I would like to have more information in my email alert messages. - Adding the names to DNS or hosts file does not currently give enough information.
I was hoping that someone here already knows where this template file is located
😊 (and I would back that file up before modifying it
😉).
Best regards
Risto
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 22:03:41 +0200
From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans@powersource.cx>
Subject: Re: [Observium] ***SPAM*** Re: Changing Observium alert message contents
I would personally just add host names into DNS but we've had this discussion for 10 years now :D
If you can't find the template you'd better not change it as you may have issues resolving conflicts upon upgrades...
Tom
On 7/17/2020 7:34 PM, adama--- via observium wrote:
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> Why do you think manually setting the (almost entirely unused)
> description field is less work than adding hostnames to /etc/hosts?
>
> Adam.
>
> *From:*observium <observium-bounces@observium.org> *On Behalf Of
> *Risto Jürisson via observium
> *Sent:* 17 July 2020 14:44
> *To:* observium@observium.org
> *Cc:* Risto Jürisson <risto@blueit.ee>
> *Subject:* Re: [Observium] Changing Observium alert message contents
>
> Hi
>
> Your solution does work for changing the name from IP address to
> hostname. (In the picture below I removed the device from web
> interface and readded it so the history got deleted.)
>
> What I can see is that the Device name is now in 3 places where
> previously the IP address was: Email Title, Entity and Device.
>
> As we also have very many network devices that we want to monitor then
> we think that adding all those IP addresses with hostnames manually to
> the DNS (or hosts file) is not very practical, especially if we need
> to to it also with future devices.
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> Maybe there still is a possibility that we can change the email
> contents with some other fields: adding Description, Location or
> something like that?
>
> Someone maybe knows where this template config file is located?
>
> Best regards
>
> Risto
>
> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:28:00 +0200
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> From: Markus Klock <markus@best-practice.se
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> To: Observium <observium@observium.org
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> Hi,
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> the best way is to monitor the device via its hostname instead of IP.
>
> Login to the Observium server CLI and use the script
> "rename_device.php <old_name> <new_name>" where the old name is the
> device IP and the new name is the hostname.
>
> This will rename the device in Observium to its real hostname and the
> poller will just resolve its dns name to find the IP to poll.
>
> All the historic data for the device will remain.
>
> /Markus
>
> Den tors 16 juli 2020 kl 14:01 skrev Risto Jürisson via observium <
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> observium@observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org>>:
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> > Hi
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> > This is my first message to this list. I also wrote to the IRC on
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> > different days, but the web-based IRC client is not really good as
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> > information goes missing after disconnecting and relogging.
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> > We have Observium running on Ubuntu 16.04 and are monitoring
> > different
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> > Windows servers and also some network devices. Below there is a pic
> > of
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> > an alert for a Mikrotik wifi device that has gone down. We added the
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> > device to Observium via IP and therefore we also see the Device name
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> > with the IP address. Sadly we do not remember all the devices via
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> > their IP, but rather their hostname or description.
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> >
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> > I have set human-friendly names on the observium web interface to
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> > device „System name“ value and also under „General Device Settings“
> > to
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> > „Description“ value. – *Is there a possibility to add those fields
> > to
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> > the email report and where should I do this?*
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> >
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> > From IRC channel I got an answer that the email template can be
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> > changed for the Observium Pro version but I do not know where to
> > find
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> > this config file. This can not be done in the web interface as I understand.
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> > (I also have questions on how to monitor services on Windows Server
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> > but I think that is via SNMP and specific OID/MIB´s. So I will look
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> > into that myself first.)
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> > Best regards
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> > Risto