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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 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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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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port description
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

Hi, We need help. In config.php we add $config['port_descr_parser'] = "includes/port-descr-parser.inc.php"; In a port we config description field cust: test_port But web ui not show this new description [image: image.png] -- Saluda cordialmente

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FDB table
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 05 May '23

05 May '23

Need some help, only the table vlan_fdb is working extremily slow. how i can speedup this table? -- Saluda cordialmente

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Polling Cisco Meraki Cloud Controller
by Shekhar Basnet 03 May '23

03 May '23

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Request feature: Comment when suppressing alert
by Lars Joergensen 03 May '23

03 May '23

Dear list We're have three teams working in Observium, spread across the globe and time zones. We spend some time figuring out why alerts were suppressed and by who. Would it be possible to add a comment on a suppression action? Kind of a "operator event log" in Observium, correlated to devices and users. 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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Questions on Sensor Alerts
by Brad Bendy 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

I've got some MikroTik routers that under Statuses shows the Primary and Backup power supplies. Having a hard time trying to figure out how to get alerts for these to be sent. These are type of sensor I am pretty sure but what to match on? Is best way to match on MIBObject or description of some sort? I have tried a few things and can't seem to get the alerts to match. Any direction would be appreciated. Thanks

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Syslog Filter
by Andre Geißler 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

Hi all I can see syslogs from devices, however I cannot see devices to filter on. My version is 23.4.12719 (rolling) Cheers, Andre

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Syslog Filter
by Andre Geißler 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

Hi all I can see syslogs from devices, however I cannot see devices to filter on. My version is 23.4.12719 (rolling) Cheers, Andre

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Suject alert
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '23

hi, about alerts and recovers notify. how i can set to make more friendly the alerts.? ex: RECOVER: [1XX.YYY.ZZZ.AAA] [port] [TenGigabitEthernet0/3/0.811] change to RECOVER: [1XX.YYY.ZZZ.AAA] [port] ["port description"] it can changed? -- Saluda cordialmente

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Re: observium Digest, Vol 153, Issue 8
by Jonathan Jones 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '23

I work for a public school district in NJ, want to buy the Enterprise License, but would need to use a Purchase Order? Is that possible? Thank you! Jonathan Jones *Network Administrator | Pinelands Schools* *mobile: 1‪(609) 384-1043phone: 1(609) 857-4104 <http://voice.google.com/calls?a=nc,%2B16098574104> <http://voice.google.com/calls?a=nc,%2B16098574104> <http://voice.google.com/calls?a=nc,%2B16098574104> <http://voice.google.com/calls?a=nc,%2B16098574104>email: jjones(a)prsdnj.org <jjones(a)prsdnj.org>Address: 590 Nugentown RoadLittle Egg Harbor, NJ 08087https://www.pinelandsregional.org <https://www.pinelandsregional.org>* [image: facebook icon] <https://www.facebook.com/prsdnj> [image: twitter icon] <https://twitter.com/thecateyeprsd> [image: youtube icon] <https://www.youtube.com/@prsdnjboardofeducation5145/streams> [image: linkedin icon] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/njschooljobs-com/> [image: instagram icon] <https://www.instagram.com/thecateyeprsd/> [image: pinterest icon] <https://www.pinterest.com/pin/203084264427871682/> On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 6:16 AM <observium-request(a)lists.observium.org> wrote: > Send observium mailing list submissions to > observium(a)lists.observium.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via email, send a message with subject or > body 'help' to > observium-request(a)lists.observium.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > observium-owner(a)lists.observium.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: How to add a device which only responds to ping/icmp? > (Thomas Stather) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 12:13:57 +0200 > From: Thomas Stather <tstather(a)mr.mpg.de> > Subject: [Observium] Re: How to add a device which only responds to > ping/icmp? > To: <observium(a)lists.observium.org> > Message-ID: <6167258d-339a-c3e2-07b1-762a98f40ec0(a)mr.mpg.de> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="------------3h96IpmbpgPS4Jw3rMyntvey" > > Hi > > > Yes, this is exactly what we need. We have a bunch of wlan aps that are > managed by a wlan controller and you cannot query them with snmp > directly. However (in addition to the wlan controller which is already > monitored via Observium) i want all aps to be monitored via ping only to > be able to see issues like poe-failure, switch/cable failure etc. > > > Best, > > Thomas > > Am 13.02.2023 um 10:03 schrieb Flesch, Philipp via observium: > > > > Hi from Germany, > > > > I think, we are talking about different use-cases. > > > > Adam implemented a (great) possibility to add ping/http/what-ever > > checks (https://docs.observium.org/ping_only/) to a running Observium > > host. > > > > The use-case of Thomas (and me) is a little bit different: > > > > We need a possibility to add a device to Observium with “reduced > > features” (according to the missing SNMP connectivity) but full > > functionality (were possible). > > > > In my opinion a switch to skip the SNMP-poll during the add-process > > and a (manual) change from SNMP to a “ping poller” would fit our needs. > > > > Location, Type, Description … can be edited manually … and as > > “full-featured” device the great API can be used for data-exchange. > > > > Regards, > > > > Philipp > > > > *Von:* observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> *Im Auftrag von > > *Michael via observium > > *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2022 01:28 > > *An:* Observium <observium(a)observium.org> > > *Cc:* Michael <obslist(a)smarsz.com> > > *Betreff:* Re: [Observium] How to add a device which only responds to > > ping/icmp? > > > > If you haven't already; add the Observium host as a device. > > > > Then add the icmp probe to your Observium device. > > > > Michael > > > > > > > > On 3 May 2022, at 11:10 pm, Thomas Stather via observium > > <observium(a)observium.org> wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I was able to set up the probe, but i cannot add it to a device > > since the device doesn't exist (and cannot be added since it > > cannot speak snmp). > > > > What am i doing wrong? > > > > Best, > > > > Thomas > > > > Am 03.05.22 um 13:15 schrieb adama--- via observium: > > > > You can’t add non-SNMPable devices to Observium’s SNMP polling > > system, no. > > > > Read the page I linked, it explains. > > > > *From:*observium<observium-bounces(a)observium.org> > > <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>*On Behalf Of*Thomas > > Stather via observium > > *Sent:*03 May 2022 09:57 > > *To:*observium@observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > > *Cc:*Thomas Stather<tstather(a)mr.mpg.de> > > <mailto:tstather@mr.mpg.de> > > *Subject:*Re: [Observium] How to add a device which only > > responds to ping/icmp? > > > > Hi > > > > I don't really get it sorry, it seems that you can add the > > probe check after the device is added to Observium. > > > > However, how can i add the device (./add_device.php or via ui) > > to Observium if it doesn't speak SNMP. For me it always fails > with > > > > Could not reach apar01 with given SNMP parameters using v1. > > > > Best, > > > > Thomas > > > > Am 02.05.22 um 16:42 schrieb adama--- via observium: > > > > https://docs.observium.org/ping_only/ > > <https://docs.observium.org/ping_only/> > > > > *From:*observium<observium-bounces(a)observium.org> > > <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>*On Behalf > > Of*Thomas Stather via observium > > *Sent:*02 May 2022 11:35 > > *To:*observium@observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org > > > > *Cc:*Thomas Stather<tstather(a)mr.mpg.de> > > <mailto:tstather@mr.mpg.de> > > *Subject:*[Observium] How to add a device which only > > responds to ping/icmp? > > > > 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. 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BGP Routing summaries failing
by Robert Williams 20 Apr '23

20 Apr '23

Hi! One of our guys just noticed that the BGP page is no longer rendering. I cannot confirm when it occurred (currently at rev 12695). All other pages are fine, only the four Routing->BGP* pages all seem to fail. OSPF/CEF are fine, as are all other pages as far as I can see. [cid:image001.png@01D9736E.DBE58830] The level of debug is strong with this one though... [cid:image002.png@01D9736E.DBE58830] Any ideas? Cheers :) [Custodian Data Centres]<https://www.custodiandc.com> Robert Williams Technical Director [Email] Robert(a)CustodianDC.com [Call] +44 (0)1622 230382 (Opt. 1) [Follow us on Twitter]<https://twitter.com/custodiandc> [Like us on Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/custodiandc> [Review us on Google] <https://goo.gl/trEs7h> [Connect with us on LinkedIn] [Subscribe to us on YouTube] [We have 5 stars us on Google] Registered Office: Vinters Business Park, New Cut Rd, Maidstone, Kent ME14 5NZ Company Number 07878023 Click here to view our email disclaimer<https://www.custodiandc.com/email-disclaimer>

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observium expiration date
by Toky ANDRIANASOLO 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

Hello, Is there any command to check the observium expiration date? Thank you and Regards, Toky --

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renew observium enterprise
by Toky ANDRIANASOLO 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

Hello, we got the credential of our observium enterprise annual subscription, could please help us on how to apply this? Thank you and regards, *Toky* --

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alerts down/up
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 12 Apr '23

12 Apr '23

hi, There is any way to link an alert of device down with up (alert-recovery) in tables? to make a report device, timestamp down, timestamp up, not available for X minutes -- Saluda cordialmente

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Maps
by Mezzadri, Steven 12 Apr '23

12 Apr '23

After upgrading to 23.4.12634 this weekend, my "openmaps" maps have disappeared from the dashboard. Any way to get them back? -- Steven Mezzadri Network Engineer (248) 344-3680 (office/helpdesk) (248) 344-3260 (direct) (248) 483-1894 (cell) https://helpdesk.northvilleschools.org/ https://www.northvilleschools.org

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VMWare ESXi looses CPU information
by Basile Bluntschli 12 Apr '23

12 Apr '23

Hi Observium Team since a few SVN updates, ESXi start loosing CPU information after full discovery. It is not clear what triggers it... However the ESXi have not been updated, but Observium is at the latest version from rolling SVN. What would you need to further debug it? Kind regards Basile

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port down on web ui
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 05 Apr '23

05 Apr '23

Hi, When a monitored port change from up to down... in the web ui show a warning (yellow).. this is ok, but We can setup to show this warnings on limited time (1 hr, 3 hr)? To Us is not important see this warning during 20 hr. only on first minutes -- Saluda cordialmente

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unexpected svn upgrade behaviour.
by David Milton 05 Apr '23

05 Apr '23

Hello, After the latest date I seem to be showing different versions: -sh-4.2$ svn up Updating '.': At revision 12625. -sh-4.2$ ./discovery.php -u ___ _ _ / _ \ | |__ ___ ___ _ __ __ __(_) _ _ _ __ ___ | | | || '_ \ / __| / _ \| '__|\ \ / /| || | | || '_ ` _ \ | |_| || |_) |\__ \| __/| | \ V / | || |_| || | | | | | \___/ |_.__/ |___/ \___||_| \_/ |_| \__,_||_| |_| |_| Observium Professional 23.4.12622 https://www.observium.org -- Database is up to date. -- Observium is up to date. Did a db update get missed for the new version? Thanks, Dave.

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