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Retain historic data
by Mohammed Kokani 02 Jun '20

02 Jun '20

Dear Experts, Hope all is well with you. Need your valuable advice, I have the below situation. # Physical DC movement done. # Change in Transit provider and change in IP address of AR's. # Polling was disabled before the physical move for AR's and N/W devices. # After physical move by mistake polling was enabled for the AR's, this has caused the loss of historic data captured for AR's by overwriting new data. Question : Can we retain the old historic data of specific devices by copying the whole device RRD folder from backup, if not is there any other method. *Thanks & Regards* *Mohammed Suhail | System Engineer* *Tel : +1-888-853-7733* PGP Fingerprint : 026B 6CEB CC08 152D 9372 0F51 DDFB 6758 6924 FBCC [image: cid:image016.png@01D321AA.4A00A6F0]

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Version 20.4.10371 (27th May 2020) is 10371 revisions ahead.
by Peter Derissen 27 May '20

27 May '20

Hi All, Today we had some issue's with our server. Upgraded the distro to ubuntu 18.04 new php new apache2. Got everything back to work but getting this message on the top left side of the browser. Anyway to fix this? There is a newer revision of Observium available! Version 20.4.10371 (27th May 2020) is 10371 revisions ahead. Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Derissen Eurofiber Nederland Network Engineer Safariweg 25-31 +31 (0)6 11587110 3605 MA Maarssen [cid:image001.png@01D6342B.46244AF0]<https://www.eurofiber.nl/> Volg ons op Twitter<https://twitter.com/Eurofiber> | Linkedin<https://www.linkedin.com/company/eurofiber> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/eurofiberNL/> | Youtube<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6DavgEm7-ktAD8_Co_qnMA> Wilt u op de hoogte blijven van technische ontwikkelingen aan ons netwerk, nieuwe ICT ontwikkelingen en klantervaringen? Meld u dan aan voor onze maandelijkse nieuwsbrief<https://marketing.eurofiber.com/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/15570/p/p…>. [cid:image002.jpg@01D6342B.46244AF0]<https://www.eurofiber.nl/> ******** IMPORTANT NOTICE ******** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure and it is intended only for the addressees. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any copying, distribution or other use of information contained in this e-mail (and its attachments) is not allowed. If you have received this e-mail in error, kindly notify us immediately by telephone or e-mail and delete the message (including any attachments) from your system. Please note that e-mail messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be subject of unauthorized interception or other interference without the knowledge of sender or recipient. Eurofiber only sends and receives e-mails on the basis that Eurofiber is not responsible for any such computer viruses, corruption or other interference or any consequences thereof. Eurofiber Nederland B.V. is registered in the Chamber of Commerce of Amsterdam with number 34134377, VAT number NL 8088.51.524 B01. Eurofiber N.V. has its registered office at Belgicastraat 5 bus 7, 1930 Zaventem and is registered under national number 0435.204.851.

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Observium's API documentation
by Ahmed Rahal 25 May '20

25 May '20

Hi, I am planning to use the observium API and found the documentation at https://docs.observium.org/api/. I am interested in updating the alerting rules through the API, is that feasible ? And if so, is there documentation for it ? TIA, -- Ahmed Rahal Administrateur de Systèmes / Systems Administrator *Fibrenoire* - www.fibrenoire.ca A: 550 , avenue Beaumont, bureau 320, Montréal (Québec) H3N 1V1 arahal(a)fibrenoire.ca Twitter: @fibrenoire

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Barracuda Message Archiver mibs
by Tony Guadagno 19 May '20

19 May '20

Hi, i added my archiver to observium and it is identified but only with the most basic info. i have the mibs attached, could you please add these in to observium? thanks Tony

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Reoccuring Scheduled Maintenance
by Mark Sanchez 15 May '20

15 May '20

Hey Adam & Team, We have a use case for a group of devices to not alert on them outside of 9am-5pm. Leveraging the API, can we setup a crontab, to achieve a recurring maintenance window for a particular group? Mark Sanchez // Firewall Engineer II *deepwatch* // *Advancing Security Operations* *Mobile:* 716.418.5420 *Office**:* 855.303.3033 Website <https://deepwatch.com> // Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/deepwatchsec> // Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/deepwatch_sec/> // LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepwatchsec/> // Twitter <https://twitter.com/deepwatch_sec> Disclaimer The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast Ltd, an innovator in Software as a Service (SaaS) for business. Providing a safer and more useful place for your human generated data. Specializing in; Security, archiving and compliance. To find out more visit the Mimecast website.

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Ignore "Status" sensors
by Ryan, Spencer J. 11 May '20

11 May '20

It would be awesome if we could turn alerting for individual "Status Indicators" off the same way we can for normal sensors. We have a few problematic hosts with sensor issues, for example a dead RAID battery on a machine that is getting decomm'd in a few weeks. Unfortunately this means that every day (re-alert interval) we get alarms for these hosts for the same issues. I'd love to be able to just turn those specific Indicators off, without having to remove the whole host from that Alert Checker, as we do still want to know if anything else is wrong with the box. Same with the reoccurring alerts, we want to leave those on for all devices. ________________________________ Spencer J. Ryan | Manager, Technology and Infrastructure Miller Canfield T +1.313.496.7979 ________________________________

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 118, Issue 2
by shaun＠sbnetworks.co.za 07 May '20

07 May '20

Hi Ahmed Thank you very very much for your response. Is there perhaps an online document or manual you can refer me to in order to get the actual steps / commands for achieving the backups you have pointed out? Excuse my lack of understanding this, I am very new to Linux distributions and deployments. Thanking you in advance -----Original Message----- From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: Tuesday, 05 May 2020 1:00 PM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 118, Issue 2 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. Observium Configuration & DataBase BAckup & Restore (shaun(a)sbnetworks.co.za) 2. Re: Observium Configuration & DataBase BAckup & Restore (Ahmed Rahal) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 20:09:54 +0200 From: <shaun(a)sbnetworks.co.za> To: <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Observium Configuration & DataBase BAckup & Restore Message-ID: <005301d6223f$36c85130$a458f390$(a)sbnetworks.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi all I hope and trust everyone is keeping well and safe during this time. Can anyone please assist me, I am trying to make a backup of my Observium installation to move it to a "bigger" system / machine, I installed the application to see how it worked and to test features, needless to say that I love it, and have subsequently set it up to monitor my entire WISP network. However, I unfortunately did not pay much attention to the system's specifications, as it was not initially intended to be a permanent deployment, not knowing what to expect or that it would turn out to be such a wonderful tool. Please could you advise on a step by step procedure to enable me to make a full backup of the installation / database / configs in order to migrate it to a more future proof system, bearing in mind that my Linux experience is very limited. Your assistance will be greatly appreciated Stay safe Regards, Shaun

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Device group membership in alerts?
by Ryan, Spencer J. 05 May '20

05 May '20

I've got a usecase to have the group names that a device is a member of passed down to the alerts, specifically Pagerduty. On the PD side, I can route incidents based on arbitrary details, and if I had group membership I could say "If device.groups contains "Network" route to XXX", instead of having to build a unique alert check for every group. The mocked up SQL query is SELECT group_name FROM groups WHERE group_id IN (SELECT group_id FROM group_table WHERE entity_type = 'device' AND entity_id = ?); Any chance that information can be made available? I'm happy to write the code if needed. ________________________________ Spencer J. Ryan | Manager, Technology and Infrastructure Miller Canfield T +1.313.496.7979 ________________________________

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Observium Configuration & DataBase BAckup & Restore
by shaun＠sbnetworks.co.za 04 May '20

04 May '20

Hi all I hope and trust everyone is keeping well and safe during this time. Can anyone please assist me, I am trying to make a backup of my Observium installation to move it to a "bigger" system / machine, I installed the application to see how it worked and to test features, needless to say that I love it, and have subsequently set it up to monitor my entire WISP network. However, I unfortunately did not pay much attention to the system's specifications, as it was not initially intended to be a permanent deployment, not knowing what to expect or that it would turn out to be such a wonderful tool. Please could you advise on a step by step procedure to enable me to make a full backup of the installation / database / configs in order to migrate it to a more future proof system, bearing in mind that my Linux experience is very limited. Your assistance will be greatly appreciated Stay safe Regards, Shaun

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SNMP Max Repetitons enabled - some modules takes longer time to poll
by Kent Johannessen 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

Hello, We recently enabled max-rep to improve our Observium installation. And it did reduce polling time for most modules. But we see some module had significant increases. Specifically the poller modules for cisco eigrp, cef and cbqos and the bgp poller also seems to have increased somewhat. Has anyone seen this behavior ? Where should be begin to look? NOTICE: Please immediately e-mail back to sender if you are not the intended recipient. Thereafter delete the e-mail along with any attachments without making copies. The sender reserves all rights of privilege, confidentiality and copyright.

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