Hi Adrien,
The only way we'd likely implement this would be to have a separate set of entities, completely separate to devices, so that we didn't have to double our code with a billion if()s.
Personally, I think the best way to do it is just with an external script and/or smokeping or something similar. You'll get the smokeping graphs in Observium, so you'd be half way there.
I'm not sure if smokeping will alert on failure/drops/high rtt, but I can't imagine no one has written that already!
We're pretty much at the conclusion that SNMP is an eternal prerequisite for devices being polled by Observium. The Linux Agent and WMI support helps improve data or fill in gaps, but SNMP will probably never be optional.
adam.
On 2014-01-28 03:40, BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] wrote:
Hi all !
I know that I ask about a lot of functionalities … but you like me for that :-)
So I'll to be as clear as possible (and as "English" as possible …).
Is it possible to add a new kind of device that is only polled with ping ? The primary goal is to know when distant server (hosted by partners) aren't reachable without asking to have access to their snmp daemon and community …
I imagine that it can be a huge work because it needs to bypass a lot of code but you could have think about it … ? To be simple for everyone, this kind of device can be a new sort of server but without any snmp information (no device panel / no ports panel, etc…) and just be polled by the ping. And when a hosts is down the alerter send a mail / trap and the index.php put an information box to warn on "device down" like any others hosts.
Sincerely,
Adrien Bertrand - Information Security Administrator
BPCE Assurances, 88 av de France 75013 Paris
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