SNMP - Adding Alias to interface description

[Sponge]

Hey,

I'm monitoring some Cisco switches via SNMP, and then graphing the results with Grafana.

Right now I'm using the default Zabbix SNMP interface template, which discovers the interface descriptions ("Incoming traffic on interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1", for example). What I actually want is to have it discover with description + alias (Interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1 Port To Netapp C1) so I don't have to manually write it for every graph I create.

Bit of a newbie here, hopefully somebody can help?

[Colttt]

Hi,

first you need the OID of the alias, and then you can use macros for this..

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.0/manual/discovery/low_level_discovery#discovery_of_snmp_oids

for my brocade setup to get only fiber channels:

discovery[{#FIBER},.1.3.6.1.4.1.1991.1.1.3.3.5.1.9,{#IFDESCR},.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2]

and a filter where FIBER matches 3

[scout]

My LLD looks like:

discovery[{#IFNAME},IF-MIB::ifName,{#IFALIAS},IF-MIB::ifAlias]

Then I'm using incoming traffic item:

[Sponge]

Scout, that looks very close to what I need.

So essentially if I config my LLD like this:

discovery[{#SNMPVALUE},IF-MIB::ifDescr,{#IFALIAS},IF-MIB::ifAlias]

And then something like incoming traffic is:



Would that work?

One question I have is do I have to create the macro #IFALIAS beforehand or is it automatically created?

Thanks a lot!!

[Sponge]

Well, it worked