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Best Practices
by Chris Welber yahoo 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

I'm setting up observium in a multi site WAN config, each location will go over the WAN into a data center. I'm wondering about general best practices being a newb, and any specific advise for a roll out. Thanks, Christopher C. Welber 215 West 11th Street New York, NY 10014 CompTIA A+ certified CompTIA Security+ certified CompTIA Network+ certified CompTIA Cloud+ certified CompTIA Mobility+ CompTIA Server+ Cisco CCENT (646) 478-9730 Fax (800) 370-9587 This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Finally, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email

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Reporting
by Josh Hopper 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

Your software gets better and better. The metrics are wonderful but I spend a lot of time screenshotting them to send to our executives. Can you put a print button in? Or, even better, CRON a print job to send say a week/month/day’s worth of bandwidth on a specific port or server to an email address? That would be amazing. Or, is that something we could pay for and have added to the version(s) for everyone? I’m on subscription if that matters.

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Problems adding hosts
by Johnson, Edward A. 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

I’m having troubles adding devices recently. In the add host page, it shows blue for SNMP an looks like it’s been added but below that it says that it can’t ping the host. I can SSH to the server and both ping and snmpwalk work. Any ideas?

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GeoLocation slightly off?
by Rudolf Hoehler 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

Hello Community, I've read through the archives and I've got my geo-location sysLocation string working. What I cannot find an answer on is why the Latitude/Longitude insists on being slightly different from the actual co-ordinteas that I specify. As you can see in the screen shot, Observium parses the SysLocation fine and passes the exact correct values to MAPQUEST. Where do the slightly incorrect values come from? Thanks for any help guys. Regards, Rudolf

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Linux custom snmpd & alert
by Fabien Chadon 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

Hello, I try to find the best solution for add custom alerting for Linux with observium. As for now it's not possible to use xinetd with new alert system, i wonder how i can add properly custom data that's will be graph and avaible in checker conditions. I would like add a simple test as custom script that's will download a http page and return 0 if failed or a value in ms for time to download the page. Will add the script in snmpd.conf. But what will be the best oid for this without change observium code ? Thanks for help. Best Regards, -- Fabien

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Netflow Sensor
by Andrew Colin 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

Hi Guys We currenly have the professional version of observium Is there any way to add a netflow sensor to observium similar to below http://nfsen.sourceforge.net/ Regards Andrew

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VLAN Bandwidth Measuring Support
by Fred Pedrisa 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

Dear, guys. We are using H3C 5820 switch (comware) and currently now observium supports it pretty well, however a feature it is missing, is the bandwidth measuring for the Vlan-Interfaces this switch have. Is there any way it could be implemented ? Sincerely, -- Fred Pedrisa

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Large number of defunct shell processes
by Peter Loron 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Hello. We're running Pro build 6606 on an Ubuntu 14.04 machine. I'm consistently seeing large (>100) numbers of defunct processes lingering on the box. E.g.: ... www-data 31956 32711 0 14:09 ? 00:00:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 32623 17403 0 11:37 ? 00:00:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 32641 23519 0 11:37 ? 00:00:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 32661 23519 0 11:37 ? 00:00:00 [sh] <defunct> Can anybody shed some light on why these are hanging around and what to do? They're causing our system monitoring to make grumpy noises... Thanks! -Pete

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Infiniband adapter on linux hosts
by Louis Bailleul 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Hi all, I would like to know if any of you have been able to monitor Infiniband traffic on Linux hosts with Observium. I have added some nodes with Mellanox cards (MT27500 [ConnectX-3]) to Observium but it seems to see them only when they are configured for Ethernet traffic. I have no issue monitoring Infiniband switches (mostly Mellanox SX6012 ) but is there a way to display Infiniband traffic from a Linux box in Observium ? Best regards, Louis

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 60, Issue 60
by Johnston, Tom 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

SNMPWALK Results IF-MIB::ifIndex.10201 = INTEGER: 10201 IF-MIB::ifDescr.10201 = STRING: TenGigabitEthernet1/0/1 IF-MIB::ifType.10201 = INTEGER: ethernetCsmacd(6) IF-MIB::ifMtu.10201 = INTEGER: 1500 IF-MIB::ifSpeed.10201 = Gauge32: 4294967295 IF-MIB::ifPhysAddress.10201 = STRING: 6c:fa:89:be:6f:33 IF-MIB::ifAdminStatus.10201 = INTEGER: up(1) IF-MIB::ifOperStatus.10201 = INTEGER: up(1) IF-MIB::ifLastChange.10201 = Timeticks: (242331654) 28 days, 1:08:36.54 IF-MIB::ifInOctets.10201 = Counter32: 1241992353 IF-MIB::ifInUcastPkts.10201 = Counter32: 2194606 IF-MIB::ifInDiscards.10201 = Counter32: 0 IF-MIB::ifInErrors.10201 = Counter32: 9 IF-MIB::ifInUnknownProtos.10201 = Counter32: 0 IF-MIB::ifOutOctets.10201 = Counter32: 573439732 IF-MIB::ifOutUcastPkts.10201 = Counter32: 2121442 IF-MIB::ifOutDiscards.10201 = Counter32: 0 IF-MIB::ifOutErrors.10201 = Counter32: 0 On 7/9/15, 12:57 PM, "observium on behalf of observium-request(a)observium.org" <observium-bounces(a)observium.org on behalf of observium-request(a)observium.org> wrote: >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. Re: Dual Purpose Interface (Adam Armstrong) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:57:51 +0100 >From: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> >To: "" <observium(a)observium.org> >Subject: Re: [Observium] Dual Purpose Interface >Message-ID: <aa1633e8-1384-4647-81bf-b7ee2cc4075a(a)getmailbird.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > >It seems this device is /also/ not returning correct data for these ports. You won't get very far with 32bit counters on a TE port :) > >Check what it's reporting via SNMP. It's likely not really anything to do with us. > >adam. > >Sent from Mailbird [http://www.getmailbird.com/?utm_source=Mailbird&utm_medium=email&ut…] >On 09/07/2015 14:21:04, Johnston, Tom <tom.johnston(a)edinaschools.org> wrote: >2960X switches and newer styles of switches have dual speed SFP slots. On my 2960X I have switched from 1GIG SFP to a 10GIG SFP. > >This changes the ports from GigabitEthernet to TenGigabitEthernet. > >In the switch config now the GigabitEthernet ports are gone (they get removed from running config) and now TenGigabit Ports are present and in use. > > >Observium still shows both types of interfaces present, and there is none to delete under ports. It also doesn?t show that the TenGig port is up even though it is up. Whats the best way to handle this? Delete/re-add switch? > >Te1/0/1 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?connected ? ?trunk ? ? ? ?full ? ?10G SFP-10GBase-LRM (was the gigabit 1/0/49) >Te1/0/2 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?notconnect ? 1 ? ? ? ? ? ?full ? ?10G Not Present (was the gigabit 1/0/50) >Po2 ? ? ? VV-6504 ? ? ? ? ? ?notconnect ? 1 ? ? ? ? ? ?auto ? auto >Fa0 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?disabled ? ? routed ? ? ? auto ? auto 10/100BaseTX >VV-IDF3-2960X01# > >10149 GigabitEthernet1/0/49 >VV-6504 G4/8 Ethernet >enabled?/?down >No?Yes >No?Yes >64bit >10150 GigabitEthernet1/0/50 >VV-6504 G4/9 Ethernet >enabled?/?down >No?Yes >No?Yes >64bit >10201 TenGigabitEthernet1/0/1 >Ethernet >enabled?/?down >No?Yes >No?Yes >32bit >10202 TenGigabitEthernet1/0/2 >Ethernet >enabled?/?down >No?Yes >No?Yes >32bit >Thanks in advance > > > > >Thanks in advance >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: <http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/attachments/20150709/b061776…> > >------------------------------ > >Subject: Digest Footer > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > >------------------------------ > >End of observium Digest, Vol 60, Issue 60 >*****************************************

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