Hi, small question here: is there any documentation onhow to create a custom poller? we've needed those for some of our devices(eg eql storages) and so far i sort of hacked somethin together (work so far, but its not really integrated and i have to manually merge my graphtypes.ph peach time you change something there) if interested we can upload them but i'd like to do it the way these poller where intended to run and i couldn't really figure it out
best regards
Serge Müller
Tim Vaughan tim@timvaughan.co.uk schrieb am Di., 24. Nov. 2015 um 17:31 Uhr:
Ok, I get it. For the time being, though, I now have a way of tracking users per AP which I didn't before. As soon as someone* writes the code to get this data out of Cisco WLCs in the proper way, I'll happily ditch it.
- I know very little PHP so this probably won't be me, but I'd give it a
try if there was documentation on how to do it. Ditto on writing a contact transport method to use Freshdesk's API.
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org wrote:
It's less the case that /anyone/ who uses the custom oid stuff should be writing poller code instead, it's more the case that the custom oid stuff gives the people who would be capable of writing poller code a way of solving the problem just for them, rather than for everyone.
Normally when you solve a problem in Observium, it's solved for everyone. When something is solved with the custom oid stuff, it's solved for that one user. Very inefficient, and really should only be used for stuff that is too complex/difficult to fit into our existing infrastructure.
adam.
On 24/11/2015 16:04:25, Tim Vaughan tim@timvaughan.co.uk wrote: I didn't realise there was a better way to do it. Manually tracking down MAC addresses for each AP was pretty painful - I'll very happily delete the OIDS and do it the proper way. Is there documentation anywhere for this?
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org wrote:
Because you probably spent more time creating shitty line graphs only of use to you than it would have taken to write a proper poller module, which would have been useful to more people.
It was never difficult for us to do this stuff, we just always thought it was a terrible, terrible idea, and that it'd just encourage people to turn their Observium installations into unmanageable monstrosities.
adam.
On 24/11/2015 15:56:01, Tim Vaughan tim@timvaughan.co.uk wrote: Why?
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org wrote:
Sigh. This is *precisely* why I never wanted to do "Custom OID" stuff.
:'(
adam.
On 24/11/2015 15:25:41, Tim Vaughan tim@timvaughan.co.uk wrote: Just wanted to say thankyou for adding support for Custom OIDs. Using a combination of this article http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=649 and this one http://awesomeadmin.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/monitoring-cisco-wireless-control... I was able to add graphs to track how many clients are on each of our individual access points.
So far I think it's working, even if it is a pain to calculate which AP MAC address translates to which OID.... _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium@observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium
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