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changing interface name error in log when not changed
by Bryan Fields 07 Oct '26

07 Oct '26

I've started to have a new repeating error in observium every run stating an interface name has changed. I've confirmed it's not changed. 2026-10-05 17:45:26 et-0/0/47 Interface changed (attrib): [circuit] 19151|01160001|01|000028EB|ET-0/0/47|QFX27|TAMSFLDE|0102.PP40.PT -> 19151|01160001|01|000028EB|ET-0/0/47|QFX27|TAMSFLDE|0102.PP40.PT009:10 2026-10-05 17:40:24 et-0/0/47 Interface changed (attrib): [circuit] 19151|01160001|01|000028EB|ET-0/0/47|QFX27|TAMSFLDE|0102.PP40.PT -> 19151|01160001|01|000028EB|ET-0/0/47|QFX27|TAMSFLDE|0102.PP40.PT009:10 2026-10-05 17:35:27 et-0/0/47 Interface changed (attrib): [circuit] 19151|01160001|01|000028EB|ET-0/0/47|QFX27|TAMSFLDE|0102.PP40.PT -> 19151|01160001|01|000028EB|ET-0/0/47|QFX27|TAMSFLDE|0102.PP40.PT009:10 Looking at the interface I see the following, and it matches the description et-0/0/47 CUST: 365DATACENTERS (AS19151) {19151|01160001|01|000028EB|ET-0/0/47|QFX27|TAMSFLDE|0102.PP40.PT009:10} [IX-BASE] This matches the config on the port: description "CUST: 365DATACENTERS (AS19151) {19151|01160001|01|000028EB|ET-0/0/47|QFX27|TAMSFLDE|0102.PP40.PT009:10} [IX-BASE]"; And what SNMP comes back with: IF-MIB::ifAlias.600 = STRING: CUST: 365DATACENTERS (AS19151) {19151|01160001|01|000028EB|ET-0/0/47|QFX27|TAMSFLDE|0102.PP40.PT009:10} [IX-BASE] I'm on 26.9.15239 (rolling) (29th September 2026). Any idea? Can I ignore this? -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice http://bryanfields.net

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Nonprofit Professional Edition Licensing
by Scott Lopez 07 Oct '26

07 Oct '26

Hello, We are a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and are evaluating Observium for network monitoring. Your website indicates that Observium Professional Edition is available free of charge to registered charities. I previously reached out directly but did not receive a response, so I’m trying the mailing list in hopes someone can point me in the right direction. Could someone please advise on the current process for requesting or obtaining a nonprofit Professional Edition subscription? I can provide documentation of our nonprofit status and any organizational information required. Thank you, Scott Lopez Food for the Hungry

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Re: api key
by Tony Guadagno 05 Oct '26

05 Oct '26

In reference to the Carto key problem, do you have any idea when this fix will get pushed to stable? I am running Observium 26.7.15008 (stable)<https://www.observium.org/> right now and I am not seeing it. Thanks for your efforts! Tony

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Re: MIB BATM / TECO SYSYTEM
by Bonneau Thomas 08 Sep '26

08 Sep '26

Hello, Could you please add the support of the BATM/TELCO-SYSTEM mibs for the T5C and T-Marc swiches ? Thomas BONNEAU

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api key
by ARNOLDO RODRIGO VIDAL BRAVO 01 Sep '26

01 Sep '26

hi, i have observium 25.10.14367 and it is working perfectly, but a few days in the map show API KEY REQUIRED, i repeat observium works fine. now how i cam do to these message not show to another users on my lan? [image: image.png] --Saluda cordialmente

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Feature
by ARNOLDO RODRIGO VIDAL BRAVO 01 Sep '26

01 Sep '26

hi, we have deployed observium v25.10.14367 on over any table is possible enable a button to export xls or pdf (like data tables)?on results of find devices... how we can show a column like "purpose"? -- Saluda cordialmente

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NewFeature:Public Dashboard
by loxely＠hotmail.com 30 Aug '26

30 Aug '26

Hi all, I read on docs and as far I undestand the "isPublic" attribute just give to other users the authorization to see another user dashboard Is there a way to set a dashboard "truly" public, i mean, visible without authentication?

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Re: [EXTERNAL] permissions problem after update
by Lorenzo Orlandi 27 Aug '26

27 Aug '26

Hi Eric, I see in your opening message you set user/group observium:observium via chown. I've compared with my environment and permission for /opt/observium/rrd is observium:www-data May be this prevent php to read some data in rrd subfolders? Hope this will help Lorenzo

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Alert for a specific sensor (by sensor index) doesnt work
by Thomas Stather 13 Aug '26

13 Aug '26

Hello, i want to build an alert for a specific sensor, i need to check if a water input of an rlcp (cooled rack) is above a certain temperature. I manually set the "Max Warn" value in the device properties, so the sensor will throw a warning, then i created the alert Condition: sensor_event notequals ok Association (type AND) device type in Environment sensor description match *Water In* This works, but what i really needed was to specify sensors directly instead of matching the sensor description, but sadly this didn't work. I saw that you can specify the senor index in the association and i used this one from the url https://observium.mydomain.de/device/device=496/tab=health/metric=temperatu… Once i tried that, i got no check count unter the "Status / Contacts" column of the alert checker. What am i doing wrong? Best, Thomas -- Thomas Stather IT Services Please putit-help(a)mr.mpg.de always in CC, so that you can be helped as fast as possible. Max-Planck Institut für medizinische Forschung Jahnstraße 29 69120 Heidelberg Room: U1.509 Tel: +49 6221 486 628 Fax: +49 6221 486 561

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permissions problem after update
by Eric Bates 12 Aug '26

12 Aug '26

Just finished an update that was a bit overdue (523 --> 540) and now I'm getting various errors while rendering RRD: "Draw Error" "ERROR: can not parse an empty rpn expression" "RRDTool seems to have generated an empty graph. Please ensure that RRDs are being populated for this device." While at the same time, some RRDs do render correctly. On the dashboard the message is different: "Permission error You have insufficient permissions to view this page" The poller runs as user:group "observium:obervium" I have run "chown -R observium:observium /opt/observium" out of paranoia, but it didn't help. What am I missing? Thanks for your time. -- MS #46 Clark 159a

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