OK, so it is possible. Great! I haven’t been able to have devices automatically get added to the devices list yet, but I’d like it to operate that way.

I have a some switch named mkas0001 and mkas0002 in SNMP. I can ping mkas0001 and mkas0001.mka.com, yet the switches never automatically populate into the device list. Dig for mkas0001 does require +search be appended to the command. I wonder if the SNMP names need to be fully qualified?? I didn’t try that.

Under Network-SNMP I have v2c specified as the version to use and have specified the community name. I don’t have OSPF neighbors enabled under Device Autodiscovery. Maybe another thing to try.

Thanks for the confirmation and ideas! Greatly appreciated!!

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IT Director

Magnusson Klemencic Associates

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From: observium <observium-bounces@observium.org> On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong via observium
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 3:24 PM
To: 'Observium' <observium@observium.org>
Cc: Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org>
Subject: Re: [Observium] Auto Discovery

Hi,

There are a few autodiscovery mechanisms, most use a discovery protocol like CDP/LLDP or rely on OSPF.

It’s a bit picky about what it’ll discover, it likes the device’s sysName returned from SNMP to be resolvable in DNS, to cut down on duplication and false positives.

You should be able to enable it in the configuration settings for autodiscovery.

Adam.

From: observium <observium-bounces@observium.org> On Behalf Of Adam R. Koczarski via observium
Sent: 23 April 2019 22:36
To: Observium <observium@observium.org>
Cc: Adam R. Koczarski <akoczarski@mka.com>
Subject: [Observium] Auto Discovery

Hello,

I’m new to this group and to Observium. A friend turned me on to it a few weeks ago.

I have Observium 19.3.9774 running on Ubuntu 18.04.2LTS. Everything is working great! I’ve added my switches and LLDP and SNMP data is flowing in and all of the cross-references have been established.

My question pertains to adding new devices. I can successfully add new devices via the GUI or the CLI as described in the documentation. My friend was telling me he <thinks> devices can be detected and added to the device list automatically via some sort of discovery?? Is this a thing or is he pulling my leg?

Thanks!

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Adam Koczarski P.E., S.E.

IT Director

Magnusson Klemencic Associates

1301 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3200

Seattle, WA  98101-2699

United States

Direct:   +1 206 215 8365

Main:    +1 206 292 1200

LinkedIn  |  Facebook  |  www.MKA.com

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