Yes. Don't mess with primary keys.
This is best accomplished either by using the hostname for identification or by having a separate lookup table somewhere.
The existing "api" is an external contribution and isn't supported by us. We have a new REST API in development which should appear soon...
Adam.
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On 26 March 2015 17:18:16 Rich Elwell relwell@devnullsecurity.com wrote:
Thanks for the quick response. Would it be a horrible idea to set the device_id to match the numbers we already use to identify the devices?
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org wrote:
Hi,
device_id isn't set by anything other than MySQL, it's the primary key on the devices table.
adam.
On 26/03/2015 17:06:58, Rich Elwell relwell@devnullsecurity.com wrote: Greetings,
I've recently installed observium and find that it is a great tool. Kudos for developing something so useful and easy to use.
I do have a couple of questions.
I desire to set the device_id for some of the devices to a specific value. This is not supported in the interface. It looks like I *should* be able to modify the code to allow me to do this, but before I do I wanted to check and see if there is already a way for me to accomplish this without having to modify the code.
I also desire to be able to add devices programatically via an API call from an external system. I looked over the existing simple API (not extensively) but it didn't seem like that was possible.
So basically I want to be able to do something like: http://myserver/api.php?mydetails&including&device_id and have it add the device while specifying the device_id. Is that possible? If not, I'm probably going to build it.
Thanks, Rich
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