Remy,
I recommend running a local caching-only DNS server on Observium. My reason is because Observium was sending hundreds of DNS requests per second at my DNS server. But it would also solve your use-case of a DNS server outage (which should never happen with multiple DNS servers, right?) :)
Tristan
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Remy Lambert Remy.Lambert@remabec.com wrote:
Agreed with you on the first point, but for DNS I’m not.
If your DNS server fail you cannot continue to monitor your network?
*De :* observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] *De la part de* Phillip Baker *Envoyé :* 4 juin 2015 19:19 *À :* Observium Network Observation System *Objet :* Re: [Observium] Demo
Bad news on both counts:
There are no trials of the pro edition available available (the community edition gives you enough of an idea if it will “work” in principle, and a pro licence is not really a big-ticket purchase, there is no sensible way to do trials of a product that is provided open source) and No: it is the observium team’s not-unreasonable belief that you should have DNS on your management network to map device hostnames to and from.
If you really don’t want to do DNS, you’ll have to edit /etc/hosts on your observium server to add entries for the devices you want to monitor, and then add those.
Phil
*From:* observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org observium-bounces@observium.org] *On Behalf Of *Remy Lambert *Sent:* 04 June 2015 23:38 *To:* observium@observium.org *Subject:* [Observium] Demo
Is it possible to have a complete trial of the subscription version ?
Also, I would like to know if observium can be configure so I can just put an IP address when adding a device instead of a hostname?
Thanks in advance!
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