New user - I apologize in advance if I am asking stupid questions
Greetings,
I've recently installed observium and find that it is a great tool. Kudos for developing something so useful and easy to use.
I do have a couple of questions.
I desire to set the device_id for some of the devices to a specific value. This is not supported in the interface. It looks like I *should* be able to modify the code to allow me to do this, but before I do I wanted to check and see if there is already a way for me to accomplish this without having to modify the code.
I also desire to be able to add devices programatically via an API call from an external system. I looked over the existing simple API (not extensively) but it didn't seem like that was possible.
So basically I want to be able to do something like: http://myserver/api.php?mydetails&including&device_id and have it add the device while specifying the device_id. Is that possible? If not, I'm probably going to build it.
Thanks, Rich
Hi,
device_id isn't set by anything other than MySQL, it's the primary key on the devices table.
adam. On 26/03/2015 17:06:58, Rich Elwell relwell@devnullsecurity.com wrote: Greetings,
I've recently installed observium and find that it is a great tool. Kudos for developing something so useful and easy to use.
I do have a couple of questions.
I desire to set the device_id for some of the devices to a specific value. This is not supported in the interface. It looks like I should be able to modify the code to allow me to do this, but before I do I wanted to check and see if there is already a way for me to accomplish this without having to modify the code.
I also desire to be able to add devices programatically via an API call from an external system. I looked over the existing simple API (not extensively) but it didn't seem like that was possible.
So basically I want to be able to do something like: http://myserver/api.php?mydetails&including&device_id [http://myserver/api.php?mydetails&including&device_id] and have it add the device while specifying the device_id. Is that possible? If not, I'm probably going to build it.
Thanks,
Rich
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Thanks for the quick response. Would it be a horrible idea to set the device_id to match the numbers we already use to identify the devices?
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org wrote:
Hi,
device_id isn't set by anything other than MySQL, it's the primary key on the devices table.
adam.
On 26/03/2015 17:06:58, Rich Elwell relwell@devnullsecurity.com wrote: Greetings,
I've recently installed observium and find that it is a great tool. Kudos for developing something so useful and easy to use.
I do have a couple of questions.
I desire to set the device_id for some of the devices to a specific value. This is not supported in the interface. It looks like I *should* be able to modify the code to allow me to do this, but before I do I wanted to check and see if there is already a way for me to accomplish this without having to modify the code.
I also desire to be able to add devices programatically via an API call from an external system. I looked over the existing simple API (not extensively) but it didn't seem like that was possible.
So basically I want to be able to do something like: http://myserver/api.php?mydetails&including&device_id and have it add the device while specifying the device_id. Is that possible? If not, I'm probably going to build it.
Thanks, Rich
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Yes. Don't mess with primary keys.
This is best accomplished either by using the hostname for identification or by having a separate lookup table somewhere.
The existing "api" is an external contribution and isn't supported by us. We have a new REST API in development which should appear soon...
Adam.
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On 26 March 2015 17:18:16 Rich Elwell relwell@devnullsecurity.com wrote:
Thanks for the quick response. Would it be a horrible idea to set the device_id to match the numbers we already use to identify the devices?
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org wrote:
Hi,
device_id isn't set by anything other than MySQL, it's the primary key on the devices table.
adam.
On 26/03/2015 17:06:58, Rich Elwell relwell@devnullsecurity.com wrote: Greetings,
I've recently installed observium and find that it is a great tool. Kudos for developing something so useful and easy to use.
I do have a couple of questions.
I desire to set the device_id for some of the devices to a specific value. This is not supported in the interface. It looks like I *should* be able to modify the code to allow me to do this, but before I do I wanted to check and see if there is already a way for me to accomplish this without having to modify the code.
I also desire to be able to add devices programatically via an API call from an external system. I looked over the existing simple API (not extensively) but it didn't seem like that was possible.
So basically I want to be able to do something like: http://myserver/api.php?mydetails&including&device_id and have it add the device while specifying the device_id. Is that possible? If not, I'm probably going to build it.
Thanks, Rich
-- Rich Elwell, MS, CISSP, GCIA, CCNA, CCNA Security
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Do you have an estimate for when the REST API will be available. Will that be a professional edition only feature?
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Adam Armstronf adama@memetic.org wrote:
Yes. Don't mess with primary keys.
This is best accomplished either by using the hostname for identification or by having a separate lookup table somewhere.
The existing "api" is an external contribution and isn't supported by us. We have a new REST API in development which should appear soon...
Adam.
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On 26 March 2015 17:18:16 Rich Elwell relwell@devnullsecurity.com wrote:
Thanks for the quick response. Would it be a horrible idea to set the device_id to match the numbers we already use to identify the devices?
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org wrote:
Hi,
device_id isn't set by anything other than MySQL, it's the primary key on the devices table.
adam.
On 26/03/2015 17:06:58, Rich Elwell relwell@devnullsecurity.com wrote: Greetings,
I've recently installed observium and find that it is a great tool. Kudos for developing something so useful and easy to use.
I do have a couple of questions.
I desire to set the device_id for some of the devices to a specific value. This is not supported in the interface. It looks like I *should* be able to modify the code to allow me to do this, but before I do I wanted to check and see if there is already a way for me to accomplish this without having to modify the code.
I also desire to be able to add devices programatically via an API call from an external system. I looked over the existing simple API (not extensively) but it didn't seem like that was possible.
So basically I want to be able to do something like: http://myserver/api.php?mydetails&including&device_id and have it add the device while specifying the device_id. Is that possible? If not, I'm probably going to build it.
Thanks, Rich
-- Rich Elwell, MS, CISSP, GCIA, CCNA, CCNA Security
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Yup, pro only. Not sure when it'll be ready, I might release parts of it as it's finished rather than waiting until it's all complete.
We generally keep features which are only useful to commercial organisations in the pro version.
adam.
On 26/03/2015 19:27:38, Rich Elwell relwell@devnullsecurity.com wrote: Do you have an estimate for when the REST API will be available. Will that be a professional edition only feature?
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Adam Armstronf <adama@memetic.org [mailto:adama@memetic.org]> wrote:
Yes. Don't mess with primary keys. This is best accomplished either by using the hostname for identification or by having a separate lookup table somewhere. The existing "api" is an external contribution and isn't supported by us. We have a new REST API in development which should appear soon... Adam. Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com [http://www.aqua-mail.com] On 26 March 2015 17:18:16 Rich Elwell <relwell@devnullsecurity.com [mailto:relwell@devnullsecurity.com]> wrote: Thanks for the quick response. Would it be a horrible idea to set the device_id to match the numbers we already use to identify the devices?
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org [mailto:adama@memetic.org]> wrote:
Hi,
device_id isn't set by anything other than MySQL, it's the primary key on the devices table.
adam. On 26/03/2015 17:06:58, Rich Elwell <relwell@devnullsecurity.com [mailto:relwell@devnullsecurity.com]> wrote: Greetings,
I've recently installed observium and find that it is a great tool. Kudos for developing something so useful and easy to use.
I do have a couple of questions.
I desire to set the device_id for some of the devices to a specific value. This is not supported in the interface. It looks like I should be able to modify the code to allow me to do this, but before I do I wanted to check and see if there is already a way for me to accomplish this without having to modify the code.
I also desire to be able to add devices programatically via an API call from an external system. I looked over the existing simple API (not extensively) but it didn't seem like that was possible.
So basically I want to be able to do something like: http://myserver/api.php?mydetails&including&device_id [http://myserver/api.php?mydetails&including&device_id] and have it add the device while specifying the device_id. Is that possible? If not, I'm probably going to build it.
Thanks,
Rich
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