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Congrats Observium Team!!!
by Adriaan Smuts 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Hi Guys, Just wanted to congratulate the Observium team for revision 5000! Observium has come a long way and I'm sure we are all looking forward to see the product grow and evolve! Once again congrats to Adam and his team and thanks for the awesome app! Regards Adriaan Smuts Systems Administrator [file:///C:\Users\adriaan.CORP\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures\WebAfrica_Files\signature_logo.jpg] ________________________________ Direct Line +27 21 464 9565 Reception 086 000 9500 Website www.webafrica.co.za<http://www.webafrica.co.za/>

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APC InRow Cooling support
by Bruce Winters 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

I would like to graph the air temp and air flow in these in row cooling units. I see some APC ups support but not these units. Any pointers on how I would go about it? I am willing to do the leg work. I just don't know how to start. Here is the info on the unit. http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=ACRC500&tab… Bruce

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CentOS authentication timeout
by Teixeira, Mike 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Hello, I started to have an intermittent issue with users being forced to login when they browse the webpage. I have the timeout settings defined in php.ini: session.use_cookies = 1 session.use_only_cookies = 1 session.cookie_lifetime = 259200 session.cookie_path = / session.cookie_domain = session.cookie_httponly = Socket timeouts are set to the following in php.ini: default_socket_timeout = 259200 I did have a lifetime cookie set to 0 and socket_timeout to 14400. Users that had the issue had a cookie. My authentication mechanism is AD-LDAP. Any other advice on where to look to find out why users are being forced to login intermittently? I have had a hard time tracking this issue down since it is so intermittent. Thanks, Mike

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Persistence of data in Observium
by Teixeira, Mike 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Hello, Recently our network team upgraded one of our devices. Upon doing so some of the ifIndexes changed on the device. So we lost some history on some of the ports where the ifindex changed. Another situation, we use the port description mapping for tracking transit, peering, core ports. We moved a peer from one switch to another in one of our ports to upgrade the capacity. When we did that we lost the history in the aggregate graph because the old port doesn't have the port description anymore denoting it is a peer. Any tips on how to keep history on ports in those situations? I was thinking of outputting the data to a separate RRD or database. But, then I don't get to use the awesome observium interface to view that data. Thanks, Mike

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Re: [Observium] Transit link not working
by Scott Brawner 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Looks like the ifAlias text column in the ports table is limited to 64b. Is there a reason for that? Thanks, Scott Brawner Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410 From: Scott Brawner Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 11:32 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: Transit link not working On the front page I've enabled the overall <class> traffic today. But when I click on the Transit Graph to drill down to iftype/type=transit/, I get "None Found". I have 2 ports on 2 different routers set to type Transit with the following strings in ifAlias: Router 1: <https://sd-observium01.kratos.us/device/device=1/tab=port/port=1/> GigabitEthernet0/0/0 Transit: [200Mbit] AVPN (13979) {ATT-BMEC.959625 - Vz-13.KRGN.57 Router 2: <https://sd-observium01.kratos.us/device/device=2/tab=port/port=13/> GigabitEthernet0/0/0 Transit: [200Mbit] AVPN (13979) {ATT-BKEC.946484 - Vz-46.KFGS.30 Looks like they get cut off too.. What's the string max for those? Best regards, Scott Brawner IS Manager - Infrastructure Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc. o. 843-308-2364 m. 843-814-3912 Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410 For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken

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Transit link not working
by Scott Brawner 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

On the front page I've enabled the overall <class> traffic today. But when I click on the Transit Graph to drill down to iftype/type=transit/, I get "None Found". I have 2 ports on 2 different routers set to type Transit with the following strings in ifAlias: Router 1: <https://sd-observium01.kratos.us/device/device=1/tab=port/port=1/> GigabitEthernet0/0/0 Transit: [200Mbit] AVPN (13979) {ATT-BMEC.959625 - Vz-13.KRGN.57 Router 2: <https://sd-observium01.kratos.us/device/device=2/tab=port/port=13/> GigabitEthernet0/0/0 Transit: [200Mbit] AVPN (13979) {ATT-BKEC.946484 - Vz-46.KFGS.30 Looks like they get cut off too.. What's the string max for those? Best regards, Scott Brawner IS Manager - Infrastructure Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc. o. 843-308-2364 m. 843-814-3912 Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410 For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken

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Observium over https
by Scott Brawner 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

Is there anything I need to keep in mind when I switch the observium web server over to ssl besides just the standard apache stuff? Best regards, Scott Brawner

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Billing
by Scott Brawner 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

Possible to put billing on front page? DO I have to code it into the frontpage default php? Best regards, Scott Brawner IS Manager - Infrastructure Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc. o. 843-308-2364 m. 843-814-3912 Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410 For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken

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Ping settings don't apply when set in config.php
by Nathan Phelan 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

Hi Guys, I've just updated our version to the subscription one and found several of our devices now show in Observium as going up and down. After a big of digging it looks like this is because their latency is around the 50ms mark and they fluctuate up and down around 5ms so the default ping timeout times out. I tried setting the following in config.php but the behaviour did not change. Ping Settings $config['ping']['timeout'] = 500; # timeout in ms $config['ping']['retries'] = 6; # how many times to retry the query I added a bit of code to the debug to print out the values of $timeout and $retries in the isPingable function and found that it didn't matter what was set in config.php the values would always end up at $timeout=50 and $retries=1. I set them manually in the function just above $sleep and it kicked in and worked and the up/down notifications behaved as they used to. Have I goofed up the config.php somehow (I used the same as above) or is something else NQR somewhere? All other options in config.php seem to work and php -l config.php returns "No syntax errors detected in config.php" Cheers, Nathan Phelan

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NFS application monitor
by Tom Taylor 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

Howdy, Does anyone have any info on how to set up the NFS application monitoring? I've taken a read through of the install docs and there's no mention of the NFS monitor. Any ideas ? -TT Tom Taylor Head of Engineering, Chicago T +1 312 605 8900 [http://www.themill.com/logos/MillLogo.png] The Mill 54 West Hubbard Street, Suite 502, Chicago, IL, 60654 themill.com | <http://www.themill.com/> themillblog.com | <http://www.themillblog.com/> @millchannel | <https://twitter.com/millchannel> facebook.com/millchannel<http://www.facebook.com/millchannel>

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