Can the IP addresses be changed to resolvable names, or is the strategy to nuke the entry and start over? I've made the same bonehead move for several entries.

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Dan Letkeman <danletkeman@gmail.com> wrote:

I guess its too late, because I already added them and made the excuses.  Now I have something to fix. :)

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org> wrote:

Don't add things by IP address.

Don't make nonsense excuses either. If you have to, use /etc/hosts.

Putting ip addresses into observium is inexcusable in virtually all instances.

Adam.

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On 8 Feb 2017, at 20:05, Dan Letkeman <danletkeman@gmail.com> wrote:

"Devices are identified by hostname"

^^^^  Thats the problem.  There is none.

I'm looking for an alternative way to identify the device in observium because they are added by IP address.  For many, many reasons we don't use DNS on these devices, which I really don't want to get into.  But it looks like that will be the only option at this point.

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org> wrote:

You are trying to solve a problem which doesn't exist.

Devices are identified by hostname.

sysName is just an ancillary piece of information which is used for dupe detection and auto detection. It's not useful for humans, really.

Adam.

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On 8 Feb 2017, at 19:21, Dan Letkeman <danletkeman@gmail.com> wrote:

Because SNMP on these devices is unable to get any identifiable name such as Device Name, System Name or Host Name.

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org> wrote:

Why would you want to?

Adam.

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On 8 Feb 2017, at 18:50, Dan Letkeman <danletkeman@gmail.com> wrote:

We have many Ricoh printers and copiers.  Because SNMP is horrible on these devices I am unable to set the System Name (sysName).  Is there a way to set this manually in Observium?

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