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Alerts ifType eq ethernetCsmacd
by Joey Stanford 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Howdy, I wanted to thank everyone for the great support on this mailing list. I have another puzzler…the last one I hope. At the bottom of https://www.observium.org/docs/alerting_examples/ there are two alerts that rely on ifType eq ethernetCsmacd For some odd reason when I rebuild they don’t want to apply to any of my devices. As soon as I change that to “*” they bring in all the devices. I went out and pulled the data on the Mikrotik router ports and they are responding with this same ifType. I checked it vis snmpwalk and also on a test router using http://ip/device/device=1/tab=port/port=1/view=data/ I’ve tried spelling out equals, wrapping ethernetCsmacd in quotes (view=data says it’s a 14 character string), and a few other things but I haven’t found the right incantation. These two entries currently match the examples and the demo server. I’ve ensured that I have non-disabled ports and non-ignored ports that should be recognized. &debug=1 reveals SELECT `alert_status` FROM `alert_table` WHERE 1 AND `alert_test_id` = '7' AND (( `device_id` NOT IN (55) AND (`device_id` != ‘' AND `device_id` IS NOT NULL))) ORDER BY `device_id`, `alert_test_id`, `entity_type`, `entity_id` DESC (not there wasn’t a LIMIT 0,100 at the end of that select like on other alerts…aside from that this select is the same as the other alerts) Anyway that select returned 0 hits despite me having well over 100 active ports with that ifType. Any suggestions on how to debug this further? Thanks, Joey

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Is there something like "bad_ifalias" ?
by Hábner Teixeira Costa 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

Hi everyone, the company where I work is an ISP and they have big routers like MX-960 and ASR-9010.This devices supports thousands of interfaces and we use it to connect to our customers.I would like to know whether is possible to ignore our customers interfaces based on ifAlias like we do with ifDesc (bad_if)?Thank you! Hábner

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Observium: Pre-auth and security questions
by Nate Mellendorf 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

Tom, I overlooked that setting and made the suggested change. However, Observium still seems to prompt for credentials after I sign in with basic auth. I changed the login mechanism to http-auth as well: $config['auth_mechanism'] = "http-auth"; I'll keep working on this, and report back if I can get it working. Thank you. Nate Mellendorf | NETWORK ANALYST | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320.251.4700 x183 | 877.797.4700 x183 www.NetgainHosting.com The information contained in this email message is for the designated recipient only and may be privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any dissemination, distribution, copying or other use of this message or any information contained within is strictly prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 5:24 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 66, Issue 168 Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to observium-request(a)observium.org You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." Today's Topics: 1. BGP LocalAs fails on ASR9K (Andr? Mamitzsch) 2. Problem on some graphs - Percent Utilisation (Alexandre Corso) 3. Re: Problem on some graphs - Percent Utilisation (Adam Armstrong) 4. Re: Observium: Pre-auth and security questions (Tom Laermans) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:05:26 +0100 From: Andr? Mamitzsch <andre(a)mamitzsch.de> To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: [Observium] BGP LocalAs fails on ASR9K Message-ID: <56A5F366.9050403(a)mamitzsch.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi, we discovered an issue with CISCO ASR9K and 4byte ASN's - the ASR return "0" when querying the BGP4-MIB parameter "bgpLocalAs". This stops observium from discovering the BGP sessions. I have done some research and found that Juniper devices seem to have a similar problem which was fixed in the polling / discovery script already. The same should be done for Cisco. The CISCO-BGP4-MIB included in Observium is somewhat outdated - CISCO introduced a parameter "cbgplocalAs" in a later version which delivers the correct result. Could you please look into this ? Thanks Andre

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frontpage is great and all but can I have a second page?
by James Murty 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

I’m looking a using Observium to generate a number of metric specific dashboards for routers and switches I have around the country. The $config['frontpage']['minigraphs']['ids’] = “<id>,<metric>,<title>”; configuration looks like it’ll give me what I want but ideally I just have those minigraphs on a page by themselves. Is there a way to define a seconds page? i.e. $config[‘minigraphpage']['minigraphs']['ids’] = “<id>,<metric>,<title>”; and have that show on a second screen? - james

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BGP LocalAs fails on ASR9K
by André Mamitzsch 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

Hi, we discovered an issue with CISCO ASR9K and 4byte ASN's - the ASR return "0" when querying the BGP4-MIB parameter "bgpLocalAs". This stops observium from discovering the BGP sessions. I have done some research and found that Juniper devices seem to have a similar problem which was fixed in the polling / discovery script already. The same should be done for Cisco. The CISCO-BGP4-MIB included in Observium is somewhat outdated - CISCO introduced a parameter "cbgplocalAs" in a later version which delivers the correct result. Could you please look into this ? Thanks Andre

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VMware
by Stefaans Mostert (GBL) 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

<http://www.grindrodbank.co.za/Portals/JohannesburgOfficeMap.pdf> <http://www.grindrodbank.co.za/Portals/JohannesburgOfficeMap.pdf> Morning all New to observium and new to the list. Set it up yesterday and still feeling my way around, but I am pretty impressed so far. Is there a basic setup guide to monitor VMWare, somewhere? Sure I will be asking more questions as time passes [cid:1441083069.3051.3.camel@stefaansm-nb.grindrod.net] Lastly how do I get in touch with the guys from Observium? Can't find contact info anywhere. Stefaans Mostert Contractor: Linux System Administrator T: +27 11 459 1804 Fourth Floor, Grindrod Tower, 8A Protea Place, Sandton F: +27 11 459 1872 PO Box 78011, Sandton, Gauteng, 2146 [cid:imagebe2e55.GIF@55dd7ec4.43a0075b] www.grindrodbank.co.za ________________________________ This communication is intended for the addressee only, is privileged and confidential and unauthorised dissemination or copying is prohibited. The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Grindrod Bank Limited and/or its affiliates unless otherwise stated or agreed to in writing. All electronic communications are subject to important restrictions, qualifications and disclaimers ("Disclaimer") found at the following link<http://www.grindrodbank.co.za/Pages/TermsAndConditions>. Such disclaimer is deemed to form part of the content of this communication in terms of Section 11 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 25 of 2002. Please consider the environment before printing this email

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device to device links
by Joey Stanford 24 Jan '16

24 Jan '16

Hi, I ran across a graphing script on github that caught my eye. It reportedly graphs device to device links in Observium (sort of like cacti + Network Weathermap). It uses a table called obserium.links which I don’t have. Google hasn’t been able to give me any leads other than, of course, the developer. I’m wondering if anyone happens to know if it’s possible to associate device ports in this manner… e.g. Device 25, port 287 links to Device 37, port 460. Today I use cacti and weathermap for this. Thanks, Joey

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MySQL Agent Innodb
by evo 24 Jan '16

24 Jan '16

Hi, i am a private user of the Observium CE, and I wanted to ask If the MySQL agent will already be fixed in the ne CE release, otherwise I would happily provide a patch for the agent I made just a moment ago when I updated my MariaDB Server to 10 and the innodb query stopped working[0], since it's removed with version 10 and version 5.6.1 of MySQL[1]. If you'd want me to do that, I also would rewrite the whole agent to use mysqli instead of mysql, since it's considered deprecated for some time now[2]. with kind regards Valentin [0]https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/xtradbinnodb-server-system-variables/#h… [1]https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=63383 [2]http://php.net/manual/de/migration55.deprecated.php

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Arbor Network's MIBs
by Ryan, Spencer 23 Jan '16

23 Jan '16

Great to see Arbor MIB's getting updated in the SVN checkouts :) I don't monitor any of our own products, but I'm going to talk to the Peakflow guys and see if I can get access to some of the lab gear. We have at least one setup (not sure if it's TMS or SP) that gets about ~8Gb/s of anonymous traffic from a few ISPs. Should give me some useful data in Observium. Keep up the good work guys! *Spencer Ryan* | Senior Systems Administrator | sryan(a)arbor.net *Arbor Networks* +1.734.794.5033 (d) | +1.734.846.2053 (m) www.arbornetworks.com

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Manually setting global temperature thresholds
by Joey Stanford 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Hi, I have a bit of a puzzler and I’m hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I’m monitoring a number of Mikrotik devices. I’m unable to set the temperature thresholds on the device. They all seem to report different thresholds despite the fact that they are all spec’d at -30c to 70c. Instead of going into each device’s settings in Observium and making a custom threshold, is there any way for me to do it in the config file? or some other way using “os eq routeros”? Thanks, Joey

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