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Smokeping graphs post migration
by Joey Stanford 19 Dec '20

19 Dec '20

Howdy, I need some help pointing me in the right direction for troubleshooting. I migrated Observium from Ubuntu to Debian and life is good except for smokeping. I have no graphs but… * smokeping is installed * smokeping and observium’s config.php are using the same configuration as the old server * going to [host]cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi shows me all the graphs and they are up to date * going to the tech support page shows me that observium finds the graphs e.g. - Found file ending in ".rrd": router_thorodin_rmham.rrd - Determined to be a local file, for target router_thorodin_rmham - After replacing configured split_char _ by . target is router.thorodin.rmham so at this point I know smokeping is working, the graphs have the right perms to displayed (currently smokeping:observium), and observium can see the rrd file. Unfortunately going to the page I get the dreaded “Error drawing graph”. At the bottom of the smokeping section in tech support I see two items. One is an error for no outgoing latency graph. Any ideas on what else I could look at? RRD for incoming latency found. RRD for outgoing latency not found.

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Juniper polling performance tip
by Markus Klock 19 Dec '20

19 Dec '20

Hey guys! Just wanted to share a little tip on how to increase Observium polling performance on juniper boxes. This might be old news for some but I just found it. You can create a filter on junos-device that filters out certain interfaces from SNMP view. https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/task/configuration… I can recommend using: set snmp filter-interfaces all-internal-interfaces set snmp filter-interfaces interfaces "^sxe-.*" This will filter out all useless internal interfaces from polling and discovery by Observium. Especially when you have large juniper switch stacks the total number of internal interfaces are a lot which slows down polling. Filtering them out actually makes a big difference. If you got a lot of juniper gear, try it out and please share the speedup in pollingtime! /Markus

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no graphs after restore
by Mark Rowlands 16 Dec '20

16 Dec '20

Had a little whoopsie and have had to restore from backup. Installed observium, Pro edition. made sure that the observium version matched on our backup copy, copied the db, rrd files . it works, but I have no graphs. Just "error drawing graph" Ideas where I should look?

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Random few questions
by Simon Smith 15 Dec '20

15 Dec '20

Hi All, I've got a few random questions that probably have simply answers too Ive checked our poller performance logs and its showing ’total time for all devices as 463.46s’ Is this a worry? Should it be under the 300s as the poller is set to run every 5 min? The highest device we have according to the poller performance is a mikrotik hex s router and that takes 30 seconds to poll, again is this normal? Also the poller performance for that device is showing its taking about 15seconds just to poll the ports module but again it only has 5 ports? Kindest Regards Simon - Hestor Ltd

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backing up Observium server
by Edvinas Kairys 15 Dec '20

15 Dec '20

Hello, I know that if i want to have a fully backup i need 3 things. 1) Mysql dump 2) copy of config.php 3)and copy of .rrd folder. My question is: Do it's enough to have first two things: MYSQL dump and copy of config.php ? Because old traffic data (.rrd) is not so critical as loosing all the rules/alerts of Observium (and weathermap which is on other directory)

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PHP Weathermap
by Adam Armstrong 14 Dec '20

14 Dec '20

Hi Guys, For those of you using PHP Weathermap, how many of you are using template/include features? How complex after the weathermaps you're making? Thanks, Adam.

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please add support for the NetApp E2800 Series (mib enclosed)
by Tony Guadagno 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

Thanks Tony

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Twilio integration
by Philippe Laurent 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

Observium Developers - We use Twilio for MFG alerting when text/call escalation is required beyond email and PA voice alerts. I see that Observium does not have native Twilio integration. Beyond leveraging the Observium API for Twilio integration, would you be willing to natively extend Observium to include Twilio so that we can extend our use of that tool within the native toolset? I would be happy to donate my Enterprise hours towards the development and future inclusion in Observium for all to use. Philippe

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Alert Checker for an "App" (mysql)?
by Marc Jakobs 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

Hello, I want to create an alert that informs me, when the network traffic on a mysql-database ("Application_mysql_network_traffic") on below a certain treshold. What I really want to see is if the mysqld process is running or not and I try to achieve this by looking at this stat which will be zero when mysqld has been terminated. I did not find any information on how to create alerts for apps in the official documentation. Does anyone has a hint for me how to to that? Many thanks and best regards, Marc

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Historical Data Graph
by Tasnim Tamanna 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

Everyday at a certain time, all historical graph data gets deleted. This is happening for all devices except one. Can anyone tell what could be wrong?

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