Stopped VM raise zabbix notification of the network interface due backup

czechsys

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Hi,
running backup of the stopped VM regularly and when it meets some zabbix check, it will raise notification because VM interface on PVE is going up/down:

PVE:
Code:
INFO: Finished Backup of VM 101 (00:00:10)
INFO: Backup finished at 2022-02-11 02:00:35
INFO: Starting Backup of VM 102 (qemu)
INFO: Backup started at 2022-02-11 02:00:40
INFO: status = stopped
INFO: backup mode: stop
INFO: ionice priority: 7
...
INFO: stopping kvm after backup task
INFO: Finished Backup of VM 102 (00:00:59)
INFO: Backup finished at 2022-02-11 02:01:39

Zabbix:
Code:
Problem started at 02:00:44 on 2022.02.11
Problem name: Interface tap102i1: Link down
Host: PVE
Severity: Average
Operational data: Current state: down (2)

Can PVE handle this case better? Monitored network interfaces are generated automatically by zabbix templates.
 
running backup of the stopped VM regularly and when it meets some zabbix check, it will raise notification because VM interface on PVE is going up/down:
I would consider this an issue of zabbix - you need to teach the agent to ignore interfaces with names starting with `tap` or `fwbr`

one example where this is also problematic is in a cluster - if you migrate a guest the interfaces will wander from source to target node

sadly am not too experienced with zabbix - so have no idea if this can easily be done (for some other monitoring solutions I think you can ignore interfaces based on their name)

I hope this helps!
 

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