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Observium device capacity and SIP
by Garrett Pye 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Currently testing Observium in lab environment with an initial 90 HP devices to possibly propose migrate away from Nagios. I don't see in the documentation if there is a performance limit reached if and when I add another 40 devices. Also, does this same platform support SIP error logging traffic or is it limited to discovered enabled modules? //Garrett

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32 vs 64 iftable counters
by Andrew Dul 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Hello, We have some switches which have broken 64bit iftable snmp counters. I've opened a bug report w/ the vendor, but don't have an ETA on a fix at this time. The 32bit counters seem to be working ok. Is there a way to tell Observium to just use the 32bit counters? Thanks, Andrew

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How to trigger a geolocation update ????? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by Peter.Hine＠familycourt.gov.au 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Hi, I have some devices where i have had to manually set the location. I am seeing, since CE:16.10.8128, that the devices with custom locations are not updating their geolocation info and are reporting unknown for all location info. abxbuild2,"Albury, AU",au,New South Wales,Albury City Council,Albury abxmain1,"Albury, AU",au,New South Wales,Albury City Council,Albury abxrt011,"Albury, AU",unknown,Unknown,Unknown,Unknown abxsw011,"Albury, AU",unknown,Unknown,Unknown,Unknown abxups1,"Albury, AU",au,New South Wales,Albury City Council,Albury I tried with abxrt011 to change the location to "Albury, AU" (extra space) which correctly triggered as an update to the custom location, but no geocode update occurred normally I see event log lines like ... |-----------------+-----------+-----------> |2017-01-05 |dc6ipvcmcu1|dc6ipvcmcu1| |09:18:59 | | | |-----------------+-----------+-----------> >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |Geolocation (YAHOO) -> [-35.280552, 149.125417] Australia (Country), Australian Capital Territory (State), | |Unknown (County), Canberra (City) | >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| so could there be a bug for custom locations ?? what file is the geolocation lookup occuring in ? thanks Peter Hine Senior Technical Support Engineer (Servers) Corporate Services | Federal Court of Australia ********************************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail (including any attachments) is for the exclusive use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. It is noted that legal privilege is not waived because you have read this e-mail. **********************************************************************

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HP iLO IP address compatibility
by Garrett Pye 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

Is there a configuration Observium has to include HP iLO interface IP? Currently it looks like neither adding a device or port inventory does not support monitoring the iLO port. *Garrett Pye* *CNOC Engineer | Business Class Voice* 5800 S. Quebec St, Greenwood Village, CO 80111

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topology Map
by ridwan 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

Hi list, is it possible to draw topology map in observium ?, we are planning to display our LAN Topology on big screen TV Rgds Ridwan

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modify device overview
by Ted G. Freitas 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

I was wondering if there is a way that the device overview screen can be modified so that we see the syslog-alerts instead of the full syslog? Also can this be added to the main overview screen as well? Thanks in advance!

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Adding a ptpd application to unix-agent
by Adrian Murphy 01 Jan '17

01 Jan '17

Hi, I have been playing with ptpd on my network to see how it behaves compared to ntp. I really like the observium monitoring of ntp. I use Observium CE 0.16.10.8128 (6th October 2016) on FreeBSD 10.3 & 11.0 So, I had a crack at implementing ptpd as an application for unix-agent guided by http://observium.org/docs/developing/add_app/ which says: “• RRD formats are defiend in includes/definitions/rrdtypes.inc.php” But this doesn’t exist in my installation and I am suspecting config['rrd_types'] is defined in includes/definitions/definitions.dat which I don’t know how to read. So when polling the servers with ptpd, I get this error: “Cannot create RRD for type ptpd-slave - not found in definitions!” Is there anyway I can get past this? Or is this something I shouldn’t be doing? I went back through old observium mailing list mail and found: Subject: Re: [Observium] custom unix-agent application > On 24 Nov 2016, at 7:20 pm, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > > Hi Yogi, > > I've rewriting this application code and it'll be committed to the repository sometime soon. You'd missing out a few definition entries and had copied an old method of building applications. > > The application was being deleted because you weren't using update_application(). > > Once it's run for a while here and I can see that it all works, I'll commit it to the SVN, and you'll be able to update and use it then. > > Thanks, > adam. > > Sent from Mailbird > On 22/11/2016 08:51:06, Yogi Sofiharja <yogi_sofiharja(a)biznetgio.com> wrote: > > Dear Community, > > > I am creating application to monitor disk response time at VM level using ioping. > > But every time i run the poller with debugger, i’ve got no error but my application always been deleted by the system because its lastpolled is 0. i’ve try to follow the documentation, but its seems like i can’t get solution. > > Do you guys have any solution for this or you have the same problem? I’m worried this means I will not be able to make it work in Observium CE. HNY & Cheers, Adrian

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Authentication log bug
by Observium 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

Hi Adam and team, We found a bug in the authentication log this evening. One of our guys tried logging in to our Observium but couldn't remember his username. However, when he tried logging in he used an uppercase letter in his username, and it still allocated the attempted login to his user account, even though Observium uses case-sensitive usernames and the attempted login would be different from his actual user account - his username is "lee", but he (incorrectly) tried "Lee". Testing with my own account shows that any username with the same spelling will show up under that account, even though the users are not the same. Kind regards, Alex

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AVTech devices
by Philippe Laurent 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

Just purchased the Pro version of Observium (damn good looking stuff) and am running 0.16.12.8292. Looking at the JIRA, I understand that AVTech devices are a pain due to the way the vendor writes the MIB. Nonetheless, their equipment and expandability is good, and they do provide SNMP data that can be harvested. I've purchased, and intend to standardize on the 12E model of the device. I see that the 4E and the 24E are Observium supported devices (to some degree). Who can I hire to get the 12E inserted supported by Observium at the current MIB version as provide by AVTech? Philippe

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Moving Observium
by William Bauer 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

So I have my new CentOS7 system ready to go, moving from a CentOS6 VM. I thought I'd found it before, but I can't find instructions for moving observium to a different system (same x86_64 architecture). I can move the RRDs, but isn't there more to it, like migrating mysql data? I've looked through the documentation. Perhaps I'm just looking for the wrong text. Any links someone can point to, or instructions for moving from one host to another? Thanks. Bill

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