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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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Traffic collection on the vlan interface
by Kleber Cristiano Santilli Coelho 11 Jul '23

11 Jul '23

Good morning! I hope everyone is okay! I have a question about collecting traffic on vlan interfaces. My HPE/3Com devices (7510, 5510, 5520, 4800) show graphs of vlan interfaces but the graph is always empty with no data. On physical interfaces collected normally. Is there any configuration that I need/can do to get the values of the vlan interfaces? Thanks. --

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alert checker for a ping probe
by Tony Guadagno 05 Jul '23

05 Jul '23

Hi, I have some ping probes and a generic alert check that alerts if any of the ping probes fail like this: [cid:image001.jpg@01D9AB6C.2065CB20] But..now I need to have 2 different alerts based on the name in the ping probe.... How can I write an alert check to distinguish 2 different alert probes? Thanks Tony

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Speedtest observium
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 28 Jun '23

28 Jun '23

I can integrate speedtest to observium? it is possible? there are a guide? or something -- Saluda cordialmente

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retention
by Stuart Dyer 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Hi Everyone, Running Observium CE 23.1.12493, noted that observium keeps 4 years, 1 day of data, as per the faq, https://docs.observium.org/faq/ Is there a way to change this, I only run 10 devices and im happy to scale up the disk and cpu / ram ? Regards, Stuart Dyer IT Administrator Phone: +61 2 8020 2063 | E-mail: stuart.dyer(a)innovit.com<mailto:stuart.dyer@innovit.com> [innovit-logo (002) trans 2018] Bringing quality to Master Data MLC Centre, Level 56 19-29 Martin Place <https://goo.gl/maps/2yiiJ2YC4H9SBjYX6> Sydney NSW 2000<https://goo.gl/maps/2yiiJ2YC4H9SBjYX6> Tel: +612 8020 2000 Fax: +612 8020 2099 Web: www.innovit.com<http://www.innovit.com/> Australasia | North America | Europe Follow us on LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/innovit-australia-pty-ltd?trk=public_profi…> This electronic mail is solely for the use of the addressee and may contain information, which is confidential or privileged. If you receive this electronic mail in error, please delete it from your system immediately and notify the sender by electronic mail or using any of the following contact details.

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Updating
by Rando Sui 19 Jun '23

19 Jun '23

Hello, I'm running enterprise 23.2.12520 and tried to update to stable, but after update observium url is not reachable, what could be the issue? I have already updated php version to 7.4 Gr, Rando.

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Overriding Alert Transport Parameters
by Milton Ngan 16 Jun '23

16 Jun '23

Is it possible to override the alert transport parameters? In particular, I want to include the ENTITY_DESCRIPTION into the summary field for Pagerduty. When I put in this line into the config.php $config['transports']['pagerduty']['notification']['request_params']['payload']['summary'] = 'ALERT: [%DEVICE_HOSTNAME%] [%ENTITY_NAME%] [%ENTITY_DESCRIPTION%] %ALERT_MESSAGE%'; I can see it in the Global Settings | Changed Dump page, but the value doesn't update in the Global Settings | Full Dump. So this seems to indicate that Observium is initializing these values after the config has been read in. Is this the case? Is there a user configurable way to change the title of the alerts? Cheers Milton

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problems with recent (2023-06-08) Observium update (PRO version)
by Edvinas Kairys 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

Hello, at first - sorry for double posting. Recent post seems didn't got through, because of attachment. I would like to know what modifications was added in the last upgrade, cause our plugin - PHP Weathermap stopped to work, i would like to fix it, so i need some information what was done. Was anything done regarding PHP versions ? What PHP version is currently recommended by Observium ? Currently we're using PHP version 7.4 Ater 2023-06-08 update we started to experience errors with definitions, like: 11:24:16.583 infra [root@observ001invitx weathermap]# php map-poller.php 11:24:16.621 DEBUG! 11:24:16.821 PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function str_contains() in /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:3390 11:24:16.821 Stack trace:.. Any info would be valuable - thanks !

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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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send message by instgram
by Fikrat Abd 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

can observium server send message by instgram. lam using commuity edition

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Re: Nginx
by McGranahan, Jamen (VU) 12 Jun '23

12 Jun '23

Unfortunately, this suggestion did not improve our situation. We can access the site; we can login; but anything after that, we get "File not found." [cid:image003.png@01D99D32.3D5693B0] Resulting log data: [cid:image001.png@01D99D33.22510BD0] Our current nginx configuration for observium has the following: server { listen 443 ssl; server_name uatobservium.library.vanderbilt.edu; root /apps/observium/html; index index.php; error_log /var/log/nginx/observium-error.log debug; access_log /var/log/nginx/observium-access.log; include /etc/passbolt/nginx-ssl.conf; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ index.php; } location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) { fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/observium-fpm.sock; fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$; fastcgi_index index.php; include fastcgi_params; include fastcgi.conf; } location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* { deny all; } } And our pool.d/observium.conf file (for use with php7.4-fpm): ; Start a new pool. [observium] ; Unix user/group of processes user = www-data group = www-data ; The address on which to accept FastCGI requests. listen = /run/php/observium-fpm.sock ; Set permissions for unix socket, if one is used. In Linux, read/write listen.owner = www-data listen.group = www-data listen.mode = 0660 ; Choose how the process manager will control the number of child processes. pm = dynamic ; The number of child processes to be created when pm is set to 'static' and the ; maximum number of child processes when pm is set to 'dynamic' or 'ondemand'. pm.max_children = 50 ; The number of child processes created on startup. pm.start_servers = 10 ; The desired minimum number of idle server processes. pm.min_spare_servers = 2 ; The desired maximum number of idle server processes. pm.max_spare_servers = 15 ; The URI to view the FPM status page. If this value is not set, no URI will be ; recognized as a status page. pm.status_path = /status ; The access log file access.log = /var/log/$pool.access.log ; The access log format. access.format = "%R - %u %t \"%m %r%Q%q\" %s %f %{mili}d %{kilo}M %C%%" ; The log file for slow requests slowlog = /var/log/$pool.log.slow ; Redirect worker stdout and stderr into main error log. catch_workers_output = yes ; Additional php.ini defines, specific to this pool of workers. These settings ; overwrite the values previously defined in the php.ini. The directives are the ; same as the PHP SAPI: php_admin_value[error_log] = /var/log/fpm-php.www.log php_admin_flag[log_errors] = on [Vanderbilt] Jamen McGranahan Associate Director of Library Technology & Digital Services, Vanderbilt Library Vanderbilt University 615.343.1614 | jamen.mcgranahan(a)vanderbilt.edu<mailto:jamen.mcgranahan@vanderbilt.edu> | https://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/ Central Library, 419 21st Avenue South Nashville, TN 37203 Pronouns: he/him/his [cid:image005.png@01D99D32.3D5693B0] From: Adam Thompson <athompson(a)merlin.mb.ca> Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2023 5:05 PM Cc: McGranahan, Jamen (VU) <jamen.mcgranahan(a)vanderbilt.edu> Subject: Re: Nginx You don't often get email from athompson(a)merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca>. Learn why this is important<https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> At a bare minimum, you're declaring handlers for *.php twice. Having empty {} blocks in nginx is an anti-pattern - if those are really empty, they're no-ops and you should delete them. The LibreNMS instructions cover nginx, the config should still be ~90% applicable to Observium. https://docs.librenms.org/Installation/Install-LibreNMS/#configure-php-fpm Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: McGranahan, Jamen (VU) via observium <observium(a)lists.observium.org<mailto:observium@lists.observium.org>> Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2023 9:37:36 AM To: Lars Joergensen via observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Cc: McGranahan, Jamen (VU) <jamen.mcgranahan(a)vanderbilt.edu<mailto:jamen.mcgranahan@vanderbilt.edu>> Subject: [Observium] Nginx We are needing to move our current Observium instance to an Nginx instance, but I am having a extremely difficult time getting it set up. I can get to the login page and we can all login, but after that, we're not able to access any of the other pages. I know the htaccess file in the html folder has to be converted to nginx supported format, which I have done, but still no luck. Added to the complication is that we are having to run this on a machine running php7.4-fpm. Is there any guidance on getting Observium running on a Debian 11 instance using Nginx and PHP7.4-FPM? Please advise. Thank you. Current Nginx config: server { listen 80; server_name uatobservium.library.vanderbilt.edu; root /apps/observium/html; index index.php; error_log /var/log/nginx/observium-error.log info; access_log /var/log/nginx/observium-access.log; location ~ \.php$ { try_files $uri $uri/ index.php; include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/observium-fpm.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_intercept_errors on; fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.+)$; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $http_host; fastcgi_param PHP_VALUE "upload_max_filesize=5M \n post_max_size=5M"; } location ~ favicon\.ico { } location ~ 404 { rewrite ^(.*)$ /\. redirect; } location ~ ^/\..*$ { return 403; } location ~ \.(js|ico|txt|gif|jpg|png|css|php) { } location ~ api/ { } location ~ rrd/ { } location = /server-status { } location / { if (!-e $request_filename){ rewrite ^(.*)$ index.php/$1/; } } } [Vanderbilt] Jamen McGranahan Associate Director of Library Technology & Digital Services, Vanderbilt Library Vanderbilt University 615.343.1614 | jamen.mcgranahan(a)vanderbilt.edu<mailto:jamen.mcgranahan@vanderbilt.edu> | https://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/ Central Library, 419 21st Avenue South Nashville, TN 37203 Pronouns: he/him/his [cid:image005.png@01D99D32.3D5693B0]

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Problem with plugins like weathermap
by Edvinas Kairys 12 Jun '23

12 Jun '23

Hello, After yesterdays update to community edition, th graphs in plugins like weathermap stopped to work. [image: image.png] As i see from the logs the update was quite impactful, maybe some chmod command is missing here. Could anyone help ? Thank you

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Nginx
by McGranahan, Jamen (VU) 11 Jun '23

11 Jun '23

We are needing to move our current Observium instance to an Nginx instance, but I am having a extremely difficult time getting it set up. I can get to the login page and we can all login, but after that, we're not able to access any of the other pages. I know the htaccess file in the html folder has to be converted to nginx supported format, which I have done, but still no luck. Added to the complication is that we are having to run this on a machine running php7.4-fpm. Is there any guidance on getting Observium running on a Debian 11 instance using Nginx and PHP7.4-FPM? Please advise. Thank you. Current Nginx config: server { listen 80; server_name uatobservium.library.vanderbilt.edu; root /apps/observium/html; index index.php; error_log /var/log/nginx/observium-error.log info; access_log /var/log/nginx/observium-access.log; location ~ \.php$ { try_files $uri $uri/ index.php; include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/observium-fpm.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_intercept_errors on; fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.+)$; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $http_host; fastcgi_param PHP_VALUE "upload_max_filesize=5M \n post_max_size=5M"; } location ~ favicon\.ico { } location ~ 404 { rewrite ^(.*)$ /\. redirect; } location ~ ^/\..*$ { return 403; } location ~ \.(js|ico|txt|gif|jpg|png|css|php) { } location ~ api/ { } location ~ rrd/ { } location = /server-status { } location / { if (!-e $request_filename){ rewrite ^(.*)$ index.php/$1/; } } } [Vanderbilt] Jamen McGranahan Associate Director of Library Technology & Digital Services, Vanderbilt Library Vanderbilt University 615.343.1614 | jamen.mcgranahan(a)vanderbilt.edu<mailto:jamen.mcgranahan@vanderbilt.edu> | https://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/ Central Library, 419 21st Avenue South Nashville, TN 37203 Pronouns: he/him/his [cid:image002.png@01D99C47.ED634FA0]

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Message: get_port_by_index_cache()
by Kleber Cristiano Santilli Coelho 08 Jun '23

08 Jun '23

Hello! how are you? I hope everyone is okay. I got this alert when doing discovery.php -h all I don't know if it's the right thing to post on this list about it, apologies if it isn't. My device is HP 7500 comware 5 Thanks. ##### Module Start: sensors ##### o POWER-ETHERNET-MIB pethMainPseOperStatus [] o HH3C-LswDEVM-MIB hh3cDevMFanStatus [....] hh3cDevMPowerStatus [....] o HH3C-STACK-MIB hh3cStackPortStatus [....] hh3cStackBoardRole [..] o HH3C-ENTITY-EXT-MIB .. o HH3C-TRANSCEIVER-INFO-MIB .L..L.L....L.L..L.L.L.L..L.L.L.L....L.L....L.L..L.L.L.L..L.L.L.L....L.L..L.L.L.L..L.L.L.L..L.L.L.L..L.L.L.L..L.L.L.L..L.L.L.L..L.L.L.L..L.L.L.L..L..L.L..L.L.L.L..L..L.L..L..L.L..L.L.L.L..L.L.L.L..L.L.L.L..L.L.L.L..L.L.L.L....L.L....L.L..L..L.L....L.L..L.L.L.L..L.L.L.L.Invalid arguments passed into function get_port_by_index_cache(). Please report to developers. Invalid arguments passed into function get_port_by_index_cache(). Please report to developers. Invalid arguments passed into function get_port_by_index_cache(). Please report to developers. Invalid arguments passed into function get_port_by_index_cache(). Please report to developers. Invalid arguments passed into function get_port_by_index_cache(). Please report to developers. Invalid arguments passed into function get_port_by_index_cache(). Please report to developers. Invalid arguments passed into function get_port_by_index_cache(). Please report to developers. Invalid arguments passed into function get_port_by_index_cache(). Please report to developers. Invalid arguments passed into function get_port_by_index_cache(). Please report to developers. Invalid arguments passed into function get_port_by_index_cache(). Please report to developers. Invalid arguments passed into function get_port_by_index_cache(). Please report to developers. Invalid arguments passed into function get_port_by_index_cache(). Please report to developers. --

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