I’m not arguing with you about what value you pass as data to a function.   I am arguing that the ip is available as data, it is gathered at several points as evidenced by the use of the php function gethostbyname.

 

 

 

From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom Laermans
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2016 10:21 AM
To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org>
Subject: Re: [Observium] Small feature request

 

Sorry, we really don't use IP addresses. We pass the hostname as configured to the snmpget/walk/... functions.

Tom

On 11/08/2016 02:48 PM, John Simino wrote:

Well, the funnier thing is...Observium can't talk to anything without IP so this argument doesn’t go very far.  Look, I'm not challenging the religion of Observium. I actually don’t mind that it wants to use hostnames.  Its cleaner and clearer.  But it’s a false argument that Observium doesn’t use IP addresses.

Several functions are going to great lengths to obtain the piece of information.  It just needs to be recorded and displayed.