On May 8, 2016, at 8:11 PM, ron@rjr-services.com mailto:ron@rjr-services.com wrote: It made me be a better network architect.

aye, Ron.

this.

THIS.

A Thousand Times, This.

<oldgrump>

perhaps, albeit dimly, hostnames might not be "necessary" for SNMP, in the shameful besotted hipster world where "zOMG it works!" equals "it's good enough!"

but goddammit they *are* necessary for QUALITY OF THE ENGINEERED ENVIRONMENT, and (imo) one of the marks of a competent craftsman.

*not* having them screams "SLOPPY"

moral: DON'T BE LAZY.

and don't foist such nasty bad habits upon those who would come after you.

for heaven's sake, there's already enough technical debt on our backs without suffering crap like that.

my greybeard might be showing here, but son, *every* allocated IP address should have a matching DNS entry.

every.

single.

one.

(bonus points if your As and PTRs match!)

a hundred beers to Adam for not backing down.

may we raise our glass in the barren remorse of Eternal September.

</oldgrump>

R.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

-------- Original message -------- From: Ivan Jukic <ijukic13@gmail.com mailto:ijukic13@gmail.com> Date: 05/08/2016 5:57 PM (GMT-07:00) To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot add Device by IP Address but can by hostname

Hostnames are not necessary when monitoring via SNMP, in fact IP Addresses are easier. Second we host many IP address ranges for our clients (Public and Private), so this will be a nightmare to manage. As they tend to change hostnames (and rightly so) all the time. Many of them have managed services.

Is adding devices via IP Address not the important to Observium Devs? I thought it would be a given, since many NMS platforms do this?

Cheers, Ivan