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Re: [Observium] How to add linux server?
by Adam Armstrong 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

I think you misunderstand Occam's razor. We do not do up/down monitoring, no more than cacti or Mrtg do. Adam. Andrey Lebedev <alg(a)condensa.ru> wrote: >On 2012-09-25 21:45:12 +0100, Paul Cupis said: > >> "Observium is not intended to replace an up/down alerting system, but >> rather to complement it with an easy to manage, intuitive representation >> of historical and current performance statistics, configuration >> visualisation and syslog capture." > >Do not see any logic. >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor >IMHO. > >But observium is preferd for me (over nagios or zabbix). > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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How to add linux server?
by Andrey Lebedev 25 Sep '12

25 Sep '12

Hi all, Sorry. 1) Offtopic. I unfortunately do not get your answers via mail. And look at them through http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/2012-September/thread.html How do I reply to this thread - but do not start a new topic every time? I have long lost touch (and forgotten) how to use mailing lists - last it was 10 years ago. 2) For monitoring unix servers use snmp? I do not understand a bit - but then why in wiki talk about the unix- agent. I saw that to unix-agent in any way no related to snmp. In my look this product have a lot of undocumented features that are unclear how they work. Regards, Andrey

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How to add linux server?
by Andrey Lebedev 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Hi all! Sorry for the newbie question. I just Installed Observium. Connected to many snmpv3 network devices - Cisco, Extreme, Juniper ... I'm fine. I'm happy with everything. Now I want to connect my first Linux server. But I find no documentation - how? I installed check_mk_agent on linux. root@monitoring:/opt/observium# telnet x.x.x.60 6556 | head Trying x.x.x.60... Connected to x.x.x.60. Escape character is '^]'. <<<check_mk>>> Version: 1.2.0p2 AgentOS: linux PluginsDirectory: /usr/lib/check_mk_agent/plugins LocalDirectory: /usr/lib/check_mk_agent/local AgentDirectory: /etc/check_mk OnlyFrom: 127.0.0.1 x.x.x.61 I do not know what to do next? Thank you for your help. Regards, Andrey

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How to add linux server?
by Andrey Lebedev 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

+screenshot Only snmp devices: http://s11.postimage.org/6izs930cj/Picture_478.png

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How to add linux server?
by Andrey Lebedev 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Hello Paul , Thanks for the help, but I do not understand what you are saying (about web-interface). I do not have anything on the screen. I send the link to screenshot. http://s12.postimage.org/oddm5vdbx/Picture_477.png root@monitoring:/opt/observium# cat config.php | tail -f $config['poller_modules']['unix-agent'] = 1; ?> root@monitoring:/opt/observium# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Restarting web server apache2 ... waiting ...done.

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Re: [Observium] SSD for better performance
by Adam Armstrong 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

The maths and specs suggest a modern SSD should survive observium workload for quite a while, but I'm still worried about the random failure rate and the likelyhood that individual cells get worn out. In general SSDs are such a strange tech, there's almost no way to really improve them except with fancy controller hacks, the flash itself is a dead end tech. Good luck :-) Adam Cushard Michael <mcc(a)us.axway.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] SSD for better performance
by Adam Armstrong 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

I would recommend dumping the data to a real disk occasionally, as observium/rrd-style workloads are pretty hard on flash-based storage. I have SSDs in my workstations, but I'm not sure if I'd trust them in a server quite yet. Please report back if/when it breaks :-) Adam. Cushard Michael <mcc(a)us.axway.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] port ignore partly fails on large number of ports
by Adam Armstrong 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Haha. Glad it works :-) We should add that to the docs somewhere! Adam. Maarten De Wispelaere <maarten.dewispelaere(a)intec.ugent.be> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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port ignore partly fails on large number of ports
by Maarten De Wispelaere 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Hi, I recently discovered the following : When trying to set "Ignore" status on switches with large number of ports (eg. force10 e1200 or c300 chassis), the setting doesn't get saved for some of the ports. More specific, at the end of the list. This is what I did : Toggle all -> removed the toggle from the mgmt interface -> then save What happens: Most ports get "ignored" status, part of them don't After getting the status, they again have a 'not-ignored-status' (checkbox not checked). If I check them again & press save -> same issue. Seems like the checkboxes only get processed to a certain number of items ? Does this sound familiar ? Thanks in advance, Maarten De Wispelaere Department of Information Technology Internet Based Communication Networks and Services (IBCN) Ghent University - IBBT Gaston Crommenlaan 8 Bus 201, B-9050 Gent, Belgium E-mail: maarten.dewispelaere(a)intec.UGent.be Tel. +32 (0)9 33 14979 Fax +32 (0)9 33 14899

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Accurate Graphs in Billing are probably not so accurate
by Matthias Cramer 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Hi I've noticed two things in the "Accurate" graphs in the Billing part: 1. Are Interface counter overflows or equipment reboot) probably not catched? - I see very high spikes (200 Gbps and more) on a 1G interface sometimes in sometimes out, but not at the same time. the quick graphs are ok 2. If I monitore more tha one interface for billing (Unfotunately one of the is down) the accurate graps are at leaset 1000 times to high... Atached some graphs... I runn lates svn (0.12.9.3378). Any ideas ? Regards Matthias -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zürich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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