Sorry, I meant that the alias (which matches the device hostname) is a CNAME pointing to the A record address which resolves the IP.
Regards, Emma
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-----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom Laermans Sent: 04 June 2014 11:57 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] DNS Aliases
Hi Emma,
I'm not sure what you mean by "main resolvable hostname" and "alias" ?
For autodiscovery you obviously need to be able to resolve the hostname the device is broadcasting.
Tom
On 06/04/2014 11:53 AM, Cardinal-Richards, Emma wrote:
Hi,
I understand that Observium needs the hostnames to be valid, so we
tweaked our hosts file with a regex to add an alias to match the device hostnames (as our initial names had some extra info in the names not on the hosts). But this appears to allow me to add devices manually but autodiscovery doesn't seem to be working. Does Observium need it to be the 'main' resolvable hostname rather than an alias?
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