It's unlikely we'd "pollute" the entity_name with an external arbitrary string, but this is a good candidate for entity_descr to be passed through and sent in notifications.
I don't think we currently do this, but it's useful for port entity type too.
Adam.
-----Original Message----- From: observium observium-bounces@observium.org On Behalf Of Steffen Klemer via observium Sent: 29 March 2022 12:55 To: observium@observium.org Cc: Steffen Klemer steffen.klemer@gwdg.de Subject: Re: [Observium] Add peer-name to BGP notifications
Customers and colleagues are away and you get the time to make up your mind for x-mas wishes :D :D.
Am Di, 29.03.2022 um 00:32 schrieb Adam Armstrong via observium observium@observium.org:
2 days before Christmas 😅
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On 28 Mar 2022, at 21:59, Steffen Klemer via observium observium@observium.org wrote:
Are we really the only ones interested in more informative BGP alerts?
Steffen
Am Do, 23.12.2021 um 10:23 schrieb Steffen Klemer via observium observium@observium.org:
Hey there,
for some reasons not everyone of us is fluent with IPs and AS numbers so I'd like to propose to add some kind of descriptive info to the routing alerts. For us sth. like:
/var/www/observium/includes/entities.inc.php:1789
$entity['entity_name'] = "AS".$entity['bgpPeerRemoteAs'] ." ". $addr ." ". $entity['reverse_dns'];
would be a good enough/great solution.
Merry Christmas for everyone celebrating it and/or some calm days from Göttingen, Germany.
Steffen
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