Item key parameter with right square bracket

[glumov]

Hello!
I want to monitor traffic on windows network interface named Realtek RTL8168_8111 Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC [NDIS 6.0].

Since parameter's name contains right square bracket I quoted it.
And key value became like this: net.if.in["Realtek RTL8168_8111 Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC [NDIS 6.0]"]

But in logs I see: item "012_server:net.if.in["Realtek RTL8168_8111 Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC [NDIS 6.0]"]" became not supported: Not supported by Zabbix Agent

What is wrong? Is it a bug?

[filipp.sudanov]

Try escaping the [ ] in a way like

net.if.in["Realtek RTL8168_8111 Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC \[NDIS 6.0\]"]

Does it helps?

[glumov]

I've tried this too. But the result is the same:
item "012_server:net.if.in["Realtek RTL8168_8111 Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC \[NDIS 6.0\]"]" became not supported: Not supported by Zabbix Agent

If do not quote the string, zabbix even forbids to save the item (without escaping [ ] too):
Invalid key "net.if.in[Realtek RTL8168_8111 Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC \[NDIS 6.0\]]" for item "Network Realtek (incoming traffic)" on "My Server": incorrect syntax near "]".

Any ideas?

[jan.garaj]

Item

net.if.in["Realtek RTL8168_8111 Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC [NDIS 6.0]"]

has quoted string as parameter, so only quotation mark must be escaped.
Ref: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...items/item/key

There must be some reason, why is item not supported (maybe wrong name) - check it. See section "More detail than just ZBX_UNSUPPORTED":

http://blog.zabbix.com/zabbix-2-4-features-part-7-improved-troubleshooting/3654/

[filipp.sudanov]

What exactly is your Zabbix version?

[glumov]

What exactly is your Zabbix version?

Zabbix server: 2.2.8 (1:2.2.8-1+precise)
Zabbix agent for windows: 2.2.7

[filipp.sudanov]

Check the name of the network interface. Zabbix takes the data from Windows performance counters and there the network interface name differs from the one seen in control panel. E.g. on my system "Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 3" is actually called "Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter #2"

You can check this by running

typeperf -qx

and the name seems to be the same as in "Description" field if you run

ipconfig -all

[glumov]

You can check this by running

typeperf -qx

Exactly this command I used to find out the interface's name. And it's Realtek RTL8168_8111 Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC [NDIS 6.0]
Output of

ipconfig /all

will be later (I can not access the server right now).

[glumov]

Hello!
According to ipconfig interface's name is Realtek RTL8168/8111 Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0)
I changed key's value and it worked.

So it was bad idea to use typeperf -qx for finding out interface's name.
Better refer ipconfig /all , description.

Thanks everyone.

p.s. How can I change thread title to solved? I editted the first post, but the thread's title did not change.