In Dell OS10, host-description is a purely informational, free-text label for the switch itself. It’s mainly there to make the box easier to identify in human and management-plane outputs, without changing any switching/routing behaviour. It just so happened it was set on 3 of our switches and they were the ones not showing up in Observium correctly. We have just removed the setting.
Thanks
Chris
Chris James Technical Lead, Vessel Production Systems 4 The Heights, Brooklands Weybridge, KT13 0NY Mobile: +44 7768 480 557 chris.james@tgs.com
-----Original Message----- From: loxely--- via observium observium@lists.observium.org Sent: 22 January 2026 06:32 To: observium@lists.observium.org Cc: loxely@hotmail.com Subject: [External] [Observium] Re: host-description "<something>" setting on Dell S4148T will not register device correctly in Observium
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Hi Chris, what's the purpose of use "configure system host-description" ? I see the command itself exists, but it's not documented in OS10.x.x CLI reference guide _______________________________________________ observium mailing list -- observium@lists.observium.org To unsubscribe send an email to observium-leave@lists.observium.org