"So it's either writing an expect script to change the PDUs (probably correct solution), or writing a script on the Observium box to do the necessary mysql adds/updates (more fun solution)."

Changing each one in the Observium webgui is not an option...

:D

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Tom Laermans <tom.laermans@powersource.cx> wrote:
We retrieve current data from the device on every poll, so we will fix the database with reality, so it's not that simple.

You can of course set the right toggle in the DB for the sysLocation override, and then set the overridden location :)

Tom


On 19/11/2015 01:28, Daniel Kasen wrote:
ugh yea that sounds gross. Can you just update it in the DB, or does that get overwritten by the poller?

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On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Aaron Finney <aaron.finney@openx.com> wrote:
Let me clarify...with Baytech and Servertech PDUs, we are [maybe] stuck. :D

If we were to decide to put Observium into production, we'd need to find some kind of reasonable solution for this one.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Nick Schmalenberger <nick@schmalenberger.us> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:15:47PM -0800, Aaron Finney wrote:
> Neither the webui nor the console menu system is fun for 300+ PDUs. :)
>
> If these were server nodes, I'd just use salt to update the location by
> cluster. With network devices we can push it using rancid. With the
> PDUs...we're stuck.
>
>
It is possible to push configs to APC PDUs by ftp, and this
person has used it with rancid...
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/rancid/users/6627
I don't use that with rancid myself, but I have pushed configs to
my PDUs with ftp (for syslog).
-Nick
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