multiple community strings

[Abzstrak]

I am new to Zabbix, I need to monitor Check Point firewalls that have MDPS enabled. These are using SNMP v2 and the way the management and data planes are monitored separately is via a different community string. I need to figure out a way to modify templates as such that they will use different community strings for different checks. The strings are the normal one, or with a _dplane attached to the end of the string in order to monitor data plane items.

The most importantly I can only monitor management and sync ports via the normal string but the other interfaces need the community string to have a _dplane attached at the end.

Does anyone have experience doing this or have any ideas how to modify the string within the template?

[cyber]

Hello
The “SNMP community string” is like a user ID or password that allows access to a router's or other device's statistics.
SNMP community strings are used only by devices which support the SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c protocol.
SNMPv3 uses username/password authentication, along with an encryption key.

Oh really.... Did you provide any information to solve the issue?

But as for problem ... as credentials are part of host, then you have few choices... describe multiple hosts (for management and data planes) with different credentials (and possibly different templates...)
Or maybe there is a way to create a discovery of data planes and via host prototypes you can add separate creds/templates etc...?

[Glencoe]

Oh really.... Did you provide any information to solve the issue?

Seems like a bot that will edit his post in a few days to add some nasty links.

On the topic, why not add multiple SNMP interfaces with different community strings to the host?

[cyber]

On the topic, why not add multiple SNMP interfaces with different community strings to the host?

In that case it is quite impossible to use same template for different data planes.