July 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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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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observium misidentifying Microsoft Server 2022 Standard for Datacenter
by Tony Guadagno 24 Jul '23

24 Jul '23

Update, I looked closer and Observium is doing this for other versions of Microsoft Server, not just 2022. For example, I have a bunch of 2012r2 servers that I have checked and are Standard. They are getting marked as Datacenter. Hi, I just noticed that some of my 2022 servers are listed as Datacenter Edition. When I go to those servers and look at "about pc" they list as Standard Edition(as they should be). Can you please review your OS ident for Microsoft server 2022 Thanks Tony

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Question about VRFs/BGP
by Richard Kuhns 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

Hello, Our network engineers have a question about how Observium handles BGP sessions in multiple VRFs: > On IOSXR devices where we use mutliple VRFs, we are unable to monitor > BGP sessions outside of the global routing table. In the global > routing table only the bgp sessions to the route reflectors are > visible. We would like to also be able to monitor bgp sessions in a > different vrf. Going through the documentation we have added the > commands for IOSXR to map a context to the vrf feature - but this does > not appear to be working for bgp. We can create snmp contexts and map > them to a different community to monitor those vrfs that we would like > to include. BUT it appears that in order to utilize them we would have > to add the host twice in observium. I tried doing this with a dns > alias but it doesn't like that because it finds a conflicting snmp > hostname. As a workaround we are monitoring that context in librenms > and it's working. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. -- Richard Kuhns<rjk(a)wintek.com> Systems Administrator Wintek Powered by Tipmont Main: 765-742-8428 Direct: 765-269-8541

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need receipt for professional edition
by Tony Guadagno 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

Hi, I recently renewed my professional edition but I never got a receipt. I need to submit one for reimbursement, how can I get a receipt? 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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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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New Observium Server
by Peter Derissen 06 Jul '23

06 Jul '23

Hi, Currently we are setting up a new vm platform. I want to build a new Observium server (we have a pro license). Is it a problem that I run 2 instances for like 2 or 3 months until the new server is running like it should before I shut down the "old" one? Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Derissen Eurofiber Nederland Oss & Data Engineer Safariweg 25-31 +31 (0)6 11587110 3605 MA Maarssen [cid:image001.png@01D9AFEF.619639E0]<https://www.eurofiber.nl/> Volg ons op Twitter<https://twitter.com/Eurofiber> | Linkedin<https://www.linkedin.com/company/eurofiber> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/eurofiberNL/> | Youtube<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6DavgEm7-ktAD8_Co_qnMA> Wilt u op de hoogte blijven van technische ontwikkelingen aan ons netwerk, nieuwe ICT ontwikkelingen en klantervaringen? Meld u dan aan voor onze maandelijkse nieuwsbrief<https://marketing.eurofiber.com/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/15570/p/p…>. [cid:image002.jpg@01D9AFEF.619639E0]<https://www.eurofiber.nl/> ******** IMPORTANT NOTICE ******** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure and it is intended only for the addressees. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any copying, distribution or other use of information contained in this e-mail (and its attachments) is not allowed. If you have received this e-mail in error, kindly notify us immediately by telephone or e-mail and delete the message (including any attachments) from your system. Please note that e-mail messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be subject of unauthorized interception or other interference without the knowledge of sender or recipient. Eurofiber only sends and receives e-mails on the basis that Eurofiber is not responsible for any such computer viruses, corruption or other interference or any consequences thereof. Eurofiber Nederland B.V. is registered in the Chamber of Commerce of Amsterdam with number 34134377, VAT number NL 8088.51.524 B01. Eurofiber N.V. has its registered office at Belgicastraat 5 bus 7, 1930 Zaventem and is registered under national number 0435.204.851. Eurofiber France has its registered office at 21 Avenue de la Cr?ativit?, 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq and is registered under national number FR 83.822.249.074.

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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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Observium
by Oscar Sánchez Mora 05 Jul '23

05 Jul '23

observium works for linux mint [signatureImage]

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