August 2025 - observium - lists.observium.org

PHP Weathermap Integration
by Adam Armstrong 23 Oct '26

23 Oct '26

Hi Guys, We added PHP Weathermap into Observium ~2 years ago, but the enabling option wasn't documented because there was an odd javascript bug breaking the UI. It turns out the bug was the same variable name being used in two completely separate bits of code, causing a clash. Typical Javascript. This is fixed now and it mostly functions, so I've unhidden the enabling option in the web-based config. $config['weathermap']['enable'] = TRUE; It works slightly differently to the original weathermap, it generates maps on the fly and is a little better integrated into the UI. It retains all of the old issues though, the weathermap code is very, very old and should not be enabled on installs untrusted people have access to. Thanks, adam. -- Sent from Postbox <https://www.postbox-inc.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=siglink&utm_campai…>

4 3

Configuring a custom dashboard
by Eric Bates 31 Oct '25

31 Oct '25

Sadly I can find no documentation on individual dashboard widgets? I want to create a dashboard with some specific graphs. Is there a widget which will display such? (I'd prefer not to have to do the "compose a blank HTML page with links to graphs" style of dashboard because of the authentication disconnect.) What is the widget used on the default dashboard to show Internet Traffic? What is "Traffic Composition?" (a.k.a "Traffic Comparison") and how do you configure it? All the the widgets appear to have a settings option where one adds flags of some sort to an array? But they don't appear to be editable? Thanks for your time. -- Clark 159a 508/289-3112

2 1

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

4 5

Small code suggestion related to the 'remote' auth type
by Nathan Neulinger 25 Aug '25

25 Aug '25

Relatively trivial edit, but allows the "remote" auth type to have the same functionality of looking up user access levels from database that the 'http-auth' one does. Useful if you want to have a couple of admin users, but let everyone else in as a global reader only. -- Nathan diff --git a/html/includes/authentication/remote.inc.php b/html/includes/authentication/remote.inc.php index 55f9a332..85a2e690 100644 --- a/html/includes/authentication/remote.inc.php +++ b/html/includes/authentication/remote.inc.php @@ -136,6 +136,12 @@ function remote_auth_user_level($username) { global $config; + //Attempt to look user up in DB, if something found, then return it + $tmp_level = dbFetchCell("SELECT `level` FROM `users` WHERE `username` = ? AND `type` = ?", [$username, 'mysql']); + if ( $tmp_level ) { + return $tmp_level; + } + return isset($config['auth_remote_userlevel']) ? $config['auth_remote_userlevel'] : 1; } -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Nathan Neulingernneul(a)neulinger.org Neulinger Consulting (573) 612-1412

2 1

Unable to Add Contact in Observium Version 25.8.14180 (stable)
by Prasun Kumar Mitra (NOC) 21 Aug '25

21 Aug '25

Hello Team, After updating Observium I am unable to add/modify contact. I have tried adding telegram bot and email contact but no success. After clicking Save it comes back to contacts page but no user is added. Please help.. Regards, Prasun Kumar Mitra Sr. System Administrator Network Operations Center Alliance Broadband Services Pvt. Ltd.<http://www.alliancebroadband.co.in> P-26/1,Nanigopal Roychowdhury Road, Kolkata-700014 Mob: 8420355871 [cid:f4d01781-8e16-4ed1-8754-b60023d32b1e]

1 1

Login Attempts fail on new CE install
by zack＠lima3.me 07 Aug '25

07 Aug '25

After a basic install of the CE edition, I am unable to log into the system. I added a user via CLI and can see that user as valid within the database. When I enable debug, I can see that the system is attempting the login but when it tries to pull the userlevel from the database, it does not appear to be passing the username into the query, so it is attempting to get the userlevel of username = '' and failing. The authentication failure is correctly populating into the auth_log insertion query. See below for the output of the debug info on the login page. Is this a bug in the system or is something configured incorrectly? I can see the user with level 10 in the database. SELECT * FROM `observium_attribs` SELECT @@SESSION.sql_mode; SET SESSION `sql_mode` = 'NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION' SELECT TIMEDIFF(NOW(), UTC_TIMESTAMP); SELECT * FROM `config` SELECT `username`, `password` FROM `users` WHERE `username` = 'lima3' AND `type` = 'mysql' SELECT `level` FROM `users` WHERE `username` = '' AND `type` = 'mysql' INSERT INTO `authlog` (`user`,`address`,`user_agent`,`result`) VALUES ('lima3','10.0.0.190','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:141.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/141.0','Authentication Failure')

3 3