Hi,

There are a few autodiscovery mechanisms, most use a discovery protocol like CDP/LLDP or rely on OSPF.

It’s a bit picky about what it’ll discover, it likes the device’s sysName returned from SNMP to be resolvable in DNS, to cut down on duplication and false positives.

You should be able to enable it in the configuration settings for autodiscovery.

Adam.

From: observium <observium-bounces@observium.org> On Behalf Of Adam R. Koczarski via observium
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Subject: [Observium] Auto Discovery

Hello,

I’m new to this group and to Observium. A friend turned me on to it a few weeks ago.

I have Observium 19.3.9774 running on Ubuntu 18.04.2LTS. Everything is working great! I’ve added my switches and LLDP and SNMP data is flowing in and all of the cross-references have been established.

My question pertains to adding new devices. I can successfully add new devices via the GUI or the CLI as described in the documentation. My friend was telling me he <thinks> devices can be detected and added to the device list automatically via some sort of discovery?? Is this a thing or is he pulling my leg?

Thanks!

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