October 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 22 Aug '24

22 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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Observium doesn't show interfaces within VPRN on Nokia routers
by Tao Zhang 21 Aug '24

21 Aug '24

Hi Observium team, We are using Observium as a main tool to monitor our router interfaces and collect SNMP stats. We recently replaced our Juniper routers with Nokia SR 7750. We noticed that Observium doesn't work very well with Nokia routers. Observium can only show the interfaces in the master instance, not the interfaces within VPRN or VPLS instances (Nokia call those interfaces SAPs). To be able to see interfaces within VPLS or VPRN, we need to enable two other MIBs, TIMETRA-SAP-MIB and TIMETRA-VRTR-MIB. We are not sure how to enable those two MIBs. Do we need to add them manually? This is the MIBs enabled on the Nokia router (default). [cid:ece89bfc-3ae2-4dcd-9c7c-641c3978f803] Any suggestion is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tao

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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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PowerDNS Recursive Server application
by Kevin Riahi 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

What is the process for support on applications for observium subscribers? In this case the PowerDNS Recursive Server application. Should we reach out to the original author. In this case the script is very simple and it seems it has no documented authors. The issue is the script is no longer working even though it was in the past. It may be because PowerDNS Recursive Server 4.8 has made permission changes to /var/run/pdns-recursor/pdns_recursor.controlsocket Testing the script /usr/lib/observium_agent/local/powerdns-recursor and it will execute with below error. <<<app-powerdns-recursor>>> Fatal: Unable to connect to remote '/var/run/pdns-recursor/pdns_recursor.controlsocket': Permission denied Here is the powerdns-recursor script . #!/bin/sh recctrl=`which rec_control` if [ $? -eq 0 ] then echo '<<<app-powerdns-recursor>>>' $recctrl get-all fi TIA Kevin

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Questions about Observium Enterprise Support
by Johan Carlander 31 Oct '23

31 Oct '23

Hi, I’ve been trying to find more detailed info about Observium Enterprise Support, does anyone here has such an agreement and can share the details? All I can find on the web page says: “Included Enterprise-grade email & live support: Yes, 10 hours” So I take it that means that up to 10 hours of live support is included, what will be the cost per hour for support after those 10 hours? I cannot find any definition of what live support is, I would guess that it means some sort of online meeting with screen sharing but it would good to have it in writing so we know what to expect. Is there any SLA for response time for new support tickets, for example within 4 hours or Next Business day? Thanks in advance. BR, Johan Carlander Senior consultant Mobile: +46 733 300 700 Email: johan(a)drivenbydata.se<mailto:johan@drivenbydata.se> Driven By Data AB, Dalagatan 25, 113 24, Stockholm drivenbydata.se<http://drivenbydata.se/>

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EqualLogics Volume Monitoring
by cwager＠communicationsmuseum.org.uk 31 Oct '23

31 Oct '23

Good Afternoon, I have been setting up Observium, which I am relatively new to, and am not sure how to monitor the volumes of the EqualLogic Storage Array, Observium has detected it and provided sensors for the Physical Disk, fan, Controllers, and so on but no volumes are picked up. According to the following link, there are MIBs for this. https://mibs.observium.org/mib/EQLVOLUME-MIB/ If I SNMPWALK the OID's then I get the expected data, would it be possible for someone to advise how I may go about getting this data to be shown in Observium itself? Thanks Chris

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WMI monitoring
by Luis Olavarrieta 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

Team, i’ve been trying to add my servers with WMI with no success. Im running the query like this root@visum-fumpm:~# wmic -U [ad/]soporte%PASSWORD. //ad.fqdn.org "select * from Win32_ComputerSystem" and I get this error message: [librpc/rpc/dcerpc_connect.c:337:dcerpc_pipe_connect_ncacn_ip_tcp_recv()] failed NT status (c00000b5) in dcerpc_pipe_connect_ncacn_ip_tcp_recv [librpc/rpc/dcerpc_connect.c:828:dcerpc_pipe_connect_b_recv()] failed NT status (c00000b5) in dcerpc_pipe_connect_b_recv [wmi/wmic.c:196:main()] ERROR: Login to remote object. NTSTATUS: NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT - NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT So I cant add it to my observium server with this configuration in the config.php file: $config['wmi']['domain'] = "ad.fqdn.org"; $config['wmi']['user'] = "soporte"; $config['wmi']['pass'] = "PASSWORD"; $config['poller_modules']['wmi'] = 1; I have tried with this “soporte” account and also directly with the administrator account with no success, same error message. Please advice. This email is confidential and / or may contain inside information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive your emails, you must NOT use, copy, disclose or take any action based on this email or any other information herein, please notify the sender immediately by reply this email and delete this email and its attachments.Privacy note a: www.wynnmex.com Este correo electrónico es confidencial y/o puede contener información privilegiada. Si usted no es su destinatario o no es alguna persona autorizada por éste para recibir sus correos electrónicos, NO deberá utilizar, copiar, relevelar o tomar ninguna acción basada en este correo o cualquier otra información incluida en el, favor de notificar al remitente de inmediato mediante el envío de este correo y borrar a continuación totalmente este correo y sus anexos. Consulta nuestro aviso de privacidad en:www.wynnmex.com

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Call to undefined function generate_device_link()
by diowitt＠live.com 27 Oct '23

27 Oct '23

Hello! After I upgraded the observium CE, I did check errors and showed me this message: root@ctpge02:/opt/observium# ./check-errors.php ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⡶⠋⠁⠙⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⣠⡶⠛⠛⠲⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠄⣠⣾⣡⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⢰⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣷⣤⡐⣄⣽⡾⠧⠤⠤⣤⣤⣾⣿⣾⣿⣯⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣤⣤⡀⣠⣈⣹⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣄⠀⢀⡾⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠈⠻⣆⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⣠⠞⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠈⢳⣆⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣾⣷⣶⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢡⡼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣯⡇⣿⣿⣿⡏⣿⣿⣿⣜⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣾⣿⣿⣿⣇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠃⠀⠘⢷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⡏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⢿⣿⣿⡿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⡇⠈⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⣿⣿⡟⢠⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣻⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣷⡈⠛⠿⣿⣿⡆⠻⢿⣿⣽⣿⣯⣿⠿⠃⠀⠻⠛⣰⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⠈⠙⠻⠷⠤⠄⢉⡁⠀⠀⠙⢉⣵⣌⠀⠀⠀⣀⠄⠘⠛⠋⠁⢀⣀⣤⣤⣭⣭⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠓⢦⣄⡉⠉⢉⣩⠶⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣆⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣥⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣦⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⡟⠿⣿⣟⡿⢿⡛⠀⣘⣿⣿⡆ ⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣷⣿⡆⠀⠀⣶⣶⣾⡿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⡟⠉⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠁⢀⢀⠲⣬⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⠀⠀⠘⡏⠳⣤⡄⠀⡄⠀⠀⠈⠙⢿⣧⠀⢀⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣯⣷⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⠀⠀⠉⠳⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⠀⢸⣿⣿⣆⢠⠀⡆⣰⡿⠟⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣧⠀⠀⠀⠹⣷⣤⣄⠀⡈⣾⡆⢸⡿⠋⠿⠾⠴⠷⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⠞⠉⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠉⠻⣿⣿⣿⣇⠸⡷⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⢄⣠⣶⣤⣤⣤⡤⠤⠖⠛⠉⠀⠠⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⢻⣷⠶⠒⠀⠀⠁⠈⢿⡄⣷⣆⣤⣶⡿⠛⠛⠛⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣧⣿⣿⡿⢋⡤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣶⣫⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⢦⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠳⠦⣴⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⢷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣾⣿⣋⣤⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠛⣦⣤⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⡴⠂⣀⡀⠀⡀⡀⡀⢠⣬⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣠⡴⠊⠉⠀⠈⢹⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⠾⡿⡿⠿⣷⣦⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠷⠦⠤⠤⠴⠶⠶⠶⠶⠚⠉⠀⠀⠈⣉⣩⠽⠟⠋⠁⠀⠀⣁⣠⠿⠛⠋⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Oops! Something went wrong! You may want to report this to the Observium developers. Call to undefined function generate_device_link() in /opt/observium/check-errors.php:36 Stack trace: #0: (unknown function) called at [/opt/observium/check-errors.php:36] 31: $errored = 0; 32: 33: foreach (dbFetchRows("SELECT * FROM `ports` AS I, `devices` AS D WHERE I.device_id = D.device_id $where", $params) as $interface) { 34: $errors = $interface['ifInErrors_delta'] + $interface['ifOutErrors_delta']; 35: if ($errors > '1') { 36: $errored[] = generate_device_link($interface, $interface['hostname'] . " - " . $interface['ifDescr'] . " - " . $interface['ifAlias'] . " - " . $interface['ifInErrors_delta'] . " - " . $interface['ifOutErrors_delta']); root@ctpge02:/opt/observium# root@ctpge02:/opt/observium# 39: $i++; 40: } 41: There's something that I need to do? Tks!

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Poller separator affected by service name
by support＠vechelde.de 26 Oct '23

26 Oct '23

Hi, I have a problem with the wmic module: CMD[/bin/wmic --user=*** --password=*** --delimiter='##' --namespace='root\CIMV2' //'Host' "SELECT DisplayName,Name,StartMode,State FROM Win32_Service"] I get this Situation: CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[4.8128s] STDOUT[ CLASS: Win32_Service DisplayName##Name##StartMode##State (Other services...) Interne Windows-Datenbank##MSSQL$MICROSOFT##WID##Auto##Running (Other services...) ] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ValueError: array_combine(): Argument #1 ($keys) and argument #2 ($values) must have the same number of elements in /opt/observium/includes/wmi.inc.php:140 Stack trace: #0 /opt/observium/includes/wmi.inc.php(140): array_combine() #1 /opt/observium/includes/wmi.inc.php(15): wmi_parse() #2 /opt/observium/includes/polling/wmi.inc.php(235): wmi_get() #3 /opt/observium/includes/polling/functions.inc.php(306): include('...') #4 /opt/observium/poller.php(171): poll_device() #5 {main} thrown in /opt/observium/includes/wmi.inc.php on line 140 The Service "MSSQL$MICROSOFT##WID" includes the delimiter '##' so the array has 4 Keys but this row got 5 values due to the servicename... Is there a way to change the delimiter or ignore this service?

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Raisecom ISCOM ISCOM5508-GPSC(C)_ROAP_2.64.SP2.1_20211213
by rhett.zeeman＠ttconnect.co.za 26 Oct '23

26 Oct '23

Hi Team, we are trying to monitor the above device. This works well. Observium can even monitor the GPON PON interfaces eg: gpon-olt1/1. The problem we are having is trying the monitor the ONU devices on site at a client. We use Raisecom ONU's. There are currently mib files available but we noticed that the mib files are empty. So it would seem that Observium cant monitor the bandwidth of the onu's behind the splitter that is connected to the pon interface. Is this something we can manually do from our side? if we have a look at the mib files in /opt/observium/mib/raisecom and vi into the mib file, it is populated. [root@localhost raisecom]# vi RAISECOM-SYSTEM-MIB -- MibName=raisecomSystem -- ======================================================================= -- Version info -- -- Version 0.1 Created 2003.12.17 by GONGGUIDONG -- This version of MIB is created just for the use of Network Management Systems -- display the memory and cpu. -- -- Copyright(c) 2002-2005 by RAISECOM TECH, Ltd. -- modify history -- 02, 20130809, guokai, modify raisecomVoltIndex -- 01, 20090915, qiyun, Add CPU monitor MIBs. -- -- ======================================================================= RAISECOM-SYSTEM-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN IMPORTS MODULE-IDENTITY,Unsigned32 FROM SNMPv2-SMI OBJECT-TYPE FROM SNMPv2-SMI raisecomAgent FROM RAISECOM-BASE-MIB TruthValue FROM SNMPv2-TC EnableVar FROM SWITCH-TC TimeStamp,TEXTUAL-CONVENTION FROM SNMPv2-TC; raisecomSystem MODULE-IDENTITY LAST-UPDATED "200507270000Z" ORGANIZATION "RAISECOM TECH, Ltd." CONTACT-INFO "www.raisecom.com" DESCRIPTION "raisecom System objects: objects common to all platforms." ::= { raisecomAgent 1 } -- -- Textual Conventions "RAISECOM-SYSTEM-MIB" [converted] 1550L, 59022C please advise on this as we need to be able to monitor the client bandwidth. Regards,.

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Teams webhook debugging
by Ivo van Tulden 17 Oct '23

17 Oct '23

Dear members, After the great help with the dashboard I went of to the next part in automating, which is for us alerting through Teams. Hopefully you can help me as quickly with this as the last time. We want to use Teams Webhook function to create an alert message, which holds a couple of components. I have configured the webhook within MS Teams and setup the link with the Observium contacts. Created a alert which triggers and mentions the notification of contacts, but nothing happens within MS Teams. The problem can be with a couple of things, so I wanted to start with logging with Observium. This can probably show me if the firewall blocks, if the Webhook link was a bad URL, etc. Where can I find a debugging log of the notification actions, so I can start debugging? Met vriendelijke groet, Ivo van Tulden Technical Infrastructure Engineer - IT Department << Security is van ons allemaal >> **** DISCLAIMER: The information sent in or attached to this e-mail is for the addressee only. If this e-mail message is unclear please contact VLISCO by e-mail or telephone. Disclosure or reproduction of this information to a third party without prior agreement of VLISCO is not allowed. VLISCO does not accept any responsibility for the correct and complete interpretation of this e-mail nor for the time of its arrival. VLISCO cannot be held responsible for any claim resulting from negotiations and/or decisions made directly or indirectly based on information contained in this e-mail message. Vlisco Netherlands B.V. Binnen Parallelweg 27, 5701 PH, Helmond, The Netherlands. Chamber of commerce Eindhoven 50751492. Tel.: +31 (0)492 570922 Fax: +31 (0)492 570230 Visit our website: www.vlisco.com ****

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Fwd: Juniper MX104 doesn't like load average graph
by David Beveridge 16 Oct '23

16 Oct '23

Last week I upgraded a server to Observium 23.10.13043 (stable) In Polling information I had a huge increase in system polling, (See attached images.) I backed out the upgrade and tried it again a few days later, when I had more time to investigate. In addition the processor graph had changed, showing much higher CPU usage I also noticed a new graph called Load Averages defined here... # svn blame /opt/observium/includes/definitions/mibs/juniper.inc.php 13020 adama // JUNIPER-MIB::jnxOperatingDescr.9.1.0.0 = STRING: Routing Engine 0 13020 adama // JUNIPER-MIB::jnxOperatingDescr.9.2.0.0 = STRING: Routing Engine 1 13020 adama // JUNIPER-MIB::jnxOperatingState.9.1.0.0 = INTEGER: running(2) 13020 adama // JUNIPER-MIB::jnxOperatingState.9.2.0.0 = INTEGER: standby(7) 13020 adama // JUNIPER-MIB::jnxOperating1MinLoadAvg.9.1.0.0 = Gauge32: 123 13020 adama // JUNIPER-MIB::jnxOperating1MinLoadAvg.9.2.0.0 = Gauge32: 8 13020 adama // JUNIPER-MIB::jnxOperating5MinLoadAvg.9.1.0.0 = Gauge32: 56 13020 adama // JUNIPER-MIB::jnxOperating5MinLoadAvg.9.2.0.0 = Gauge32: 5 13020 adama // JUNIPER-MIB::jnxOperating15MinLoadAvg.9.1.0.0 = Gauge32: 27 13020 adama // JUNIPER-MIB::jnxOperating15MinLoadAvg.9.2.0.0 = Gauge32: 0 13020 adama $config['mibs'][$mib]['la'] = [ 13020 adama 'type' => 'table', // In table mode get first entry with test condition 13020 adama 'scale' => 0.01, 13020 adama // Walks 13020 adama 'oid_extra' => 'jnxOperatingState.9', 13020 adama 'oid_1min' => 'jnxOperating1MinLoadAvg.9', 13020 adama 'oid_5min' => 'jnxOperating5MinLoadAvg.9', 13020 adama 'oid_15min' => 'jnxOperating15MinLoadAvg.9', 13020 adama 'test' => [ 'field' => 'jnxOperatingState', 'operator' => 'eq', 'value' => 'running' ], 13020 adama ]; 13020 adama I added unset($config['mibs'][$mib]['la']); // dave did this This has fixed the problem, I don't need the la graph anyway. I had tried to add this to confg.php, but that didn't work. I'm concerned that modifying the juniper.inc.php is not a good idea. Is there a better way to disable this?

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consolidated availability graph
by Erwin Botas 14 Oct '23

14 Oct '23

Hello List, Willing to know if is possible to construct a consolidated device availability for several host “clusters” and have a % not host by host as were are committed to a service SLA Any suggestions welcome. Regards, Something to resume this hosts for example and the leyend able to show the calculation for the group of hosts. [cid:e14e30a7-4c52-4402-a29f-31fc9aabf7da@namprd10.prod.outlook.com] Erwin Botas Administrador de infraestructura senior • +506 2010-5000 • +506 2010-5050 • +506 8982-4885 • San José, CR • www.electrotecnica.com [https://www.electrotecnica.com/signature/bar2018CR.png] NOTA DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD: "La información contenida en este mensaje y sus adjuntos es estrictamente confidencial y se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario. Si usted no es el destinatario indicado, cualquier divulgación, copia, distribución o uso del contenido de este documento es prohibido y será sancionado de acuerdo con la ley. Si recibió este mensaje por error, debe notificarlo de inmediato al remitente y destruirlo".

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Add sensor data to dashboard
by Ivo van Tulden 14 Oct '23

14 Oct '23

Goodmorning, Please be advised that we just got a license, so if this isn't the correct way to get the information, please advice me how to do better. Is there a possibility to add a graph of a device to the dashboard, so the live information of that sensor data is shown? The link to the graph is something like this: https://<servername>/graphs/to=1697179853/id=313/type=sensor_graph/from=1697093453/<https://%3cservername%3e/graphs/to=1697179853/id=313/type=sensor_graph/from=1697093453/> Met vriendelijke groet, Ivo van Tulden Technical Infrastructure Engineer - IT Department << Security is van ons allemaal >> **** DISCLAIMER: The information sent in or attached to this e-mail is for the addressee only. If this e-mail message is unclear please contact VLISCO by e-mail or telephone. Disclosure or reproduction of this information to a third party without prior agreement of VLISCO is not allowed. VLISCO does not accept any responsibility for the correct and complete interpretation of this e-mail nor for the time of its arrival. VLISCO cannot be held responsible for any claim resulting from negotiations and/or decisions made directly or indirectly based on information contained in this e-mail message. Vlisco Netherlands B.V. Binnen Parallelweg 27, 5701 PH, Helmond, The Netherlands. Chamber of commerce Eindhoven 50751492. Tel.: +31 (0)492 570922 Fax: +31 (0)492 570230 Visit our website: www.vlisco.com ****

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Obtaining good thresholds for monitoring SFP light levels
by Corwin Ziegler Hunts 11 Oct '23

11 Oct '23

We would like to alert if an SFP's received light level is too low. The light level sensor data is present and linked with a specific port so we can adjust the alert checkers based on attributes of the linked port. What we haven't figured out how to do is get appropriate thresholds for alerting for each SFP. The SFPs define warning and alarm thresholds which are readable on the devices containing the SFPs but that data doesn't make it into Observium for most of our monitored devices as far as we can tell. Similar SFPs usually have similar thresholds so grouping by SFP vendor and part number then creating a check for each set of SFPs with manually extracted and entered thresholds could be acceptable. Observium does show the SFP vendor and part number on the device overview and inventory pages along with which port contains the SFP but there doesn't seem to be a way to reference this data when creating port or sensor groups or alert checkers. There are also the automatically generated or manually set thresholds for sensors inside Observium itself. The automatically generated thresholds are often missing and we are not aware of a way to ensure they are present or reasonable. Manually set thresholds could work if there was a way to set and audit those thresholds in an automated fashion. We don't see a way to use the API to do this though (we're using the subscription edition). Are there recommendations on how to achieve this? Is this a solved problem and we're running into a bug? This is feeling more difficult than it should be. Corwin

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device_rebooted metric is now NULL instead of 1
by Corwin Ziegler Hunts 10 Oct '23

10 Oct '23

We have an alert checker using the device_rebooted metric to monitor for reboots. The metric used to read as 1 when a reboot was detected as is documented <https://docs.observium.org/entities/#device>. After updating to the latest stable revision (r13020) from r12520 the metric now reads as NULL immediately after a reboot. Is this change in behavior intended? Corwin

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repeated recovery messages
by andregeissler＠posteo.de 09 Oct '23

09 Oct '23

Hi I get new recovery messages for my pandacom devices (pandacom-sc) all the time. Observium does not show any alerts. For a device that has not reported any event at all since October 5, Observium shows hundreds of recoveries today alone. Any tips on how to debug this would be greatly appreciated. Andre

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physical v/s virtual
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 05 Oct '23

05 Oct '23

Hi, we have observium installed and working fine (polling 629 devices). It is currently installed on a physical server. How advisable is it to promote it to a virtual server? -- Saluda cordialmente

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CustomOID Draw Error
by amat＠tvfactory.ch 05 Oct '23

05 Oct '23

Good Morning, We're having trouble with observium and "Custom OID" SNMP retrieval. The Huawei (S6730 V200R019C00SPC500) monitors portspeed and other. However, we are trying to get some Custom OID for hwAvgDuty5min refelecting the Average 5 Min CPU usage. (A) SNMP Walk On the same machine that Observium is installed the snmpwalk returns a value that makes sense administrator@m01:/opt/observium/html/weathermap/configs$ snmpwalk -v2c -c community-hidden 151.252.33.12 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.3.4.1.4 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.2011.6.3.4.1.4.0.0.0 = INTEGER: 9 (B) Observium - Configure Custom OID Numeric OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.3.4.1.4 we also tried Numeric OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.3.4.1.4.0.0.0 Text OID hwAvgDuty5min Value Type GAUGE Description Average CPU Usage Display Unit cpu-usage Display Symbol % Kibibyte (1024) no Log Y Axis no Audo-discovery Yes Unfortunately it does return a "Draw Error". If we do open the CustomOID Graph we see Error: Openeing '': No such file or directory. Any idea what goes wrong here? Kind Regards Ramon Amat

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RouterOS v7 BGPv4 SNMP
by Bergen, Ryan 04 Oct '23

04 Oct '23

Hello, does anyone know if observium can retrieve BGP peering info via SNMP with RouterOS 7.10+? It is now supported on Mikrotiks side, I am able to see the info via snmpwalk with OID 1.3.6.1.2.1.15.3.1 [cid:image003.png@01D9F6A7.A13EF790] [cid:image002.png@01D9F6A7.3CD825B0] Ryan Bergen Network Lead HyLife Ltd 5 Fabas Street, Box 100 La Broquerie, MB R0A 0W0 p 204-424-2300 x472 hylife.com<https://hylife.com/> • Ryan.Bergen(a)Hylife.com<mailto:Ryan.Bergen@Hylife.com> [cid3813500305*image001.png(a)01D93182.760726F0]

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Adjust values returned for custom OID
by Ronald Voermans 04 Oct '23

04 Oct '23

Hi Adam, Did you manage to implement this ‘math parser’ feature for custom oid’s?

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Devices with multiple IP addresses
by Sanjeev Gupta 01 Oct '23

01 Oct '23

Hi, Thanks Adam, I am back to using Observium after many years (was on the Subscription, now on Community).. I have a question on a router (and some similar devices). The router has two interfaces, both visible from the Observium poller. It has been discovered twice, and appears twice as well on the map. I cannot find a script, or anything in the UI (which I am still exploring) or the FAQ. What should I be looking for? -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://sg.linkedin.com/in/ghane

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