How to add a description to an Item (e.g. interface)

[whisky17]

Hi,

I'm a Zabbix newbie and I've startet to monitor some switches with SNMP.
But e.g. when an interface is down, I'm just getting a notification like

Interface Slot0/26(): Link down

.
Is it possible to add some free text to an interface?
I've found something about "ifAlias", but while I'm not an expert for SNMP, I don't know how to configure an ifAlias.

Can anybody give me some impulse for approach?

Thanks!
whisky17

[kaspars.mednis]

Hi,

take a look here:

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.4/manual/discovery/low_level_discovery/snmp_oids

add {#IFALIAS} macro to discovery rule like in documentation

Then in this case SNMP discovery discovery[{#IFDESCR}, ifDescr, {#IFALIAS}, ifAlias] will return the following structure:

After that you can use this {#IFALIAS} macro in your item and trigger names

Regards,
Kaspars