Suggestion: SNMP-Community as a part of the hostconfiguration instead of the item

[drathi81]

Hi,

at the moment I'm setting up Zabbix to monitor different networks. For security reasons the networks have different SNMP-communities (not my fault ) and so I ran in some trouble using the Host.SNMP-Template.
Because you set up the SNMP-community for the each item and not for an host, you've to copy the whole Host.SNMP-Template to an other Host.SNMP1-Template to use different SNMP-Communities.
My suggestion ist to change the configuration from the item (where you've to re-enter it a few times for each new item you create) to the host. At the moment I do not see the need to set up different SNMP-communities on one host, but what do other Zabbix-users think about that?


Regards from Germany
drathi81

[elkor]

This has been suggested before and I believe it is a good idea.

If I recall correctly, alexei agreed but it's proably been eclipsed by bugs and other high priority items.

[Alexei]

ZABBIX won't be changed to have community on host level. Instead the community will be remembered for each host, so when adding new item you'll get right community automatically.

[sauron]

I'm think not need add community name at host level. May add group/collecton level. For example snmp group/collecton for snmp enabled item, zabbix agent grop/collecton for zabbix agent item & etc. Then it's may add templated collection. Very intersting add recursive group/collection. It's simple way create and support template & snmp MIB's.