Just because the IP is not stored, doesn’t mean Observium does not use it.    Arguing that a TCP/IP communication device doesn’t us IP is an idiots argument.And with that, I’ll go back to lurking because its not worth wasting my breath.

Another vote for displaying the resolved IP address of the device as part of the device page.

From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom Laermans
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2016 11:27 AM
To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org>
Subject: Re: [Observium] Small feature request

Ok, that data is not stored at all, so yes, Observium does not use IP addresses. You can keep arguing all you want, and it's totally irrelevant to the mail thread anyway, but Observium does not use IP addresses as such to communicate with devices.

Tom

On 08/11/2016 17:42, John Simino wrote:

I’m not arguing with you about what value you pass as data to a function.   I am arguing that the ip is available as data, it is gathered at several points as evidenced by the use of the php function gethostbyname.

From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom Laermans
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2016 10:21 AM
To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org>
Subject: Re: [Observium] Small feature request

Sorry, we really don't use IP addresses. We pass the hostname as configured to the snmpget/walk/... functions.

Tom

On 11/08/2016 02:48 PM, John Simino wrote:

Well, the funnier thing is...Observium can't talk to anything without IP so this argument doesn’t go very far.  Look, I'm not challenging the religion of Observium. I actually don’t mind that it wants to use hostnames.  Its cleaner and clearer.  But it’s a false argument that Observium doesn’t use IP addresses.
 
Several functions are going to great lengths to obtain the piece of information.  It just needs to be recorded and displayed.