Use of the "tagpass" keyword in SNMP plugin

Telegraf
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Hello team:
Looking to collect the information of just two (2) interfaces of a LAN switch with many more interfaces, I was able to achieve the goal by using the [inputs.snmp.tagpass] option, using the integer index of the network interfaces as input:

[inputs.snmp.tagpass]
index=[“10125”,“10126”]

These interfaces share a value in the ifAlias field:

iso.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.18.10125 = STRING: “[TRUNK]”
iso.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.18.10126 = STRING: “[TRUNK]”

Furthermore, the “ifAlias” field has been qualified as a tag in the SNMP plugin:

[[inputs.snmp.table.field]]
  oid = "IF-MIB::ifAlias"
  is_tag = true

Then I would like to use the [inputs.snmp.tagpass] “trap”, to capture all the interfaces that have [TRUNK ] in the ifAlias field.

I was not able to make it work. Assuming that telegraf considers “[” a special character, I tried the following, but telegraf got rid of all the interfaces in its answer:

[inputs.snmp.tagpass]
ifAlias=[“/[TRUNK/]”]

I also tried as below, but telegraf returned the empty set :o)
ifAlias=[“[TRUNK]”]

¿ Am I doing anything wrong? I am pretty sure it should work, since “ifAlias” is indeed a tag. The following is one of the interfaces as it is collected by the plugin when I come back to “index” instead of “ifAlias”:

interface,agent_host=10.133.0.158,host=85480cd29df4,hostname=SW-XX-YYY-045,ifAlias=[TRUNK],index=10126,template=Switch\ Cisco ifConnectorPresent=1i,ifCounterDiscontinuityTime=0i,ifHCInBroadcastPkts=303427317i,ifHCInMulticastPkts=522158633i,ifHCInOctets=6607443647835i,ifHCInUcastPkts=4923844471i,ifHCOutBroadcastPkts=1539383i,ifHCOutMulticastPkts=15028191i,ifHCOutOctets=230992451985i,ifHCOutUcastPkts=2352056338i,ifHighSpeed=1000i,ifInBroadcastPkts=303427317i,ifInMulticastPkts=522158590i,ifLinkUpDownTrapEnable=1i,ifName=“Gi1/0/26”,ifOutBroadcastPkts=1539383i,ifOutMulticastPkts=15028188i,ifPromiscuousMode=2i,ifSpeed=1000000000i 1701468513000000000

Help greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks!

Rogelio

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For the purpose of testing, I changed as below:
[inputs.snmp.tagpass]
ifAlias = [“\[TRUNK\]”]

With the aforementioned, the execution aborts with the following message:

[telegraf] Error running agent: Error loading config file /etc/telegraf/telegraf.d/LL2TEST.conf: Error parsing data: line 71: invalid TOML syntax

4

I solved the problem!

I needed 2 (two) escape characters before the [ character and other 2 (two) escape characters after :o)
ifAlias = [“\\[TRUNK\\]”]

5

@Rogelio_Alvez Thank you for sharing your solution!!

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You´re welcome.
Best regards