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Re: [Observium] Request: Add a device proactively
by Nate Mellendorf 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

I was going to do something simular, but thought I'd request a feature add. When I deploy my devices, I deploy them with a script that's been standardized / approved. Setting up DHCP would be possible, but it adds additional steps (prone to user error) and may not be possible for all Observium users. I can see why you may not want to add it, but I feel it would be a really nice time saver for future deployments. You configured Observium to say no, I wont poll you if I can't find you. I think this is a little bit of a grey area, where we know it'll be there eventually. Just my two cents. Thanks again Adam for the consideration. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 08:27:26 -0700 From: Robbie Wright <robbie(a)siuslawbroadband.com> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Request: Add a device proactively Message-ID: <CADTKZWZ8kbo7ZU8KAnbANzvh+udkEAaC9Bg05zm+V2AxqZZYmg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" The way we currently handle this, since all of the devices require dns, is to pre-provision the device on a dhcp network and set dns to the temporary dhcp address. We can do the full config on the on the device, ship it, and when it is in its new location (or while it is being shipped) update dns to the new static IP you pre-provisioned and then when it is plugged in, all should be good with the world. In theory. Most of the time. Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <https://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101 On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Matt Ladewig <matt(a)univoip.com> wrote: > I?m in favor of having an offline device add option. We would be able > to add the device to Observium as part of the normal provisioning > workflow, instead of post activation. > > > > *From:* observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] *On Behalf > Of *Adam Armstrong > *Sent:* Monday, October 19, 2015 8:10 AM > *To:* observium(a)observium.org > *Subject:* Re: [Observium] Request: Add a device proactively > > > > Hmm... I'm not sure about this. What do other people think? > > > > adam. > > On 19/10/2015 16:07:40, Nate Mellendorf < > nate.mellendorf(a)netgainhosting.com> wrote: > > Observium team, > > > > I just finished pre-deploying a few routers for a new client, and I?m > adding each one to our monitoring platforms in advance. > > As they?re offline, I?ll be unable to add them to Observium until they > respond to SNMP / ICMP. > > > > Is there a way I could add these proactively, and work around the > error that Observium pushes our by default? > > Ideally, I?d like to add them all now, disable their alerts, and > enable them when they?re deployed and connectivity is in place. > > > > I see you have a Ignore RRD checkbox on the add device page. I wonder > if we could have another that says, ?Add even though device is offline?? > > > > As always, thank you for your feedback and time on this. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > *Nate Mellendorf **|* *Network Analyst **|* *Netgain* > 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 > Phone: 320.251.4700 x183 *|* 877.797.4700 x183 > *www.NetgainHosting.com* <http://www.netgainhosting.com/> > > > ------------------------------ > > The information contained in this email message is for the designated > recipient only and may be privileged, confidential, and protected from > disclosure. If you have received this message in error, please notify > the sender immediately and delete the original. Any dissemination, > distribution, copying or other use of this message or any information > contained within is strictly prohibited. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > >

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Observium CE, housekeeping.php parameters
by Massimo.Sala＠asl.bergamo.it 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Hi ! Reading http://www.observium.org/docs/housekeeping/ -b Cleans up stale entries in the database. Sometimes entries get left behind when devices are removed, this will clean them up. It seems the switch is missing : /opt/observium/housekeeping.php Observium CE 0.15.6.6430 HouseKeeping USAGE: housekeeping.php [-Vyaserptd] [-A <age>] I don't know if the web page is outdated, or I have to update our installation. Please help ! best regards, Sala

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Re: [Observium] Request: Add a device proactively
by Massimo.Sala＠asl.bergamo.it 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Also for me it is useful to add a device even if "dead". If you prefer, add a switch to add_device.php --no-snmp don't check device online So only the wise guys will force it. best regards, Massimo

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 63, Issue 65
by Dudu Handelman 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

I think it's a solid idea. With other systems i made it in the past. its very useful while you are building a new rack you know that all is up at the end or even during the install. Sent from my Samsung device -------- Original message -------- From: observium-request(a)observium.org Date: 19/10/2015 18:15 (GMT+02:00) To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 63, Issue 65 Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to observium-request(a)observium.org You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Request: Add a device proactively (Adam Armstrong) 2. Re: Request: Add a device proactively (Matt Ladewig) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:09:45 +0100 From: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> To: "" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Request: Add a device proactively Message-ID: <ba9da84a-386c-4c21-86a7-fdc71ba98e44(a)getmailbird.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hmm... I'm not sure about this. What do other people think? adam. On 19/10/2015 16:07:40, Nate Mellendorf <nate.mellendorf(a)netgainhosting.com> wrote: Observium team, ? I just finished pre-deploying a few routers for a new client, and I?m adding each one to our monitoring platforms in advance. As they?re offline, I?ll be unable to add them to Observium until they respond to SNMP / ICMP. ? Is there a way I could add these proactively, and work around the error that Observium pushes our by default? Ideally, I?d like to add them all now, disable their alerts, and enable them when they?re deployed and connectivity is in place. ? I see you have a Ignore RRD checkbox on the add device page. I wonder if we could have another that says, ?Add even though device is offline?? ? As always, thank you for your feedback and time on this. ? ? Regards, ? Nate Mellendorf | Network Analyst | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320.251.4700 x183 | 877.797.4700 x183 www.NetgainHosting.com [http://www.netgainhosting.com/] The information contained in this email message is for the designated recipient only and may be privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure.? If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.? Any dissemination, distribution, copying or other use of this message or any information contained within is strictly prohibited.?????????????? ?

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DB Errors
by Eduardo Schoedler 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Hi, I have upgraded now to 6655 and I saw an db error. Updated to revision 6655. Observium 0.15.7.6655 Discovery -- Updating database/file schema 203 -> 204 ... (db) done (1 errors). -- Done Looking the logs/db.log file: [2015/07/09 21:46:19 -0300] poller.php(1595): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '73-4006-001exxxxxxxx' for key 'dev_vlan_mac'), Query: INSERT INTO `vlans_fdb` (`device_id`,`vlan_id`,`port_id`,`mac_address`,`fdb_status`) VALUES ('73','4006','17112','001exxxxxxxx','learned') [2015/07/09 21:46:19 -0300] poller.php(1595): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '73-4006-0022yyyyyyd3' for key 'dev_vlan_mac'), Query: INSERT INTO `vlans_fdb` (`device_id`,`vlan_id`,`port_id`,`mac_address`,`fdb_status`) VALUES ('73','4006','17112','0022yyyyyyd3','learned') ... [2015/07/15 11:49:52 -0300] discovery.php(12686): Failed dbQuery (#1071 - Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes), Query: ALTER TABLE `slas` DROP INDEX `unique_key`, ADD UNIQUE `unique_key` (`device_id`, `sla_mib`, `sla_index`, `sla_owner`); Can you verify, please? Thanks. -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Cannot see ospf or bgp related graphs on Nexus 9000 and MX 480
by George Philip 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Hi,I have installed Observium and have ospf and bgp related polling ,discovery parameters in the config.php file. However, I am unable to see the routing protocol related graph in the web page. Is there anything else that I need to do as I have these protocols running on the Nexus 9000 and MX480 router. Thanks,George

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Juniper QFX 10G ports discovered as 4.29G
by Aaron Finney 18 Oct '15

18 Oct '15

Just FYI, the 10G ports on a QFX 5100 running latest JunOS are being reported with a speed of 4.29Gbps, which I assume is likely the actual returned value being constrained by a 32-bit container? Not a critical thing for us to fix - I was actually disabling polling for all of our Juniper vcp stacks in Observium (most of them take > 300s to complete a polling cycle) but noticed this as I was going through them and figured I'd pass it along. Cheers, Aaron

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Re: [Observium] Tripplite PDUMNH20 (power strips)
by Ralph Pursifull 17 Oct '15

17 Oct '15

Great progress. Data now appears in RRD, just it’s off by 10 X. Plots show 1.1, correct answer is 11.0 Amps. When I look at the device with iReasoning MIB browser, using the UPS-MIB supplied by TrippLite, or the UPS-MIB from Observium, it says: integer: 11 See attached. Seems most of the MIB files mention units of “0.1 RMS Amp”. Not sure what that does. Any way to resolve this? upsOutputCurrent OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX NonNegativeInteger UNITS "0.1 RMS Amp" MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The present output current." ::= { upsOutputEntry 3 } From: Mike Stupalov [mailto:mike@stupalov.ru] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 4:23 PM To: Ralph Pursifull <ralph(a)palamida.com> Cc: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Tripplite PDUMNH20 (power strips) I see that Current output already discovered (with value 1.1): Discover sensor: current, pdu72, .1.3.6.1.2.1.33.1.4.4.1.3.1, upsOutputEntry.1, ups-mib, Output, SCALE: 0.1, LIMITS: (, , , ), CURRENT: 1.1 But I fix (clean) some incorrectly discovered sensors in r7105. On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Ralph Pursifull <ralph(a)palamida.com<mailto:ralph@palamida.com>> wrote: Here you go. Thanks for your help on this. From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] On Behalf Of Mike Stupalov Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 3:07 PM To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: Re: [Observium] Tripplite PDUMNH20 (power strips) Hi, observium already have mostly support for UPS-MIB including upsOutputCurrent. Seems as something wrong in snmpwalk output. Send me debug output for: ./discovery.php -d -m sensors -h <this_device> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 12:21 AM, Ralph Pursifull <ralph(a)palamida.com<mailto:ralph@palamida.com>> wrote: Hi Adam, Still have a problem with a fresh Professional install of “current” observium/trunk. Situation: For a Tripplite PDUMNH20 (power strip) we want to display total current. This will help us manage power consumption in our remote rack at the colo site, where we pay directly for amps. Latest “current” Observium page generated for PDUMNH20 attempts to display a “Current” plot in the upper right. Unfortunately all values are “0” with units of “–nan”. TrippLite Support tells me we want this data item from the UPS-MIB. Name: upsOutputCurrent.1 OID: .1.3.6.1.2.1.33.1.4.4.1.3.1 Data : 4 Descroption: The present output current. Please can you plot that one? What OID are you trying to plot? What is cost of fix? Happy to go that route. Ralph From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2015 1:04 PM To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: Re: [Observium] Tripplite PDUMNH20 (power strips) Hi Ralph, Its possible this is already fixed in the current subscription edition. If not, you have two options (both of which require having a subscription!): Hope we fix it once you confirm its not fixed in subscription. Pay someone for a couple of hours work to fix it. The choice between the two is usually based on how much you want the fix :) I vaguely recall some triplite stuff changing in the recent past, so chances are it's fixed already. I don't have any of those devices though, so can't say for certain with looking into it a little further. Adam. Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On 8 October 2015 8:37:53 pm Ralph Pursifull <ralph(a)palamida.com<mailto:ralph@palamida.com>> wrote: Hi. New to this list, so please excuse if I break etiquette. For couple years we happily used Observium to monitor and track current through our Tripplite PDUMNH20. Thanks to you all for Observium. Life was OK, but the integrated Tripplite SNMPWEBCARDs had problems from time to time. Tripplite rolled out new firmware (currently 12.06.0065) and that issue was resolved. (SNMPWEBCARD is a component used in many of their products.) Unfortunately, now current plots as a flat line at 0. I’ve worked with Tripplite support to verify some data is present with snmpwalk. But probably not where Observium expects to find it. My guess is the firmware change switched to a new mib. I’ve tried to delete devices, update Observium and recreate… no luck. Tripplite currently provides these two MIBs http://www.tripplite.com/shared/software/Firmware/UPS-MIB-Definitions.txt http://www.tripplite.com/shared/software/Firmware/Tripp-Lite-MIB-Definition… Would be happy to switch to Professional, buy support, whatever is needed to restore ability to plot Current over time from Tripplite PDUMNH20. Any good advice? _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium%40observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium<http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium> _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Mike Stupalov http://observium.org/

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Tripplite PDUMNH20 (power strips)
by Ralph Pursifull 17 Oct '15

17 Oct '15

Hi. New to this list, so please excuse if I break etiquette. For couple years we happily used Observium to monitor and track current through our Tripplite PDUMNH20. Thanks to you all for Observium. Life was OK, but the integrated Tripplite SNMPWEBCARDs had problems from time to time. Tripplite rolled out new firmware (currently 12.06.0065) and that issue was resolved. (SNMPWEBCARD is a component used in many of their products.) Unfortunately, now current plots as a flat line at 0. I've worked with Tripplite support to verify some data is present with snmpwalk. But probably not where Observium expects to find it. My guess is the firmware change switched to a new mib. I've tried to delete devices, update Observium and recreate... no luck. Tripplite currently provides these two MIBs http://www.tripplite.com/shared/software/Firmware/UPS-MIB-Definitions.txt http://www.tripplite.com/shared/software/Firmware/Tripp-Lite-MIB-Definition… Would be happy to switch to Professional, buy support, whatever is needed to restore ability to plot Current over time from Tripplite PDUMNH20. Any good advice?

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Add Bill to Normal User & Password Change for normal User
by Basile Bluntschli 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

Hi All 1) I no longer can add a bill to a normal user. While the dropdown menu is there, I can select the bill, but it does not get saved by clicking on ADD. 2) Where is a normal User able to change its password? URL? Running 7097 Thanks a lot Basile

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