thank you thank you!!

This has now been added to our documentation.

Note that this doesn't provide just ping-only, but lets you run any available probe against arbitrary hosts, so you can do http/traceroute/etc checks against things that can't be added to Observium.

If we were to implement a secondary device list, it'd basically just be the same as this, but with the need to override the host argument removed!

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!

we are looking exactly for the same feature in Observium and at the moment it is a blocker for us in buying the Professional edition. Many thanks !

We’re loving Observium and are trying to expand it into our manufacturing network. Problem is, many of the devices located there only support ping.

Having ping-only devices a possibility would make Observium even more amazing for us.

Totally agree, please enable the only-ping feature.

Adding my support getting this feature added. It would be ridiculously handy and beneficial. 

Just started using Observium to hopefully replace another monitoring tool we use and absolutely shocked this capability isn't just a basic feature from the start.  Severely limiting w/o this.

Unfortunately the pingprobe will not work for us, as the snmp polling is not achievable with those devices.

Any word if this feature will be considered any time soon?