Zabbix network interface discovery: ifDescr or ifAlias?

[leoh]

Hi,

I would like to discover my switch interfaces by filtering the Alias (ifAlias)

The problem is: if I discover a interface by ifAlias, all the subsequent prototypes will use Alias in the description {#SNMPVALUE}. For example:

Status of interface ALIAS_HERE

And worse: Vlan interfaces has no description...

I wish I could discover interfaces by ifDescr (as it does by default) BUT also be able to filter the discovery by ifAlias. In that way, SNMPVALUE would be the interface name got from ifDescr (i.e. gi/01) and I would still be able to discover ONLY interfaces that I need to monitor by filtering ifAlias.

How can I accomplish this?

[herta]

I ended up going with ifAlias. On my network devices, I entered an 'x' as alias for the interfaces I don't want to monitor. As they then all report to the same interface in zabbix, all that remained to be done was disable monitoring of the items related to interface 'x'.

Not ideal, but workable so far.

If I need to know what actual port the interface is on, I can still find it in the description.