Show description in devices overview, server specs and login details

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Hey guys,

I have LibreNMS running and we are hosting webservers for customers. At this moment I am using the devices overview more than the dashboard as is giving me more information which I need.

At this moment I have the devices screen overview like attached.

As you can see, I have the server name (which I gave the server for my administration) like server01, server02 etc. My customers don’t change this hostname 9 out 10 times but sometimes the servers local hostname is different or changed, like server.customername.com etc. Sometimes the customer names his server just ‘windows’ as you can see at server15.

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I personally know what the server numbers are and have a seperate excel sheet for this, like server01 (own hosting server), server02 (customer X), server03 (nameserver), server04 (customer Y), server05 (backup server), server06 (customer Z) etc. But I can only see this when I click the server at description.

So I thought, it must be possible to:
A) Add a column named description and show the server description (or notes for my part)
B) change the server’s hostname (below serverx.serverion.com) to description.

I have search in the PHP code and found the location:
/opt/librenms/html/pages/devices.inc.php Line: 315
but there is only a javascript there which I cannot change.

Does someone has any suggestions for this issue?

Another thing, I also would like add the server specs, like location in rack, which reboot switch and port are they using and I would also like to add information like login details (control panel or ssh logins). I know I can add notes but it would be much nicer to have it in a detailed view. Maybe there is a plugin or addon for this one?

Thanks,

Regards,

Desmond

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Don’t think that’s possible to see notes on the detailed view at current. You might want to consider using Device groups to map device(s) to a customer. https://docs.librenms.org/Extensions/Device-Groups/

If your interested in certain interfaces, this is slightly different as they can be aggregated by interface descriptions, e.g “Cust: blahblah” and they will appear under http://librenms/customers

For the additional bookkeeping information, not part of the monitoring software but the feature request you can find here IPAM Integration

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Thank you, mapping device groups is an option, now I am using these as : Servers, Routers, Switches etc. BUt for some customers, they have 4 servers, 2x Web, 1x MySQL and 1x Exchange. When adding to a group I can see to which customer it is but not which function it has.

I will look into IPAM.

Thank you!

Desmond

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I have been looking for this over more than year, I found several other requests and topics about this issue, it is not about bookkeeping more the easily see who owns the server. I will let our programmer build this addon because a lot of people are asking for it… When done, I will share it here.

Desmond