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S Dnem Rozhdeniya!
by Rob VanHooren 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

and *nobody* took a moment to say it yesterday? better late than never :-) cheers, R. > On Mar 6, 2014, at 5:09 AM, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > > 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: Graphing Apple Airport traffic (Adam Armstrong) > 2. Re: Graphing Apple Airport traffic (Tom Laermans) > 3. Re: Port tracking issue with IPv6 (Maxence BITTERLI) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:50:44 -0600 > From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Graphing Apple Airport traffic > Message-ID: <15b4e7a93cae33d4399a815bbd24074e(a)memetic.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > > Depends upon how it's done, probably not with the stuff being dropped > into "graphs", but if it's written in a sensible fashion I can probably > move it to a better place. > > adam. > >> On 2014-03-05 19:57, Steve Evans wrote: >> Some hacking later, I have each of my airport base stations reporting >> the WiFi stats seen by their clients thus: >> >> Is this of interest for the greater good? >> >> Steve >> >> On 23 Feb 2014, at 22:46, Steve Evans <Steve(a)SCEvans.com> wrote: >> >> Tracking roaming could be very useful for understanding where wifi >> access points are needed. Much of the power in data is the associations >> between it. Several years ago I authored the SUN-PLATFORM-MIB as an >> extension to the ENTITY-MIB. That was all about associations. >> >> Steve >> >> On 23 Feb 2014, at 21:55, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: >> >> On 2014-02-23 14:50, Steve Evans wrote: >> One challenge, if graphing the wirelessClientsTable, would be the fact >> that as the clients came and went their corresponding entries in the >> tables would come and go. There would therefore be gaps in the >> recording of packets associated with these nodes. That's a fairly >> simple concept, but how would you manage roaming whereby a client hops >> between base stations? Would you try to tie these together so that a >> trace of traffic associated with such a client, irrespective of base >> station would be available? I think that decision might shape any >> framework; ie would it be base station or client centric? Of course >> more than one view may be desirable. >> >> And you see why no one has written any software to do this before... >> >> I try to stay away from recording any history for transient things, >> we'll store a count and sometimes a snapshot of the state, but more >> than that usually not. >> >> Though, it depends how useful it would be in the end. We do store >> history for MAC accounting, and this is vaguely similar. >> >> adam. >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 09:00:28 +0100 > From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Graphing Apple Airport traffic > Message-ID: <53182B1C.3040806(a)powersource.cx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > The current very simple "wifi client count" was/is also under > graphs/wireless, which is probably why it's there in Steve's patch. :-) > >> On 06/03/2014 03:50, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> >> Depends upon how it's done, probably not with the stuff being dropped >> into "graphs", but if it's written in a sensible fashion I can >> probably move it to a better place. >> >> adam. >> >>> On 2014-03-05 19:57, Steve Evans wrote: >>> Some hacking later, I have each of my airport base stations reporting >>> the WiFi stats seen by their clients thus: >>> >>> Is this of interest for the greater good? >>> >>> Steve >>> >>> On 23 Feb 2014, at 22:46, Steve Evans <Steve(a)SCEvans.com> wrote: >>> >>> Tracking roaming could be very useful for understanding where wifi >>> access points are needed. Much of the power in data is the >>> associations between it. Several years ago I authored the >>> SUN-PLATFORM-MIB as an extension to the ENTITY-MIB. That was all >>> about associations. >>> >>> Steve >>> >>> On 23 Feb 2014, at 21:55, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: >>> >>> On 2014-02-23 14:50, Steve Evans wrote: >>> One challenge, if graphing the wirelessClientsTable, would be the fact >>> that as the clients came and went their corresponding entries in the >>> tables would come and go. There would therefore be gaps in the >>> recording of packets associated with these nodes. That's a fairly >>> simple concept, but how would you manage roaming whereby a client hops >>> between base stations? Would you try to tie these together so that a >>> trace of traffic associated with such a client, irrespective of base >>> station would be available? I think that decision might shape any >>> framework; ie would it be base station or client centric? Of course >>> more than one view may be desirable. >>> >>> And you see why no one has written any software to do this before... >>> >>> I try to stay away from recording any history for transient things, >>> we'll store a count and sometimes a snapshot of the state, but more >>> than that usually not. >>> >>> Though, it depends how useful it would be in the end. We do store >>> history for MAC accounting, and this is vaguely similar. >>> >>> adam. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> observium mailing list >>> observium(a)observium.org >>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> observium mailing list >>> observium(a)observium.org >>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:11:59 +0100 > From: Maxence BITTERLI <maxence(a)definima.com> > To: observium <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Port tracking issue with IPv6 > Message-ID: > <CAN1+dXc-STXEws4p0vdduNKD=Hn0DZ4yRL3iX561aXpnYMw_pg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I didn't change anything on my observium server, I got no traffic since I > added these servers. > ls -l /opt/observium/rrd/s29.inter.net/port-* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-1.rrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-2.rrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-3.rrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-4.rrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-5.rrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-6.rrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-7.rrd > > I added my poller output with debug option. > > Thanks for your answer. > > > Maxence > > > 2014-03-05 12:36 GMT+01:00 Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx>: > >> Permission problem on your RRD file? Run poller with debug option to see >> what's going on. >> >> v6 is certainly not related. >> >> >> On 03/05/2014 10:17 AM, Maxence BITTERLI wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On some machines (debian 6 & 7) I don't have any output of my bandwidth. >> Port information are correct, I can see correct MAC and all IP address >> associated to this port but my graph are empty. >> >> Poller output for eth0 : >> [ifIndex] => 4 >> [ifDescr] => eth0 >> [ifType] => ethernetCsmacd >> [ifMtu] => 1500 >> [ifSpeed] => 1000000000 >> [ifPhysAddress] => 8:x0:xe:xc:ex:xe >> [ifAdminStatus] => up >> [ifOperStatus] => up >> [ifLastChange] => 0:0:00:00.00 >> [ifInOctets] => 529940242 >> [ifInUcastPkts] => 225555807 >> [ifInNUcastPkts] => 0 >> [ifInDiscards] => 0 >> [ifInErrors] => 0 >> [ifInUnknownProtos] => 0 >> [ifOutOctets] => 1075923292 >> [ifOutUcastPkts] => 280183099 >> [ifOutNUcastPkts] => 0 >> [ifOutDiscards] => 0 >> [ifOutErrors] => 0 >> [ifOutQLen] => 0 >> [ifSpecific] => zeroDotZero >> [ifName] => eth0 >> [ifInMulticastPkts] => 0 >> [ifInBroadcastPkts] => 0 >> [ifOutMulticastPkts] => 0 >> [ifOutBroadcastPkts] => 0 >> [ifHCInOctets] => 56364515090 >> [ifHCInUcastPkts] => 225555807 >> [ifHCInMulticastPkts] => 0 >> [ifHCInBroadcastPkts] => 0 >> [ifHCOutOctets] => 275953830236 >> [ifHCOutUcastPkts] => 280183099 >> [ifHCOutMulticastPkts] => 0 >> [ifHCOutBroadcastPkts] => 0 >> [ifHighSpeed] => 1000 >> [ifPromiscuousMode] => false >> [ifConnectorPresent] => true >> [ifAlias] => >> [ifCounterDiscontinuityTime] => 0:0:00:00.00 >> >> Linux 3.10.9-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64 (Debian 7) >> This interface support IPv4 & IPv6 and I actually have some traffic on >> it. >> >> At first I thougth it was a probleme with IPv4 + v6 but I also got an >> old machine with IPv4 only and this machine got empty graph too. >> >> Any idea to solve this ? >> >> Maxence >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >

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Polling Taking Longer than 5 minutes for a few devices
by Chip Pleasants 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

I have a few devices that take longer than 5 minutes to poll. Looking at the polling information Observium provides it reports 999.99s for two of the three and the third one reports 975.37s under Last Polled. I believe the result of taking to long o poll is the breaks I see in my graphs for only these three devices. These boxes have about 150 vlan interfaces and are fully populated 6509s. I have adjusted the poller-wrapper.py to 10 and $config['snmp']['max-rep'] = 10 right now. A 4 processor VM averages about 60 cpu utilization constantly. The Server's Disk IO Ops/sec average is about 110. Today I only have 52 out of 1300 devices loaded into it. Any suggestions to speed up the polling on these few boxes or is the only solution add another polling server and do odd even or something of that nature. Maybe there is another issue I'm not seeing? Thanks in advance for any assistance/direction. -Chip

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F5 Load Balancers
by Adam Mills 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Has any done any development on monitoring of F5s? Around monitoring of VIPs, conns per second, pool members, etc? -- Adam Mills Network Engineer Email: amills(a)riotgames.com Mobile: +1(702)595-2188 Skype: thegeneralmills IGN: GeneralMills (NA/OCE/LAs/BR), RiotGeneral(EUN/EUW) [image: Description: Description: Description: Description: cid:image003.png@01CCBFC7.77B37AF0] www.riotgames.com www.leagueoflegends.com

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overall_traffic on front page, showing peering when peering is disabled.
by Matt Ladewig 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

I have transit, customer, and core traffic interfaces descriptions setup and working. No peering interfaces have been defined. Peering interfaces menu items are disabled with $config['int_peering'] = 0; However, when overall_traffic is added to the $config['frontpage']['order'] array, "Overall Peering Traffic Today" and "Overall Transit & Peering Traffic This Month" headers are displayed with broken image placeholders that link back to the url/iftype/type=peering/ and url/iftype/type=peering%2Ctransit/ respectively. Not a big issue, but from a consistency standpoint, it would make sense to disable the overall peering traffic views if $config['int_peering'] = 0; is set. Matt

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mysqld.sock error?
by Luis Quintana 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

I have been recently seeing this error pop up, whenever trying to login to my observium instance, and was wondering if anyone had experienced this before. This is an install I did back around October of 2013 and other then expanding the hdd, a month or so ago, I havent really messed with the settings (the first time i saw this was about a week and a half ago or so). After searching on google a little bit, it seems like the socket trying to be leveraged is at location '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' yet when i do a search for '-type s', i only see '/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'. The '/etc/mysql/my.cnf' file already lists "socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock" though. Should I just modify the my.cnf file to include '/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'? This is the error I get: MySQL Error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111)

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observium not showing mac addressses Cisco Switch WS-C3750X-48P-S
by techuser6＠gmail.com 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Problem: I have a Cisco Switch that is not showing the MAC addresses in Observium. I have configured SNMP as according to the IPV4 instructions on the main observium website. My other Cisco devices are showing MAC address information fine. I can do a show mac address-table and everything appears when SSH into the switch. Can someone please advise what I am missing or how to get observium to start showing the MAC addresses of this device? Model number : WS-C3750X-48P-S * 1 54 WS-C3750X-48P 12.2(55)SE C3750E-UNIVERSALK9-M Thanks

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Observium as inventory mgmt?
by Daniel Kasen 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Hello all, I've been playing around for the last week and want to say really nice work thus far. But I was wondering if anyone is using this as an inventory system that would be comparable to racktables? Basically allow the user to create a table with software versions acquired through the Unix agent module (not the rpm plugin as this ignores tar installs). From everything I've seen so far it looks like this is more focused on adding custom graphs and not simple text. Have I missed something obvious here, or is this an improper use of the tool on my part? *Daniel Kasen | Data Center Operations Engineer*

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Storage alerts
by Johnathon Voegeli 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Is it possible to create an alert based on storage % yet? I've tried several ways and failed in a fiery crash. -JV

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Port tracking issue with IPv6
by Maxence BITTERLI 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Hi, On some machines (debian 6 & 7) I don't have any output of my bandwidth. Port information are correct, I can see correct MAC and all IP address associated to this port but my graph are empty. Poller output for eth0 : [ifIndex] => 4 [ifDescr] => eth0 [ifType] => ethernetCsmacd [ifMtu] => 1500 [ifSpeed] => 1000000000 [ifPhysAddress] => 8:x0:xe:xc:ex:xe [ifAdminStatus] => up [ifOperStatus] => up [ifLastChange] => 0:0:00:00.00 [ifInOctets] => 529940242 [ifInUcastPkts] => 225555807 [ifInNUcastPkts] => 0 [ifInDiscards] => 0 [ifInErrors] => 0 [ifInUnknownProtos] => 0 [ifOutOctets] => 1075923292 [ifOutUcastPkts] => 280183099 [ifOutNUcastPkts] => 0 [ifOutDiscards] => 0 [ifOutErrors] => 0 [ifOutQLen] => 0 [ifSpecific] => zeroDotZero [ifName] => eth0 [ifInMulticastPkts] => 0 [ifInBroadcastPkts] => 0 [ifOutMulticastPkts] => 0 [ifOutBroadcastPkts] => 0 [ifHCInOctets] => 56364515090 [ifHCInUcastPkts] => 225555807 [ifHCInMulticastPkts] => 0 [ifHCInBroadcastPkts] => 0 [ifHCOutOctets] => 275953830236 [ifHCOutUcastPkts] => 280183099 [ifHCOutMulticastPkts] => 0 [ifHCOutBroadcastPkts] => 0 [ifHighSpeed] => 1000 [ifPromiscuousMode] => false [ifConnectorPresent] => true [ifAlias] => [ifCounterDiscontinuityTime] => 0:0:00:00.00 Linux 3.10.9-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64 (Debian 7) This interface support IPv4 & IPv6 and I actually have some traffic on it. At first I thougth it was a probleme with IPv4 + v6 but I also got an old machine with IPv4 only and this machine got empty graph too. Any idea to solve this ? Maxence

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by Rendani Nenzhelele 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

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