[ZBX-19958] Exclude veth with uppercase identifier by default Created: 2021 Sep 14  Updated: 2024 Apr 10  Resolved: 2021 Nov 08

Status: Closed
Project: ZABBIX BUGS AND ISSUES
Component/s: Templates (T)
Affects Version/s: 5.0.15
Fix Version/s: 5.0.18rc1, 5.4.7rc1, 5.4.8rc1, 6.0.0alpha5, 6.0 (plan)

Type: Problem report Priority: Trivial
Reporter: FP Assignee: Vyacheslav Khaliev
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 0
Labels: None
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
Original Estimate: Not Specified

Team: Team INT
Sprint: Sprint 81 (Oct 2021), Sprint 82 (Nov 2021)
Story Points: 0.1

 Description   

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Setup Zabbix 5.0.15 (agent2 + server)
  2. Use "Template OS Linux by Zabbix agent"
  3. Inspect discovered network interfaces

Result:
The network discovery on Linux discovers many `vethAABBCC` interfaces. The linked template "Template Module Linux network interfaces by Zabbix agent" ignores veth interfaces, but only those with a lowercase identifier such as `vethaabbcc`. Please consider to set {$NET.IF.IFNAME.NOT_MATCHES} to

 

(^Software Loopback Interface|^NULL[0-9.]$|^[Ll]o[0-9.]$|^[Ss]ystem$|^Nu[0-9.]*$|^veth[0-9a-zA-Z]$|docker[0-9]|br-[a-z0-9]{12})



 Comments   
Comment by FP [ 2021 Sep 14 ]

That is: … |^veth[0-9a-zA-Z]+$|

Comment by FP [ 2021 Sep 14 ]

Happens on Debian based systems, in particular Debian 10.

Comment by Karlis Salins [ 2021 Sep 15 ]

confirmed
This can happen if there are many VETH or network devices with vethABC

Comment by Vyacheslav Khaliev [ 2021 Oct 22 ]

Available in:

For linux by zabbix agent active and linux prom available in:

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