I want zabbix to monitor my network

[mudbone333]

I'll preface this post by saying that I am very new to zabbix, so I am sure that this has already been asked. I would like zabbix to monitor my network, you know look at the incoming and outgoing statistics, and other stuff just like netstat does. I made an attempt to create an item, and then select one of the network entries, but that did not work. Was that the correct way to add network monitoring? I looked at some of the templates to see if networking was on one of them, but either I did not see it or I missed it. I have read that zabbix can monitor anything, but I can't seem to get it to monitor my network. Am I going about the wrong way of doing it? I want to start with one server first, and if that works I'll put on all of the servers.
Any help would be much appreciated.
We are running zabbix 1.8.5 on a Solaris 10 box.

Thank you

[side_control]

This is already built into most unix templates, they have a simple counter for outbound and inbound bandwidth usage.

Outgoing traffic on interface eth0 net.if.out[eth0,bytes]