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Published inMay 2016
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Wasim Ahmed
Wasim Ahmed
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Wasim Ahmed

Wasim Ahmed, born in Bangladesh and now a citizen of Canada, is a veteran of the IT world. He first came into close contact with computers in 1992 and never looked back. Wasim has a deep understanding of networks, virtualization, big data storage, and network security. By profession, Wasim is the CEO of a global IT support and cloud service provider based in Calgary, Alberta. He serves many companies and organizations through his company on a daily basis. Wasim's strength comes from his experience, which comes from learning and serving continually. Wasim strives to find the most effective solution at the most competitive price. He has built over 20 enterprise production virtual infrastructures using Proxmox and the Ceph storage system. Wasim and his team are notorious for not simply accepting a technology based on its description alone, but putting it through rigorous testing to check its validity. Any new technology that his company provides goes through months of continuous testing before it is accepted. Proxmox made the cut superbly.
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Adding an SNMP device in Zabbix


Adding an SNMP device in Zabbix is a similar process to adding a host except that we have to select SNMP interfaces instead of agent interfaces, as shown in the following screenshot:

By default, SNMP devices listen on port 161. Zabbix comes with prebuilt SNMP templates, which can gather a vast amount of data for devices where the agent installation is not possible or desired. A common example of an SNMP device is a network switch. Zabbix has excellent support for switch monitoring through the SNMP template.

In this example, we will add a Netgear 48 port switch using the SNMP interface. Go to Configuration | Hosts, and click on the Create host button to open a new host creation page. Besides using the SNMP interface in the host creation page, we need to select the SNMP Device template and type in SNMP v2 Community string under Macros, as shown in the following screenshot:

The {$SNMP_COMMUNITY} macro is used to pass a community secret string, which is used by the...

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Wasim Ahmed

Wasim Ahmed, born in Bangladesh and now a citizen of Canada, is a veteran of the IT world. He first came into close contact with computers in 1992 and never looked back. Wasim has a deep understanding of networks, virtualization, big data storage, and network security. By profession, Wasim is the CEO of a global IT support and cloud service provider based in Calgary, Alberta. He serves many companies and organizations through his company on a daily basis. Wasim's strength comes from his experience, which comes from learning and serving continually. Wasim strives to find the most effective solution at the most competitive price. He has built over 20 enterprise production virtual infrastructures using Proxmox and the Ceph storage system. Wasim and his team are notorious for not simply accepting a technology based on its description alone, but putting it through rigorous testing to check its validity. Any new technology that his company provides goes through months of continuous testing before it is accepted. Proxmox made the cut superbly.
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