Hi,

Thanks for your ever so kindly worded, productive e-mail, as usual.

Reading all your posts, It sure looks like you are not our target audience.
Deleting ports makes no sense, having a web interface button for it makes even less sense.

You could, perhaps, remove yourself from this antiquated mailing list, and join our superduper modern forum, which we of course have, like all great monitoring products: http://tinyurl.com/observiumforum

Kind regards,
Tom

On 29/03/2014 14:23, John Poznicek wrote:
"Removing such trivial things is quite contra to the design goals of Observium."

What?  Really??  So I need to see 19 interfaces for my windows machine because I see crap like this in its interface list?  Because windows snmp is pretty much broken..

Name/OID: ifDescr.1; Value (OctetString): Software Loopback Interface 1
Name/OID: ifDescr.2; Value (OctetString): WAN Miniport (SSTP)
Name/OID: ifDescr.3; Value (OctetString): WAN Miniport (L2TP)
Name/OID: ifDescr.4; Value (OctetString): WAN Miniport (PPTP)
Name/OID: ifDescr.5; Value (OctetString): WAN Miniport (PPPOE)
Name/OID: ifDescr.6; Value (OctetString): WAN Miniport (IPv6)
Name/OID: ifDescr.7; Value (OctetString): WAN Miniport (Network Monitor)
Name/OID: ifDescr.8; Value (OctetString): WAN Miniport (IP)
Name/OID: ifDescr.9; Value (OctetString): RAS Async Adapter
Name/OID: ifDescr.10; Value (OctetString): WAN Miniport (IKEv2)
Name/OID: ifDescr.11; Value (OctetString): Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet
Name/OID: ifDescr.12; Value (OctetString): DW1501 Wireless-N WLAN Half-Mini Card
Name/OID: ifDescr.14; Value (OctetString): TAP-Windows Adapter V9
Name/OID: ifDescr.15; Value (OctetString): Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet-QoS Packet Scheduler-0000
Name/OID: ifDescr.16; Value (OctetString): Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet-WFP LightWeight Filter-0000
Name/OID: ifDescr.17; Value (OctetString): WAN Miniport (IPv6)-QoS Packet Scheduler-0000
Name/OID: ifDescr.18; Value (OctetString): WAN Miniport (IP)-QoS Packet Scheduler-0000
Name/OID: ifDescr.19; Value (OctetString): WAN Miniport (Network Monitor)-QoS Packet Scheduler-0000

So I got them removed, once I figured out you have to use lowercase.  Even though the documentation on the observium site shows "STRING" with no mention of case, etc.

$config['bad_if'][] = "wan miniport (sstp)";
$config['bad_if'][] = "wan miniport (l2tp)";
$config['bad_if'][] = "wan miniport (pptp)";
$config['bad_if'][] = "wan miniport (pppoe)";
$config['bad_if'][] = "wan miniport (ipv6)";
$config['bad_if'][] = "wan miniport (network monitor)";
$config['bad_if'][] = "wan miniport (ip)";
$config['bad_if'][] = "wan miniport (ikev2)";
$config['bad_if'][] = "tap-windows adapter v9";
$config['bad_if'][] = "broadcom netlink (tm) gigabit ethernet-wfp lightweight filter-0000";
$config['bad_if'][] = "software loopback interface 1";
$config['bad_if'][] = "lo";
$config['bad_if'][] = "vmxnet3 ethernet adapter-wfp lightweight filter-0000";

What should be trivial is the way to delete this noise.. Why can there not be a simple delete interface button?  I saw some thread mention security - come on give me a break, only the ADMIN of observium would have access to do it - so its BS that it would be security issue to delete interfaces you don't want to track.

So its looking much cleaner now..  Noise is gone..  I can understand leaving an interface that may be used on and off, etc.  Like my raspberry pi I have both the wired and the wifi interface - even though wired is currently not being used.  But I sure don't need wan miniport (pppoe) on my windows machine that is only used as file server.

If there was actual forums I would be happy to create a guide, but seems only antiquated mailing lists?  How about a wiki for users to help maintain/improve documentation/howto's, etc.  But can not seem to find such basic tools - but this project has been in the works for 7 years if I read the info I found correctly.


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org> wrote:
On 2014-03-28 18:14, Josh Hopper wrote:
Why not just ignore them so you aren’t alerted but can see graphs if need be?

Yes, one must really ask:

Why do you care?

Removing such trivial things is quite contra to the design goals of Observium.

adam.

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