Good day,
I work for Fortinet - a manufacturer of networking and security equipment, as a field SE.
I am attempting to modernize the public templates on the zabbix shared templates, but I am hitting a snag with how we do things on our end regarding AP monitoring.
I am certainly not a Zabbix expert by any length or stretch but I am managing to get the hang of things progressively.
Consulting our public MIBs for FortiGate, they include various tables that are used to graph individual managed access points, including their graphed CPU,RAM,bandwidth and user count. A given polled FortiGate could have a table with anywhere from a few to thousands of those access points in a single SNMP table.
Operationally, this presents a challenge when using the monitoring panels, e.g. to view the graph of a given target AP: finding an AP in a drop-down box that does not have text free form search is, as you can imagine, quite painful when you have 5000+ active graphed objects. Even if consolidated in one graph, this would still represent thousands of entries in the larger deployments.
Thinking about this, some of the ways this could be addressed would be to change the UI so that the drop-down supports free text search, or as an alternative (which is my question here), I was wondering if as part of the discovery rules in a template, one can actually spawn multiple separate hosts based on a single SNMP agent? Polling thousands of APs directly via an onboard SNMP agent is certainly an alternative, but one I do not have right now (we chose to centralize this instrumentation using CAPWAP management frames from the APs to the controller instead of direct SNMP).
Looking for any ideas on this. I think drop-downs with support for free text search are ultimately the correct frontend solution to fix this, but that requires changes to Zabbix code. Who knows, I might just have to end up doing a pull request
Thanks!
Mat
I work for Fortinet - a manufacturer of networking and security equipment, as a field SE.
I am attempting to modernize the public templates on the zabbix shared templates, but I am hitting a snag with how we do things on our end regarding AP monitoring.
I am certainly not a Zabbix expert by any length or stretch but I am managing to get the hang of things progressively.
Consulting our public MIBs for FortiGate, they include various tables that are used to graph individual managed access points, including their graphed CPU,RAM,bandwidth and user count. A given polled FortiGate could have a table with anywhere from a few to thousands of those access points in a single SNMP table.
Operationally, this presents a challenge when using the monitoring panels, e.g. to view the graph of a given target AP: finding an AP in a drop-down box that does not have text free form search is, as you can imagine, quite painful when you have 5000+ active graphed objects. Even if consolidated in one graph, this would still represent thousands of entries in the larger deployments.
Thinking about this, some of the ways this could be addressed would be to change the UI so that the drop-down supports free text search, or as an alternative (which is my question here), I was wondering if as part of the discovery rules in a template, one can actually spawn multiple separate hosts based on a single SNMP agent? Polling thousands of APs directly via an onboard SNMP agent is certainly an alternative, but one I do not have right now (we chose to centralize this instrumentation using CAPWAP management frames from the APs to the controller instead of direct SNMP).
Looking for any ideas on this. I think drop-downs with support for free text search are ultimately the correct frontend solution to fix this, but that requires changes to Zabbix code. Who knows, I might just have to end up doing a pull request
Thanks!
Mat
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