RRDNS is generally a mechanism used to hold up a service. Since Observium is not a service checker, this will probably never work the way you want. Observium's design goals are to monitor devices, so best practices for its use would be to monitor the real devices within the RR.
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On Mar 11, 2016, at 7:33 AM, Louis Bailleul Louis.Bailleul@pgs.com wrote:
Hi,
I have some devices that are configured with a round robin DNS entry. I believe that as we are running lldp on servers too, the auto discovery pick them up and add them.
But as the picture below shows, this is pretty much useless as each polling end up on a different server. (You can see that the sysdescr and sysname contains contradictory data : lxfer01 and lxfer02)
Would it be possible to detect that the FQDN is a round robin alias and avoid adding it as a new device ? And it would be perfect if it could be the same for CNAME as well, as it is not really worthwhile having Observium polling a node for each of its aliases.
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Best regards, Louis
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