Item Prototype to calculate total incoming bandwidth for the past month

[Sven Kodali]

Hi,

I'd like to add an item prototype to my existing VMWare Guest template to provide a sum of total incoming bandwidth on VM network interfaces.

I've been trying a number of different key / formula combinations but Zabbix keeps classifying them as invalid. Any suggestions?

This is my item prototype:
Name: Total inbound Traffic (Monthly)
Type: Calculated
Key: vmware.vm.net.if.in.total[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME}]
Type of information: Numeric (Unsigned)
Formula: sum(/*/vmware.vm.net.if.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME}],1M)
Units: GB
Update interval: 1m

For the above, the error is

• Invalid parameter "/1/params": invalid first parameter in function "sum".

[cyber]

That "*" is too much..
do you have item "vmware.vm.net.if.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME}]" ?
OOB, there is "vmware.vm.net.if.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},bps]" (and pps)

and giving 1M as parameter to sum for every minute... you are going to kill your server... 43.2k values to summarize every minute... And all you actually need is do it once a month...

sum(//vmware.vm.net.if.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},bps],1h) works...