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How to monitor ASA connection table ?
by inlee 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

Hi I just installed observium. ASA is polling all the information from ASA 55xx except connection count. How can i add polling ASA connection count?

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Speaking of Observium's pretty graphsŠ
by Andrew Beals 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

One of our clients uses a very large HP ProCurve 4108gl switch as the central hub of their network. When I'm looking at traffic graphs from it for large spaces of time, I invariably see it pegged to +/- 20Gbps because of some traffic spikes during the day (e.g. Windows clients talking to WSUS and downloading their patches). If I zoom in on one of the "empty" stretches of time, I see that there is actually some traffic flowing – it's just so small in comparison that it gets flatlined by the spikes. What I'd like to be able to do is to change the graph from a linear one in the Y (bps) axis to a logarithmic one, so I can see my traffic. For example, here's the past 24 hours: [cid:5CBC68CF-394E-403F-9F59-AB51C6450F66] (The rrdtool command that produces this graph is truly impressive and only crawls out of its blue box with the last set of CDEF statements before the giant list of AREA statements.) (All graphs generated for this e-mail use the same time span on the same hardware) I know, I know, "Use the Source, Luke!", but I've only watched the commits fly past, not actually dug into the code past the config file (and this doesn't appear to be a configuration option). rrdtool_graph() is called in three places, and fortunately only defined in one. Applying the obvious small patch: Index: html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php =================================================================== --- html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php (revision 3268) +++ html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php (working copy) @@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ if ($rrd_options) { + $rrd_options .= " --logarithmic"; rrdtool_graph($graphfile, $rrd_options); if ($debug) { echo($rrd_cmd); } if (is_file($graphfile)) Nets me this: [cid:806F0C8F-84AE-4C4F-8D2D-04802B3A5EB7] Which could probably use a little more tweaking. I'd rather see SI "-bi-" units on the left rather than scientific notation. Also, it does tend to whack the CPU pretty hard figuring it all out, pegging both of the CPUs in the old ml350 I'm using for monitoring. Running "rrdgraph" at "nice +4" (or better) would likely be a win w/r/t data collection. This patch: Index: html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php =================================================================== --- html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php (revision 3268) +++ html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php (working copy) @@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ if ($rrd_options) { + $rrd_options .= " --logarithmic --units=si"; rrdtool_graph($graphfile, $rrd_options); if ($debug) { echo($rrd_cmd); } if (is_file($graphfile)) Nets this: [cid:4C488D23-BF57-49B9-BBBE-C2D43F0E17AF] I'm pretty happy with this, overall. For those who are curious, the ProCurve Switch 4108gl has a claimed capacity of: routing/switching capacity 36.6 Gbps Throughput up to 71.4 mpps Being able to tweak individual graphs to show logarithmically would probably be nice, just to save some CPU for graphs that don't really need it. -- Andrew Beals Cell: 913-787-7538 Desk: 913-948-8782 E-mail: ABeals(a)mersoft.com<mailto:ABeals@mersoft.com>

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Vyatta
by Adam Blackington 11 Jun '12

11 Jun '12

Any ideas on getting Vyatta recognized? We keep seeing it as a generic device, and can't seem to get it working. :-/ Running v2c communities. *Adam Blackington* | Solutions Engineer *LionLink* *Networks *| www.lionlink.net | AS54098 O: (571) 451.2300 | D: (571) 482.1490 | E: ablackington(a)lionlink.net

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Having troubles with BGP
by Sonny Kupka 11 Jun '12

11 Jun '12

Hello, I'm testing out Observium for use. I have run in to an issue where BGP for 3 Peers show up as down (They are shutdown in switch configuration) and 2 other peers on another switch is showing the same thing.. Peer is shutdown on the switch.. I can't find anywhere to check ignore to have the Observium ignore the peers which are down .. I tried searching all over for this information but thus far I haven't been successful. Thanks for you time! Sonny

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Pretty Graphs
by Adam Armstrong 08 Jun '12

08 Jun '12

Hi All, It occurs to me that one of the reasons we've managed to keep the project alive for 6 years is that everyone loves graphs. It's one thing to store a bunch of numbers and draw a line, but it's a totally different thing to craft a pretty graph from those numbers. If any of you have graphs or pages that look particularly good, feel free to email us a screenshot, it'd be nice to break up the deafening torrent of inane cat pictures, right? We might even use them on the screenshots page :) adam.

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Editing user passwords
by Chris Stone 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Just had a user that could not, for whatever reason, log into our Observium installation. So, I was going to reset the password, but editing the user, found nothing there to do that. Seems that there is no way for anyone other than each user to edit passwords after the account is initially created? And if that user cannot log in, they cannot do it. I ended up deleting the login, recreating it, and then re-linking the devices, ports and bills the user has access to. Did I miss something? Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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95 percentil Traffic Bill
by edouard alias 04 Jun '12

04 Jun '12

Hello, I might misundertood something but are traffic bills working, On an interface with a 100 Mbps 95 %ile, If I check the month view I see Monday this morning a 90 M rate peak On the 24 h view I see my 300 M peak on Monday morning. Is it right ? is due to having an average value from a more far sight on the month graph ? cf screen shot (sorry for my poor English)

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Cannot login after upgrade
by Charles Nadeau 01 Jun '12

01 Jun '12

Hello, On April 19th, I installed the last version of Observium from the Ubuntu instructions there http://www.observium.org/wiki/Ubuntu_SVN_Installation (I am using Ubuntu 10.10 server). Everything worked, I gathered a lot of interesting data about my devices, I was happy. Yesterday, I updated to the very latest version of Observium following the instructions there http://www.observium.org/wiki/Using_SVN#Upgrading_to_the_very_latest_version. After completing this upgrade, I can't log in Observium anymore and it doesn't poll the devices as specified in /etc/cron.d/observium. Today I installed the last stable release following http://www.observium.org/wiki/Using_SVN#Upgrading_to_a_specific_release_of_… that it would solve my 2 problems but they remain. What would be the simplest way to re-install everything without losing my data? Thanks! Charles -- Charles Nadeau Ph.D. http://charlesnadeau.blogspot.com/

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Cannot add "traffic bill".
by Niclas Tollgård 29 May '12

29 May '12

Hi, Anyone else having problems to add a "Traffic Bill"? When I press "Add Bill" the URL changes to http://observium/bills/add/ but nothing happens. Any ideas? Regards, Nic Tollgard

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Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) Support
by John Macleod 28 May '12

28 May '12

I manage numerous CUBE devices in my environment. I would like to use Observium for monitoring. The CUBE deployment is essentially an IP-IP voice gateway with two (or more) dial peers. Currently, they just show as they should as standard Cisco routers. Per the following link http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/ps6790/gatecont/ps5640/w… there are some applicable Cisco MIBS for monitoring the voice elements of these devices, they appear to use the same voice MIBs as other Cisco devices, such as the AS5xxx. I do not know if it is possible during discovery/polling to see if voice is enabled on the platform or not and show/hide the applicable polled data? I would have no issue opening up a CUBE device for testing if anyone is interested. Thanks, John

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