July 2023 - observium - lists.observium.org

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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Fwd: Memory plots are mislabeled or incorrect in Observium
by NGS Webmaster 18 Aug '23

18 Aug '23

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: NGS Webmaster <ngs.webmaster(a)noaa.gov> Date: Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 12:34 PM Subject: Memory plots are mislabeled or incorrect in Observium To: <observium-subscribe(a)lists.observium.org> Hello, The memory plots appear to be mislabeled in Observium. Below is a plot for one of our systems. [image: image.png] It reports that 32.19GB of memory is being used and that 5.67GB of memory is cached. However when I run the free -h command on the system the values for these fields are different. [image: image.png] This makes it difficult to accurately monitor the memory usage and setup accurate alerts for memory usage for systems. Can this bug be fixed? Our version information is below. [image: image.png] Thank you

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Unable to send notifications.
by sagar＠nstplnet.com 01 Aug '23

01 Aug '23

Hi Tam, We are facing notification related issue. We have created a port up/down alert in observium. It will be sending some switches port status only. Other switches will be showing in status as an unknown. But when we are seeing switch will be showing up & Realtime traffic also showing continuous. Please help us to resolve this issue. Our version is 23.1.12493 -- Thanks & Regards Sagar Penti 7977783978 Navkar Supertech Pvt Ltd

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unix-agent stop being polled in r12899
by Niklas Larsson 27 Jul '23

27 Jul '23

Hi, r12899 makes unix-agent not being polled. Doing svn update -r 12898 makes things good again. My servers are mostly Debian. Made it work again (partly) with ($os = 'linux'): observium:/opt/observium# svn di includes/definitions/os.inc.php Index: includes/definitions/os.inc.php =================================================================== --- includes/definitions/os.inc.php (revision 12899) +++ includes/definitions/os.inc.php (working copy) @@ -350,6 +350,7 @@ $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "SWRAID-MIB"; //$config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB"; // moved to discovery $config['os'][$os]['realtime'] = 15; +$config['os'][$os]['modules']['unix-agent'] = 1; $os = "dss"; $config['os'][$os]['text'] = "Open-E DSS"; Secondly - applications and packages are disabled on the device - can not activate application only packages. Added +$config['os'][$os]['modules']['applications'] = 1; to linux and now applications are working again (Observium Professional 23.7.12902). Poller (snipped) output now: ##### Starting polling run at 2023-07-22 20:47:06 ##### ##### xxx.xxx.xx[87] ##### o OS linux o OS Group unix o Last poll duration 1.22 seconds o Last Polled 2023-07-22 20:46:14 o SNMP Version v2c o Device status Device is reachable by PING (0.324ms) and SNMP (14.23ms) o Modules Excluded wmi, junose-atm-vp, cisco-ipsec-flow-monitor, cisco-remote-access-monitor, cisco-cef, arista-software-ip-forwarding,cipsec-tunnels, cisco-cbqos, cisco-eigrp, aruba-controller, cisco-vpdn o Modules Disabled wifi, lsp o Modules Enabled system, os, unix-agent, applications, ipmi, sensors, status, counter, processors, mempools, storage, netstats, ucd-mib, ipSystemStats,ports, bgp-peers, printersupplies, ucd-diskio, p2p-radios, ospf, sla, pseudowires, mac-accounting, loadbalancer,entity-physical, fdb-table, graphs, oids, packages, processes, probes /niklas

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APP Polling on port 36602 stopped
by Walter Onda 27 Jul '23

27 Jul '23

Hello Since 2 days the APP polling at port 36602 doesn't work anymore. No device is working. I tried to telneting the target over cli and it gaves answer on 36602. Tcpdumping on a target there are not requests coming from observium. We are using Revision 23.7.12902. Does anyone else having also some troubles? Regards Walter

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Netbotz Temperature Units
by Brian Weeks 25 Jul '23

25 Jul '23

I just installed a new APC Netbotz 250 and I have configured its web interface to be in Fahrenheit but when I imported it into Observium the units are celsius. The weird thing is if I hover over the temperature it shows correctly in fahrenheit. Can you point me in the right direction on how to change the displayed units? -- Brian Weeks Network Engineer Brenham ISD CCNA, MCSE, ACMT, A+, Network+, Security+ 1301 Niebuhr St. Brenham, TX 7783 Office: (979) 277-3760 ext. 2249 Email: bweeks(a)brenhamk-12.net Website: http://www.brenhamisd.net --

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