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Running observium on multiple hosts
by Eric Stewart 03 Oct '13

03 Oct '13

I'm looking for some feedback/ideas on how others may have implemented Observium in a multi-site capacity. We are currently using MRTG to provide our data collection and graphing. While Observium isn't a perfect replacement for us, it goes a long way towards replacing much of what MRTG does. Our current setup involves a large university campus. We have core, distribution, and access layers, and at the distribution layers we've implemented monitoring systems for packet capture and (you guessed it) MRTG. This allows for: - Data collection to continue even if a distribution layer site is isolated from the core - Prevents data collection bandwidth from impacting the core Our MRTG data presentation is largely homegrown, and how we go about it isn't important. What I'm looking for are suggestions on how one might take a multi-server setup and allow someone to search or navigate to a given building or switch without having to guess as to which distribution site it's out of. Ideas rattling around my head right now involve: - Coding up the search function so that it not only searches the local site, but also all of the other servers - Coming up with some static page that indicates that a given building is off of a given installation - this one I don't like so much So I'm wondering if this is something someone else has put time and effort into and has a viable solution. -- Eric Stewart - Network Administrator - eric(a)usf.edu University of South Florida, Information Technology

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Device Alerts
by James Bensley 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

Hi everyone, On the main front page of Observium (the Overview/dashboard), the device alerts table never seems to empty. I guess it works on a maximum number of entries scheme, new alerts are displayed at the top as they occur and old ones are dropped off the bottom. It looks like we always have problems on our NOC display. Is it possible to remove items from the list, clear them off somehow? Many thanks, James.

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Re: [Observium] bgp idle
by Rob VanHooren 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

shut the neighbor and it'll go away within 5min when the remote is ready, unshut that neighbor. R. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 2, 2013, at 14:32, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: >> hen that remote peer is >> ready, they will re-establish the peering session, until I don't need >> to know the session is idle :)

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Need help with 2 minor issues
by Wes Zastrow 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

I'm having difficulty with 2 settings: I've added: $config['frontpage']['map']['dotsize'] = 5; This is not changing the size of the dot. I've also added: $config['title_image'] = "images/my-logo.png"; This is not changing the logo on the top left of the web interface. Your help is greatly appreciated, thanks! ~Wes CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This electronic message transmission contains information from assure360, which may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the content of this information is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the original message and any attachment without reading or saving in any manner.

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Re: [Observium] Device Alerts
by Adam Armstrong 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

That page is how it is, you cant remove things from it because its showing state. Rebooted information goes away after 24 hours. Its actually showing you devices with uptime below 24 hours. Adam. James Bensley <jwbensley(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Hi Tom, > >Thanks for the response. > >I don't think I was very clear before, so I will try to be clearer now; > >Here is a screen shot of the device alerts pane at present ; >http://i.imgur.com/SNpEPXD.png > >My first query is how long will those "device rebooted" notifications >be there? OK, some devices where rebooted, I have seen this and am >thankful for this, I have also acted upon this information, now I do >not need to see that information anymore, especially 10 hours after it >occurred and I've dealt with it. Now do you see why I would like to be >able to "clear off" alerts? > >Also looking at that screen shot, you will see some idle BGP sessions. >One if those is long term (in relation to BGP timers, it will be down >for a week or so), so I don't want that alert there for the next week, >again I'd like to be able to clear it off. When that remote peer is >ready, they will re-establish the peering session, until I don't need >to know the session is idle :) > >Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated. > >Many thanks, >James. >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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separate diskio graphs for different devices
by Mihai - Cristian Satmarean 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

Hi all, is it possible to have a separate graph for each entity in the DiskIO? Scenario is that we try to monitor ZFS server and there are over 200 Filesystems that are shown on top of each other making the graph impossible to use. Thanks!

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Graphs broken after update
by Evgeniy Movlyan 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

Hi to all. My observium worked perfect for about a month. But yesterday i made an update (to rev. 4572): #cd /opt/observium #svn update #./discovery.php -h none After that i have next problem: - in servers overview tab all graphs ok - when i'm clicking for example on Memory Usage graph, all is ok. I can see graph for last 24 hours - but when i'm clicking on Show legend/Graph previous/etc there is no graph Thanks for your help, and sorry for my english. -- Regards, Evgenii Movlian

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Re: [Observium] Cisco 4900M temperature sensors not displayed
by Adam Armstrong 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Sounds like typical Cisco bugs. You should probably verify that your device is populating the correct MIBs before you moan at us. Adam. Sidney Boumendil <sidney.boumendil(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Adding a custom OID ?
by Mihai Tanasescu 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Hello, I'm a newbie with Observium having just installed it, but now a question has popped up in my head that I could not find a clear answer to by googling. I have a couple of Linux hosts for which I also added in the net-snmpd conf a counter for the number of imapd & others processes. How could I add to a small part of the existing graphed servers, this OID ? (or where should I look in the conf ?) I was thinking maybe defining a new template (if this is the working principle) and adding there these OIDs also for the discovery phase. Can someone advise me at least where to start my question with ? I'm a bit confused at the moment. Thanks, Mihai

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How to use removespikes.php?
by Alex Pressé 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

If I try to use removespokes.php, I always get the error FATAL: File '' does not exist. root@CORPLNMS01:/opt/observium/rrd/phlinfrtr01# ../../scripts/removespikes.php -R port-10.rrd FATAL: File '' does not exist. The same named perl script runs but doesn't remove 1gbit spikes on 2mbit links... -- Alex Presse "How much net work could a network work if a network could net work?"

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