Multiple IP addresses, multiple checks needed

[sebyp]

Hello all,

Quick question: is there any possibility to dynamically create via the LLD mechanism item types that perform simple icmp checks?

Background: I would like to to icmp checks on all interfaces configured on the devices that I'm monitoring. So far I was able to dynamically create item types that hold the IP addresses needed for monitoring, but unfortunately I can't reference them in other item types.

Does anybody have any suggestion / idea in general on how to approach this?

Thank you

[sebyp]

Hello all,

Quick update: since no answer was posed and I couldn't find a better solution I decided to hard-code the IP addresses in user-created macros.

Thank you,
SebyP

[coreychristian]

You should be able to use LLD for this as simple checks are an item type LLD supports.

Not sure what exactly you mean by reference the IP's in other item types.

You should just be able to create the simple ICMP Items, then have discovery build triggers off of that if desired. Sorry if I am missing something (outside of being late to the party)

[sebyp]

@coreychristian, thank you for your suggestion, however I decided that it's better to use user defined macros, as the IP address discovery meant using external scripts, so I don't want to burden my Zabbix installation more than needed (I have enough Python scripts doing continuous SCADA checks).

Anyway, thanks for the possible solution.

Sebi