templated addition of sensors - e.g ansible..?

Hello,

It's possible to create custom device templates that can be used with the Auto-Discovery . This way you do not need to add sensors manually. You can run the Auto-Discovery by a push of a button and all preselected sensors will be created. Is this what you are looking for?

hi this looks quite interesting. the main question with it is that we have servers with a variety of roles - with specific things that need to be monitored.

Hence specific "custom device templates" would need to be applied according to the role the server has.... is there any way of doing this with autodiscovery?

After creating a device template from an existing device in your device tree, you can run the auto discovery using this template either manually for every device or you can create a Auto-Discovery group and group all servers with the same role. This video tutorial may be of interest for you here.

Hi there, I am using the templates to add new Sensores which workes just fine. But I’m wondering how I am able to delete one Sensor on multiple devices at once and also if it is possible to update the upper and/or lower threshold of one Sensorchannel for multiple devices. I’ve already tried to just create a new template and run auto-discovery again, but this only worked for devices that didn’t already had the sensor added.

Besides deleting the already added sensor and re-creating it anew using the new template, you can also use the Multi-Edit to adjust settings of multiple sensors at once.