Zabbix : Display network interface description in graph names
One very fustrating thing about Zabbix is the inability to display network interface's description in graph names. All your network equipment interfaces graphs look like :
Nice graph, hummm wait ! What the hell is "ge-0/0/8" ?
If you only have one or two switches it's fine but otherwise it becomes very confusing.
Since Zabbix 2.2, they added the possibitlity to interpret items in graph names which means you can add interface's descriptions to your graph names !
To add your interface's descriptions go to "Configuration -> Templates -> Template SNMP Interfaces -> Discovery -> Graph prototypes", choose the "Traffic graph" and use this string as graph's name :
Traffic on interface {#SNMPVALUE} : {{HOSTNAME}:ifAlias[{#SNMPVALUE}].last(0)}
The result is pure happiness :
Hope that helps !
UPDATE : The same frustrating bug (yes, yes bug) is also present in triggers, by default you can't have the interface's description in your triggers... This post explains how to solve this issue and get happy !
http://sysnet-adventures.blogspot.fr/2014/04/zabbix-display-network-interface.html
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