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Alerts
by John Macleod 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

I noticed the SMS code within alerts.php in a recent svn update. Any docs on this anywhere? Do the Alert triggers write to observium.log? "Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail (and/or any attachment) contains information, which is confidential and intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or use it for any purpose or disclose the contents to any person. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender. The information contained in this e-mail (and any attachments) is supplied in good faith, but the sender shall not be under any liability in damages or otherwise for any reliance that may be placed upon it by the recipient, nor does it constitute a contract in any way. Any comments or opinions expressed are those of the originator not of Alentus Corporation unless otherwise expressly stated."

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r1942 ignore ports
by Nikolay Shopik 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

r1942 release bring feature called ignore ports, but it looks like it doesn't work for me. When I selecting ports for ignore in settings and pressing save, it show this message "Device record unchanged. No update necessary." So what I'm doing wrong?

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Voice interfaces discovery
by Nikolay Shopik 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

I wondering if discovering analog voice interfaces is intended on Cisco platform or this is just bug? Currently discovery will add interfaces with media type - voiceOverIp, voiceFXO, voiceEncap, these interfaces doesn't provide any statistic over snmp, except UP/DOWN state. So I see no reason to draw graphs for them. Even better I'll be glad to get rid of them from regular IP ports, maybe move to different group, or just have option to ignore state/don't poll them?

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debian/ubuntu package
by Nikolay Shopik 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

I'm willing to provide deb package for Observium if anybody started work on that, please let me know. Also it is possible to make Observium run from sub-directory instead of virtual-host, like that http://example.com/observium? I did tried some rewrite rules on apache w/o luck.

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Varnish application monitor
by Kristian Grønfeldt Sørensen 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Hi list, First of all, i want to say that I'm impressed by Observium, and I'm really excited to see how this project evolves in the future. I'm writing this mail because I'm considering writing an application monitor for varnish ( http://www.varnish-cache.org/ ) for inclusion in Observium, but I don't want to start if anyone is already doing that, so please stop me if I'm about to reinvent the wheel. Regards Kristian Sørensen

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3 patches.
by Rob J. Epping 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

Hi All, Thanks for this wonderfull product! I'm realy impressed. While working with observium I've made some improvements, see patches below. I hope it's the right format and the right way to send patches, as this is advanced svn for me :) root@eos:/opt# svn diff observium/ Index: observium/includes/services/dns/check.inc =================================================================== --- observium/includes/services/dns/check.inc (revision 1784) +++ observium/includes/services/dns/check.inc (working copy) @@ -1,7 +1,10 @@ <?php -$check = shell_exec($config['nagios_plugins'] . "/check_dns -H ".$service['param']." -s ".$service['hostname']); +// provide some sane default +if ($service['service_param']) { $nsquery = $service['service_param']; } else { $nsquery = "localhost"; } +$check = shell_exec($config['nagios_plugins'] . "/check_dns -H ".$nsquery." -s ".$service['hostname']); + list($check, $time) = split("\|", $check); if(strstr($check, "DNS OK: ")) { Index: observium/includes/services/mysql/check.inc =================================================================== --- observium/includes/services/mysql/check.inc (revision 1784) +++ observium/includes/services/mysql/check.inc (working copy) @@ -1,7 +1,10 @@ <?php -$check = shell_exec($config['nagios_plugins'] . "/check_mysql -H ".$service['hostname']." ".$service['service_param']); +// provide some sane default +if ($service['service_param']) { $dbname = $service['service_param']; } else { $dbname = "mysql"; } +$check = shell_exec($config['nagios_plugins'] . "/check_mysql -H ".$service['hostname']." ".$dbname); + list($check, $time) = split("\|", $check); if(strstr($check, "Uptime:")) { Index: observium/scan-snmp.php =================================================================== --- observium/scan-snmp.php (revision 1784) +++ observium/scan-snmp.php (working copy) @@ -10,7 +10,16 @@ $data = trim(`cat ips-scanned.txt | grep alive | cut -d" " -f 1 | egrep $search`); foreach( explode("\n", $data) as $ip) { - $snmp = shell_exec("snmpget -t 0.2 -v2c -c ".$config['community']." $ip sysName.0"); + // find community to use + for ($i=0; $i<count($config['snmp']['community']); $i++) { + echo($ip." ".$i." ".$config['snmp']['community'][$i]."\n"); + $snmp = shell_exec("snmpget -t 0.2 -v2c -c ".$config['snmp']['community'][$i]." $ip sysName.0"); + if(strstr($snmp, "STRING")) { + $community = $config['snmp']['community'][$i]; + $i=count($config['snmp']['community']) - 1 ; + echo("community : ".$community."\n"); + } + } if(strstr($snmp, "STRING")) { $hostname = trim(str_replace("SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: ","", $snmp)); if(mysql_result(mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(device_id) FROM devices WHERE hostname = '$hostname'"),0) == '0') { root@eos:/opt# -- GRTNX, RobJE

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Spam on wiki
by Paul Gear 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

Hi folks, The observium wiki seems to have become a spam hotbed recently. See here for an example: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=performance&go=Go What can we do about it? I was going to start cleaning, but i'm not sure where to begin, and i have a feeling they can spam faster than i can clean it up. Thanks, Paul

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Missing MIBs from search path
by Paul Gear 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Hi all, I'm new to Observium, still finding my feet (but loving it!). I recently upgraded my Observium server VM from Debian lenny (5.0) to squeeze (6.0), and it broke Observium. When i looked into it, i found that poller was generating the following output: ... my.procurve.switch.domain.name 69 procurve MIB search path: /root/.snmp/mibs:/usr/share/mibs/site:/usr/share/snmp/mibs:/usr/share/mibs/iana:/usr/share/mibs/ietf:/usr/share/mibs/netsnmp Cannot find module (SNMPv2-MIB): At line 0 in (none) sysObjectID.0: Unknown Object Identifier (Sub-id not found: (top) -> sysObjectID) SNMP UnreachablePolled in 0.080 seconds NOT UPDATED! ... I've worked around this by temporarily symlinking /root/.snmp/mibs into my Observium directory, but this seems like a bit of a hack. Any suggestions? Thanks, Paul

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Vyatta + BGP
by John Macleod 12 Feb '11

12 Feb '11

Has anyone successfully been able to monitor BGP sessions on Vyatta 6.1? I know Vyatta supports the BGP4-MIB, does Observium? Thanks, John ___ John Macleod Alentus UK Limited Seymour House South Street Bromley BR1 1RH +44.(0)208.315.5800 +44.(0)208.315.5801 (Fax) www.alentus.co.uk | www.alentus.com "Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail (and/or any attachment) contains information, which is confidential and intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or use it for any purpose or disclose the contents to any person. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender. The information contained in this e-mail (and any attachments) is supplied in good faith, but the sender shall not be under any liability in damages or otherwise for any reliance that may be placed upon it by the recipient, nor does it constitute a contract in any way. Any comments or opinions expressed are those of the originator not of Alentus Corporation unless otherwise expressly stated."

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Bug database
by Michael Robbert 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Is anybody watching the bug database? I submitted a handful of bugs the other week (bud IDs 126-129) and they don't appear to have been touched. These all have diffs that could fix the problems found. Maybe not perfect, but most of them shouldn't be too difficult to implement. I've also been working on bug 13 to implement sorting of device interfaces. This is going to be a bigger patch and I'd like to work with some core developers to properly implement it. Thanks, Mike

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