January 2023 - observium - lists.observium.org

Device first discovery date
by Attila Nagy 09 Oct '25

09 Oct '25

Hi Everyone! Is there a way to find out the date of the "first contact" with a device from Observium? I mean for example the date when the first discovery was run on a specific device, or something like this? (Currently the device's event log runs out after half a year.) Any ideas? Regards, Tylla

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Send email alerts only for some checkers, not all of them
by Silvio del Val Hinojal 11 Apr '25

11 Apr '25

Hello, First of all, congratulations for your great product :) I have been searching this the forum but I can't find an answer for this :( We are currently using Observium Pro v18.10.9500. I'm trying to configure emailing so that I would like to be notified on some alerts generated by some of the alert checkers but not all of them, but I'm not able to do it :( Currently I'm receiving email alerts from all of my checkers. This is my current "config.php": // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) // $config['email']['default'] = ""; // $config['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; $config['email']['from'] = "< I omit this part, this is our current email, this is working >"; $config['email']['smtp_host'] = "< I omit, our SMTP email server >"; $config['email']['backend'] = "smtp"; // Mail backend. Allowed: "mail" (PHP's built-in), "sendmail", "smtp". $config['email']['smtp_timeout'] = 30; We have only one contact with our destination email address and we have associated only 4 of 7 defined alert checkers, but we are currently receiving email notifications from all of them. Thank you very much [cid:image001.png@01D03B1C.E8E96F80]<http://www.pandasecurity.com/spain/> Silvio del Val Systems Engineer - Panda Security +34 944 343 728 silvio.delval(a)pandasecurity.com<mailto:silvio.delval@pandasecurity.com> pandasecurity.com<http://www.pandasecurity.com/> This e-mail contains confidential information owned by Panda Security. Any such copy, or use, or distribution or disclosure of its contents is strictly forbidden. Please notify us immediately at our phone number (+34 94 425 11 00) if you receive this e-mail and are not its consignee, and then delete this message from your system without copying it, distributing it, or disclosing its contents P Before printing this message, please make sure it is really necessary

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User access levels
by Tibor Marchyn 06 Dec '24

06 Dec '24

Hi, I have another beginner question please. I have setup Active Directory authentication, but how can I limit users to exact devices? I really do not want for some users to see anything else than they need to and all of them have level 1 access. And I can't see any option to limit them or assign user to device. Also it would be great to assign users to exact device group I have created. Thanks a lot Tibor

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How to add a device which only responds to ping/icmp?
by Thomas Stather 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

Hi How can i add a device which cannot (!) speak any snmp and only responds to ping/icmp requests? We have an Aruba wlan setup (Mobility Master and two Mobility Controllers) and i want to add the aps to Observium, so that they are monitored but only by ping/icmp. (The MM and the two MCs are already added to Observium, but i cannot see if one AP went offline or came back online again) The aps cannot speak any snmp when managed by the MM or MC, thats why it fails when i try to add one via ./add_device.php I appreciate any help :) Best, Thomas -- Thomas Stather IT Services VCP4, VCP6-DCV, VCP6.5-DCV Tel: +49 6221 486 628 Fax: +49 6221 486 561 Bevor Sie diese Mail ausdrucken, prüfen Sie bitte ob dies wirklich nötig ist. Umweltschutz geht uns alle an!

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Missing some nice stats from Cisco 9800 that I got from Cisco 5520
by andri＠harpa.is 12 Aug '24

12 Aug '24

Hi Our organization recently upgraded from Cisco 5520 WLC to Cisco 9800 WLC. In observium I get really good statistics about wireless client count and wireless ap count on the 5520 but not on the 9800. I am not sure if this is something on observium side or cisco side. But I wanted to ask if anyone has the same issue and if they found a solution. Or maybe this is just something that needs to be added. Please let me know if there is any further information I can submit. Best regards Andri

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Many devices shown as down(dns)
by Marios.P＠crowe.com.cy 19 Jul '24

19 Jul '24

Hello all, I can see in my observium installation that many devices changed their status to down(dns). This is a new installation and we migrated the configuration yesterday on a new server and devices were working properly. At around the same time (14:20:00) a lot of our machines changed their status to down. The message in the Event log is "Device status changed to Down (dns)". I tried to find what the problem may be but I can see SNMP are correct and dns records exist for the systems. Any ideas? Thank you, Marios

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Ignore priority 7 syslog
by Lars Joergensen 23 Feb '23

23 Feb '23

Hi Some unfortunate soul enabled BGP debugging on a device and then forgot all about it. I'm now trying to delete 76 million records from the syslog database.. Is there a way to ignore syslog messages with priority 7 in the syslog import in Observium? It'll probably happen again someday. Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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Port Group aggregate graphs refresh
by Marian Rychtecky 04 Feb '23

04 Feb '23

Hi all, I have a question (or maybe a feature request). Can I automatically refresh aggregated graphs based on Port Group? Let's say I have a Port Group based on ifAlias regexp. I can manually create an aggregated graph of it - bits, broadcasts, or discards. Then use created graph in the dashboard. The problem is a number of items in Port Group are changing over time, and I need to refresh these aggregated graphs manually. That means performing these steps 1) Ports -> Groups -> <My group name> 2) Aggregate Graphs -> Bits 3) Click on graph -> Add to the Dashboard 4) Repeat for all Aggregated graphs (Bits, Broadcasts, Multicasts, Discards) 5) delete old Aggregated graphs from the dashboard 6) position newly added graphs (with the actual number of ports) It would be very handful to have a script refreshing aggregated graphs automatically. Thank you, Marian -- Marian Rychtecký mr(a)nix.cz Phone +420 724 397 441 NIX.CZ z.s.p.o. Americká 23, Praha 2 130 52 Czech Republic http://www.nix.cz

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OSBRidge antennas..
by George Michalopoulos 01 Feb '23

01 Feb '23

hello all, i discovered Observium few days ago, i have to sleep some days.. :) as far as i go deeper, it seems like the ultimate tool to monitor a network.. thank you very much for your work! a simple question. i have 2 OSBridge wireless antennas, they have snmp, and as far as i saw, they have mibs, but they are not included in the distribution.. can i add them manually, or you can include them in a future release ? -- regards, George Michalopoulos born & raise @ Metron 6 (six) Metron6(a)gmail.com

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Error "Creation Failed" when Adding Port Groups
by Justin Radke 01 Feb '23

01 Feb '23

Goal: Attempting to make “aggregate” graphs by calculating port bandwidth from multiple devices. For example, a graph that shows the total bandwidth of IP transit or IXP Peering ports that are not in LAG groups on Cisco gear. Problem Statement: When creating a “Group” of ports I get an error in red that says “Creation Failed: Unknown action requested.” Problem Description: 1. Click “Create New Group” in the GUI 2. Select Entity Type “Port” 3. Give group name of “TestGroup1” 4. Select “Device” from the dropdown, default to “in” and select a Cisco router in the dropdown that is already present and working in Observium 5. Click “Add rule” select “AND” choose “Port ifIndex” “equals” enter in the field the ifindex a. I’ve also tried adding just one or even multiple rules with “OR’s” results in this message b. I’ve also tried adding the port with “Port ID”, “Port ifDescr”, “Port ifName” and others all result in this failure message c. I’m getting the port_id, ifindex, ifName, etc from the “Data” tab when viewing a Port of the Cisco in Observium 6. Click the bottom right, green “Add Group” and receive the error message: “Creation Failed: Unknown action requested.” Can someone direct me to how to make such graphs? And/or explain what I might be doing wrong that I cannot create Port Groups? Observium Subscription License Version 1.3: Observium 22.12.12421 (21st December 2022) OS Linux 4.18.0-408.el8.x86_64 [amd64] (CentOS 8) Apache 2.4.37 (centos) OpenSSL/1.1.1k PHP 7.2.24 (OPcache: ENABLED) (Memory: 128MB) Python 3.6.8 (python3 not used as default python) MariaDB 10.3.28-MariaDB (extension: mysqli 5.0.12-dev) SNMP NET-SNMP 5.8 RRDtool 1.7.0 Fping 4.2 (IPv4 and IPv6) -=JGR

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