The original design of Observium was to enforce valid hostnames. We no longer enforce this for adding devices (because some networks are run by insane people who like looking at huge lists of nearly identical IPs), but a lot of the autodiscovery code still uses sysName and forward dns lookups to verify if a device should really be autodiscovered.
Changing this behaviour would involve time, so one would have to be persuasive with one's justification. :>
adam.
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Sent: 2018-04-16 11:10:03
Subject: [Observium] Autodiscover - LLDP discovery
Hello
Is it possible for Observium to add devices based on the management address that is returned by LLDP if SysName does not resolve? Don’t get me wrong, we use DNS, but sometimes a customer network is not known to us
Regards
Christian