Solaris Network Bandwith not giving expeted result

[jusavard]

Hi,
I found something weird with Zabbix Solaris agent about network activity. I compared zabbix network activity with what my Network administrator gave me and results mismatch. His result shows significant higher peaks and some peaks that aren't in zabbix network graph.

My hypothesis is :

-Zabbix agent doest get data about network I/O. However it does not include the sum of all sub-interface (virtual interfaces) for a giving interface.

For exemple :
if I have :
bge0
bge0:1
bge0:2
bge0:3

Zabbix agent only return network for bge0 but not the sum of bge0, bge0:1, bge0:2 and bge0:3

If I want to have an item by interface/sub-interface it doesn't work either :

[jusavard@sinfra0-cer001 ~]$ zabbix_get -s XXX002 -k net.if.out[bge0,bytes]
12816746241576
[jusavard@sinfra0-cer001 ~]$ zabbix_get -s XXX002 -k net.if.out[bge0:1,bytes]
ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED

before you ask, yes these interface does exist :

bge0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX netmask ffffff00 broadcast XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
groupname XYZ
bge0:1: flags=9040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRE CATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER> mtu 1500 index 2
inet XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX netmask ffffff00 broadcast XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX


As anyone ever faced this problem ?
Can anyone have an item that gives the sum of a giving interface with all it's sub-interface (without having to remote execute a script or commands if possible) ?
As a workaround, could we configure an "item" per network nterface/sub-interface ?

[jusavard]

Solaris Network Bandwith Zabbix 2.4

Does any one knows if this "bug" is now corrected in Zabbix 2.4 ?

[kloczek]

As anyone ever faced this problem ?
Can anyone have an item that gives the sum of a giving interface with all it's sub-interface (without having to remote execute a script or commands if possible) ?
As a workaround, could we configure an "item" per network nterface/sub-interface ?

On other Unixes alias interfaces haven't separated in/out statistics as well however on Solaris you can create vnics on top of physical interfaces

[jusavard]

Thanks kloczek for the anwser but VNIC are a feature only available on Solaris 11 and we are using Solaris 10 only.

[kloczek]

Thanks kloczek for the anwser but VNIC are a feature only available on Solaris 11 and we are using Solaris 10 only.

I understand .. still you can try migrate you system to branded zone 10 in Solaris 11 and create in branded zone configuration separated interfaces