Yeah, we have a custom interactive database that we use to track, provision, reclaim IP addresses on the network.

I am ideally looking to ensure that this is not a manual task that someone has to update on a semi-regular basis.

I think from the responces I have received on a number of forums that what I want to achieve is not currently available on any DNS management platforms.

Ill continue to play with observium in our DC and see if it warrents the extra work for us to use it globally.

Thanks for all the input.  You guys are legends.

From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong
Sent: 28 January 2016 19:56
To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org>
Subject: Re: [Observium] Hostname change

Hmm. I use Ip addresses all the time, it works for me.

Adam.

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On 28 Jan 2016, at 19:55, Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> wrote:

On 28 Jan 2016, at 19:32, Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org> wrote:

If you have about 10k devices, do you have some existing database/spreadsheet/etc of ips and device names?

You could mangle this and dump it into a dns zone, making sure it keep it updated.

I guess it may be useful for the enterprise/paid version to also allow raw IP addressed to be added with the ‘addhost’ script; or even entire ranges; even if there is absolutely no (reverse) DNS at all.

Right now you have to fiddle quite a bit to work around the ‘no such hostname’.

Dw.

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