Friendly names for devices/hosts and interfaces/ports
Hi, is there any option to add friendly names to hosts and interfaces? For example, our hostnames are normalized (lx0001), so I would like to show them in Observium as pro-jboss-1, px-mysql-3, dev-apache-6, etc. and see them in all places, next to the hostname, Is this possible? The same for host interfaces, por example, eth0 or eno16780032 to be shown as "service", "management", "backend", "backup", "storage", etc.
We have a paid subscription, is there any kind of development included?
Hi Juan,
The subscription only covers the software license itself, there's no support or development time included (99% of people have no need of this, so it would be silly to increase the price to include it).
You seem to be trying to fix an internal policy problem by creating lots of additional work. The correct solution to your problem is to adopt a non-ridiculous naming scheme for your servers! :D
As for ports, you can either set ifAlias on the devices themselves where support or on Linux use a script to inject ifAlias into net-snmp. For devices which have no support for setting ifAlias, we'll be adding the ability to override it sometime in the near future.
Thanks, adam. On 29/01/2016 16:04:11, Juan Asensio Sánchez okelet@gmail.com wrote: Hi, is there any option to add friendly names to hosts and interfaces? For example, our hostnames are normalized (lx0001), so I would like to show them in Observium as pro-jboss-1, px-mysql-3, dev-apache-6, etc. and see them in all places, next to the hostname, Is this possible? The same for host interfaces, por example, eth0 or eno16780032 to be shown as "service", "management", "backend", "backup", "storage", etc.
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On Jan 29, 2016, at 09:03 , Juan Asensio Sánchez okelet@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, is there any option to add friendly names to hosts and interfaces?
FWIW, I had a similar thought when adding my own items because we don’t use DNS resolution. I got around this need ultimately by doing two things: 1) changing the identity of the device and 2) updating the SNMP location to include some specifics before the address.
The only place this doesn’t work out perfectly (but it still works) is for alerts. We’ll get an email entitled (for example) “RECOVER: [10.30.28.1] [device] Device down alert” and have to open it to see the location string so we know exactly what’s down (or recovered as in this example).
Use /etc/hosts to give meaningful names to your devices, even if you don't use DNS.
adam. On 29/01/2016 17:03:15, Joey Stanford joey@stan4d.net wrote:
On Jan 29, 2016, at 09:03 , Juan Asensio Sánchez wrote:
Hi, is there any option to add friendly names to hosts and interfaces?
FWIW, I had a similar thought when adding my own items because we don’t use DNS resolution. I got around this need ultimately by doing two things: 1) changing the identity of the device and 2) updating the SNMP location to include some specifics before the address.
The only place this doesn’t work out perfectly (but it still works) is for alerts. We’ll get an email entitled (for example) “RECOVER: [10.30.28.1] [device] Device down alert” and have to open it to see the location string so we know exactly what’s down (or recovered as in this example). _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium@observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium
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