Modifying Zabbix Asterisk SNMP template to use SNMPv2c ?

[michel-slm]

Hi,

I'm trying to modify the template from the Monitor Asterisk with Zabbix using SNMP HOWTO to use SNMP v2c community strings, instead of SNMPv3, for authentication.

I've also modified the template so that the community string is not hard-coded in the template file, but uses {$SNMP_COMMUNITY}.

However, when using the template I get this:

Cannot connect to "IPaddressHere": No securityName specified

The current template is attached... am I missing something? How does Zabbix determine what version of SNMP to use (which keys in a template)?

Thanks in advance,

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Michel

[michel-slm]

Found solution -- didn't find any documentation though

So, I found out by comparing with other templates that item type="6" causes that item to be retrieved using SNMPv3, while item type="4" is for SNMPv2c.

There really ought to be better docs, or at least better pointers to where the documentation is. Can't believe the prolific third-party template authors all have to reverse-engineer the templates!