Change name in Zabbix to a description from Netbox

[Winstonshead]

Greetings!
I want to use some characters in device names in Netbox that cannot be used in host names in Zabbix, so I get an error, eventually the host is not added from Netbox.
I would like Zabbix to take the device description from Netbox and substitute it into the hostname field. How can I do this?
Thanks!

[TheNetworkGuy]

Hi! Can you give an example and some logging? The scenario that you are describing should be fixed with #58 .

[Winstonshead]

Hi! Can you give an example and some logging? The scenario that you are describing should be fixed with #58 .

I use Cyrillic on Netbox

[TheNetworkGuy]

Thanks! After looking at it for a 2nd time there are a couple of characters that could be breaking the script. I'll check if i can add this to the list of exceptions, should be a pretty easy fix :)

Can you copy / paste the line specifically with the warning message? That will allow me to identify any characters which i did not register in the exceptions list.

[TheNetworkGuy]

@Winstonshead If you have the time to copy / paste that warning message then that would help me out a lot! Thanks in advance.

[TheNetworkGuy]

I'll close this issue for now since its getting stale. You can always re-open this issue if you have more information.

[Winstonshead]

@TheNetworkGuy I'm so sorry, had too many work last time, here it is:

2024-11-08 10:14:07,220 - Netbox-Zabbix-sync - DEBUG - Device Краснопролетарская 9: matched group Teraline Transport/MikroTik/RB-OSPF
2024-11-08 10:14:07,220 - Netbox-Zabbix-sync - DEBUG - Device Краснопролетарская 9: found template MikroTik hEX PoE lite by SNMP
2024-11-08 10:14:07,296 - Netbox-Zabbix-sync - WARNING - Device Краснопролетарская 9: hostname OUT of sync. Received value: V_Krasnoproletarskaya_9
2024-11-08 10:14:07,382 - Netbox-Zabbix-sync - ERROR - Device Краснопролетарская 9: Unable to update. Zabbix returned the following error: Invalid params. Incorrect characters used for host name "Краснопролетарская 9"..

It's log after I renamed "V_Krasnoproletarskaya_9" to "Краснопролетарская 9"
If I use "Краснопролетарская XX" when adding new host, it's just not works, host is not adding to zabbix

[TheNetworkGuy]

@Winstonshead No worries, that stuff tends to happen :) Thanks for your reply, i'll push it to the development branch on which i am currently working on!

[TheNetworkGuy]

Before:

2024-11-13 19:35:57,646 - Netbox-Zabbix-sync - DEBUG - Host Краснопролетарская 9: started operations on device.
2024-11-13 19:35:57,772 - Netbox-Zabbix-sync - DEBUG - Host Краснопролетарская 9: matched group Testsite/Generic/Switch
2024-11-13 19:35:57,772 - Netbox-Zabbix-sync - DEBUG - Host Краснопролетарская 9: found template TrueNAS CORE by SNMP
2024-11-13 19:35:57,813 - Netbox-Zabbix-sync - ERROR - Host Краснопролетарская 9: Couldn't create. Zabbix returned Invalid params. Incorrect characters used for host name "Краснопролетарская 9"..

And after:

2024-11-13 19:36:58,126 - Netbox-Zabbix-sync - INFO - Host Краснопролетарская 9 contains special characters. Using NETBOX_ID107 as name for the Netbox object and using Краснопролетарская 9 as visible name in Zabbix.
2024-11-13 19:36:58,126 - Netbox-Zabbix-sync - DEBUG - Host NETBOX_ID107: started operations on device.
2024-11-13 19:36:58,426 - Netbox-Zabbix-sync - DEBUG - Host NETBOX_ID107: matched group Testsite/Generic/Switch
2024-11-13 19:36:58,426 - Netbox-Zabbix-sync - DEBUG - Host NETBOX_ID107: found template TrueNAS CORE by SNMP
2024-11-13 19:36:58,774 - Netbox-Zabbix-sync - INFO - Host NETBOX_ID107: Created host in Zabbix.

I just tested this and the host seems to work fine in Zabbix :)

I'll post in this issue once the development branch has been pushed to the main branch! :)

[Winstonshead]

Oh, cool! I will test later, thank you very much