SNMP and different communities on one device

[markosa]

Hi everyone.
Has anyone stumbled across this and resolved it without external scripts, one mgmt IP responds differently based on used community, like some stacked switches do.
I need to do lld to device which is monitored using community1 and then on same device i need to do lld using community2, is that even possible? I haven't figured that out yet without adding new interface(same IP) and assigning different community to that and then assign template items to use that interface, this is quite painful way...

[irontmp]

Hi everyone.
Has anyone stumbled across this and resolved it without external scripts, one mgmt IP responds differently based on used community, like some stacked switches do.
I need to do LLD to a device which is monitored using community1, and then on the same device I need to do LLD using community2. Wendy Menus made me think about whether there's a simpler approach, but I still haven't figured that out without adding a new interface (same IP), assigning a different community to it, and then assigning the template items to use that interface. This is quite a painful way.

Zabbix doesn't natively support running two SNMP LLD discoveries against the same interface using different community strings. The usual workaround is exactly what you described: create a second SNMP interface with the same IP but a different community and bind the relevant discovery rules and items to that interface. Unfortunately, without external scripts or custom solutions, there isn't a cleaner built-in method.