- observium - lists.observium.org

Auto Discovery
by HARESH KHANNA 09 May '19

09 May '19

How to enable auto discovery

3 2

Unix-agent added to linux storage box but observium excludes it
by Cody Cook 09 May '19

09 May '19

[image: image.png] The unix-agent is excluded for this device but it runs and responds to unix-agent when using telnet. I have tried to manually discover and poll the unix-agent module with their respective php scripts but I still couldn't get any details to happen. Is there an override in the mysql database or an option I can force in config.php to force enable unix-agent at the device level? Thank you, Cody

2 1

Houskeeping question
by Joelly, Alexander 07 May '19

07 May '19

Hello, Currently with multiple distributed and partinioned pollers I only have the poller-wrapper.php process in the 5min schedule on the pollers and the discovery and housekeeping on the rrd-cache server. Is that okay or do I need to run the discovery and housekeeping also on the pollers? I'm asking because I have a device deleted, last rrd file was updated on 25. April and housekeeping settings 'RRD File Max Age' & 'Remove Deleted Ports Age' to 7d - and I actually set 'Remove Deleted Ports Age' to 2d but still have the rrd directory of the deleted device. Thought I would set the pollers 'only' for polling and do the discovery and housekeeping on the rrd server (as it's probably more efficient?) or is it not working that way? Thanks, Alex

2 1

Access Credentials
by HARESH KHANNA 07 May '19

07 May '19

Dear Team, Now i am able to get webpage of my observium server through web but i am not able to login what user & pass shld i use to login. Or i have to create user on server first. Regards, Haresh Khanna

3 2

WEBPAGE ISSUE
by HARESH KHANNA 07 May '19

07 May '19

Hi there, I have installed community version on my centos7 version, when i try to access it through web http://xxx.xx.xx.xx i get testing apache web page. kindly help Regards, Haresh Khanna

3 2

Adjust rrd step size per device
by Steffen Klemer 06 May '19

06 May '19

Hey list, how much work would it be to have an option to adjust the rrd step size per device? Background is that we have a HP/H3C chassis that even with latest firmware takes average 1000s to poll; with fdb already disabled. 98% of the time is spent in the ports module, polling ifEntry and ifxEntry. We'd really like to at least get an hourly graph of the traffic which is better then nothing. The idea is to put this dev into its own group and have a different cron job for it (excluding this group from the default one). We do have a case with HP that is open for 2 years so the 'tell the vendor that their SNMP engine is crap'-part was already done... lg Steffen -- Steffen Klemer E-Mail: steffen.klemer(a)gwdg.de Tel: +49 551 201 2170 ------------------------------------------------------------------ GWDG - Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen Service-Hotline: Tel: +49 551 201-1523 E-Mail: support(a)gwdg.de Kontakt: Tel: 0551 201-1510 Fax: 0551 201-2150 E-Mail: gwdg(a)gwdg.de WWW: https://www.gwdg.de ------------------------------------------------------------------ Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Christian Griesinger Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen, Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Zertifiziert nach ISO 9001 ------------------------------------------------------------------

2 3

RRDCached issue - HELP!
by Hamilton, Kent 06 May '19

06 May '19

Starting this weekend rrdcached appears to have stopped working correctly. Has anyone seen an issue with this? We've been using it for a long time and it seems to have broken totally early Sat morning (somewhere around 1 to 2 AM) Running the poller with debug doesn't give me a status any more, and I have hundreds of rrdtool processes being spawned to the point it actually took over most of the disk IO on our NAS on Saturday. /opt/observium# poller.php -h localhost -m system -dd | grep RRD RRDtool 1.7.0 Copyright by Tobias Oetiker <tobi(a)oetiker.ch> RRDCacheD 1.7.0 o RRDtool 1.7.0 (rrdcached 1.7.0: unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock) RRD PIPE OPEN[TRUE] o RRDTool Usage (0s 0%) RRD PIPE CLOSE[TRUE] The host setup is: Ubuntu 18.04 Observium Professional 19.5.9870 PHP Weathermap 0.97b rrdcached 1.7.0-1build1 rrdtool-1.7.0-1build1 PHP 7.2 The rrdcached command line is /usr/bin/rrdcached -B -R -F -L -w 1800 -z 1800 -f 3600 -t 10 -b /opt/observium/rrd -j /var/lib/rrdcached/journal/ -G www-data -U www-data -p /var/run/rrdcached.pid -s www-data -m 0660 -l unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock Really need to get this one solved if anyone can offer help. ________________________________ This e-mail and any documents accompanying it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information belonging to Exegy, Inc. Such information may be protected from disclosure by law. The information is intended for use by only the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately contact the sender by e-mail or phone regarding instructions for return or destruction and do not use or disclose the content to others.

2 2

Pollers and RRD files
by Joelly, Alexander 05 May '19

05 May '19

Hi, When using a dedicated rrd caching server - for what is the local /opt/observium/rrd caching folder used for? In our setup we created a dedicated rrd-caching server and several distributed and partitioned pollers and would expect the rrd's are only written/updated on the rrd-caching server and do not need much diskspace on the pollers but it seems the rrd's are also written on the pollers? Is that on purpose (fallback - rrd server unavailable) or what is the need of the rrd's on the pollers when using a rrd-caching server? Thanks, Alex

2 1

Monitor power watts
by Simon Mousey Smith 03 May '19

03 May '19

Hi All, Im trying to find out if the is a way to monitor power watts of our servers? We currently monitor a few HP server, which ALREADY show the power watts, as they have the iLO integrated and the power management chip, so all good there But the is a few which don’t have iLO or the power chips So can i monitor the power watts from within linux or windows at all? Regards Simon - Hestor Ltd

3 4

BGP Neighbor Descriptions
by Richard Savage 02 May '19

02 May '19

Hi We have observium v19.4.9840 (rolling) setup and working great with alerting for BGP sessions going down. For BGP sessions with public AS Numbers this works well as it shows up which AS number and who the AS number is assigned to as gone down: But when its a private AS number with a private IP, its then much harder to distinguish what the BGP neighbor is related to without logging into the router and looking at the neighbor and the neighbor descriptions set against the BGP neighbor: In most routers you can set a description against a BGP neighbor in the config. Is it possible to get this description attached to the BGP neighbor in observium thus then adding it to the alert when the BGP neighbor goes down? This is the config on a Cisco ASR9K for the above neighbor: router bgp 65000 neighbor 100.127.18.181 description USG1-GREE Could this description be pulled and added to the neighbor and thus alert? More than happy to provide some debug if required and any SNMP data that might be helpful. Many Thanks Richard

2 2