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IPMI values from server running VMWare
by Niclas Tollgård 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Until recently I've been able to retrieve values using IPMI on my servers running ESXi. This option now seems to have been removed? It's still available for my servers running Linux but not ESXi. Any specific reason for this? Is it something I can turn back on again? I'm thinking it's a "hardware" thing and not dependant on the OS it's running. Regards, Nic

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Mailing alert system
by tech8.otelafrica 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Hey guys, Could you assist as to how we can set up alerts. I pretty much want the system to send an email when a device goes down. How would I go about setting this up? Regards Anton

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New alerts
by Johnathon Voegeli 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

I am awful at using this new alerting system. Can someone give me a hint on how to setup a temperature alert? Just the basics and I'll work from there. -JV

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Re: [Observium] LDAP Auth not able to use level 10
by Jeff Courtade 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Use the hostname ui.tadj1.adjuggler.net. -- Thanks, Jeff Courtade Director of Systems Engineering Adjuggler Inc http://www.adjuggler.com M: 240.507.6116 -------- Original message -------- From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> Date:02/20/2014 5:47 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] LDAP Auth not able to use level 10 Hi Rutger, The problem has been seen here on the list a few times already, but unfortunately I can't replicate it. :[ I presume access to your Observium install is out of the question? Tom On 20/02/2014 20:29, Rutger Truyers wrote: Hi, I've set up the ldap authentication with AD. The LDAP binding , Search and Authentication is all succesfull. even the group matching is perfect. But I'm not able to provide the group a level 10 authentication. When authenticating the user in the correct group can't see any device. Greetings. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Classifying port types
by Scott Brawner 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

As an aside, it would be awesome to be able to assign port roles via the web interface instead of depending on the snmp attribute. Thanks, Scott Brawner Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410 From: Scott Brawner Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 11:45 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: Classifying port types I still can't get the classified port types (transit/peering/customer) to work properly. The main graph on the home page works but when I click the link, I get Total Graph for ports of type : Transit None found. Same with Peering. I have the text 'transit' and/or 'peering' in the description for the ports. It appears to be sort of working. just would like that drill down to work. 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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Classifying port types
by Scott Brawner 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

I still can't get the classified port types (transit/peering/customer) to work properly. The main graph on the home page works but when I click the link, I get Total Graph for ports of type : Transit None found. Same with Peering. I have the text 'transit' and/or 'peering' in the description for the ports. It appears to be sort of working. just would like that drill down to work. 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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MRV LX console servers
by Rutger Bevaart 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Hello list, I have a couple of MRV LX4000 console servers that I added to Observium. I do not care much about port utilisation but it is nice to know if one drops off the radar and get an alert. However, the boxes are not recognised by Observium and get this ugly question mark icon in the device list. A quick Google did not reveal anything related to these boxes and Observium, did anyone play around with adding these devices and get them recognised properly? They basically run a BusyBox Linux... Regards, Rutger

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strange numbers from nortel switch
by Tom De Puysseleyr 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Hi I'm trying to setup Observium to poll all of our switches, and so far I just love it. Great job guys! I hope to convince the management to subscribe soon, but for now we'll have to do with the community version. Let me try to explain my issue. I am polling a dual stack of Nortel Baystack 5510-24T switches using snmp v2c. All ports of unit 1 and ports 1 - 6 of unit 2 look fine. The graphics (bits/sec) for port 7 to 24 of unit 2 are strange though. Port 7 is not used, no device is connected to it at all. The average traffic according to the graphs is around 30Gbit/s. All other ports after port 7 show the exact same numbers. So first I tried to reset all port statistics on the switch. The graphs showed 0 bits/s for a few minutes, but then after let's say 30 minutes it shows a current bandwidth of 8Gbit/s. I tried deleting the device from Observium and added it again, but it seems that all counters are still there. When I look at the port using telnet, all counters are 0. I know that this switch is not in the supported devices list, but as far as I know the default snmp pollings should provide correct numbers for bandwidth statistics, no? Any help is greatly appreciated! Regards, Tom De Puysseleyr

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Adding Bind9 stats into Observium for trending/graphing?
by Ricardo M Meleschi 23 Feb '14

23 Feb '14

Hello, I do not see a away to search the mailing list so please excuse me if this question has been asked before. I've recently (as in the last 3 or 4 days) began configuring Observium for the purpose of getting some good trending data out of my bind servers. I noticed in the demo, there is an APP drop down, and BIND is listed as one of the supported applications. I am having a difficult time figuring out how to get Observium to monitor my bind servers however. I do get LOTS of great throughput data and cpu usage so that will be very helpful. I have installed the bind9-snmp setup from bayour.com and am abe to read bind statistics using SNMP, but I have no idea how to get these values to be polled and graphed by Observium. If setting up the bind9-stats through SNMP is not the proper way to graph the bind stats, can someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks, Ricardo Meleschi

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Need help getting the new alert system to send mail
by Thomas Raabo - Zitcom A/S 22 Feb '14

22 Feb '14

It never sends and i dont see anything in the email log. //Alert $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['descr'] = "Observium Email Alert"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['type'] = "email"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['contact'] = "tr(a)zitcom.dk<mailto:tr@zitcom.dk>"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['enable'] = TRUE; No emails are send on alerts So I tried to change the email backend $config['email_backend'] = 'sendmail'; That did not help. So I did a test to check the php mail module. <?php $to = "tr(a)zitcom.dk<mailto:tr@zitcom.dk>"; $subject = "Test mail"; $message = "Hello! This is a simple email message."; $from = "test(a)mgmt3.network.zitcom.dk<mailto:test@mgmt3.network.zitcom.dk>"; $headers = "From:" . $from; mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers); echo "Mail Sent."; ?> And that worked fine. What is the problem? I have an alert in Observium ☺ [cid:image001.png@01CF1D04.808888E0] Med venlig hilsen | Best regards Thomas Raabo Netværksansvarlig CCIE #33466 Zitcom A/S Telefon: 70 40 00 00 E-mail: kontakt(a)zitcom.dk<mailto:kontakt@zitcom.dk> Direkte: 69 10 60 18 Direkte: tr(a)zitcom.dk<mailto:tr@zitcom.dk> [cid:image005.jpg@01CEDC86.E897E480]<http://www.zitcom.dk/>

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