April 2025 - 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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Removing questions in Observium forum/personal info
by scott.brucher＠nelsongp.com 17 May '25

17 May '25

I asked a question with my work email and of course forgot to remove my signature. How do I remove all my information? Getting a lot of BOT and sales calls.

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Proxmox support
by Marco Bungalski 29 Apr '25

29 Apr '25

Is there a plan for Observium to support Proxmox? This also includes the display of individual VMs, as is done with VMware. Best Regards, Marco

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Wrapper discovery misbehaving
by Milton Ngan 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

I am running multiple pollers, and we just noticed that the discovery of new hosts is not doing what we would expect when trying to partition the workload. Instead of doing a third of the new hosts, it does a third of all the hosts, essentially doing a full discovery, which is causing some our PDU’s to get overloaded, since they are being hit by 3 parallel discoveries and also possibly a poll at the same time. /opt/observium/observium-wrapper discovery --host new -i 3 -n 0 If I remove the -i and -n options, then it does what I would expect, although it is not distributed, which isn’t a problem because the number of new devices should be pretty small. So the --host and the -i and -n options appear to be mutually exclusive, which isn’t stated in the help at all.

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Netstat Missing
by observium＠lsl-technology.com 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

If I look at the list of devices, when I select any of the network devices and select Graphs, the dropdown menu has an item called NETSTATS ... This item is not available if I select a VM or a server and select Graphs. How do I view network stats on any of my server devices, be them VM or physical server? Thanks Lawrence

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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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