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2 Discovery of network interfaces

In a similar way as file systems are discovered, it is possible to also discover network interfaces.

Item key

The item key to use in the discovery rule is

net.if.discovery
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Supported macros

You may use the {#IFNAME} macro in the discovery rule filter and prototypes of items, triggers and graphs.

Examples of item prototypes that you might wish to create based on "net.if.discovery":

  • "net.if.in[{#IFNAME},bytes]",
  • "net.if.out[{#IFNAME},bytes]".

Note that on Windows {#IFGUID} is also returned.

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