Re: [Zabbix-users] how to build an item to count items?

[Guus S. <gsn...@gm...>]

Op di 31 mei 2022 11:22 schreef henri hemery <hen...@gm...>:

> Hi!
>
> I am a Network admin and I'm using zabbix since 4 years now in my comapny,
> and it is a great tool, love it. I am running under 4.4 version, but we
> will soon upgrade it to 6.
> I monitor around 300 devices .
> Now I would like to use zabbix for our switches capacity planning.
> So from LLD, I got my switches interfaces operationnal status, key is
> net.if.status[ifOperStatus.1] to net.if.status[ifOperStatus.243]. value can
> be up (1) or down (2)
>

I see 2 options: if you have the interface status available in Zabbix, then
you could query the database itself.

Or you could use an external tool like netdisco: the website looks a bit
dated, but I had surprisingly good results from this one. Even with (only)
readonly SNMP.



Mvg, Guus Snijders