discovery versus discovery rules

[majorkuso]

what is the difference between discovery and the discovery rules in a template? I created a ping template to ping every minute and a discovery rule to do a simple check every minute do I have to have this if the item has it set to an interval of 1min? also can I have my discovery of hosts set at say days instead of minute?

[kloczek]

Are you talking about discovery hosts vs ddiscovery of the items on the host (AKA: Low Level Discovery)??

[majorkuso]

I want zabbix to find new hosts every 30 days, but ping all discovered hosts every 1 minute. so in the discovery rules under configuration do I set that to 30 days?

[storyteller]

Pinging hosts every 1 minute is a template related thing, you set this in ICMP ping item from your template. If you want zabbix to find new hosts set Update interval from discovery rule to 30 days.

[kloczek]

I want zabbix to find new hosts every 30 days, but ping all discovered hosts every 1 minute. so in the discovery rules under configuration do I set that to 30 days?

Please start reading zabbix documentation about install and basic setup.
Giving you recipe what needs to be done if you will still will be not familiar with basics would be pointless because you will have more questions which are already answered in standard documentation.

[majorkuso]

It all makes sense now, now I just need to figure-out how to get snmp working on if the host is a windows box or not, I can view the oid 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1, but I do not know what part is used in the mib for the system info is it sysDescr(1).0 , system.sysDescr or just sysDescr?

[kloczek]

Instead of using SNMP on Windows you can use zabbix agent..
Way easier.

[majorkuso]

I got that working on a test host,but we want to keep installed aps to a minimum as possible. the formatting for the key confuses me as I can't tell how zabbix expects it to be formatted, is there something I can use to get the key in a formatted way that zabbix expects? I will close this thread and open another for the snmp.