Item value used as macro value
Hi there,
I am new to Zabbix so this may be obvious to some but I need a hand.
I have devices in the field I am trying to receive traps from. Because these devices are sometimes behind NAT'ed addresses or other firewalls, I want to be able to dynamically assign the SNMP agent IP address for these hosts using existing items that are assigned to each host.
For example, we may have a device send a trap to the server using an address that would never otherwise be used because while it is assigned as a WAN side IP on the device, we're not using it to connect to the Zabbix server (a VPN is used). The devices may send a trap to the server from :10.x.x.x however the server will not recognize the host and can't assign the trap to the appropriate device.
First, I do have items that are pulling this WAN-side IP assigned for each host. I just need to figure out a way to utilize this item value as the IP address in my SNMP agent definition.
A solution I thought could work is to use a macro as the IP address for the SNMP agent defined on each host. In order to do this, I'm thinking I may need to have a macro pull the value from an item on the host and dynamically update a macro such as {$WAN.IP}. Is this possible, and if so how would I go about doing this?
Any other suggestions would be super helpful.
Thanks in advance,
I am new to Zabbix so this may be obvious to some but I need a hand.
I have devices in the field I am trying to receive traps from. Because these devices are sometimes behind NAT'ed addresses or other firewalls, I want to be able to dynamically assign the SNMP agent IP address for these hosts using existing items that are assigned to each host.
For example, we may have a device send a trap to the server using an address that would never otherwise be used because while it is assigned as a WAN side IP on the device, we're not using it to connect to the Zabbix server (a VPN is used). The devices may send a trap to the server from :10.x.x.x however the server will not recognize the host and can't assign the trap to the appropriate device.
First, I do have items that are pulling this WAN-side IP assigned for each host. I just need to figure out a way to utilize this item value as the IP address in my SNMP agent definition.
A solution I thought could work is to use a macro as the IP address for the SNMP agent defined on each host. In order to do this, I'm thinking I may need to have a macro pull the value from an item on the host and dynamically update a macro such as {$WAN.IP}. Is this possible, and if so how would I go about doing this?
Any other suggestions would be super helpful.
Thanks in advance,
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