Manually populated inventory data is useful, but doing that on a large scale may not be very feasible. Zabbix can also collect some inventory values automatically for us. This is possible because any item can populate any inventory field. We will use one of our existing items and create a new one to automatically populate two inventory fields.
Let's start by adding the new item. Navigate to Configuration | Hosts, switch to Linux servers from the Group drop-down, and click on Items for A test host. Then, click on Create item. Fill in the following values:
- Name: The full OS name
- Key: system.uname
- Type of information: Text
- Update interval: 300
- Host inventory field: Software application A
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