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:
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.
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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Hi,
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 <
observium@observium.org mailto:observium@observium.org>:
Hi
This is my first message to this list. I also wrote to the IRC on
different days, but the web-based IRC client is not really good as
information goes missing after disconnecting and relogging.
We have Observium running on Ubuntu 16.04 and are monitoring different
Windows servers and also some network devices. Below there is a pic of
an alert for a Mikrotik wifi device that has gone down. We added the
device to Observium via IP and therefore we also see the Device name
with the IP address. Sadly we do not remember all the devices via
their IP, but rather their hostname or description.
I have set human-friendly names on the observium web interface to
device „System name“ value and also under „General Device Settings“ to
„Description“ value. – *Is there a possibility to add those fields to
the email report and where should I do this?*
From IRC channel I got an answer that the email template can be
changed for the Observium Pro version but I do not know where to find
this config file. This can not be done in the web interface as I understand.
(I also have questions on how to monitor services on Windows Server
but I think that is via SNMP and specific OID/MIB´s. So I will look
into that myself first.)
Best regards
Risto
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