February 2024 - observium - lists.observium.org

PHP Weathermap Integration
by Adam Armstrong 23 Oct '26

23 Oct '26

Hi Guys, We added PHP Weathermap into Observium ~2 years ago, but the enabling option wasn't documented because there was an odd javascript bug breaking the UI. It turns out the bug was the same variable name being used in two completely separate bits of code, causing a clash. Typical Javascript. This is fixed now and it mostly functions, so I've unhidden the enabling option in the web-based config. $config['weathermap']['enable'] = TRUE; It works slightly differently to the original weathermap, it generates maps on the fly and is a little better integrated into the UI. It retains all of the old issues though, the weathermap code is very, very old and should not be enabled on installs untrusted people have access to. Thanks, adam. -- Sent from Postbox <https://www.postbox-inc.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=siglink&utm_campai…>

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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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Observium doesn't show interfaces within VPRN on Nokia routers
by Tao Zhang 21 Aug '24

21 Aug '24

Hi Observium team, We are using Observium as a main tool to monitor our router interfaces and collect SNMP stats. We recently replaced our Juniper routers with Nokia SR 7750. We noticed that Observium doesn't work very well with Nokia routers. Observium can only show the interfaces in the master instance, not the interfaces within VPRN or VPLS instances (Nokia call those interfaces SAPs). To be able to see interfaces within VPLS or VPRN, we need to enable two other MIBs, TIMETRA-SAP-MIB and TIMETRA-VRTR-MIB. We are not sure how to enable those two MIBs. Do we need to add them manually? This is the MIBs enabled on the Nokia router (default). [cid:ece89bfc-3ae2-4dcd-9c7c-641c3978f803] Any suggestion is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tao

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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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Oxidized Integration?
by Wiethoff, Helge 05 Aug '24

05 Aug '24

Hi, I am currently testing a replacement for rancid. Rancid has worked for a long time, but adding new device classes feels more and more unwieldy. Oxidized [1] makes a good first impression and I was able to add new device classes without big problems. Then of course I would also like to see an integration with my favorite network management tool :-) There are people who have already worked on this: https://github.com/colin-stubbs/observium-oxidized It looks like this patch doesn't quite work for current observium versions, so I'd like to ask if anyone is working on it and what are the chances that there could be an Observium integration (professional edition)? Thanks Helge [1] https://github.com/ytti/oxidized

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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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... subscription has been disabled from email nikto.barrada@gmail.com
by Klaatu Barrada Nikto 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

observium(a)lists.observium.org Good day, I am reacting to your decision to prohibit the sending of information. Based on your decision, I checked my email settings and found no problems. I received the last email from your email address observium(a)lists.observium.org on February 15, 2024 at 1:06 p.m. I have not received any email since then. Can you please explain to me why the problems occur when I don't see anything (this does not rule out that there may be problems)? If I understood correctly, my email box refuses to accept your emails. Short summary: - the email address is on the list of Trusted senders - the storage size set aside for emails is 15 GB (0.21 GB occupied) - the number of senders is limited to the designated list, others are in SPAM - Your email address observium(a)lists.observium.org is not there... Sincerely, Barrada Nikto PS: Automatic translation

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Casa c100G SNR curve on upstream interface
by sebastien.gay＠mycable.ch 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

The casa is recognized as "CASA-DCTS". I don't have the upstream noise curves. Should I add mib

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ping probe not running
by Tony Guadagno 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

Hi, i have created a bunch of ping probes in the past and never had an issue, however, on this particular install...I created a single ping probe and it has not run after days. How do I troubleshoot this issue? Thanks [cid:image003.jpg@01DA6955.14B8C140] [cid:image004.jpg@01DA6955.14B8C140] Tony

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Mass SNMP Edit
by Nirmolak Singh Bajaj 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

Hi, I have migrated my devices from SNMp v1/2c to SNMP v3. As we have quote a number of devices, is there a script or anyway to mass edit the SNMP settings to v3 for these specific devices? We have put in config.php for v3 autodiscovery, but it isn't working. Warmest Regards, Nirmolak Singh

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Adding more Nagions plugins
by Brad Bendy 19 Feb '24

19 Feb '24

I went ahead and added another plugin to the /usr/lib/nagios/plugins directory where all the other working plugins are. When I go to add a probe it doesn't show up in the drop down box. Is there something that has to be ran to look for new plugins? Permissions/use/group are the same as the other plugins that work. Thanks

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dark ui image legend legibility
by Wolf Noble 16 Feb '24

16 Feb '24

Howdy, all! is there some voodoo necessary to coerce observium to generate graphs with textual legends that aren't black when dark mode is active? it's kinda hard to view black text on dark blue backgrounds :) I don't see an obvious knob for this, but it's entirely possible I'm just missing the "legend text color" or "make graph text legible in dark mode" or "learn to read" button somewhere :) [= The contents of this message have been written, read, processed, erased, sorted, sniffed, compressed, rewritten, misspelled, overcompensated, lost, found, and most importantly delivered entirely with recycled electrons =]

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Syslog repetitive alerts
by joston.gatt＠hudson.com.mt 16 Feb '24

16 Feb '24

Is it possible to suppress repetitive syslog alerts? if yes how can I do this? The issue is I have a particular site which has an issue with one of the internet connections, it keeps disconnecting and reconnecting every 2 minutes. A syslog event is logged each time and I am getting an email alert for each log.

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Upgrading O/S of Observium Server - Debian 10 to 11 (or 12)
by Andy Hartwell 15 Feb '24

15 Feb '24

Advice please ! 😊 I have a server which has been running Observium well for some time. Although upgrading the Observium build is easy enough following the instructions at Updating - Observium<https://docs.observium.org/updating/#upgrading-the-subscription-edition-to-…> this obviously does not update the O/S itself. I had a try at upgrading following online instructions yesterday but after he upgrade was complete the Observium web interface would not display – I just got a page of text which I assumed to be PHP script being displayed rather than “running”. Does anyone have any idiot proof (ie aimed at Linux novice) guidance to upgrade the OS without breaking Observium ? Luckily I had taken a snapshot of the VM so could roll back without any drama. Thanks, Andy Hartwell

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sysLocation gets rewritten
by Martin 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

Hello, I am experiencing something I don't understand. During polling of a host the syslocation -which is returned correctly by snmp- gets changed into another location (which is an old location before moving from "Address B" to "Address A"). $ /usr/bin/snmpget -v3 -l 'authPriv' -n '' -x 'AES' -X 'passwd' -a 'SHA' -A 'passwd' -u 'username' -Pud -Ih -OQUs --hexOutputLength=0 -m SNMPv2-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'HostName':'161' sysUpTime.0 sysLocation.0 sysUpTime.0 = 0:8:31:49.72 sysLocation.0 = "Address A" This is the correct address returned. A few lines lower in my debugging output I see: sysLocation rewritten from 'Address A' to 'Address B' by DB override. Even if I change the address in mysql to the correct address the polling process keeps changing it to the old address. MariaDB [observium]> select hostname, location from devices where device_id=9811; +-------------------------+--------------+ | hostname | location | +-------------------------+--------------+ | HostName | Address B | +-------------------------+--------------+ My questions: - Why is this happening? - How can I prevent this from happening? - Where does the old address come from? I hope someone can shed some light on this strange issue... Thanks, Martin

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Microsoft Teams Notification Template
by Lars Joergensen 12 Feb '24

12 Feb '24

Hey Seems the template for notification on MS Teams is broken (see below). I'm trying to make my own, but would like to know which of the templates in includes/templates it is based on, so I know where to start. [cid:image001.png@01DA58E7.CA53A520] 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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alert checker for specific ping probes
by Tony Guadagno 07 Feb '24

07 Feb '24

Hi, I have a bunch of ping probes and I would like to write an alert for some (but not all). Since the hostname is the same for all, how can I differentiate between them in an alert checker...for example, I want to alert on this: [cid:image001.jpg@01DA551D.A2E6D3E0] But not this: [cid:image002.jpg@01DA551D.A2E6D3E0] 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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Remove Switch Access interfaces from polling
by Massimo Cirulli 07 Feb '24

07 Feb '24

Hi All, I'm a newbie user of Observium. I need to clear the polling in order to not have the access port checked on the campus that we monitored. We have about 50k access interfaces splitted on Cisco and HP Aruba stack. I understand that i declare in config.php the bad iface but they have different name: Cisco -> Gi1/0/1 HP Aruba -> 45 My goal is: only the uplink will be checked. How can i use the config for access layer Cisco and Aruba stack (iface range) ? $config['bad_if'][] = " Gi1/0/1 ->?"; $config['bad_if'][] = "1->"; Thanx in advance for your support Massimo

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Re: alert checker for specific ping probes
by Tony Guadagno 03 Feb '24

03 Feb '24

Observium support: can someone please address my question. Thanks Hi, I have a bunch of ping probes and I would like to write an alert for some (but not all). Since the hostname is the same for all, how can I differentiate between them in an alert checker...for example, I want to alert on this: [cid:image004.jpg@01DA55E7.8703CAF0] But not this: [cid:image005.jpg@01DA55E7.8703CAF0] 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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