2023), Sprint 98 (Mar 2023)
Story Points: 1

 Description   

In corporate Windows environment it will by great to have out-of-box possibility to get FQDN from Windows hosts.

Something like adding new option in first parameter:

type (before version 5.4.7 supported on Windows only) - possible values:

netbios (default on Windows),

host (default on Linux),

shorthost (since version 5.4.7; returns part of the hostname before the first dot, a full string for names without dots).

 

fqdn (new) - return Fully Qualified Domain Name

 

system.hostname[fqdn]

 Comments   
Comment by Dimitri Bellini [ 2023 Jan 20 ]

I would add my feedback on this topic.
I think "it's very important" to retrieve directly from the Zabbix Agent the real FQDN on Windows system when we need to use Zabbix Agent Active.
On our Enterprise customer this is a "focal" point!
Using the classic workaround to obtain the FQDN using a Powershell script can be to tricky and we saw a huge problem. If the Windows server is not able to execute the powershell in less than 30 seconds (Timeout) the Zabbix Agent will not start at all....
Please help us
Thanks so much

Comment by Alex Kalimulin [ 2023 Feb 09 ]

On Unix, FQDN is also not supported by system.hostname. So it makes sense to support system.hostname[fqdn] on all platforms.

Comment by Dimitri Bellini [ 2023 Feb 10 ]

FQDN also for Linux could be great!
Thanks

Comment by Konstantins Prutkovs (Inactive) [ 2023 Mar 23 ]

Available in versions:

Comment by Marina Generalova [ 2023 Mar 27 ]

Documentation updated:

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