Hiya,
We're just started using Observium and are quite impressed. We've added a few of our devices - just the key ones.
What were seeing is that for the devices they are missing some of the data. For example the following tabs are missing - Health, VLANs, Map and Inventory. The environment panels are missing (Processors, Memory etc.)
The poller is running successfully and the port information is being populated and graphs are draw correctly.
What we're not doing is running the Discover command. AFAICT it will add to Observium devices it finds from CDP as a matter of course. We don't want that to happen. My uneducated guess is that the discover command is also picking up some of the information we're missing. (I've run the command briefly then killed it when I realised what it was doing, and some of the devices are populated with Health, VLANs etc.)
If I'm right, is there a way to gather the above information about the devices already present but not add any more?
I've got:
$config['dp_autocreate'] = false; ## Autodiscover unknown hosts seen via discovery protocols
in the config but discover still seems to add new devices.
If I'm wrong then could someone set me straight please?
Thanks,
Mike
Autodiscovery is disabled by default IIRC, unless you enabled it in config.
On 29.11.2012 19:10, Mike Richardson wrote:
Hiya,
We're just started using Observium and are quite impressed. We've added a few of our devices - just the key ones.
What were seeing is that for the devices they are missing some of the data. For example the following tabs are missing - Health, VLANs, Map and Inventory. The environment panels are missing (Processors, Memory etc.)
The poller is running successfully and the port information is being populated and graphs are draw correctly.
What we're not doing is running the Discover command. AFAICT it will add to Observium devices it finds from CDP as a matter of course. We don't want that to happen. My uneducated guess is that the discover command is also picking up some of the information we're missing. (I've run the command briefly then killed it when I realised what it was doing, and some of the devices are populated with Health, VLANs etc.)
If I'm right, is there a way to gather the above information about the devices already present but not add any more?
I've got:
$config['dp_autocreate'] = false; ## Autodiscover unknown hosts seen via discovery protocols
in the config but discover still seems to add new devices.
If I'm wrong then could someone set me straight please?
Thanks,
Mike
Hi,
As documented, you need the discovery command. It does not auto-add new devices unless configured to do so; rather it discovers the features of your hardware which the poller then polls.
$config['autodiscovery']['xdp'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts via discovery protocols $config['autodiscovery']['ospf'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts via OSPF $config['autodiscovery']['bgp'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts via BGP $config['autodiscovery']['snmpscan'] = TRUE; // autodiscover hosts via SNMP scanning
These are all enabled by default though, so disabled them through your configuration first, if you do not want this.
The dp_autocreate option documented on the website is unfortunately nonexistant and was replaced by the above directives. I'll update the site shortly.
Tom
On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 15:10 +0000, Mike Richardson wrote:
Hiya,
We're just started using Observium and are quite impressed. We've added a few of our devices - just the key ones.
What were seeing is that for the devices they are missing some of the data. For example the following tabs are missing - Health, VLANs, Map and Inventory. The environment panels are missing (Processors, Memory etc.)
The poller is running successfully and the port information is being populated and graphs are draw correctly.
What we're not doing is running the Discover command. AFAICT it will add to Observium devices it finds from CDP as a matter of course. We don't want that to happen. My uneducated guess is that the discover command is also picking up some of the information we're missing. (I've run the command briefly then killed it when I realised what it was doing, and some of the devices are populated with Health, VLANs etc.)
If I'm right, is there a way to gather the above information about the devices already present but not add any more?
I've got:
$config['dp_autocreate'] = false; ## Autodiscover unknown hosts seen via discovery protocols
in the config but discover still seems to add new devices.
If I'm wrong then could someone set me straight please?
Thanks,
Mike
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 04:38:21PM +0100, Tom Laermans wrote:
Hi,
As documented, you need the discovery command. It does not auto-add new devices unless configured to do so; rather it discovers the features of your hardware which the poller then polls.
$config['autodiscovery']['xdp'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts via discovery protocols $config['autodiscovery']['ospf'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts via OSPF $config['autodiscovery']['bgp'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts via BGP $config['autodiscovery']['snmpscan'] = TRUE; // autodiscover hosts via SNMP scanning
These are all enabled by default though, so disabled them through your configuration first, if you do not want this.
The dp_autocreate option documented on the website is unfortunately nonexistant and was replaced by the above directives. I'll update the site shortly.
Great, thanks. That's worked. From the PoV of someone reading the documentation for the first time one clarification I could see being useful is the difference between the difference discovery options: auto-scanning networks, the use of discovery protocols and the discovery via SNMP scanning. The former and the latter might be the same though. Other than that it's good documentation. A rarity.
Mike
On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 16:18 +0000, Mike Richardson wrote:
Great, thanks. That's worked. From the PoV of someone reading the documentation for the first time one clarification I could see being useful is the difference between the difference discovery options: auto-scanning networks, the use of discovery protocols and the discovery via SNMP scanning. The former and the latter might be the same though. Other than that it's good documentation. A rarity.
Tips on wording are welcome, if you would like a wiki account, request one from Adam, then you can adjust the docs yourself (once you get to know the system a bit, so you know what would be made clearer).
The documentation is a long way from what I'd like it to be... lots of things missing, and the docs don't always keep up with the code.
But, we try - thanks for the compliment :-)
Tom
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