SNMP discovery

The discovery methods we examined before were all Zabbix-agent based. Zabbix also supports discovering entities over SNMP. This is different from the dynamic SNMP index support we discussed in Chapter 4, Monitoring SNMP Devices. The dynamic SNMP index allows us to monitor a specific entity by name—for example, a network interface by its name. SNMP support in LLD allows us to discover all entities and monitor them.

Let's see how we could use it to discover all network interfaces:

  1. Navigate to Configuration | Hosts, click on Discovery next to the host for which you created SNMP items previously, and click on Create discovery rule. Populate these fields:
    • Name: SNMP interface discovery
    • Type: SNMPv2 agent (or choose another, ...

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