Some examples:


- All devices of type X in the network

- All devices in room Y

- All devices of type X in datacentre Z.

- All devices in the first cabinet of each cabinet row in the network

- All ports used by customer XYZ

- All network items ordered in 2014

- You name it, it really depends on how good people are with setting up their conventions.


I can already do all of the above filtering, thanks to your groups system.


However, tell me if I'm wrong, the filters and the search function are not looking for vlan details.

Some networks have thousands of vlans and it might be handy to have a search/grouping for that too.


Cheers,

Marco


From: observium <observium-bounces@observium.org> on behalf of Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org>
Sent: 12 November 2014 23:23
To: Observium Network Observation System
Subject: Re: [Observium] Groups
 

This was one of my ideas too. Using groups to replace  device type.

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On 12 November 2014 15:54:15 "Pedersen, Sean" <spedersen@io.com> wrote:

> - Matching group in alert checkers

Oh my god, yes.

Another suggestion/nice-to-have would be the ability to group devices, ports, etc. and then generate menu items – replacing the interface description parser. Instead of writing a custom parser, you can just use the built-in matching functions that already exist for Alerts. Though the custom parser does leave some more room for more complicated regex.

From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans@powersource.cx>
Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org>
Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at 2:46 PM
To: Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org>, Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org>
Subject: Re: [Observium] Groups

Here are some pointers:

- Device dropdown (instead of types perhaps?)
- Matching group in alert checkers
- Access granting for users complementing the device-based ones
- Alerting address/contact per group
- ...

Yes, yes, I know... "get on it". :P

Tom

On 12/11/2014 22:15, Adam Armstrong wrote:
The groups system exists simply because it was a relatively "quick win" by re-using the alerting system's association code. I'm not entirely sure what I would expect it to be used for. I didn't really get that far!
 
I had started adding group filtering abilities to the device and ports pages, which sort of does part of what you want, especially if it was expanded to other entity types.
 
Having fully customisable pages is still something I really have no idea how to do, but I think we *should* do, somehow.
 
adam.
 
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From: "Milton Ngan" <milton@valvesoftware.com>
Sent: 11/11/2014 3:52:25 PM
Subject: [Observium] Groups
 
What is the intention of the groups feature? It seems like a really powerful way to group stuff together and have interesting views of things. But right now it just generates a list of entities that you can click through or hover over. I took a look at the code that generates all the various graph layouts (iftypes, health, ports). It seems that every page has its own code for handling the graph layout. It seem like this would be a great place to leverage a bunch of the existing code so you can create group specific views of sensors, ports etc... But it doesn't look like the code is structured that way (i.e reusable components/widgets). 

The standard views are good, but I want to be able to see them on a per datacenter/region basis rather than globally. The global view is visually interesting/pretty it is less useful. 


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