Hi All,
First of all Id like to say that I really really like Zabbix. I'm in the MnE space and use it with many different clients for 'basic' monitoring and alerts e.g. NAS disk space alerts or power monitoring of PDUs/UPS's.
It works GREAT when there is a template available within the Zabbix GUI.
My experience level is that of someone working in the TV/Film industry for 20+ years, have created and supported multiple complex systems involving varied OS's, interfaces, networking etc. etc. but by my own admission I am NOT any kind of coder.
However I am having a REALLY hard time trying to get my head around working with any devices that dont have working templates but do have an MIB file that one can download from the manufacturer.
I have done plenty of web searches on "how to import MIBs" and unfortunately none are sufficiently stupid enough for me to get working.
This guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnUiXpgQvFQ
Has produced a great guide but there is STILL a knowledge gap between what he is saying and the frankly strange way that zabbix seems to do things.
Discovery rules, Item prototypes, Keys, Value mapping. Have followed everything hes saying and I still get errors that mean nothing to me or Google..
snmp_parse_oid(): cannot parse OID "1.3.6.1.4.1.13742.4.1.2.2.0.{#SNMPINDEX}".
Yet earlier steps and snmpwalk (on the zabbix instance) are showing data.
Can anyone please point me to any kind of guide for a not-idiot idiot?? Its becoming really frustrating and I really really want to continue using this great tool
Thanks,
Marc
First of all Id like to say that I really really like Zabbix. I'm in the MnE space and use it with many different clients for 'basic' monitoring and alerts e.g. NAS disk space alerts or power monitoring of PDUs/UPS's.
It works GREAT when there is a template available within the Zabbix GUI.
My experience level is that of someone working in the TV/Film industry for 20+ years, have created and supported multiple complex systems involving varied OS's, interfaces, networking etc. etc. but by my own admission I am NOT any kind of coder.
However I am having a REALLY hard time trying to get my head around working with any devices that dont have working templates but do have an MIB file that one can download from the manufacturer.
I have done plenty of web searches on "how to import MIBs" and unfortunately none are sufficiently stupid enough for me to get working.
This guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnUiXpgQvFQ
Has produced a great guide but there is STILL a knowledge gap between what he is saying and the frankly strange way that zabbix seems to do things.
Discovery rules, Item prototypes, Keys, Value mapping. Have followed everything hes saying and I still get errors that mean nothing to me or Google..
snmp_parse_oid(): cannot parse OID "1.3.6.1.4.1.13742.4.1.2.2.0.{#SNMPINDEX}".
Yet earlier steps and snmpwalk (on the zabbix instance) are showing data.
Can anyone please point me to any kind of guide for a not-idiot idiot?? Its becoming really frustrating and I really really want to continue using this great tool
Thanks,
Marc