ifIndex persistence is a feature of the device's SNMP stack, and not really anything to do with us.

We did have a plan to switch Linux ports to using ifDescr for rrd naming, but that hasn't yet been implemented (it'd need a bunch of things to be changed, and we're not sure how reliable it'd be)

adam.

On 2019-02-13 16:26:22, Edvinas K via observium <observium@observium.org> wrote:

Thanks, 

Would be nice to hear something from Observium developers - as user of paid version i want to ask - if there any plans to develop the 'ifindex' persistance feature ?


On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 7:00 PM Darrell Budic <budic@onholyground.com> wrote:
I think I misunderstood what you were looking for, I read it as wanting persistent names, sorry.

I have it working on a Gentoo box, I think it would probably work on Centos with a few tweaks. Since it lets observium associate a name with the interface, in my experience means I don’t need to worry about the actual if index since groups could work on the names once I got it going. For me, it was Transit and Peering interfaces on a box acting as a router that I wanted to be identified.

I had more trouble with the engineID changing and causing rediscoveries, setting engineIDtype to 3 in snmpd.conf solved that for me. That was a long time ago, not sure it would even still be an issue.

On Feb 12, 2019, at 9:31 AM, Edvinas K <edvinas.email@gmail.com> wrote:

And btw. I don't understand how that Alias support would solve the problem ? If Observium sticks to ifindex how additional description would help ?

Thanks

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 1:55 PM Edvinas K <edvinas.email@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks, seems that addon is made only for Debian, if there anything working for Centos 7 ?

Thank you

On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 6:01 PM Darrell Budic <budic@onholyground.com> wrote:
See ifAlias support on the bottom of this page: https://docs.observium.org/device_linux/

On Feb 4, 2019, at 9:24 AM, Edvinas K via observium <observium@observium.org> wrote:

Hello,

Since we'all know that Linux is not having persistent port if Indexes, is there any quick-fix workaround to make the ifindexes stay after server reboot ? Observium wise or Linux wise ?

Thanks
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