In Dell OS10, host-description is a purely informational, free-text label for the switch itself. It’s mainly there to make the box easier to identify in human and management-plane outputs, without changing any switching/routing behaviour. It just so happened it was set on 3 of our switches and they were the ones not showing up in Observium correctly. We have just removed the setting.
Thanks Chris Chris James Technical Lead, Vessel Production Systems 4 The Heights, Brooklands Weybridge, KT13 0NY Mobile: +44 7768 480 557 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: loxely--- via observium <[email protected]> Sent: 22 January 2026 06:32 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [External] [Observium] Re: host-description "<something>" setting on Dell S4148T will not register device correctly in Observium <CAUTION - From External Source> Hi Chris, what's the purpose of use "configure system host-description" ? I see the command itself exists, but it's not documented in OS10.x.x CLI reference guide _______________________________________________ observium mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ observium mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
