Monitor trunk port status in Zabbix

[jlenoci]

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Hello everyone, I wanted to ask if it is possible to add a description like (trunk_port) to the trunk ports of my switches, and have Zabbix read those values, show me only the ones with that description, and display the status when they go down...

Basically, in my switches, I want to add a description to the ports I want to monitor, which will help Zabbix to only show those ports. The switches are from various brands, but the majority are from the provider HP.

[bbonno]

Sounds like something you can filter for in the preprocessing for whatever item you use to grab the data from your switches. If your data is in a JSON format, then a JSONPath preprocessing step makes short work of something like this.

$.port[?(@.description == "trunk_port")]

[Glencoe]

How do you gather the information from your switches? How do you create port items in Zabbix? SNMP with LLD?