Configure SNMP items for multiple devices in one agent

[tiainpa]

Hi,

I just recently started using Zabbix after evaluating bunch of other monitoring solutions, and Zabbix seems to be quite useful for our purposes.

I have multiple Ubuntu Linux servers and APC power distribution units which can be monitored with SNMP. I've created a template (APC PDU) for one unit which has static IP address and it works fine. The problem is that the other units are in a private network behind one Red Hat server, reachable via different ports (15161, 15162 etc.) - the server acting as UDP forwarder. I know I can configure all the items I have in the APC PDU template individually to the the Red Hat server Zabbix agent, but this would be a bit too big task to accomplish.

Do you guys have any suggestions on how to do this efficiently?

Thanks!

-Pasi

[MarkusL]

Hi!

Two ways you can do it simple from my point of view:

1. do it "the right way" and do not redirect ports to nonprivate; build a vpn :-)

2. generate one template (f.e. with UDP 15161), export the template to xml-file and find/replace 15161 -> 15162, save as new template, reimport and so on
(with little scripting you can automate that to build 100+ Templates ; f.e. with "for" loop)



Kind regards,

Markus.

[tiainpa]

Number one would be feasible if only our company would allow VPN within the intranet

I think I now know how to do this via templates, thanks Markus!

Cheers,
-Pasi