How to change data source names programatically?

[jjasen]

We have about 2400 data sources scattered across a lot of switches.

We want to change the data source names from "spine1a - Traffic - swp1" to "spine1a - Traffic - swp1 - myserver1". The value for "myserver1" is available on the switches (data sources) through IfAlias.

We've tried various incarnations of adding this to templates and other things like that, but so far have not stumbled on the requisite clue to not make us do it manually on each data source.

Anyone have clue to spare?

[TheWitness]

There are two CLI scripts and GUI options to "Re-apply suggested names" to Data Sources and Graphs. Use those. This used to be always done during Re-Index, but we de-contented, but the option is still there through the CLI's and GUI.

[jjasen]

These?
poller_data_sources_reapply_names.php
poller_graphs_reapply_names.php

Think I tried them, but let's see if it worked this time.

[jjasen]

We now have success with this in Graphs, but we do not have the ifalias names showing up in ReportIt generated output.

So, partial progress?

[TheWitness]

We really need to push the ReportIt author to chime in.

[pangalactic]

Following - I'm Jjasen's colleague, and we're still struggling with this.

[TheWitness]

Did you send a PM to the author?