Hi to all,
we just upgraded into zabbix 2.0. Everything seems to be working after upgrade. We are testing new SNMP autodiscovery mechanism and we found that it could be improved a bit.
Problem is, when using SNMP network switch, that you discover interfaces and ifDescr is physical name of interface. But we want to have Physical name and descriptions in it. It worked before because we were using external perl generator for templates. Even more, it is not good to use ifAlias for description because there is not physical port name. Like:
gigabitethernet0/3 - link to headquarters
Now, with autodiscovery, it is probably not possible to use macros from one autodiscovery rule in another.
Maybe something like:
discovery rule #1:
ifDescr
discovery rule #2:
ifAlias
But in item prototypes, it is not possible to refer to it?
Something like:
{#SNMPVALUE} - {#SNMPVALUE2}
to construct
gigabitethernet0/3 - link to headquarters
where SNMPVALUE2 would be next discovery rule SNMPVALUE.
It is only concept, but would be great if we can use values from another discovery rules in item prototypes creation.
Thank you,
Lukas
we just upgraded into zabbix 2.0. Everything seems to be working after upgrade. We are testing new SNMP autodiscovery mechanism and we found that it could be improved a bit.
Problem is, when using SNMP network switch, that you discover interfaces and ifDescr is physical name of interface. But we want to have Physical name and descriptions in it. It worked before because we were using external perl generator for templates. Even more, it is not good to use ifAlias for description because there is not physical port name. Like:
gigabitethernet0/3 - link to headquarters
Now, with autodiscovery, it is probably not possible to use macros from one autodiscovery rule in another.
Maybe something like:
discovery rule #1:
ifDescr
discovery rule #2:
ifAlias
But in item prototypes, it is not possible to refer to it?
Something like:
{#SNMPVALUE} - {#SNMPVALUE2}
to construct
gigabitethernet0/3 - link to headquarters
where SNMPVALUE2 would be next discovery rule SNMPVALUE.
It is only concept, but would be great if we can use values from another discovery rules in item prototypes creation.
Thank you,
Lukas