Zabbix noob

[dpearceFL]

I am desperately trying to love Zabbix. I'm coming from Cacti and it's brethren.

I'm using Zabbix 3.2.3 on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with PHP 5.5.9.

I'm not stupid but Zabbix is making feel really dumb. I need to set this up using SNMP almost exclusively.

It looks like I need to set up "Actions", then "Discovery rules" then wait. If I set up the discovery rukles to use and SNMPv2 check, it is never used. (Ping works). snmpwalk works BTW.

Most of the documentation I see on discovery uses the agent. Any pointers on how to discover devices using SNMP?

[batchenr]

I am desperately trying to love Zabbix. I'm coming from Cacti and it's brethren.

I'm using Zabbix 3.2.3 on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with PHP 5.5.9.

I'm not stupid but Zabbix is making feel really dumb. I need to set this up using SNMP almost exclusively.

It looks like I need to set up "Actions", then "Discovery rules" then wait. If I set up the discovery rukles to use and SNMPv2 check, it is never used. (Ping works). snmpwalk works BTW.

Most of the documentation I see on discovery uses the agent. Any pointers on how to discover devices using SNMP?

which device ?
what are you trying to discover ?

most of the SNMP interfaces will be discoverd if you add the SNMP GENERIC
Template to the host.

[Pada]

I'd strongly suggest that you start off by just creating a host and a couple of items (as SNMP v2 type) without making use of discovery rules to familiarize yourself with Zabbix.

The discovery rules can be fairly complicated and time consuming to debug, and debugging has improved a bit in v3.2.

There are 2 types of "discovery":
a) host discovery (eg. scan a network subnet and then add new hosts in zabbix and assign appropriate template(s))
b) item discovery (eg. scan the available network interfaces and add download + upload speed items for each interface)

If you want to monitor standard hardware/software, then there may already be templates available that would include some LLD rules even.