How to monitor Unifi equipment
There's been a lot of talk on the 'net about monitoring Unifi equipment. Unifi is a brand of prosumer networking equipment from a company called Ubiquiti. If you've ever wanted "the good stuff" for your home or office network, make sure to have a look at them, but I digress. One of the drawbacks of Unifi equipment is that they don't publish their SNMP MIBs, so if you're trying to add a Unifi router, switch, access point, etc. into your monitoring system, you're in for a lot of work as you poke about with "snmpwalk" and see what you find. [...]
How to get the “up(1)” to show for a Item’s status value.
In Zabbix, when you poll an Item for a Host, you sometimes get back a numeric "1" (one) or "0" (zero), but you'd like to display it in English. as an Up or Down value. You'll typically see this when you poll a Service on a Host, such as SSH or HTTPS. When defining the Item to check, look for the "Value Mapping" field noted by the red arrow in this Template. Simply select the entry Service State, and then update the Item. When the Item next gets data, often every minute, the new value will look like "up (1)" [...]
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