Working with SNMP monitoring the old way
Now, let’s do something I enjoy most when working with Zabbix: build SNMP monitoring. My professional roots lie in network engineering, and I have worked with SNMP monitoring a lot to monitor all these different network devices.
Please do keep in mind that although this recipe will cover how to work with SNMP monitoring the old way, it is still a valid option. Zabbix 6.4 introduced an entirely new way of setting up SNMP monitoring. The new way utilizes bulk metric collection and is more efficient for the SNMP device and number of network sessions, so it might be a good idea to check out that recipe after this one.
Getting ready
To get started, we need the two Linux hosts we used in the previous recipes:
- Our Zabbix server host
- The host we used in the previous recipe to monitor via the Zabbix active agent
How to do it…
Monitoring via SNMP polling is easy and very powerful. We will start by configuring...
