Yep, and if I hadn't wouldn't that mean the manual add would fail?

Emma

> -----Original Message-----
> From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of

> Markus Klock
> Sent: 04 June 2014 12:35
> To: Observium Network Observation System
> Subject: Re: [Observium] DNS Aliases
>

> Have you added the ip-range of the hosts to the list of ip-ranges that should
> be autodiscovered?
>
> /Markus
>
>
> 2014-06-04 13:32 GMT+02:00 Cardinal-Richards, Emma <e.cardinal-

> richards@ucl.ac.uk <mailto:e.cardinal-richards@ucl.ac.uk> >:

>
>
>       Just ran a debug on discovery from a particular host, and I can see
> devices getting discovered and resolved correctly.  But a discovery -h all
> didn't add them as new devices?  Am I wrong about when the autodiscover
> and subsequent add should happen?  They do allow me to add them
> manually but we're talking hundreds of switches...
>
>       Cheers,
>       Emma
>
>
>       > -----Original Message-----
>       > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org
> <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org> ] On Behalf Of
>
>       > Cardinal-Richards, Emma
>       > Sent: 04 June 2014 12:08
>       > To: Observium Network Observation System
>       > Subject: Re: [Observium] DNS Aliases
>       >
>
>       > 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
>       >
>
>
>       > > -----Original Message-----
>       > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org
> <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?
>       > > >
>       > > > Regards,
>       > > > Emma
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