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Same Subnet devices
by Arrigo 13 Oct '22

13 Oct '22

Hi All. Is there a way to disable same subnet devices shown in port list: Since we have lots of devices with identical LAN network, list on the right of the page can be very long (and useless, btw ...). Thanks, Arrigo.

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Graph Gaps and Scaling questions
by Daniel Benson 11 Oct '22

11 Oct '22

list, I have been working all angles to scale my observium CE instance running well but seem to be failing. By failing I am referring to the classic gaps in graphs for all my devices. I am running on esxi with 16 cores @ 2.40GHz, 16G of ram, SSD SAS Raid and continue to have gaps. Most recently I have pushed sql to its own instance in hopes of working around potential IO issues but that didnt help. What I do see is that my ram use is very high, I am guessing from the discovery process twice a day. When my ram use is lower throughout the day, I have no gaps. I am monitoring 6000ports on 190 devices. Should I be using north of 16G of ram in my env? I am happy to add more but all my reading indicates that observium is not RAM intense. My last attempt will be to move the RRDs to a ram disk but my RRDs are almost 16G at this time which I am guessing is part of the problem. Maybe it is time to clean house. Any insight would be appreciated. db

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APC UPS Monitoring
by Alex Rubenstein 11 Oct '22

11 Oct '22

One of the status indicators on APC UPS's is "Diagnostic Results." It is shown as: Diagnostics Results (last 2022-10-10) ok I am looking to set up an alert where if the last diag date is more than N days ago, alert me. But since the date is somehow wrapped into the status name, rather than the status result, I am not sure how to do this. Any pointers?

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Re: HTTP/1.0 500 after upgrading to latest version 12324
by Gordon Cheng (gocheng) 10 Oct '22

10 Oct '22

More info below. We are seeing the following errors under “/opt/observium/logs/error_log”. Any suggestions? [Mon Oct 10 07:41:18.027297 2022] [php7:warn] [pid 3892] [client 171.68.241.10:52553] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Mon Oct 10 07:41:18.027382 2022] [php7:error] [pid 3892] [client 171.68.241.10:52553] PHP Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required '/opt/observium/html/index.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Mon Oct 10 07:41:19.347309 2022] [php7:warn] [pid 3818] [client 10.0.103.96:56392] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Mon Oct 10 07:41:19.347391 2022] [php7:error] [pid 3818] [client 10.0.103.96:56392] PHP Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required '/opt/observium/html/index.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Mon Oct 10 07:41:19.351707 2022] [php7:warn] [pid 3814] [client 10.0.103.96:56394] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Mon Oct 10 07:41:19.351762 2022] [php7:error] [pid 3814] [client 10.0.103.96:56394] PHP Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required '/opt/observium/html/api/v0/index.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Mon Oct 10 07:41:19.872404 2022] [php7:warn] [pid 3815] [client 10.0.2.243:57194] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Mon Oct 10 07:41:19.872475 2022] [php7:error] [pid 3815] [client 10.0.2.243:57194] PHP Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required '/opt/observium/html/index.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 Looks like it’s a permission issue in the /opt/observium/html folder where the site lives, but just not sure what they should be. Thanks. From: "Gordon Cheng (gocheng) via observium" <observium(a)lists.observium.org> Reply-To: Observium <observium(a)lists.observium.org> Date: Monday, October 10, 2022 at 8:13 AM To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> Cc: "adama(a)observium.org" <adama(a)observium.org>, "Gordon Cheng (gocheng)" <gocheng(a)cisco.com> Subject: [Observium] HTTP/1.0 500 after upgrading to latest version 12324 Hello, We have just upgraded our subscription edition to the latest 12324 (from a pretty old version). But the GUI is not accessible anymore afterwards, with HTTP/1.0 500 errors. Restarting ‘httpd’ (showing ‘active (running)’) and reboot the server doesn’t help. Any suggestions how we can fix it or troubleshoot further? Thanks. - Gordon

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HTTP/1.0 500 after upgrading to latest version 12324
by Gordon Cheng (gocheng) 10 Oct '22

10 Oct '22

Hello, We have just upgraded our subscription edition to the latest 12324 (from a pretty old version). But the GUI is not accessible anymore afterwards, with HTTP/1.0 500 errors. Restarting ‘httpd’ (showing ‘active (running)’) and reboot the server doesn’t help. Any suggestions how we can fix it or troubleshoot further? Thanks. - Gordon

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Show port descriptions also on Ports -> Map view
by Thomas Stather 10 Oct '22

10 Oct '22

Hi We are running Observium Professional r12071 I noticed that if we set up a description for our network ports, these are shown on the views of the switch under Ports -> Basic Ports -> Details Ports -> Neighbours Is there a way to also show it on *Ports -> Map* for the local port (blue bubble) and the remote port (grey bubble)? Best, Thomas -- Thomas Stather IT Services VCP4, VCP6-DCV, VCP6.5-DCV Room: U1.509 Tel: +49 6221 486 628 Fax: +49 6221 486 561 Bevor Sie diese Mail ausdrucken, prüfen Sie bitte ob dies wirklich nötig ist. Umweltschutz geht uns alle an!

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Weird results from stacked graph.
by David Milton 08 Oct '22

08 Oct '22

Hello, We have been seeing some results in our stacked graphs that do not appear to make sense. Initially we thought this was because the maximum values for the two values occurred at different points in time. That cannot be the whole issue because even if you take the sum of every pair of numbers the maximum aggregate must at least equal the maximum value of one of the two series. This graph shows the problem: How can we have a maximum value of 97.4M but an aggregate maximum of 55.7M? It seems that maximum aggregate should also at least be 97.4M. What’s happening here? Thanks, Dave.

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Alerter frequency
by Alex Rubenstein 04 Oct '22

04 Oct '22

Greetings, I have been setting up Observium for a client for the last few months and I have been loving it. Amazingly flexible and reliable. I am quite pleased. I am running 22.8.12241, Subscription. I know that Observium does not support SNMP Traps and understand why. So, I have set up syslog on the services to push events and they are caught by Observium. This works fine. I have now also created syslog alerts and this works fine too. My issue is the delay from when the syslog comes to the server, and the alert goes out. I found this old mailing list entry: https://lists.observium.org/hyperkitty/list/observium@lists.observium.org/m… Adam's reply was: "We have to wait for a cron job to be run to send the alerts, because we can't do it in the syslog processing script. Iirc you can cron alerter.php to do it more frequently!" This is an acceptable solution to me, but I have a couple question: 1. Is there risk with how often this is run? If I cron'ed this for every minute, is there a risk of some sort of collision with the 5 minute poller? 1. Is it possible, as a feature request, to call alerter.php -h from syslog.php when an entry comes in? While I think Observium is an excellent piece of software, I wish it had just a little more ability to handle real-time alerts coming in. There are many situations that occur where an outage or event could be substantially shorter than the poller interval (like, a short UPS power loss), and I would like to have a little better quasi-real time alerting of these events. Thanks for you consideration.

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Temperature sensor question
by Kleber Cristiano Santilli Coelho 30 Sep '22

30 Sep '22

Good Morning! I hope you're all well. I apologize if the question is inappropriate. I'm developing an IOT module and I use the "ENTITY" MIB for the sensors. I saw that Observium handles this MIB automatically, using the entPhySensorType OID to distinguish the sensor types and it works great, except for the temperature sensor, entPhySensorType value 8. I would like to understand if this has any special reason to adapt my code. Thank you, congratulations on the software. -- Kleber Coelho Campus Fernando Costa Universidade de São Paulo (19) 3565-4321

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APC's universal I/O (UPS temp/humidity sensors) not showing in
by Steve Costaras 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

Have observium polling various APC ups's (AP9631 NMC cards). Observium correctly polls the battery temperatures, but when adding in probes to the universal I/O ports on the AP9631 (just trying with the temp sensor currently) I do not see the data being plotted on observium. Is this supposed to work? I don't have the humidity sensor currently (was trying to test with the temp sensor first before buying the temp/humidity combined sensors for the units). Would really like to get this data tracked for environmental data logging per rack (have a ups per rack). The data does show up in an snmpwalk: # snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c xxx yy.yy.yy.yy .1.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.1.0 = INTEGER: 2 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.1.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.1.2.1 = INTEGER: 2 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.2.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.2.2.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.3.1.1 = STRING: "Port 1 Temp 1" iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.3.2.1 = STRING: "Port 2 Temp 2" iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.4.1.1 = STRING: "Port 1" iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.4.2.1 = STRING: "Port 2" iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.5.1.1 = INTEGER: 75 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.5.2.1 = INTEGER: 90 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.6.1.1 = INTEGER: 24 (Port 1 temp 1 sensor in C) iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.6.2.1 = INTEGER: 32 (port 2 temp 2 sensor in C) iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.7.1.1 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.7.2.1 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.8.1.1 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.8.2.1 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.9.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.9.2.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.10.1.1 = INTEGER: 2 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.2.1.10.2.1 = INTEGER: 2 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.3.0 = INTEGER: 2 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.1.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.1.2.1 = INTEGER: 2 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.2.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.2.2.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.3.1.1 = STRING: "Port 1 Temp 1" iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.3.2.1 = STRING: "Port 2 Temp 2" iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.4.1.1 = STRING: "Port 1" iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.4.2.1 = STRING: "Port 2" iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.5.1.1 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.5.2.1 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.6.1.1 = INTEGER: 10 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.6.2.1 = INTEGER: 10 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.7.1.1 = INTEGER: 40 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.7.2.1 = INTEGER: 40 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.8.1.1 = INTEGER: 60 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.8.2.1 = INTEGER: 60 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.9.1.1 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.9.2.1 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.10.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.10.2.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.11.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.11.2.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.12.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.12.2.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.13.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.13.2.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.14.1.1 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.14.2.1 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.15.1.1 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.15.2.1 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.16.1.1 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.16.2.1 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.17.1.1 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.17.2.1 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.18.1.1 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.18.2.1 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.19.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.19.2.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.20.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.20.2.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.21.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.21.2.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.22.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.25.1.4.1.22.2.1 = INTEGER: 1

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