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||Basic Query on Observium||
by SOC.HCL 05 Feb '23

05 Feb '23

Hi All Need your help to get the below query addressed:- 1. How to check the current version of Observium through CLI as unable to see it through GUI. [cid:image001.png@01D938E9.0E6229F0] 1. How to check which license version we are currently using for observium. We are getting below information under "About Observium" option. Observium Professional License Version 1.1 1. How to upgrade the observium from current to latest? Thanks & Regards, Nitin Garg Lead/Architect - Networks (Firewall, LAN-WAN, Citrix-LB) HCL Nordea | Infrastructure Service Delivery Visit me: HCL Technologies Ltd. - IOMC, Special Economic Zone, Infra Tower1, Sector 126, Noida - 201313, INDIA Mob: +91 9958933232 E-mail: nitin.garg(a)consult.nordea.com<mailto:nitin.garg@consult.nordea.com> Web: nordea.com Planned Leaves : None Nordea Bank Abp, Satamaradankatu 5, FI-00020 NORDEA, Finland, domicile Helsinki, Business ID 2858394-9 This e-mail may contain confidential information. If you receive this e-mail by mistake, please inform the sender, delete the e-mail and do not share or copy it. Confidential

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Port Group aggregate graphs refresh
by Marian Rychtecky 04 Feb '23

04 Feb '23

Hi all, I have a question (or maybe a feature request). Can I automatically refresh aggregated graphs based on Port Group? Let's say I have a Port Group based on ifAlias regexp. I can manually create an aggregated graph of it - bits, broadcasts, or discards. Then use created graph in the dashboard. The problem is a number of items in Port Group are changing over time, and I need to refresh these aggregated graphs manually. That means performing these steps 1) Ports -> Groups -> <My group name> 2) Aggregate Graphs -> Bits 3) Click on graph -> Add to the Dashboard 4) Repeat for all Aggregated graphs (Bits, Broadcasts, Multicasts, Discards) 5) delete old Aggregated graphs from the dashboard 6) position newly added graphs (with the actual number of ports) It would be very handful to have a script refreshing aggregated graphs automatically. Thank you, Marian -- Marian Rychtecký mr(a)nix.cz Phone +420 724 397 441 NIX.CZ z.s.p.o. Americká 23, Praha 2 130 52 Czech Republic http://www.nix.cz

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OSBRidge antennas..
by George Michalopoulos 01 Feb '23

01 Feb '23

hello all, i discovered Observium few days ago, i have to sleep some days.. :) as far as i go deeper, it seems like the ultimate tool to monitor a network.. thank you very much for your work! a simple question. i have 2 OSBridge wireless antennas, they have snmp, and as far as i saw, they have mibs, but they are not included in the distribution.. can i add them manually, or you can include them in a future release ? -- regards, George Michalopoulos born & raise @ Metron 6 (six) Metron6(a)gmail.com

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Error "Creation Failed" when Adding Port Groups
by Justin Radke 01 Feb '23

01 Feb '23

Goal: Attempting to make “aggregate” graphs by calculating port bandwidth from multiple devices. For example, a graph that shows the total bandwidth of IP transit or IXP Peering ports that are not in LAG groups on Cisco gear. Problem Statement: When creating a “Group” of ports I get an error in red that says “Creation Failed: Unknown action requested.” Problem Description: 1. Click “Create New Group” in the GUI 2. Select Entity Type “Port” 3. Give group name of “TestGroup1” 4. Select “Device” from the dropdown, default to “in” and select a Cisco router in the dropdown that is already present and working in Observium 5. Click “Add rule” select “AND” choose “Port ifIndex” “equals” enter in the field the ifindex a. I’ve also tried adding just one or even multiple rules with “OR’s” results in this message b. I’ve also tried adding the port with “Port ID”, “Port ifDescr”, “Port ifName” and others all result in this failure message c. I’m getting the port_id, ifindex, ifName, etc from the “Data” tab when viewing a Port of the Cisco in Observium 6. Click the bottom right, green “Add Group” and receive the error message: “Creation Failed: Unknown action requested.” Can someone direct me to how to make such graphs? And/or explain what I might be doing wrong that I cannot create Port Groups? Observium Subscription License Version 1.3: Observium 22.12.12421 (21st December 2022) OS Linux 4.18.0-408.el8.x86_64 [amd64] (CentOS 8) Apache 2.4.37 (centos) OpenSSL/1.1.1k PHP 7.2.24 (OPcache: ENABLED) (Memory: 128MB) Python 3.6.8 (python3 not used as default python) MariaDB 10.3.28-MariaDB (extension: mysqli 5.0.12-dev) SNMP NET-SNMP 5.8 RRDtool 1.7.0 Fping 4.2 (IPv4 and IPv6) -=JGR

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Forwarding the eventlog to a syslog server
by Stuart Taoro-Ahsin 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Hi All We have a compliance requirement to forward the observium event log to a separate syslog server or some sort of logstash. Is there any functionality in observium for this? My googlefu seems to be really weak with this query Kind regards, Stuart Taoro-ahsin GPG Fingerprint: 7D0A 3303 A851 5335 95F1 E051 96C1 4368 5763 17BD

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Still cannot log onto the web console
by Matthew Cotter 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Hi Adam, A long time ago, I sent an email saying I could not log onto the Observium website. It appears to be still working when I look at the log file which is HUGE, 1781351488 in size. I was looking at the housekeeping option but when I was poking around in the terminal, I see there is cron.daily, cron.weekly, cron.monthly. no cron.d How can I run this on the fly to clean up that file? I could not figure that out. my Linux is amateur at best. I can navigate around, and edit files, but no coding experience. Please help.. I have made many changes to our network and I need to ger this so we can log in and I need to update the devices. Thank you! Matt Matthew Cotter Network Administrator Boston Inc. dba Furniture & ApplianceMart | Ashley HomeStore 2404 W, Beltline Hwy Madison, WI 53713 (p) 608-277-7700 (e) Matt.Cotter(a)BostonFAM.com BostonFAM.com<http://www.BostonFAM.Com> | AshleyHomestores.com<https://www.ashleyfurniturehomestore.com> | furnitureappliancemart.com<https://www.furnitureappliancemart.com/> [FAM Stores] "Improving the quality of people's lives by making amazing rooms together!" Central Wisconsin Area - Marshfield | Rhinelander | Stevens Point | Wausau Fox Valley Area - Appleton | Green Bay | Oshkosh | Sheboygan Madison Area - Madison East | Madison West | Janesville Milwaukee Area - Greenfield | Kenosha | Pewaukee | Richfield All locations owned & operated by Boston Inc. This e-mail contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of Boston Inc. or one or more of its employees. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient, please be advised that any retention, dissemination, or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited and may result in legal action. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original e-mail from your mailbox.

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bind application cache graphics problem
by Rodrigo Gallina 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

Hello! My bind_cache graph has -nan values. It was normal before. RRD CMD[update /opt/observium/rrd/hostxyz/app-bind-4-cache-default.rrd N:9:1:::16205:85:1052:1594:45:9:1311::17355:2:::71:8::5:13:13:::::::363::1254::6184::1754::::::1307:4367::::::] RRD RUNTIME[0.0011s] RRD STDOUT[ERROR: /opt/observium/rrd/hostxyz/app-bind-4-cache-default.rrd: Function update_pdp_prep, case DST_GAUGE - Cannot convert '' to float] RRD_STATUS[FALSE] How can I fix this ?

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Forigate with virtual interfaces only
by Marian Rychtecky 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Hi all, I have a short question: Does each device's main "traffic graph" (aggregated traffic in the overview) only show physical interfaces? Today I installed FG-200F with all interfaces as LAG (LAN and WAN is the LAG interface of 2 physical interfaces). Unfortunately, I cannot see traffic from LAG interfaces counted in total traffic. The main graph looks like traffic is aggregated per physical interface only. Any solution for this, please? BTW - Fortigate is not showing physical interfaces when they are part of LAG. Thanks, Marian -- Marian Rychtecký mr(a)nix.cz Phone +420 724 397 441 NIX.CZ z.s.p.o. Americká 23, Praha 2 130 52 Czech Republic http://www.nix.cz

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Syslog host matching with multiple devices and 1 public IP
by mp＠matt-parkinson.co.uk 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

Hi, We have recently started using the syslog part of Observium and for the most part it works well where we have multiple public IP's logs are coming from or for places where we have VPN's and can reach devices on their local IP's. We are running into a problem however when we have multiple devices pushing their syslog's to us over a WAN link and they come from the same public IP. We're using the %fromhost% variable in the configuration and all logs seem to end up with the first device that we have set in /etc/hosts to match the public IP. We've tried changing the %fromhost% to %hostname% instead thinking it would use the hostname within the log entry but unfortunately that didn't work either. I've had a look at the documentation on how to do manual matching but I don't think that would help here either as it's only going to match the public IP. Has anyone come up against this before and know if there is a way to resolve it or will I need to create VPN's to each of those sites so we can push the logs over their private IP's instead?

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expired subscription renewing
by Ross [Eve IT] 21 Jan '23

21 Jan '23

Hello, We've got a couple of subscriptions for 2 instances of Observium, one of them has expired and I cannot renew it. I keep getting a Paddle error, page not found. Is there a way for me to renew an expired subscription? Thanks. Ross.

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