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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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Buy subscription via invoice / bank transfer ?
by anders.jonsson＠norconsult.com 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

Hello, Thanks for your excellent software. We are very interested in buying a Professional Subscription subscription (to begin with) but we don't have company issued cards and not allowed to used paypal either. Is there any possibility to do a invoice / bank transfer instead ?

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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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Help with UNIX Agent and Bind
by Timothy Stoddard 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

All, I would like some help with the UNIX Agent. I have been able to get the agent up and running on the device and listen on port 36602 which in turn the Observium server can communicate with. I have UNIX Agent turned on in Obervium config and the server does show me a button to turn on "BIND" with a slider button. When I slide the BIND button to ON and press save Observium says "No Application found on this device." I have provided screenshots. What am I missing because I am close to getting this working. I am running Observium 24.3.13396 (stable) Thanks, -- Tim

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Need help with a business question using OBSERVIUM.
by Han Scott 12 Apr '24

12 Apr '24

Dear Team, We are Lineup Korea, a company that provides IT services to customers in South Korea. https://lineupkorea.com/en/main/main.php I am not sure if I am asking the right question, but I am contacting you because I would like to start a business using your OBSERVIUM to provide solutions to our customers. We would like to ask for guidance on whether we need to enter into a business agreement with you for this business, or if there are any regulations in this regard. We look forward to your response. Thanks and Regards, Scott Han SangKi Scott Han Assistant Manager Infra Sales Division Lineupkorea.Co.,Ltd. Mobile: +82 10 4712 0238 Email: skhan(a)lineupkorea.com For take a look at our company website www.lineupkorea.com For urgent assistance dial / +82 2 786 8836 -----Original Message----- From: observium-request(a)lists.observium.org <observium-request(a)lists.observium.org> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2024 3:55 PM To: Han Scott <skhan(a)lineupkorea.com> Subject: Welcome to the "observium" mailing list Welcome to the "observium" mailing list! To post to this list, send your message to: observium(a)lists.observium.org You can unsubscribe or make adjustments to your options via email by sending a message to: observium-request(a)lists.observium.org with the word 'help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you will get back a message with instructions. You will need your password to change your options, but for security purposes, this password is not included here. If you have forgotten your password you will need to reset it via the web UI.

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Inquiry to find a temporary Professional Observium Licence
by BESANCON Damien [EXT] 11 Apr '24

11 Apr '24

Hello Mrs. / Mr, I'm contacting you regarding our new project to Upgrade our Observium version for the Laposte Company. We would like to find an Observium contact to Discuss and exchange because we'd like to present the Professional Version Of Observium to our colleagues, in order to integrate it in our IT system. We are actually with the Free version of Observium and we were wondering if we may have access to a temporary Professional version of Observium in order to present its benefits, before actually buying it and install it Best regards BESANCON Damien INETUM pour la poste / DSI Groupe La Poste Administrateur réseau CDS LAN DC CENTRE DE SERVICES MUTUALISES SI - CSMSI SERVICES TELECOM, RESEAU & SECURITE Département Exploitation Services Télécom, Réseau & Sécurité 9 rue Konrad Adenauer, 44300 Nantes [Une image contenant texte Description générée automatiquement] Ce message est classifié: [] C0-Public [] C1-Interne [X] C2-Restreint[] C3-Confidentiel Diffusion Restreinte aux groupes ou catégories de personnes identifiées . Si vous n'êtes pas destinataire de ce message, merci de le détruire et d'en avertir immédiatement l'expéditeur. Toute utilisation ou diffusion non autorisée est interdite. Post-scriptum La Poste Ce message est confidentiel. Sous reserve de tout accord conclu par ecrit entre vous et La Poste, son contenu ne represente en aucun cas un engagement de la part de La Poste. Toute publication, utilisation ou diffusion, meme partielle, doit etre autorisee prealablement. Si vous n'etes pas destinataire de ce message, merci d'en avertir immediatement l'expediteur.

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status field in devices table
by Eric W. Bates (he) 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

I have 2 Palo Alto firewalls which dropped off the map at the same time about 25 days ago. I think it may have coincided with an Observium upgrade; but I didn't write down update particulars and I don't think Observium maintains a history? When I run discovery with debug there is a SQL query posted (which fails) attempting to lookup the device: SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE `disabled` = 0 AND `hostname` LIKE 'vpn01-p.{redacted}' AND `status` = '1' AND `poller_id` = '0' ORDER BY `last_discovered_timetaken` ASC] In this case, the query fails because "status" is actually set to 0. So what is the "status" field for in the "devices" table and how is it set 'wrong?' There is a "statuses" tab in the web GUI for the device's "properties", but in this case (a PAN firewall) there are 2 MIB entries for indicating the fail-over status of the device pair ("HA State" and "HA Peer State"); so I don't think they have anything to do with the "status" field in the DB. -- Clark 159a 508/289-3112

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Cisco9200L
by Dąbrowski Jacek 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

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Problems with downgrade from commercial edition to community edition
by observium-mailing-list＠centropolis.net 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Hi, my company was using Observium (Subsciption Edition, SE) for quite a long time so I wanted to stick with Observium for my private lab. Since I have just some private Mikrotik routers and APs in the lab, the commercial edition might be way too mighty for my ~ 10 devices. So I tried to get the old installation downgraded to the CE edition. There was a hint on Observium's website a long time ago but I was not able to find it anymore. So I tried the idea from the current webpage (starting from Community Edition): Since I had an old Mariadb installation, I had to upgrade to Mariadb10.6.17 as well during installation. After I updated the databases with |/opt/observium/discovery.php -u | and made a full discovery with |/opt/observium/discovery.php -h all | |But I ran in trouble with the installation: | |So, my downgrade does not work this way. And yes, I got a backup of the previous installation ;-) | | | | | |I think, this derives from the information, that the CE Version does not support groups (?), but this is just a guess. | | | | | |So basically, I have two questions:| |1. Is there a recipe to downgrade from commercial to community edition? | |2. Would'nt it make sense to have an subscription edition limited to private / home lab (aka advanced private users) users with a limitation in the max. amount of devices? I think, the SE is a little bit too expensive to private installations. And yes, therefore is a CE, but therefore I would need to downgrade which did not work out for me.| | | |Cheers,| |John | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || ||

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support for Planet
by Dąbrowski Jacek 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Hi, Thank you for the hint, it helped 😊 Still open my second question * Is there any chance to add support for media converter from planet ? https://www.planet.com.tw/en/product/mc-1610mr-mc-1610mr48 Regards Jacek Dąbrowski From: Mike Stupalov <mike(a)observium.org<mailto:mike@observium.org>> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2024 4:06 PM To: Observium <observium(a)lists.observium.org<mailto:observium@lists.observium.org>>; Dąbrowski Jacek via observium <observium(a)lists.observium.org<mailto:observium@lists.observium.org>> Cc: Dąbrowski Jacek <Jacek.Dabrowski(a)selgros.pl<mailto:Jacek.Dabrowski@selgros.pl>> Subject: Re: [Observium] Locations and support for Planet Nie otrzymujesz często wiadomości e-mail z adresu mike(a)observium.org<mailto:mike@observium.org>. Dowiedz się, dlaczego jest to ważne<https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> Hi, this is nohow related with this update and mostly earlier updates. You have config option for Nested locations menu, and default split char is `,` (comma). Global Settings -> Locations -> Web UI [cid:image003.png@01DA85B4.FB3409B0]

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Observium update
by Eaton, Danny 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

All, I’ve inherited the company Observium instance, and it’s been a good 6 months since an update. How difficult is that process to upgrade the Observium software? [https://www.westlake.com/sites/default/files/WestlakeEmailFooter.jpg] The information transmitted, including any attachments, is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited, and all liability arising therefrom is disclaimed. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.

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VM Tab on Observium
by farhaan.haroon＠hellogroup.co.za 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

Hi Guys Can you advise on how to get the VM Tab to appear on my console? I am using Observium Pro. Installed on a debian box. i have added my host onto observium and that works fine. I would like to be able to see each vm on that host Via Observium.

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