SNMP auto discovery

[JcDuss]

Hello Everyone,

It's made a long time I didn't use Zabbix and I'm in testing for new releases.

I tested Autodiscovery for snmp devices.
My problem is , in my corp we got many snmp "read only" communities and differences per device.

So I need to create on auto discovery rule per "community".

Then I create the action to add it automatically in monitoring but it inherites of the standard "public" which is not working.

I cannot figure how to personnalize the snmp community in the action menu ?

Is it embedded or should I use a dedicated external command ?

[JcDuss]

Up please

[Semiadmin]

Hy, JcDuss.

Don't a field "SNMP community" help in discovery rule with check type SNMPv* agent"?

http://joxi.ru/12MlyMMCv9aKmJ

[JcDuss]

It helps to "discover" only.

When Discovered, you can add host to monitored host and a specific host group.

in older version, in my memory, snmp community was defined at host level (am I wrong ?.

I can see now in the items of templates that the community is set to {$SNMP_COMMUNITY} which is a global macro and its value is "public".

I would have to create each template per community instead of overload the macro by host and a dedicated {$SNMP_COMMUNITY} in each host by discovery.


So when discovered, even if a community is specified in "discovery" menu, the host will be monitored with {$SNMP_COMMUNITY} if you apply an emmebed template. :/

Is there other way more user friendly ?

[Semiadmin]

May be, add macros {$SNMP_COMMUNITY} to the template and link this template to discovered hosts via the operation "link to template" in discovery action?

[JcDuss]

Yes but it will means I will have to duplicate all basics template by the number of "community" I got

[ovas]

Hello JcDuss!

You can either add a user macro to every host for the specific SNMP Community value by hands, or run a host.update API query for the results of host.get query where you collect all the hosts that require macro to be updated.
Cannot see easier ways here, unfortunately.

[JcDuss]

Hello,

Thank you for your replies SemiAdmin and Ovas.

I'll see the API.
And I created a feature request to make it easier from the GUI.

https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-3894