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Wrong data in CPU Load graph
by Christian Hügel 11 Oct '13

11 Oct '13

Hi, the graphs for the CPU load of a linux server are not accurate. The CPU shows in vSphere client a load of 40-50% but in observium all 4 cores are permanently at 90%. Does anybody know why this happens? Thx Chris

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URL Tracking
by Ryan Milton 11 Oct '13

11 Oct '13

I have been enjoying my Observium installation quite a lot, and I love the nice graphs of traffic and ports. Given that this level of detail can be pulled from the devices, is there anyone/anyway who have been able to use that info to create a URL tracker that could show to what URL's a source IP is going? I'd love to be able to integrate something like that into Observium. Regards, Ryan Milton MVS Network Manager o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230 www.mvsusa.com<http://www.mvsusa.com/> [MVS final logo GOOD very small]

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Ping Timeouts
by James Bensley 11 Oct '13

11 Oct '13

Howdy all, I'm getting lots of emails for a few devices that have basic ADSL connectivity. Pings from the Observium box have a high RTT and timeout (I guess). Said emails have the following subject; Device Down: device.network.net (ping) Device Up: device.network.net I am getting these emails 5 minutes apart. Each time the poller runs the host is either back up again or going down again. This is happening for a few devices with congested ADSL connections (which is a separate issue in itself!). I have tried to raise the the timeout options in the config, thus; $config['ping']['timeout'] = 3000; # timeout in ms $config['ping']['retries'] = 6; # how many times to retry the query When I am on the server pinging the devices that cause these alerts, the ping is never higher than 1500ms. Perhaps when the poller runs the delay is higher (although I haven't seen this behavious when running pings for 30+ mins). I did raise it to 6000ms but this didn't stop the alerts either. It seems to me that Observium isn't honoring those values. Has anyone had any problems with these settings before? The default timeout is 500ms which I wanted to raise anyway, but I'm not sure this is having any effect. Cheers, James.

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Re: [Observium] Subs Activation?
by Adam Armstrong 11 Oct '13

11 Oct '13

There is a set of commands on the edition_split page linked from the blue message and from the main web site. You just move the old version, checkout the new one and move over your rrds and config.php. Adam. Terry Sweetser <terry+observium(a)skymesh.net.au> wrote: >How does one activate a subscription and remove the friendly blue >message from the SVN build? > >-- >http://about.me/terry.sweetser > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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inventory api not work
by Keyman 11 Oct '13

11 Oct '13

hi, all i enable API like this: // Simple Observium API Settings $config['api']['enabled'] = 1; $config['api']['module']['inventory'] = 1; and then i use http://x.x.x.x/api.php?username=admin&password=admin&module=inventory&devic… to export data, but retured : {"login":{"success":{"code":"101","msg":"User authentification succeeded"}},"data":[]} the device id is right, i can find inventory data from url http://x.x.x.x/device/device=4/tab=entphysical/ what's wrong about this ? thanks for your answer. yuan

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Re: [Observium] Wrong data in CPU Load graph
by Tom Laermans 11 Oct '13

11 Oct '13

Hi, Have you asked vmware too? Have you checked in the monitored machines what their usage is? Either way we report what the device's snmp stack reports. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Christian Hügel" <christian.huegel(a)stonebyte.de> To: <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Wrong data in CPU Load graph Date: Fri, Oct 11, 2013 09:01 Hi, the graphs for the CPU load of a linux server are not accurate. The CPU shows in vSphere client a load of 40-50% but in observium all 4 cores are permanently at 90%. Does anybody know why this happens? Thx Chris _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Subs Activation?
by Tom Laermans 11 Oct '13

11 Oct '13

Hi. If you read the friendly blue message carefully, you'll find all you need to know. Should you choose not to, surely the project webpage will tell you the same... Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Terry Sweetser" <terry+observium(a)skymesh.net.au> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Subs Activation? Date: Fri, Oct 11, 2013 07:50 How does one activate a subscription and remove the friendly blue message from the SVN build? -- http://about.me/terry.sweetser _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Observium Installation Startup and Configuration -- Perhaps $PATH Problems?
by Tom Laermans 11 Oct '13

11 Oct '13

You're confusing a filesystem subdirectory with an http subdirectory, everything after that is moot. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Ron Wingfield" <Ron.Wingfield(a)Archaxis.net> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Observium Installation Startup and Configuration -- Perhaps $PATH Problems? Date: Fri, Oct 11, 2013 05:32 Good evening Adam and all: Yes, I'm aware of the subdirectory caveat and I've installed in /opt/observium as advertised (/opt is in the root directory). I have been able to login, once I found that the password is MD5 encrypted and I changed the value in the users table element, password. (Have to use phpMyAdmin.) Regardless, my questions are with regard to the value for the base_url and the various *_dir values. See the following: Default directories (as per ./observium/config.php) // Location $config['install_dir'] = "/opt/observium/"; // moot considering the following: Default directories (as per ./observium/includes/default.inc.php) $config['install_dir'] = "/opt/observium"; #$config['html_dir'] = $config['install_dir'] . "/html"; #$config['rrd_dir'] = $config['install_dir'] . "/rrd"; #$config['log_file'] = $config['install_dir'] . "/observium.log"; #$config['temp_dir'] = "/tmp"; Un-commenting the (previous) last four instructions seems to make no difference . . .? // This should *only* be set if you want to *force* a particular hostname/port // It will prevent the web interface being usable form any other hostname // $config['base_url'] = "http://observium.company.com"; $config['base_url'] = ""; // Without this set to something (including a NULL value), // the index.php page will not render properly. (Noted by RTW) If the logout option is selected per the following associated code, <li><a href="logout/" title="Logout"><i class="oicon-door-open-out"></i> Logout</a></li> The system complains that: “The requested URL /index.php/logout// was not found on this server.” This seems logical because the href=”logout/” construct is apparently poorly formed. It suggests that there is a relative directory named logout, and nothing is specified as an object. Perhaps there is some concatenation problem. The same is true for other menu options, e.g.: <a href="logout/ . . .etc <a href="settings/ . . .etc <a href="preferences/ . . .etc <a href="about/ . . .etc . . .all fail. I suspect some path issues. Can someone tell me where/what object (PHP script?) executes the logout procedure? In other words, where is the <li><a href="logout/" title="Logout"><i class="oicon-door-open-out"></i> Logout</a></li> list element construct created? Finally, in order to get the "home page" (the one with the world map) to render following successful login, the following was necessary: RE: /opt/observium/html/pages/logon.inc.php Changed url to relative reference (removed “/” before “image”) to enable display of image:  <div class="well" style="padding: 50px; background-image: url('images/login-hamster-large.png'); background-position: ...etc. BTW, think of me as someone in "userland" that is PHP capable. Thanks for any suggestions; in the mean time, I'll revisit my Apache2.2 httpd configurations for possible path problems. I think that with a little "jump start" help, I can port this to FreeBSD. OTTF, Ron W. Adam Armstrong wrote: Observium doesn't work from a subdirectory. Also, FreeBSD is not really supported, as non[e] of the development team use it, and Observium relies a little more heavily on userland than most PHP applications. adam.

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Subs Activation?
by Terry Sweetser 11 Oct '13

11 Oct '13

How does one activate a subscription and remove the friendly blue message from the SVN build? -- http://about.me/terry.sweetser

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MIB requests
by Robbie Wright 11 Oct '13

11 Oct '13

Just throwing an idea out there, but for devices that are not currently supported, but have published MIB's, could we put some type of voting system out there, ala http://ideascale.com or something similar? Help guide Adam and Tom a bit in the development so they know where the interest is and possibly get some donations for the popular ideas/devices? Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <http://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101 **For support issues, please email support(a)siuslawbroadband.com.**

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