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Building an Observium appliance
by Serge Caron 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

It's time I give something back to the community. This project, GitHub - SergeCaron/observium_appliance: Build and maintain an Observium appliance<https://github.com/SergeCaron/observium_appliance>, is aimed at SMB environments and walks the sysadmin through each phase of creating and maintaining (backup, restore, upgrade) an Observium appliance. It also covers the installation of Let's Encrypt certificates, secure (https) access to the Observium web site, basic email configuration for notifications, and log aggregation. It's basically a recipe with scripts. A small appliance with fault tolerant network configuration is shown to emphasize the standalone nature of the project. Of course, any virtual environment can do ;-) I hope I kept the typos and omissions to a minimum. Regards, Serge Caron

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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 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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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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Cisco ASA stopped reporting port metrics
by Tony Guadagno 24 May '24

24 May '24

Hi, around October 2023 all my asa graphs start looking like this: [cid:image001.jpg@01DAAD26.4CD63480] All my port counters are zero from then on. I have 17 asa's and they all are behaving this way. It is very possible about that time, I applied an update to the asa's. Can someone give me some steps to troubleshoot this, so I can figure out if cisco actually broke something, or if there is an observium issue.... Much appreciated Tony Guadagno

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postgres / nginx app script update?
by Wolf Noble 23 May '24

23 May '24

the "current" version of the postgresql app `unix agent stats script` doesn't seem to work on "modernish" postgres installs ``` root@bluebox:/usr/lib/observium_agent/scripts-available# ./postgresql.pl Use of uninitialized value $version in pattern match (m//) at ./postgresql.pl line 88. Use of uninitialized value $version in pattern match (m//) at ./postgresql.pl line 134. Use of uninitialized value $version in pattern match (m//) at ./postgresql.pl line 140. <<<app-postgresql>>> Use of uninitialized value $version in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 151. version: cCount:0 tDbs:0 tUsr:0 tHst:0 idle:0 select:0 update:0 delete:0 other:0 Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 161. xact_commit: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 162. xact_rollback: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 163. blks_read: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 164. blks_hit: Use of uninitialized value $version in pattern match (m//) at ./postgresql.pl line 165. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 166. tup_returned: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 167. tup_fetched: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 168. tup_inserted: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 169. tup_updated: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 170. tup_deleted: ``` (this is on postgres 14... current is 16... ) Has someone already solved this problem? Also, are there plans to address the current limitation of the nginx `unix agent app script` that constrains it to a single instance of nginx? for systems with multiple containers running isolated nginx stacks, the current 'one instance of an app per monitored device' is kinda limiting... is this something that's likely to be addressed anytime soonish? hope the world's treatin y'all well! W Wolf Noble Hoof & Paw loiosh(a)wolfspaw.com -=[ This message has been composed and transmitted with 100% recycled electrons ]=-

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