snmp community strings tied to items

[dennisfeiock]

I was hoping to build up templates to organize all the different devices that I am wanting to monitor with Zabbix (eg: genericDevice -> genericPrinter -> OKI -> C5100 -> Host). However, I just found out that the snmp community strings are tied to the items and not to the host.

Is there any way around that?

Thanks,
DF

[Vince2]

I was hoping to build up templates to organize all the different devices that I am wanting to monitor with Zabbix (eg: genericDevice -> genericPrinter -> OKI -> C5100 -> Host). However, I just found out that the snmp community strings are tied to the items and not to the host.

Is there any way around that?

Which version do you use ? If you still use 1.2, I can provide you a simple patch that allows to specify the community for each host. It requires a modification of the database schema though. Such a patch is likely to apply to 1.4 as well.

[maxence]

Hello,

I'm getting exactly the same problem... different community for each SNMP aware devices...

Could you please post your patch for the snmp community / host ?

I'll try it on Zabbix 1.4.1 and i'll post the result here. Perhaps something to include in 1.4.2 ?


Thanks a lot !

[gabin]

Hello,
It would be VERY helpful if community string could be modified in templates.
For example copy SNMP v2 template into "my template" and set community string to "my community".
Then when I want to configure approx 100 routers with "my community" i just make hosts from "my template" . Otherwise i have to change tens of snmp variables communities to a SNMP v2 host for each 100 routers.

So , a little bit of help on this would give me/us a lot of time to concentrate on other problems.

[Alexei]

Otherwise i have to change tens of snmp variables communities to a SNMP v2 host for each 100 routers.

Why? You can do a single mass-update instead.

[iYRe]

all i can say is...

w00t!

(saved me a long long time of changing stuff)