The funny thing is, you can actually add by IP, you just have to trick the system in to resolving IPs! :D
Adam
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On May 9, 2016, 18:26, at 18:26, Spencer Ryan sryan@arbor.net wrote:
10 minutes, one script to add all the names to /etc/hosts
You've spent more time explaining why you don't want to do it than you could have just doing it.
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On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Claudionei Mendes < claudionei.mendes@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't think it's my personal option. It's a use case that many
Service
Providers as us, have.
You have two Scenarios that are not that simple as it looks.
We have important devices. Ok. We need host names, but and for
temporary
devices, as an CPE.
Can you imagine the work you are giving to us? Or to any ISP that
cares
about the customer?
It's impossible that only us, as ISP serve temporary events. Don't
you
think?
In my opinion, and it's not hard to implement, you should think in
this
scenarios. It won't cost nothing to have both options, IP and Host
name.
Every monitoring system you search, won't have this limitation.
Adam. It's not my problem. It's what you said. It's a different
scenario
that is not implemented in the system.
Can't you see how many people are complaining about this issue?
Observium is a great software as I could see until now.
Congratulations,
But, please, think about this situation. In three days there are
three
people having this difficult. How many people, do you think, simply
have
given up thinking it's a bug on the software, just because, sometimes
it
add devices by IP and sometimes it cannot solve the host name?
Many customers do not complain, they simply turn around and go away. Does that complain, it's because really like your work, and wants it better.
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You're trying very hard to come up with scenarios that people have already given you solutions for.
Observium's target market is primarily service providers and
enterprise
with large networks.
Many of our SP customers like the features we have which enforce
good
operational practice.
If Observium works for you and you're not in that segment, that's
fine.
However, we can't and won't compromise SP-centric design decisions because users outside of our target market don't like them.
Write a script which takes an Ip, puts a dummy entry in to
/etc/hosts and
adds the dummy entry. 5 seconds, done.
It's you who need to solve the problem of your unusual use case, not
us
who need to accommodate it.
There is actually a way to trick Observium in to allowing you to add
by
IP. I use it for temporary devices, and it most definitely involves
DNS. ;)
Adam.
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On May 9, 2016, 17:37, at 17:37, Claudionei Mendes < claudionei.mendes@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Everybody,
I would like to give an example, and I want, mainly the developers
of
observium to think well on this situation.
We often serve temporary events arround, and we need to add this devices for monitoring in somewhere.
Now imagine, every weekend, add to host files, IP address to
temporary
devices. Ok, use always the same IP. Right.
In one event we use 5 devices, in another 8.
And what if we have 2 or more events at the same time?
What if my DNS server, that is a monitored server as well fails?
All my monitoring will stop?
IP address is faster and more reliable than Hostnames.
I would like you to think about adding devices just by hostname. We have 3000 devices on the network that we would like to add. But none of
them
need registered hostname. For this we have SNMP. They are end
devices.
They need to be monitored to order history and reports, but do not need
DNS
Names.
Important devices have the hostname on the DNS, but any monitoring services we used before, we added the devices by hostname. IP is faster.
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Message: 1 Date: Sat, 07 May 2016 19:01:38 +0300 From: Nurbek Suleimanov nurbek@suleimanov.org To: observium@observium.org Subject: [Observium] Could not resolve Message-ID: 1462636898.127896886@f371.i.mail.ru Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Hi, I want to add the host , and Oservium said Could not resolve
10.30.1.1
I check fping & snmp as writed your side.
http://www.observium.org/docs/add_device/#troubleshooting
It all work, w hat could be the reason
Thanks
Best regard, Suleimanov Nurbek