2 Discovery of network interfaces

In a similar way as file systems are discovered, it is possible to also discover network interfaces.

Item key

To configure the discovery rule, use the Zabbix agent item key net.if.discovery.

Supported macros

You may use the {#IFNAME} macro in the discovery rule filter and prototypes of items, triggers and graphs.

Examples of item prototypes that you might wish to create based on net.if.discovery:

• net.if.in[{#IFNAME},bytes],
• net.if.out[{#IFNAME},bytes].

Note that on Windows {#IFGUID} is also returned.