snmp device configuration

[bbrendon]

i just started working more with zabbix, and i have yet to figure out an easy way to configure a lot of snmp devices in it. It seems if you're not using an agent, you're using the wrong program.

That aside, one of the really annoying things is that the snmp string is associated with the item and not the host. That doesn't make any sense to me, and the feature is a serious pain when trying to use tempaltes.

[elkor]

yes, there really at the very least needs to be a mechanisim to change all the snmp strings for objects of any given host. I don't mind the granularity.. just in case there IS something that requires a different community to retrieve, but we should be able to make a global change across the whole host without doing it directly in the database.

[LowBassMan]

Here's what I did...

Connect to MySQL and figure out the hostid for the host you want to change. Then do an update of the items table:

update items set snmp_community='public123' where hostid='12345';