Use "System Name" instead of the IP address on Network Map

[lmarchand]

Hi,

Is it possible to change IP address on Network Map for SNMP “System Name” value?

Thank’s for your help.

[rhinoau]

I’m not aware of a way to select it, by default I it uses the device hostname you’ve entered, so guessing all your devices are added with IP like that? You’d have to edit the network map code to change that behaviour, and it’s pretty old code - look at the comments in html/network-map.php

You could consider changing to hostnames, and if DNS is a barrier for that, use your local /etc/hosts file to override them and rename your hosts.

[lmarchand]

Thank’s for your answer.

[Skylark]

“Settings>Web UI>Device Settings” allows you to decide what is used to ID the devices in Librenms,

I suggest you set this to “Hostname, fallback to SysName for IPS”

Keep in mind this will also change your device list to names instead of IPs.