Hi,
the best way is to monitor the device via its hostname instead of IP.
Login to the Observium server CLI and use the script "rename_device.php <old_name> <new_name>" where the old name is the device IP and the new name is the hostname.
This will rename the device in Observium to its real hostname and the poller will just resolve its dns name to find the IP to poll.
All the historic data for the device will remain.

/Markus

Den tors 16 juli 2020 kl 14:01 skrev Risto Jürisson via observium <observium@observium.org>:

Hi

 

This is my first message to this list. I also wrote to the IRC on different days, but the web-based IRC client is not really good as information goes missing after disconnecting and relogging.

 

We have Observium running on Ubuntu 16.04 and are monitoring different Windows servers and also some network devices. Below there is a pic of an alert for a Mikrotik wifi device that has gone down. We added the device to Observium via IP and therefore we also see the Device name with the IP address. Sadly we do not remember all the devices via their IP, but rather their hostname or description.

I have set human-friendly names on the observium web interface to device „System name“ value and also under „General Device Settings“ to „Description“ value. – Is there a possibility to add those fields to the email report and where should I do this?

From IRC channel I got an answer that the email template can be changed for the Observium Pro version but I do not know where to find this config file. This can not be done in the web interface as I understand.

 

 

(I also have questions on how to monitor services on Windows Server but I think that is via SNMP and specific OID/MIB´s. So I will look into that myself first.)

 

 

Best regards

 

Risto

IT-manager

risto@blueit.ee

 

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