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New devices, feature requests, questions
by Paul Gear 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Hi folks, I've been using Observium for a few weeks now and would like to start getting it work better with some of my unrecognised devices. Is there any general documentation about how to go about adding new device types? I'm not much of a PHP programmer, but i've done enough C & Java that i can usually muddle along. Which bits should i start hacking on? For what it's worth the main devices i'm looking to support are Xirrus wireless arrays. I notice that Netgear switches are explicitly mentioned as not supported, but the limitation listed in the wiki (that they don't support MAC addresses in the IF-MIB) doesn't appear to be completely accurate - at least for my GS-108T at home. Some features i think would be really great (and am prepared to work on): * Filtering on the global memory screen (health/memory/) so that we can view, e.g., just physical memory, or just virtual memory, etc. A simple drop-down at the top of the list would make sense to me. * The global storage screen (health/storage/nographs/) would make a lot more sense to me if the size of the area which was shaded was relative to the size of the storage. Making the width of the gauge grow on a logarithmic scale would make sense to me. And some questions and related suggestions: * When we ignore a port, does that prevent graphing and data collection on it, or just notification? I have a lot of edge switches for which i have no use of port up/down notifications, but if it is up, i would like to collect the interface stats. Perhaps the "ignore" tickbox needs to be split into "collect" and "notify"? * Why do HP switches show VLANs as ports, but then never provide any interface statistics for them? Thanks in advance, Paul

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Monitoring mySQL
by Pász Gergely 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Hello! After trying out both the Python and the PHP snmp extenders in /scripts I still haven't managed to get mySQL monitoring working (while Apache monitoring works great). Though it works for some: http://www.observium.org/forum/index.php/topic,103.0.html I get the following error while using the PHP script: Applications: apache mysql...ERROR: /srv/observium/rrd/localhost/app-mysql-3.rrd: expected 79 data source readings (got 3) from N And I got a lot of zeros then some error if I use the Python one (I'm guessing it's because the /includes/poller/applications/mysql.inc.php expects name:value pairs) Any advice? Thanks, Pas

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My next cut at the port edit UI
by Paul Gear 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Hi Adam & all, I wasn't really very happy with the previous version of my port edit screen. Latest cut is here: http://gear.dyndns.org/~paulgear/patches/observium-r2002-port-jquery.patch Screenshot of the old version is here: http://gear.dyndns.org/~paulgear/patches/port-edit-previous.png Screenshot of the new version is here: http://gear.dyndns.org/~paulgear/patches/port-edit-current.png The patch adds a few new buttons: * Reset: reset the form back to the way it was * Alerted: toggle all ports in red status (effectively setting all ports to the "recommended" settings) * Down: select ignore for all down ports (useful for quickly shutting up a noisy switch) I think these are useful functions, but i'm still not overly fond of the UI. The number of buttons makes it a bit ugly. However, i can't think of any better way to lay it out, and i definitely like having the functionality available. Any thoughts? Thanks, Paul P.S. I'd also suggest moving the uncompressed jquery.js aside and making the compressed version the default.

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Feature request: Create aggregate graphs
by Olof Kasselstrand 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

Hi there, Is it possible to create custom aggregate graphs? For example, if I want to see the total traffic in/out for one specific customer connecting on two switch ports. Or all traffic on all my peering ports. Or all peering traffic to one peer on three different ports etc. Thanks, Olof

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Cisco PIX
by John Macleod 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

I have a couple of older PIX models, 506 and 501, that we poll at client sites. Observium doesn't appear to identify these and only appears to poll interface stats. Is this a known issue? ___ 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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Re: [Observium] [Observium-dev] r1970 - observer/trunk/html/js
by Paul Gear 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

On 24/03/11 23:04, observium-commits(a)observium.org wrote: > Author: adama > Date: 2011-03-24 13:04:31 +0000 (Thu, 24 Mar 2011) > New Revision: 1970 > > Added: > observer/trunk/html/js/jquery.js > Log: > add jquery 1.5.1 Don't forget to add the compacted version, too. Using that should considerably speed up page load times, especially over slow or heavily-loaded links. Paul

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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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