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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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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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is it possible to disable an alert checker?
by Tony Guadagno 30 Nov '23

30 Nov '23

Hi, is it possible to disable a specific alert checker without deleting it? I am debugging an alert checker that is pretty noisy so I want to stop the alerts for a bit but I don't want to loose the work I have put into it. thanks Tony Guadagno O +1 585 577 1003 C +1 585 703 6700 E tonyg(a)guadagnoconsulting.com<mailto:tonyg@guadagnoconsulting.com> [cid:image001.jpg@01D84DD6.FC9912E0]

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Discovery problem with an old Dell Powerconnect and Observium CE 23.9.13005
by mosdvas 30 Nov '23

30 Nov '23

Hello, After the last update i'm experiencing a bug on the discovery on an old switch. This is a Dell PowerConnect 3448. : Vendor/Hardware Dell PowerConnect 3448 Operating system Dell PowerConnect (FastPath) 2.0.0.34 The bug appeared in this CE version, until now the info feedback was correct. The SNMP poller seem ok. Can you help me with this problem? Here's the error dump : ##### Module Start: sensors ##### o POWER-ETHERNET-MIB pethMainPseOperStatus [] o OLD-DNOS-BOXSERVICES-PRIVATE-MIB ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⡶⠋⠁⠙⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⣠⡶⠛⠛⠲⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠄⣠⣾⣡⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⢰⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣷⣤⡐⣄⣽⡾⠧⠤⠤⣤⣤⣾⣿⣾⣿⣯⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣤⣤⡀⣠⣈⣹⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣄⠀⢀⡾⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠈⠻⣆⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⣠⠞⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠈⢳⣆⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣾⣷⣶⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢡⡼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣯⡇⣿⣿⣿⡏⣿⣿⣿⣜⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣾⣿⣿⣿⣇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠃⠀⠘⢷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⡏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⢿⣿⣿⡿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⡇⠈⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⣿⣿⡟⢠⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣻⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣷⡈⠛⠿⣿⣿⡆⠻⢿⣿⣽⣿⣯⣿⠿⠃⠀⠻⠛⣰⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⠈⠙⠻⠷⠤⠄⢉⡁⠀⠀⠙⢉⣵⣌⠀⠀⠀⣀⠄⠘⠛⠋⠁⢀⣀⣤⣤⣭⣭⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠓⢦⣄⡉⠉⢉⣩⠶⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣆⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣥⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣦⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⡟⠿⣿⣟⡿⢿⡛⠀⣘⣿⣿⡆ ⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣷⣿⡆⠀⠀⣶⣶⣾⡿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⡟⠉⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠁⢀⢀⠲⣬⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⠀⠀⠘⡏⠳⣤⡄⠀⡄⠀⠀⠈⠙⢿⣧⠀⢀⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣯⣷⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⠀⠀⠉⠳⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⠀⢸⣿⣿⣆⢠⠀⡆⣰⡿⠟⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣧⠀⠀⠀⠹⣷⣤⣄⠀⡈⣾⡆⢸⡿⠋⠿⠾⠴⠷⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⠞⠉⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠉⠻⣿⣿⣿⣇⠸⡷⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⢄⣠⣶⣤⣤⣤⡤⠤⠖⠛⠉⠀⠠⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⢻⣷⠶⠒⠀⠀⠁⠈⢿⡄⣷⣆⣤⣶⡿⠛⠛⠛⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣧⣿⣿⡿⢋⡤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣶⣫⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⢦⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠳⠦⣴⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⢷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣾⣿⣋⣤⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠛⣦⣤⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⡴⠂⣀⡀⠀⡀⡀⡀⢠⣬⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣠⡴⠊⠉⠀⠈⢹⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⠾⡿⡿⠿⣷⣦⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠷⠦⠤⠤⠴⠶⠶⠶⠶⠚⠉⠀⠀⠈⣉⣩⠽⠟⠋⠁⠀⠀⣁⣠⠿⠛⠋⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Oops! Something went wrong! You may want to report this to the Observium developers. count(): Argument #1 ($value) must be of type Countable|array, null given in /var/www/observium/includes/discovery/sensors/old-dnos-boxservices-private-mib.inc.php:14 Stack trace: #0: (unknown function) called at [/var/www/observium/includes/discovery/sensors/old-dnos-boxservices-private-mib.inc.php:14] 9: * @subpackage discovery 10: * @copyright (C) 2006-2013 Adam Armstrong, (C) 2013-2023 Observium Limited 11: * 12: */ 13: 14: if (count($valid['sensor']['temperature']['DNOS-BOXSERVICES-PRIVATE-MIB']) || 15: count($valid['sensor']['power']['DNOS-BOXSERVICES-PRIVATE-MIB'])) { 16: // Exit from discovery, since already added valid sensors by DNOS-BOXSERVICES-PRIVATE-MIB 17: // Note, DNOS-BOXSERVICES-PRIVATE-MIB and OLD-DNOS-BOXSERVICES-PRIVATE-MIB are crossed 18: echo 'Skipped by DNOS-BOXSERVICES-PRIVATE-MIB'; 19: return; #1: include called at [/var/www/observium/includes/include-dir-mib.inc.php:32] 27: 28: if (is_file($inc_file)) { 29: print_cli_data_field("$mib "); 30: 31: $inc_start = microtime(TRUE); // MIB timing start 32: $inc_status = include($inc_file); 33: echo(PHP_EOL); 34: 35: if ($include_lib && is_file($inc_dir . '.lib.php')) { 36: // separated functions include, for exclude fatal redeclare errors 37: include_once($inc_dir . '.lib.php'); #2: include called at [/var/www/observium/includes/discovery/sensors.inc.php:52] 47: } 48: } 49: 50: // Run sensor discovery scripts (also discovers state sensors as status entities) 51: $include_dir = "includes/discovery/sensors"; 52: include($config['install_dir'] . "/includes/include-dir-mib.inc.php"); 53: 54: // Run status-specific discovery scripts 55: $include_dir = "includes/discovery/status"; 56: include($config['install_dir'] . "/includes/include-dir-mib.inc.php"); 57: #3: include called at [/var/www/observium/includes/discovery/functions.inc.php:870] 865: $GLOBALS['module_stats'][$module] = []; 866: $valid[$module] = []; 867: 868: print_cli_heading("Module Start: %R" . $module); 869: 870: include("includes/discovery/$module.inc.php"); 871: 872: $m_end = utime(); 873: $GLOBALS['module_stats'][$module]['time'] = round($m_end - $m_start, 4); 874: print_module_stats($device, $module); 875: echo(PHP_EOL); #4: discover_device called at [/var/www/observium/discovery.php:216] 211: 212: foreach (dbFetchRows("SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE `disabled` = 0 $where ORDER BY `last_discovered_timetaken` ASC", $params) as $device) { 213: // Additional check if device SNMPable, because during 214: // discovery many devices (long time), the some device can be switched off 215: if ($options['h'] === 'new' || is_snmpable($device)) { 216: discover_device($device, $options); 217: } else { 218: $string = "Device '" . $device['hostname'] . 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