I've started you use Observium mand must say I'm very impressed :-). Very useful and comfortable tool

I have question regarding the autodiscovery feature. I read the do here , http://www.observium.org/wiki/Device_Autodiscovery, and one of the condition is that sysName and device name must be same, or resolvable.

In our scalable design all over the world it is very difficult, cause there are about 80 domains and strong of the domain itself takes about 20 characters, so we use only hostname resolvable via /etc/hosts. We also cannot use DNS, cause AD DNS is processed by the other department ( in Asia :-) , and it would take a weeks to synchronize it.

So the question is, how can i workaround the auto discovery without same sysName and the hostname ? As far as get it, sysName only  contains the domain extension of the hostname.

we have about 300 routers/switches, so we want to discover them automatically.

many thanks

Pet