September 2024 - observium - lists.observium.org

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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widgets
by jose.napoli＠neuralsoft.com 03 Oct '24

03 Oct '24

Can ! change the config of any widget or generate new? When clic in config show this: > $widget['widget_config']ajax/actions/edit_widget.inc.php:146 array()

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Can't see alerts.
by Bar Russo 30 Sep '24

30 Sep '24

Greetings. For some reason recently I can NOT see any alert status, if I press on 'Alerts' it is empty and doesn't show anything. Sometimes it's showing the alert for a second and then all of the alerts disappeared. I tried to reboot the Ubuntu VM and also tried to see some logs but couldn't handle it, still having this issue. I didn't change anything within the Ubuntu machine the Observium installed on so ain't got a clue what's happened. Maybe you'll be able to assist me please. Best regards, Bar Russo | Information Technology Phone: 03-9546064 Address: Ariel Sharon 8 blvd. Or-Yehuda Linkedin<https://www.linkedin.com/company/77639321/admin/> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/mgroup.mgar> | Mgrp.co.il [תמונה שמכילה גופן, גרפיקה, לוגו, עיצוב גרפי התיאור נוצר באופן אוטומטי]<https://www.mgar.co.il/>

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Purchase multiple instances in one CC transaction
by ccollar＠voltagepark.com 20 Sep '24

20 Sep '24

Greetings, I'd like to purchase multiple instances (multiple systems, multiple DBs) of Observium Pro with one credit card transaction, and am wondering if this is possible, and if so how? Thanks!

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Setting up alerts on received power
by Laurent CARON 19 Sep '24

19 Sep '24

Hi, I'd like to setup alerts on RX power levels of my optical interfaces (on juniper and cisco equipment). In the web interface, this value can be obtained @URL: /device/device=yy/tab=health/metric=dbm/id=xx/ I really can't figure how to properly build an alert checker on this. Did anyone already set it up ? Thanks

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Sensor limit nominal and delta OIDs need different scaling
by Corwin Ziegler Hunts 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

Hi, We are trying to set appropriate limits for a frequency sensor. There are OIDs for the nominal frequency and the acceptable deviation from it. The problem is the nominal OID needs 0.1 scaling while the deviation OID needs 1 scaling (the measured value needs 0.1 scaling). Is there a way to handle this? We tried using 'limit_scale' but that applies the same scaling to both the nominal and delta limits. The specific device is a CyberPower ATS PDU. The OIDs are ePDU2SourceStatusSourceAFrequency, ePDU2SourceStatusSourceBFrequency, ePDU2SourceStatusNominalFrequency and ePDU2SourceConfigFrequencyDeviation. Corwin

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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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Group section not working in Status Summary widget
by Ricardo Puig 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

Dear Observium Team, The group section in Status Summary widget is pointing to nowhere (javascript:void(0)) Regards.

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NAT Counters Cisco
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '24

Hi. How can I get a NAT's sessions total from Cisco ASR-1002X? We get SNMP results by snmp v2 and Observium version is 23.8.12.912. I must enable NAT MIB, but ¿where is an example? NAT MIB can be enable after add the device? -- Saluda cordialmente

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Hello.
by Bar Russo 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '24

I want to subscribe because I need some help with the metrics of the Observium. [cid:image001.png@01DB04FB.F42B1C50] בר רוסו | מערכות מידע מייל: barr(a)mgrp.co.il<mailto:barr@mgrp.co.il> קבוצת Mgroup | אריאל שרון 8, אור יהודה www.mgrp.co.il<http://www.mgrp.co.il>

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Alert Checker association "Storage Description" major problem
by kalafus＠energotel.sk 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

Hello, Creating storage alert checker using entity association "Storage Description" renders page https://observium.xxx.sk/alert_checks/ totally unavailable (just blank whole page). Deleting that alert makes it work again. Looking for a solution...

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Unix agent not working on non-default port
by ricardo＠banak.com 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

We have several devices behind a NAT that require using an agent_port other than 36602. Even though I have changed the port in the GUI, the poller seems to continue using the standard port. It seems to me that $device['attribs']['agent_port'] has not been populated. Running 24.9.13634 Pro on debian 12. Thank you. Ricardo Puig

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The graphs for few network devices not getting displayed
by Renuka Arya 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Hi Team! We are running Observium pro version Observium 24.6.13582(stable). Lookslike the memory,processor and network graphs are seeing a draw error. You can still the values beside but it wont draw the graphs. It says "Draw error"/nan I looked into the permissions for the rrd folders for these devices and did change a non-working one similar to a working one as root:observium but that did not fix the issue. I also tried deleting (which was not ideal) a device and adding it back but that did not work as well. Please guide! Thanks! Regards Renuka Arya

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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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