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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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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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API Error 500
by Nicolas Korten 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

Hello dear Observium Team, I'm trying to add a device using the API and get an error 500 message instead of the expected notice that the device is not respondig to snmp. > curl -u korten:secret https://observium.domain.net/api/v0/devices/ -X POST -d '{"hostname":"pe-lab02.domain.net", "snmp_community":"test", "ping_skip":"on"}' <h1>500 Internal Server Error</h1><h3>flight\Engine::_json(): Argument #2 ($code) must be of type int, string given, called in /opt/observium/libs/flight3/core/Dispatcher.php on line 86 (0)</h3><pre>#0 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/core/Dispatcher.php(86): flight\Engine->_json() #1 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/core/Dispatcher.php(50): flight\core\Dispatcher->runEvent() #2 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/Engine.php(113): flight\core\Dispatcher->run() #3 [internal function]: flight\Engine->__call() #4 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/core/Dispatcher.php(287): call_user_func_array() #5 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/Flight.php(143): flight\core\Dispatcher::invokeMethod() #6 /opt/observium/html/api/v0/includes/devices.inc.php(133): Flight::__callStatic() #7 [internal function]: api_add_device() #8 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/core/Dispatcher.php(250): call_user_func_array() #9 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/core/Dispatcher.php(237): flight\core\Dispatcher::callFunction() #10 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/Engine.php(508): flight\core\Dispatcher::execute() #11 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/core/Dispatcher.php(86): flight\Engine->_start() #12 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/core/Dispatcher.php(50): flight\core\Dispatcher->runEvent() #13 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/Engine.php(113): flight\core\Dispatcher->run() #14 [internal function]: flight\Engine->__call() #15 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/core/Dispatcher.php(287): call_user_func_array() #16 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/Flight.php(143): flight\core\Dispatcher::invokeMethod() #17 /opt/observium/html/api/v0/index.php(66): Flight::__callStatic() #18 {main}</pre> As far as I can see, the error is in: api/v0/includes/devices.inc.php at line 133: >Flight::json($json, '400'); should be: Flight::json($json, 400); Agree? Thank you and have a nice day, Nico -- Nicolas Korten Dipl.-Ing. Systemtechnik und Dienste/EDV komro GmbH Am Innreit 2 DE-83022 Rosenheim Telefon: +49 8031 365 7913 Telefax: +49 8031 365 7699 Mail: korten(a)komro.net / http://www.komro.net __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Geschäftsführer: Dipl. Ing. Gert Vorwalder Vorsitz im Aufsichtsrat: Oberbürgermeister Andreas März Sitz der Gesellschaft: Rosenheim Registergericht: Traunstein, HRB-Nr. 10689 USt.-IdNr.: DE 188814299 Hinweise zur Verarbeitung Ihrer personenbezogenen Daten gem Art. 13 DSGVO: Verantwortlich für die Verarbeitung Ihrer personenbezogenen Daten im Rahmen des vorliegenden Kontakts ist die komro GmbH Weitere Informationen zur Verarbeitung Ihrer Daten, insbesondere zu den Ihnen zustehenden Rechten, können Sie unserer Homepage unter https://www.komro.net/datenschutz entnehmen oder auf jedem anderen Wege unter den o.g. Kontaktdaten bei uns erfragen.

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Incorrect sensor limits caused by duplicate unit conversion
by Corwin Ziegler Hunts 04 Sep '24

04 Sep '24

The definition for the temperature sensor on a CyberPower PDU (or UPS) environmental sensor accessory defines both "unit" and "limit_unit" as "F". This seems to cause the limit values to get converted (to Celsius) twice: first in "entity_limits_definition" using "limit_unit" and then in "discover_sensor_ng" using "sensor_unit" which is set from "unit". For us, the SNMP read limits of 59 and 90 F end up as -9.44 and 0.12 C on the sensor in Observium. This is on version r13629. Simply not setting "limit_unit" is a workaround if both the sensor and limit values use the same unit (maybe that is preferred when defining sensors?). If the units are different a proper fix is needed. Also, is this the preferred method for reporting this kind of issue? Corwin

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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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Re: How to add a device which only responds to ping/icmp?
by Croene Jan (PZ Antwerpen) 21 Aug '24

21 Aug '24

Dear, We bought the license to monitor devices via ping-check (with the probe functionality). "Observium is designed to collect and display data from SNMP-capable devices, but not every device supports SNMP. In order to monitor non-SNMP capable devices, the probes system can be used to perform checks on non-SNMP devices". I am just wondering how we can add a device in observium that cannot handle snmp? ________________________________ Als u niet de beoogde ontvanger van deze email bent, lees onze disclaimer<https://www.politie.be/nl/maildisclaimer>. Si vous n'?tes pas le destinataire pr?vu de cet email, lisez notre disclaimer<https://www.politie.be/fr/maildisclaimer>. Wenn Sie nicht der beabsichtigte Empf?nger dieser email sind, lesen Sie unseren disclaimer<https://www.politie.be/de/maildisclaimer>. If you aren't the intended recipient of this email, read our disclaimer<https://www.politie.be/en/maildisclaimer>.

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