Use /etc/hosts to give meaningful names to your devices, even if you don't use DNS.

adam.

On 29/01/2016 17:03:15, Joey Stanford <joey@stan4d.net> wrote:

> On Jan 29, 2016, at 09:03 , Juan Asensio Sánchez wrote:
>
> Hi, is there any option to add friendly names to hosts and interfaces?

FWIW, I had a similar thought when adding my own items because we don’t use DNS resolution. I got around this need ultimately by doing two things: 1) changing the identity of the device and 2) updating the SNMP location to include some specifics before the address.

The only place this doesn’t work out perfectly (but it still works) is for alerts. We’ll get an email entitled (for example) “RECOVER: [10.30.28.1] [device] Device down alert” and have to open it to see the location string so we know exactly what’s down (or recovered as in this example).
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