Positional parameters for item names
Positional parameters for item names
While we're working with items, let's explore some more tricks:
- Go to Configuration | Hosts
- Click on Items next to Another host?
- Click on Incoming traffic on interface enp0s8 (or whatever interface you have)?in the Name?column
- In the item-editing form, click on the Clone button at the bottom
- In the new form, modify the Key field so that it reads net.if.in[lo]
- Click on the Add button at the bottom
You might notice it right away, or go to Monitoring | Latest data and look at the list. Despite the fact that we only modified the key, the item name was updated accordingly as well:
Now that we have some more items configured, it's worth looking at another monitoring view. While we spent most of our time in Monitoring | Latest data, this time, navigate to Monitoring | Overview. The Type drop-down menu in the upper-right corner currently lists Triggers, which does not provide a very exciting view for us: we only have a single trigger created. But we did create several items, so switch this drop-down menu to Data: