Details
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Improvement
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Resolution: Fixed
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Blocker
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None
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Professional Edition
Description
To reiterate requests previously entered as OBS-454 and OBS-1147
We need the ability to monitor "PING only" devices.
Our purpose is to monitor network paths "outside" of the SD-WAN logical routes. We can monitor the individual SD-WAN concentrators on the far end of the tunnel via SNMP; but we also need to be able to monitor the individual paths to each device.
This can be achieved by creating "probes" on the Observium host's own entry (i.e. the device the poller that you want to do the probe check runs on, so that it never goes down for any other reason).
To ping devices, create a "check_ping" probe. You need to override the default arguments to remove the default hostname.
https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/man/check_ping.html
If you have partitioned pollers, you should attach it to the device entry for that poller.
This provides basically the same outcome you'd get from a dedicated "unsual hosts" list, but without it requiring any special handling on our side that we might break in 4 years time when everyone forgot what those weird if() statements do!