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SNMP Profiles for ktranslate
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kentik provider master list #169

Closed ghost closed 2 years ago

ghost commented 2 years ago

Hello all - great work here btw :)

Apologies if this is the wrong place for this type of issue, I'm not quite sure who would own this question, whether it be Kentik or New Relic.

Is there a master list of 'provider's that can be used in profiles? Specifically, I'm having a hard time figuring out what kentik-[provider] I would put in a profile.yml file here: image

To specify an environment sensor here: image

thezackm commented 2 years ago

@jreardon01 - that is somewhat ambiguous and depends on what the ultimate goal is. Realistically, ktranslate will send any value you put there, it doesn't really care about that. There is an attempt to set the value dynamically within profiles themselves which helps map the telemetry from a device to the entity UI in New Relic; but that can be overwritten.

The provider value is specifically used during entity synthesis on ingest at the New Relic platform, as seen in our docs. The ENVIRONMENT_SENSOR entity has 2 current provider values supported, which are defined in our entity-definitions repository.

provider: kentik-netbotz

provider: kentik-watchdog

So essentially, you can set the value of provider to anything you want. But in order for you to get an ENVIRONMENT_SENSOR entity in New Relic, it needs to be one of these, or you would want to open a PR on this repo adding the profile for your device type to the global list and we would know to get that added to our entity definitions on the back end as part of our normal workflow.

ghost commented 2 years ago

Hi @thezackm - I hadn't managed to spot the definitions repository - that's super helpful, thank you :)