June 2024 - observium - lists.observium.org

Bug report: Broken scaling on some SFP receive power graphs
by Corwin Ziegler Hunts 09 Aug '24

09 Aug '24

Hi Observium team, We're having issues with some of the generated graphs. Some of our devices report the light level received by SFPs using mW (rather than dBm). We are on the latest stable revision (13582). Issue 1: The graphs generated by Observium for these sensors usually show an excessive scale of at least -100 mW to 100 mW when the data in the specified time interval are entirely within the range 100 nW to 1 mW and usually only a small chunk of that. The calculated minimum and maximum values shown below the graph are correct. These graphs worked properly in the past with a prior version of Observium. Issue 2: Selecting and deselecting the Force Autoscale option appears to have no effect on the generated graph or displayed rrd graph command. Manually running the generated rrd graph command after removing the "--alt-autoscale" option results in a good graph. Here is the raw SNMP output for one of the these sensors showing a current value of 0.5560mW: ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB::entPhySensorType.1000004631 = INTEGER: watts(6) ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB::entPhySensorScale.1000004631 = INTEGER: milli(8) ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB::entPhySensorPrecision.1000004631 = INTEGER: 4 ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB::entPhySensorValue.1000004631 = INTEGER: 5560 ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB::entPhySensorOperStatus.1000004631 = INTEGER: ok(1) Corwin

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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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BGP alert
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

hi, in the observium's web keeps [image: image.png] This alert box appears from sunday (expected, we change of isp) but now is wednesday and show 0s. not 2d or real time since down we can disable this alert? without disable all bgp sessions -- Saluda cordialmente

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Apache / https hung after updating Observing
by Roger Larsen 24 Jun '24

24 Jun '24

Dear Observium Community We have for several times experienced problem after Obsevium Professional update. Today we updated from 24.4.13501 to 24.6.13582 (by using $ svn update & $ ./discovery.php -u) OS CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core) updated today w/ kernel: 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 After restarting server we struggle logging in to WebGUI. Apache /httpd is complaining on “to many concurrent connections”. Are there any suggestion on how to update Observium without getting these problems? Any householding processes needed for a better update? Or maybe we need to be more patient and give the server some more minutes after update? Today we waited 30 minutes, and still not able to login… R Austevoll Breiband AS - LYSGLIMT Roger Larsen Teknisk sjef / CTO Tlf +47 9523 7640 / +47 5508 0111 Epost roger.larsen(a)ikt.lysglimt.net<mailto:roger.larsen@ikt.lysglimt.net> [signature_3169845242] www.lysglimt.net<http://www.lysglimt.net> Denne e-posten er beregnet for den institusjon eller person den er rettet til og kan være belagt med lovbestemt taushetsplikt. Dersom e-posten er mottatt ved en feil, vennligst returner den til Austevoll Breiband AS og slett den fra systemet. This email with attachments is solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. It may contain information that is confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please return the e-mail to the Austevoll Breiband AS without producing, distributing or retaining copies thereof.

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incomplete list of windows services
by Tony Guadagno 21 Jun '24

21 Jun '24

Hi, I have noticed (now that I am looking) that the list of services on my windows servers is incomplete. In particular, I installed a service about 1 month ago on all my servers and this services does not show on any server in Observium. Can someone tell me how to start troubleshooting this issue? thanks Tony

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Import end devices via CSV - What's the format?
by Chris Cottingham 17 Jun '24

17 Jun '24

I want to import a lot of my devices via a CSV file. I know there is a way to import from the command line but I don’t see much on the file format for the command line utility. Anyone know the best way to import a lot of devices quickly? Is a CSV the best way to go? Thanks!!

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Trial version help
by Chris Humphreys 13 Jun '24

13 Jun '24

Hi all, We are trialling the software and it was working fine but now when accessing the site we get this message. “DB not connected, please check database connection configuration. DB Error 2002: No such file or directory” Any ideas how I might be able to sort this? Thanks Chris Humphreys Senior IT Infrastructure and Applications Manager (m) +44 7852 040601 www.fladgate.com<https://www.fladgate.com/> for Fladgate LLP (p) +44 20 3036 7151 Address click here<https://www.fladgate.com/contact-us> [cid:image001.jpg@01DABCBC.07213020] [Twitter]<https://twitter.com/fladgatellp> [LinkedIn]<https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-humphreys-1b199535/> [cid:image004.jpg@01DABCBC.07213020]<https://www.fladgate.com/> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are CONFIDENTIAL to the named recipient(s) and may be legally privileged. If you are not a named recipient please notify us and ensure that this e-mail is deleted and not read or copied or disclosed to anyone else. E-mail may be corrupted, intercepted or amended and so we do not accept any liability for the contents received unless they are the same as sent by us. E-mail sent or received using our system may be monitored, intercepted or read by us before or after it reaches the recipient; if you reply to this message you consent to this activity in relation to your response. Fladgate LLP is a limited liability partnership, registered in England and Wales with registered number OC334334. It is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, number 484783. The term partner is used to refer to a member of Fladgate LLP. A list of members is available at the above registered office. For more information, including our Terms of Business and Personal data processing notice, please visit http://www.fladgate.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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LDAP - Synology
by Lanham Rattan 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

I believe I have LDAP sort of working. I am trying to authenticate against a Synology LDAP server. When I use debug mode I see debug info for invalid users and bad passwords but if I enter a proper user and password there is no debug information and I get the error message “User is disabled”. So, I believe I am missing something. Beyond the server bindings I have these settings: $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "uid"; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",dc=clearnetworx,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "dc=clearnetworx,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_groups']['Observium-Users']['level'] = 5; $config['auth_ldap_groupmembertype'] = "fulldn"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmemberattr'] = "memberOf";

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