Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Network interface discovery

Network interfaces on servers seem simple to monitor, but they tend to get more complicated as the environment size increases and time goes by. Back in the day, we had eth0, and everybody was happy. Well, not everybody—people needed more interfaces, so we had eth1, eth2, and so on. It would already be a challenge to manually match the existing interfaces to Zabbix items so that all interfaces are properly monitored. Then, Linux-based systems changed the interface naming scheme, and now, you could have enp0s25 or something similar, or a totally different interface name. That would not be easy to manage on a large number of different systems. Interface names on Windows are even more fun—they could include the name ...