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future of Service Monitoring & Discovery
by Daniel Preussker 06 Dec '12

06 Dec '12

Hello Obversium-List, I've read on the wiki (http://observium.org/wiki/Services) that Services are going to be removed in future. Will there be a replacement without extra software on the clients? Alternatively, whats the most efficient way of monitoring TCP/UDP Port states when Services are being removed? Thanks and Kind regards from snow-white germany, Daniel Preussker [ Security Consultant, Network & Protocol Security and Cryptography [ LPI & Novell Certified Linux Engineer and Researcher [ +49 178 600 96 30 [ Daniel(a)Preussker.Net [ http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x87E736968E490AA1

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Out of curiosity, how big is everyones installation?
by Morgan McLean 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

Just curious what the average size of an observium installation is among the users on the email list. I have ~150 devices with ~6000 ports across three sites. Anybody else? Morgan

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Wrong VLAN port member info
by Zafar Pravaiz 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

HI All There is something wrong on VLAN info page. I see incorrect no of port in a VLAN in observium while on switch its different. Please see the attachment. Am i missing something ? Thanks -- *Zafar Pravaiz *IT Senior Systems Engineer Information Technology Department AUS /> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family: Tel +971 6 515 2164 Fax +971 6515 2112 American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666, Sharjah United Arab Emirates http://www.aus.edu <http://www.aus.edu/> zpravaiz(a)aus.edu <mailto:youremail@aus.edu>

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Transparent background
by Mike 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

Hello. After the recent commits, all popup graphs are displayed with a transparent background. It is not pretty. Thanks -- Mike Stupalov

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Missing info
by Mike Richardson 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

Hiya, We're just started using Observium and are quite impressed. We've added a few of our devices - just the key ones. What were seeing is that for the devices they are missing some of the data. For example the following tabs are missing - Health, VLANs, Map and Inventory. The environment panels are missing (Processors, Memory etc.) The poller is running successfully and the port information is being populated and graphs are draw correctly. What we're not doing is running the Discover command. AFAICT it will add to Observium devices it finds from CDP as a matter of course. We don't want that to happen. My uneducated guess is that the discover command is also picking up some of the information we're missing. (I've run the command briefly then killed it when I realised what it was doing, and some of the devices are populated with Health, VLANs etc.) If I'm right, is there a way to gather the above information about the devices already present but not add any more? I've got: $config['dp_autocreate'] = false; ## Autodiscover unknown hosts seen via discovery protocols in the config but discover still seems to add new devices. If I'm wrong then could someone set me straight please? Thanks, Mike -- Mike Richardson Networks (network(a)manchester.ac.uk) IT Services, University of Manchester *Plain text only please - attachments stripped on arrival*

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Re: [Observium] 404 page problem on fresh installation
by Rompetechos rompetechos 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

I think, that may be other thing, because mod_rewrite is enabled and the directory of installation has the AllowOverride Option. Any more sugestion? Thanks for the help

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Re: [Observium] can't get syslog working
by Tom Laermans 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Hi, Did you follow the documentation on the website? The fact that you "tried with 2 different daemons" leads me to believe that you didn't... Tom Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Stefan Milo" <stefan(a)zendata.dk> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] can't get syslog working Date: Mon, Nov 26, 2012 17:40 Hi I'm having a hard time getting syslog to work. I've enabled the syslog menu in config.php by inserting "$config['enable_syslog'] = 1;" Ive tried using both rsyslog and syslog-ng. But the syslog menu in observium is just blank? The syslog server is working and receiving info on udp port 514. 2012 Nov 26 17:35:36 10.0.0.33 Address=10.0.0.253 This is a test message generated by Kiwi SyslogGen Any advice? BR Stefan Milo Noobie Observium User _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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404 page problem on fresh installation
by Rompetechos rompetechos 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

I have a fresh installation of Observium on Centos 6 64 bits. I can see the main page without problems, but when a i try to click on any page, devices, locations, etc i get a 404 code. The installation is on a dedicate vhost, any idea of what can be wrong?. Thanks in advanced

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question about arista devices
by Maarten Kruyswijk 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Hi we have added a couple of arista devices to observium. But we are missing a few things. Ospf neighbours are not showing. The routing tab on the device page is not showing And the config tab is not coming up on the device page. Are we doing something wrong? Or is it something we can easily fix? Kind regards, maarten

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30 minute poll issue
by Robert Williams 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

Hi Guys, Got a weird issue which has just started, seemingly by itself but I imagine there was a cause (I just don't know it yet!). In short, every 30 minute the poller decides that approximately a third of all devices (92 in total) are 'Offline'. They then magically recover on the next poller interval. The devices are not offline, and the Observium host does not loose connectivity (I've tested with numerous pings etc. during this predictable failure period). Interestingly, the host on which Observium runs does record these interesting CPU and RAM metrics during that particular polling run: [cid:image001.png@01CDCBDF.93DC5B50] [cid:image002.png@01CDCBDF.93DC5B50] Now, I'm guessing that there is maybe a more substantial 'discovery' run or similar every 30 minutes. For some reason, this more intensive run seems to be resulting in a load of devices going allegedly offline. The problem started on Friday around 11pm and has repeated like clockwork since. We are running the latest SVN. I'm a bit uncertain where to start with this one as although it's predictable I can't really see anything which would cause it to happen. Pointers for diagnosing further very welcome :) Cheers as always! Robert Williams Custodian DataCentre email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com

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