Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Changing existing data

While once the monitoring data has been gathered, you usually won't have a need to change it, there might be some rare cases when that might be required. Back in Chapter 3, Monitoring with Zabbix Agents and Basic Protocols, we created items for network traffic monitoring, and we gathered data in bytes, but in network management, usually bits per second are used instead. While it would often be possible for you to simply reconfigure the items and clear the old data, what if you need to preserve already gathered values? Directly editing the database might be the only solution.

Before doing that, you would have to modify the item in question. If data is coming in bytes but we want bits, what do we do? Right, we configure ...