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Is there a way to reset all interface errors
by Ron Culler 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Looking to see if there is an easy way to reset all the interface errors across a device or devices? I'm trying to zero them out for a baseline Ron

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Housekeeping - invalid RRD files
by Sean Pedersen 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

The instructions for the housekeeping script mention the cleanup of invalid RRD files and that doing so "requires $config['file'] to be set correctly to the path of the file magic utility." I can't find any reference to $config['file'], magic file utilities, etc. in the default config.php, my current config.php, or anywhere online, mailing list archives, etc. What is this in reference to? It doesn't seem to be set anywhere. Did I miss something? Consequently, whenever I run `housekeeping.php -r` with that option defaulted to TRUE, the process hangs and doesn't seem to do anything. Setting it to FALSE immediately deletes stale RRD files (by time via $config['housekeeping']['rrd']['age'] = timeInSeconds;) and completes the process. I checked housekeeping.log and there are no entries for 'invalid' (what I assume an invalid RRD file would log based on the rrd.inc.php module) and my log file goes back to 2014, so I know I’m not missing something that has rotated out. I'm running 0.16.3.7663 for reference.

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Database schema out of whack
by Sean Pedersen 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

I’m not sure how this happened. I ran into some seemingly unrelated issues and one of the many issues I’ve been troubleshooting since is the apparent destruction of my database schema. Here’s the output of `discovery.php -u`: 000 -> 001 ... (db) done. 001 -> 002 ... (db) done (5 errors). 002 -> 003 ... (db) done (2 errors). 003 -> 004 ... (db) done (3 errors). 004 -> 005 ... (db) done (4 errors). 005 -> 006 ... (db) done. 006 -> 007 ... (db) done (1 errors). 007 -> 008 ... (db) done (1 errors). 008 -> 009 ... (db) done. 009 -> 010 ... (db) done (1 errors). 010 -> 011 ... (db) done. 011 -> 012 ... (db) done. 012 -> 013 ... (db) done (1 errors). 013 -> 014 ... (db) done. 014 -> 015 ... (db) done (1 errors). 015 -> 016 ... (db) done (4 errors). 016 -> 017 ... (db) done. 017 -> 018 ... (db) done (2 errors). 018 -> 019 ... (db) done. 019 -> 020 ... (db) done (6 errors). 020 -> 021 ... (db) done (1 errors). 021 -> 022 ... (db) done (1 errors). 022 -> 023 ... (db) done (5 errors). 023 -> 024 ... (db) done (2 errors). 024 -> 025 ... (db) done (10 errors). 025 -> 026 ... (db) done. 026 -> 027 ... (db) done. 027 -> 028 ... (db) done (11 errors). 028 -> 029 ... (db) done. 029 -> 030 ... (db) done (2 errors). 030 -> 031 ... (db) done (1 errors). 031 -> 032 ... (db) done (2 errors). 032 -> 033 ... (db) done. 033 -> 034 ... (db) done. 034 -> 035 ... (db) done (1 errors). 035 -> 036 ... (db) done (1 errors). 036 -> 037 ... (db) done. 037 -> 038 ... (db) done (2 errors). 038 -> 039 ... (db) done. 039 -> 040 ... (db) done. 040 -> 041 ... (db) done (2 errors). 041 -> 042 ... (db) done. 042 -> 043 ... (db) done (4 errors). 043 -> 044 ... (db) done (1 errors). 044 -> 045 ... (db) done (4 errors). 045 -> 046 ... (db) done. 046 -> 047 ... (db) done. 047 -> 048 ... (db) done (1 errors). 048 -> 049 ... (db) done (1 errors). 049 -> 050 ... (db) done. 050 -> 051 ... (db) done. 051 -> 052 ... (db) done. 052 -> 053 ... (db) done. 053 -> 054 ... (db) done (1 errors). 054 -> 055 ... (db) done (4 errors). 055 -> 056 ... (db) done (1 errors). 056 -> 057 ... (db) done (1 errors). 057 -> 058 ... (db) done (1 errors). 058 -> 059 ... (db) done (1 errors). 059 -> 060 ... (db) done (1 errors). 060 -> 061 ... (db) done (1 errors). 061 -> 062 ... (db) done (1 errors). 062 -> 063 ... (db) done (4 errors). 063 -> 064 ... (db) done. 064 -> 065 ... (db) done. 065 -> 066 ... (db) done. 066 -> 067 ... (db) done. 067 -> 068 ... (db) done (1 errors). 068 -> 069 ... (db) done. 069 -> 070 ... (db) done (1 errors). 070 -> 071 ... (db) done. 071 -> 072 ... (db) done (1 errors). 072 -> 073 ... (db) done. 073 -> 074 ... (php) Updating netscaler service RRDs 074 -> 075 ... (db) done (1 errors). 075 -> 076 ... (db) done (1 errors). 076 -> 077 ... (db) done. 077 -> 078 ... (db) done. 078 -> 079 ... (db) done. 079 -> 080 ... (db) done. 080 -> 081 ... (db) done. 081 -> 082 ... (db) done (1 errors). 082 -> 083 ... (db) done. 083 -> 084 ... (db) done. 084 -> 085 ... (db) done (1 errors). 085 -> 086 ... (db) done. 086 -> 087 ... (db) done (1 errors). 087 -> 088 ... (db) done. 088 -> 089 ... (db) done (5 errors). 089 -> 090 ... (db) done (3 errors). 090 -> 091 ... (db) done (1 errors). 091 -> 092 ... (db) done (2 errors). 092 -> 093 ... (db) done (2 errors). 093 -> 094 ... (db) done. 094 -> 095 ... (php) Converting alert serialize() arrays to JSON: ........................................ 095 -> 096 ... (db) done (1 errors). 096 -> 097 ... (db) done. 097 -> 098 ... (db) done. 098 -> 099 ... (db) done (1 errors). 099 -> 100 ... (db) done (1 errors). 100 -> 101 ... (db) done (1 errors). 101 -> 102 ... (db) done. 102 -> 103 ... (db) done (1 errors). 103 -> 104 ... (db) done (1 errors). 104 -> 105 ... (db) done. 105 -> 106 ... (db) done (2 errors). 106 -> 107 ... (db) done. 107 -> 108 ... (db) done (1 errors). 108 -> 109 ... (db) done. 109 -> 110 ... (db) done (1 errors). 110 -> 111 ... (db) done (2 errors). 111 -> 112 ... (db) done (1 errors). 112 -> 113 ... (db) done. 113 -> 114 ... (db) done (1 errors). 114 -> 115 ... (db) done (1 errors). 115 -> 116 ... (db) done. 116 -> 117 ... (db) done. 117 -> 118 ... (db) done. 118 -> 119 ... (db) done. 119 -> 120 ... (db) done. 120 -> 121 ... (db) done. 121 -> 122 ... (db) done (3 errors). 122 -> 123 ... (db) done. 123 -> 124 ... (db) done (1 errors). 124 -> 125 ... (db) done (1 errors). 125 -> 126 ... (db) done (2 errors). 126 -> 127 ... (php) Converting FDB count RRD ds fdb->value: ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 127 -> 128 ... (php) Rename old storage RRDs and DB: 128 -> 129 ... (php) Rename old mempools RRDs and DB: 129 -> 130 ... (db) done. 130 -> 131 ... (db) done. 131 -> 132 ... (db) done. 132 -> 133 ... (db) done (1 errors). 133 -> 134 ... (db) done (1 errors). 134 -> 135 ... (db) done (1 errors). 135 -> 136 ... (db) done (1 errors). 136 -> 137 ... (db) done. 137 -> 138 ... (db) done. 138 -> 139 ... (db) done (4 errors). 139 -> 140 ... (db) done. 140 -> 141 ... (db) done (3 errors). 141 -> 142 ... (db) done (1 errors). 142 -> 143 ... (db) done. 143 -> 144 ... (db) done. 144 -> 145 ... (db) done (1 errors). 145 -> 146 ... (db) done. 146 -> 147 ... (db) done. 147 -> 148 ... (db) done (3 errors). 148 -> 149 ... (db) done. 149 -> 150 ... (db) done (6 errors). 150 -> 151 ... (db) done. 151 -> 152 ... (db) done. 152 -> 153 ... (php) Converting RRD ds type for tcpCurrEstab COUNTER->GAUGE: ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 153 -> 154 ... (db) done (1 errors). 154 -> 155 ... (db) done (1 errors). 155 -> 156 ... (db) done (1 errors). 156 -> 157 ... (db) done (1 errors). 157 -> 158 ... (db) done (1 errors). 158 -> 159 ... (db) done. 159 -> 160 ... (db) done. 160 -> 161 ... (db) done (1 errors). 161 -> 162 ... (db) done. 162 -> 163 ... (db) done. 163 -> 164 ... (php) Superseded by update 165 164 -> 165 ... (php) Adding MIN RRA to very old RRD files: * hr_processes: ..... * hr_users: ..... * ucd_contexts: ... * ucd_load: ... * ucd_interrupts: ... 165 -> 166 ... (db) done (1 errors). 166 -> 167 ... (db) done. 167 -> 168 ... (db) done. 168 -> 169 ... (db) done. 169 -> 170 ... (php) Move old GEO data if exist: ---------------- 170 -> 171 ... (db) done. 171 -> 172 ... (db) done. 172 -> 173 ... (db) done. 173 -> 174 ... (db) done (3 errors). 174 -> 175 ... (db) done (2 errors). 175 -> 176 ... (php) Clean incorrect syslog entries: 176 -> 177 ... (php) Clean incorrect manual geolocation: 177 -> 178 ... (db) done (5 errors). 178 -> 179 ... (db) done (2 errors). 179 -> 180 ... (db) done. 180 -> 181 ... (db) done. 181 -> 182 ... (db) done. 182 -> 183 ... (db) done. 183 -> 184 ... (db) done (3 errors). 184 -> 185 ... (db) done. 185 -> 186 ... (db) done (9 errors). 186 -> 187 ... (php) 187 -> 188 ... (db) done. 188 -> 189 ... (db) done (2 errors). 189 -> 190 ... (db) done (2 errors). 190 -> 191 ... (php) Migrating state sensors to status entries: 191 -> 192 ... (db) done (2 errors). 192 -> 193 ... (db) done (1 errors). 193 -> 194 ... (db) done (1 errors). 194 -> 195 ... (db) done (3 errors). 195 -> 196 ... (db) done (1 errors). 196 -> 197 ... (db) done. 197 -> 198 ... (db) done. 198 -> 199 ... (db) done. 199 -> 200 ... (db) done (2 errors). 200 -> 201 ... (db) done. 201 -> 202 ... (db) done. 202 -> 203 ... (db) done (1 errors). 203 -> 204 ... (db) done. 204 -> 205 ... (db) done. 205 -> 206 ... (db) done (4 errors). 206 -> 207 ... (db) done (1 errors). 207 -> 208 ... (db) done (1 errors). 208 -> 209 ... (db) done (5 errors). 209 -> 210 ... (php) 210 -> 211 ... (db) done (3 errors). 211 -> 212 ... (php) 212 -> 213 ... (db) done (11 errors). 213 -> 214 ... (db) done. 214 -> 215 ... (db) done (1 errors). 215 -> 216 ... (db) done (2 errors). 216 -> 217 ... (db) done. 217 -> 218 ... (db) done. 218 -> 219 ... (db) done. 219 -> 220 ... (db) done (4 errors). 220 -> 221 ... (db) done (1 errors). 221 -> 222 ... (db) done. 222 -> 223 ... (db) done (1 errors). 223 -> 224 ... (db) done. 224 -> 225 ... (db) done. 225 -> 226 ... (db) done. 226 -> 227 ... (db) done (2 errors). 227 -> 228 ... (db) done (10 errors). 228 -> 229 ... (db) done (1 errors). 229 -> 230 ... (db) done (1 errors). 230 -> 231 ... (db) done. 231 -> 232 ... (db) done. 232 -> 233 ... (db) done (2 errors). 233 -> 234 ... (db) done (1 errors). 234 -> 235 ... (db) done. 235 -> 236 ... (db) done (1 errors). 236 -> 237 ... (db) done. 237 -> 238 ... (db) done. 238 -> 239 ... (db) done (1 errors). 239 -> 240 ... (db) done (3 errors). 240 -> 241 ... (db) done. 241 -> 242 ... (db) done. 242 -> 243 ... (db) done. 243 -> 244 ... (db) done (3 errors). 244 -> 245 ... (db) done. 245 -> 246 ... (db) done (1 errors). 246 -> 247 ... (db) done (1 errors). 247 -> 248 ... (db) done. 248 -> 249 ... (db) done (1 errors). 249 -> 250 ... (db) done. 250 -> 251 ... (db) done (1 errors). 251 -> 252 ... (db) done (1 errors). 252 -> 253 ... (db) done. 253 -> 254 ... (db) done. 254 -> 255 ... (db) done (1 errors). 255 -> 256 ... (php) 256 -> 257 ... (php) 257 -> 258 ... (php) 258 -> 259 ... (db) done. 259 -> 260 ... (php) 260 -> 261 ... (db) done (5 errors). 261 -> 262 ... (php) 262 -> 263 ... (db) done (1 errors). 263 -> 264 ... (db) done (8 errors). 264 -> 265 ... (db) done (1 errors). 265 -> 266 ... (db) done. 266 -> 267 ... (db) done. 267 -> 268 ... (php) 268 -> 269 ... (php) 269 -> 270 ... (db) done. 270 -> 271 ... (db) done (11 errors). -- Done. So…there are a couple of errors. I grabbed a few samples of db.log and found several examples where columns are missing. Pretty much 99% of the log is failed queries to nonexistent database fields, columns, etc. Here’s two: [2016/03/11 21:39:25 -0700] poller.php(22166): Failed dbQuery (#1054 - Unknown column 'attrib_value' in 'field list'), Query: SELECT `attrib_value` FROM `observium_attribs` WHERE `attrib_type` = 'dbSchema'; mysql> describe observium_attribs; +---------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +---------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | version | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | | +---------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) [2016/03/11 21:43:34 -0700] poller.php(18006): Failed dbQuery (#1054 - Unknown column 'device_id' in 'where clause'), Query: SELECT * FROM `devices_attribs` WHERE `device_id` = '136' mysql> describe devices_attribs; +--------------+--------------+------+-----+-------------------+-----------------------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +--------------+--------------+------+-----+-------------------+-----------------------------+ | attrib_id | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | entity_type | varchar(32) | NO | | NULL | | | entity_id | int(11) | NO | MUL | NULL | | | attrib_type | varchar(128) | NO | | NULL | | | attrib_value | text | NO | | NULL | | | updated | timestamp | NO | | CURRENT_TIMESTAMP | on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP | +--------------+--------------+------+-----+-------------------+-----------------------------+ 6 rows in set (0.00 sec) Outside of `discovery.php -u` that is failing, is it possible to recover the schema? I would imagine doing it manually is the only way. Is it worth it?

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Newbie with a question
by Daniel Martín Mayo 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Hello everybody, Im new to this mailing list and also to Observium. Im just another SysAdmin trying to monitor as many devices as we can in our company (Nagios is still doing his job fine), so we started trying Observium just to see if it was worthy or not. I got installed the Community version using the OVA, so first question is: If I switch to the Pro version, do I need to rebuild all the work Ive done? Greetings from Spain, Dani Martin

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Delay on down devices
by Louis Bailleul 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Hi, Is it possible to add a delay for the built in down device alert ? Or even better, can I replace the built in alert with custom checkers ? So I can add a delay on specifics sets of devices. Best regards, Louis [http://www.pgs.com/mediaFiles/Exclaimer%20graphics/PGS_LOGO_RGB_42x53px.jpg]<http://www.pgs.com> Louis Bailleul Computer Systems Engineer Imaging & Engineering | Imaging Telephone: +44 1932 376000 Direct: +44 1932 376842 VOIP: 74416842 Mobile: +44 7786 525307 Email: louis.bailleul(a)pgs.com<mailto:Louis.Bailleul@pgs.com> A Clearer Image | www.pgs.com<http://www.pgs.com> [http://www.pgs.com/mediaFiles/Exclaimer%20graphics/150731-ColourWave-660x14…] Address: 4 The Heights, Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 0NY, United Kingdom This e-mail, including any attachments and response string, may contain proprietary information which is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by return e-mail and delete this message and any attachment immediately. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, distribute, forward, copy, print or rely on this e-mail in any way except as permitted by the author.

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backup script for db, config.php, rrd/
by Nick Schmalenberger 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Hi all, I spent my Sunday afternoon (on-call, luckily quiet though :) writing this backup script for Observium. It takes a backup destination directory and number of backups to keep using rotation which is 0 by default. Then it makes a tmp directory. It copies config.php there, does a mysql dump, and copies rrd/ into the tmp directory. It tars up the tmp directory into a tarball in the backup directory and deletes the tmp directory. It is meant to run from the scripts/ directory, it maybe isnt as polished as the other main scripts or compatible with all systems because of different options with the commands it runs. Its working for me though on my Ubuntu 14.04 test system. Please offer suggestions! Thanks. -Nick

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How to reset the Admin password
by Sathish.I 12 Mar '16

12 Mar '16

Hello All, Can you please let me know how to reset GUI admin password. I have lost the password. Regards, sathish

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Changing the Mysql connections graph format
by Louis Bailleul 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

Hi, I found the Mysql connections graph a little difficult to read. So I changed it to use lines instead of stacked area. It is still not perfect because of the huge scale imposed by drawing the maximum number of connection and maximum number of connection reached. But at least you can actually read the value of your spikes of connections instead of working out the difference between the number of connection + max number of connection reached. Before : [cid:image001.png@01D17BB3.BAD5C7F0] After : [cid:image002.png@01D17BB3.BAD5C7F0] The diff of the file : svn diff -r HEAD /opt/observium/html/includes/graphs/application/mysql_connections.inc.php Index: /opt/observium/html/includes/graphs/application/mysql_connections.inc.php =================================================================== --- /opt/observium/html/includes/graphs/application/mysql_connections.inc.php (revision 7661) +++ /opt/observium/html/includes/graphs/application/mysql_connections.inc.php (working copy) @@ -40,6 +40,6 @@ $nototal = 1; $unit_text = "Connections"; -include("includes/graphs/generic_multi_simplex_separated.inc.php"); +include("includes/graphs/generic_multi_line.inc.php"); // EOF Best regards, Louis [http://www.pgs.com/mediaFiles/Exclaimer%20graphics/PGS_LOGO_RGB_42x53px.jpg]<http://www.pgs.com> Louis Bailleul Computer Systems Engineer Imaging & Engineering | Imaging Telephone: +44 1932 376000 Direct: +44 1932 376842 VOIP: 74416842 Mobile: +44 7786 525307 Email: louis.bailleul(a)pgs.com<mailto:Louis.Bailleul@pgs.com> A Clearer Image | www.pgs.com<http://www.pgs.com> [http://www.pgs.com/mediaFiles/Exclaimer%20graphics/150731-ColourWave-660x14…] Address: 4 The Heights, Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 0NY, United Kingdom This e-mail, including any attachments and response string, may contain proprietary information which is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by return e-mail and delete this message and any attachment immediately. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, distribute, forward, copy, print or rely on this e-mail in any way except as permitted by the author.

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Howto Integrate observium alerts with external event monitoring tool
by Ruiz, Carlos 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

good morning everyone, We're evaluating to use observium as our hardware monitoring solution for some datacenters, but we need to clearly understand how can we integrate the generated alerts in the tool with external event monitoring solutions that are the ones used by our Operation Center guys. I guess that we can run queries against the mysql table hosting such events, is there any other possibilities? Maybe interact with mysql DB is the recommended way, that way can any of you share with me the data model of such table? Thanks in advance for your help and sorry for the generic questions, but we're starting with the evaluation activity and we're at observium rookie level Kind Regards -- Carlos Ruiz Compute System Management Senior Engineer Roche Farma, S.A.Josefa Valcarcel, 40. ES-28027 Madrid (Spain) Phone: +34 91 305 99 25 Mobile: +34 662 10 46 14 * *

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Avoid adding round robin dns devices
by Louis Bailleul 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

Hi, I have some devices that are configured with a round robin DNS entry. I believe that as we are running lldp on servers too, the auto discovery pick them up and add them. But as the picture below shows, this is pretty much useless as each polling end up on a different server. (You can see that the sysdescr and sysname contains contradictory data : lxfer01 and lxfer02) Would it be possible to detect that the FQDN is a round robin alias and avoid adding it as a new device ? And it would be perfect if it could be the same for CNAME as well, as it is not really worthwhile having Observium polling a node for each of its aliases. [cid:image001.png@01D17B91.B4998790] Best regards, Louis [http://www.pgs.com/mediaFiles/Exclaimer%20graphics/PGS_LOGO_RGB_42x53px.jpg]<http://www.pgs.com> Louis Bailleul Computer Systems Engineer Imaging & Engineering | Imaging Telephone: +44 1932 376000 Direct: +44 1932 376842 VOIP: 74416842 Mobile: +44 7786 525307 Email: louis.bailleul(a)pgs.com<mailto:Louis.Bailleul@pgs.com> A Clearer Image | www.pgs.com<http://www.pgs.com> [http://www.pgs.com/mediaFiles/Exclaimer%20graphics/150731-ColourWave-660x14…] Address: 4 The Heights, Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 0NY, United Kingdom This e-mail, including any attachments and response string, may contain proprietary information which is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by return e-mail and delete this message and any attachment immediately. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, distribute, forward, copy, print or rely on this e-mail in any way except as permitted by the author.

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