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New kind of device
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

Hi all ! I know that I ask about a lot of functionalities ... but you like me for that :-) So I'll to be as clear as possible (and as "English" as possible ...). Is it possible to add a new kind of device that is only polled with ping ? The primary goal is to know when distant server (hosted by partners) aren't reachable without asking to have access to their snmp daemon and community ... I imagine that it can be a huge work because it needs to bypass a lot of code but you could have think about it ... ? To be simple for everyone, this kind of device can be a new sort of server but without any snmp information (no device panel / no ports panel, etc...) and just be polled by the ping. And when a hosts is down the alerter send a mail / trap and the index.php put an information box to warn on "device down" like any others hosts. Sincerely, Adrien Bertrand - Information Security Administrator BPCE Assurances, 88 av de France 75013 Paris

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port/alert limit
by Ilias Kourtoudis 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

hi, We are very pleased by the use of the subscription version so far. At the moment we are monitoring 3.600 ports and have around 5000 alerts but the goal is to reach around 40.000 ports. Will this be a problem? I already see cpu load whenever i add a host with over 500 ports that is not evenly distributed if increase the cores of my machine. Please advise and keep up the great work. Regards, ilias kurtuðis GreenQloud HOps Mobile / Farsími: (+30) 6945251977 s <//paula(a)greenqloud.com>kype : ilias.kurtudis www.greenqloud.com The World's First Truly Green(tm) Cloud IaaS Tölvuský (GreenQloud) ehf Borgartún 25 105 Reykjavik Iceland WWA

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Re: [Observium] Alerts setup in Web Gui
by Jonathan Green 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

Hello there: We recently installed Observium, and cannot locate 'Alerts' w/in the web gui. Do we have to install something additional, or are we missing something? Thank you. -Jonathan

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Sensor alert templates by device type
by Robbie Wright 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

Noticed some new sensor alerts that popped up by default a few revs back now. Super sweet, firstly, so nice work guys. Secondly, the defaults naturally aren't quite right, ie 0. Is it possible to set a default sensor type by device/platform/OS rather than individually? For example, system voltage on one of our routers has a default of 2 to 2.7v, while it is actually running at 23.5 and thus throwing alerts. Can we set all networking devices or iOS switches or iOS version 12.?? to have the same defaults? Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <http://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101 **For support issues, please email support(a)siuslawbroadband.com.**

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[BUG] I got a blank page
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

Hi all ! Since a little modification on the config.php (adding a filter in [bad_if]) I got a blank page on my enterprise http://observium and the "./discovery.php -h none" doesn't output any information ... (usually it outputs the version - in green) I got the same problem last week when I updated the svn folder with CRON that force me to revert to an older version of my server ... Of course I reboot all the services (apache2, mysql ...) and I have upgraded the memory limit in the php.ini (like mentioned in the Observium FAQ) ... Any clues ? Somebody got the same problem ? Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Adrien BERTRAND Administrateur Sécurité du Système d'Information Information security administrator BPCE Assurances 88 av. de France, 75013 Paris Tel : (+33)1.42.79.47.81

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Graph Issue
by Tim Smith 26 Jan '14

26 Jan '14

Hi all, I am having problems with generating graphs for my Observium install. What I have managed to find out is that that the system executes the following command: rrdtool graph /tmp/C9DwA903iBza9yzw.png --alt-autoscale-max --rigid -E --start 1390482368 --end 1390568768 --width 1159 --height 300 -c BACK#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEA#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEB#EEEEEE00 -c FONT#000000 -c CANVAS#FFFFFF00 -c GRID#a5a5a5 -c MGRID#FF9999 -c FRAME#5e5e5e -c ARROW#5e5e5e -R normal --font LEGEND:8:'DejaVuSansMono' --font AXIS:7:'DejaVuSansMono' --font-render-mode normal COMMENT:'Bits/s Cur Avg Max' COMMENT:'Total' COMMENT:'\n' CDEF:inB= CDEF:outB= CDEF:octets=inB,outB,+ CDEF:doutB=outB,-1,* CDEF:inbits=inB,8,* CDEF:outbits=outB,8,* CDEF:bits=inbits,outbits,+ CDEF:doutbits=doutB,8,* VDEF:95thin=inbits,95,PERCENT VDEF:95thout=outbits,95,PERCENT VDEF:d95thout=doutbits,5,PERCENT VDEF:totin=inB,TOTAL VDEF:avein=inbits,AVERAGE VDEF:totout=outB,TOTAL VDEF:aveout=outbits,AVERAGE VDEF:tot=octets,TOTAL COMMENT:' \n' HRULE:999999999999999#FFFFFF:'Total In ': GPRINT:inbits:LAST:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits:AVERAGE:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits:MAX:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:totin:%5.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\n' HRULE:999999999999990#FFFFFF:' Out': GPRINT:outbits:LAST:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits:AVERAGE:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits:MAX:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:totout:%5.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\n' HRULE:999999999999990#FFFFFF:' Agg': GPRINT:bits:LAST:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:bits:AVERAGE:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:bits:MAX:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:tot:%5.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\n' HRULE:0#999999 The error returned is: RRDTool Output: ERROR: String ends after the = sign on 'CDEF:inB=' I would imagine this is a config issue but I am not sure where to look. Any help would be gratefully received! Cheers, Tim

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Re: [Observium] Attach the 'Email Contact' to the alert
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

Ok thanks for your answers guys :-) I'll update manually all the sysContact for now or make some redirection in my mails. And yes Maarten, your "ticket" in Jira is what I want ;-) Sincerely, Adrien BERTRAND Administrateur Sécurité du Système d'Information Information security administrator BPCE Assurances 88 av. de France, 75013 Paris Tel : (+33)1.42.79.47.81 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message 1 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:52:34 +0000 From: "Moerman, Maarten" <mmoerman(a)ebay.com> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Attach the 'Email Contact' to the alert Message-ID: <CF07F646.36AF6%mmoerman(a)ebay.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" I?ve already added a Jira/feature request for that some time ago: http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-635 Would it work what?s described there? Maarten -- Maarten Moerman | Mgr, Network Engineering | eBay Classifieds | +31-655122247 | mmoerman(a)ebay.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message 2 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:44:22 +0100 From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Attach the 'Email Contact' to the alert Message-ID: <52E24406.4030109(a)powersource.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Hi Adrien, This is currently not possible, it is planned however but I don't know what time frame. Tom

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Attach the 'Email Contact' to the alert
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

Hi Observiumers ! Is it possible to specify the email contact for each "alert checker" without setting it on the sysContact of all the devices ? It's to send emails for different recipients that are related to the alerts and not the devices :-) PS: I'm running the latest version of Observium (susbscription edition) Sincerely, Adrien BERTRAND Administrateur Sécurité du Système d'Information Information security administrator BPCE Assurances 88 av. de France, 75013 Paris Tel : (+33)1.42.79.47.81 [Description : Q_BPCE_Assurances.jpg]

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Re: [Observium] Attach the 'Email Contact' to the alert
by Moerman, Maarten 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

I’ve already added a Jira/feature request for that some time ago: http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-635 Would it work what’s described there? Maarten -- Maarten Moerman | Mgr, Network Engineering | eBay Classifieds | +31-655122247 | mmoerman(a)ebay.com From: "BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances]" <adrien.bertrand(a)assurances.bpce.fr<mailto:adrien.bertrand@assurances.bpce.fr>> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Friday, January 24, 2014 at 9:24 AM To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] Attach the 'Email Contact' to the alert Hi Observiumers ! Is it possible to specify the email contact for each “alert checker” without setting it on the sysContact of all the devices ? It’s to send emails for different recipients that are related to the alerts and not the devices :-) PS: I’m running the latest version of Observium (susbscription edition) Sincerely, Adrien BERTRAND Administrateur Sécurité du Système d'Information Information security administrator BPCE Assurances 88 av. de France, 75013 Paris Tel : (+33)1.42.79.47.81 [Description : Q_BPCE_Assurances.jpg]

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Custom Fields
by Christopher Murrell 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

Hello, We are very very interested in Observium to use as our Monitoring system, but we would like to have some custom fields on the device information. We would be willing to donate a nice amount to you guys as well if we can have this done as a custom feature for us. If you guys could do this please send me an email. Also do you have an ETA when the full alert system will be working? *Christopher* Murrell Hypernia Corporation *Email:* christopher(a)staff.hypernia.com *Desk: *(+44) (0) 1722 568687 <04401722658687> *Cell Phone:* (+44) (0) 7761636028 <0447761636028> [image: http://hypernia.com/images/signature/skype.png]chrisjmuk [image: http://hypernia.com/images/signature/home.jpg]www.hypernia.com [image: http://hypernia.com/images/signature/hypernia-superpod.jpg] *Confidentiality Note:* The information contained in this transmission is legally privileged and confidential, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Thank you!

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