I don't think it should be a requirement for autodiscovery, because that is the point, to autodiscover ;)
A new customer to us may not always have a well documented network, but we alteast got the SNMP community. If Observium adds the devices by IP, I get to chance to parse all sysNames, create DNS records
and then rename all devices
The most important part is to actually have the devices in Observium so we can start graphing and monitoring as quick as possbile after an install
The discovery.log will display what devices failed to autodiscover, but I have to login to that particular switch to get more information(tedious process)
Regards
Christian
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För Adam Armstrong
Skickat: den 16 april 2018 22:39
Till: Observium <observium@observium.org>
Ämne: Re: [Observium] Autodiscover - LLDP discovery
The original design of Observium was to enforce valid hostnames. We no longer enforce this for adding devices (because some networks are run by insane people who like looking
at huge lists of nearly identical IPs), but a lot of the autodiscovery code still uses sysName and forward dns lookups to verify if a device should really be autodiscovered.
Changing this behaviour would involve time, so one would have to be persuasive with one's justification. :>
adam.
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From: "Christian Eriksson" <christian.eriksson@advania.se>
Sent: 2018-04-16 11:10:03
Subject: [Observium] Autodiscover - LLDP discovery
Hello
Is it possible for Observium to add devices based on the management address that is returned by LLDP if SysName does not resolve? Don’t get me wrong, we use DNS, but sometimes a customer network is not known to us
Regards
Christian