August 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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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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error on "Applications" in device settings
by Bryan Fields 01 Sep '23

01 Sep '23

I'm running 23.8.12912 (2nd August 2023), svn revision 12959 on Debian 12. This is the subscription version. When I go to edit a device and then the "Applications" tab I get an error of "Oops! Something went wrong." The below is a quote of the page with the detail errors: > Cannot increment array in /opt/observium/html/pages/device/edit/apps.inc.php:116 > #0: (unknown function) called at [/opt/observium/html/pages/device/edit/apps.inc.php:116] > 111: echo('<td class="text-center">' . generate_form_element($item) . '</td>'); > 112: //echo(" </td>"); > 113: echo(" <td>" . nicecase($app) . "</td>"); > 114: echo(" </tr>"); > 115: > 116: $row++; > 117: } > 118: } > 119: ?> > 120: </tbody> > 121: </table> > #1: include called at [/opt/observium/html/pages/device/edit.inc.php:119] > 114: $vars = get_vars('POST'); // Note, on edit pages use only method POST! > 115: $attribs = get_dev_attribs($device['device_id']); > 116: $model = get_model_array($device); > 117: > 118: register_html_resource('js', 'js/jquery.serializejson.js'); > 119: include($filename); > 120: } else { > 121: print_error('<h3>Page does not exist</h4> > 122: The requested page does not exist. Please correct the URL and try again.'); > 123: } > 124: > #2: include called at [/opt/observium/html/pages/device.inc.php:771] > 766: This device is being discovered now. Discovery started ' . format_unixtime($discovery_start) . ' (' . format_uptime(time() - $discovery_start) . ' ago).'); > 767: } > 768: } > 769: > 770: if (is_file($config['html_dir'] . "/pages/device/" . basename($tab) . ".inc.php")) { > 771: include($config['html_dir'] . "/pages/device/" . basename($tab) . ".inc.php"); > 772: } else { > 773: print_error('<h4>Tab does not exist</h4> > 774: The requested tab does not exist. Please correct the URL and try again.'); > 775: } > 776: > #3: include called at [/opt/observium/html/index.php:234] > 229: </div> > 230: </div> > 231: <div class="col-xl-8 col-lg-12">'; > 232: } > 233: > 234: include($page_file); > 235: echo '</div>'; > 236: } > 237: > 238: // Register default panel if custom not set > 239: if (!isset($GLOBALS['cache_html']['page_panel'])) { I checked the /opt/observium logs and didn't see anything that indicates the problem further. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this or what this may be? Thanks, -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice http://bryanfields.net

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APC EPDU1132M not showing power readings
by promise kumalo 29 Aug '23

29 Aug '23

Hello i am having trouble adding the new APC EPDU1132M to the observium. The device is being added and recognised as an APC PDU, but there are no power readings being recorded. i have added an old model APC AP7854 B2 to observium and its works perfectly, i can see the power readings. i am running obversium CE 23.1.12493.

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How to filter only fibre network ports in an alert for link down?
by Thomas Stather 25 Aug '23

25 Aug '23

Hi, I want to create an alert for network ports that are down, but only associate the alert with fibre ports in our network infrastructure. I didn't find something like "ifPortType = fibre" or similar i can use. I could go with the interface speed but there could also be 1GBit fibre ports. How can i solve this? Best, Thomas -- Thomas Stather IT Services Max-Planck Institut für medizinische Forschung Jahnstraße 29 69120 Heidelberg Room: U1.509 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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APC Smart-UPS SRT 6000 Alerting
by Bryan Fields 24 Aug '23

24 Aug '23

Been working on getting this configured and my head around this alert. I've got it working to alert me of going on battery now, and if the batteries are marked as bad. This is specifically tested with an APC Smart-UPS SRT 6000, SKU: SRT6KXLT. I have three checks: 1: UPS on battery Test Condition: status_value eq 3 Association: Status Type in powernet-upsbasicoutput-state Device in $device 2: UPS battery needs replacing Test Condition: status_value ne 1 Association: Status Type in powernet-upsbatteryreplace-state Device in $device 3: UPS battery status Test Condition: status_value ne 2 Association: Status Type in powernet-upsbattery-state Device in $device I hope this will be helpful as I didn't see much come up in my searching before. -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice http://bryanfields.net

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