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question about Disk I/O page
by Joshua Elson 20 Nov '13

20 Nov '13

Hi All, I am new to Observium and love the product so far. I am looking at the Disk I/O page and trying to figure out the legend. Could somebody please explain what the k, M and u's stand for? Is it kb, mb or thousands and millions? What about the u? Thanks in advance! Josh [cid:image001.png@01CEE538.54258F40] Josh Elson | Linux Systems Administrator MaxLinear | www.maxlinear.com<http://www.maxlinear.com/> 760-517-1431 | cell # 760-212-6852 2051 Palomar Airport Road, Suite 100 | Carlsbad, CA 92011 [Description: Description: http://wiki/download/attachments/1704274/Maxlinear+Logo.png?version=1&modif…] ________________________________ This electronic mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and/or otherwise protected from disclosure to anyone other than its intended recipient(s). Any dissemination or use of this electronic mail or its contents (including any attachments) by persons other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the original message (including any attachments) in its entirety.

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Re: [Observium] Stable vs Trunk
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

I am !! In a production environment we may avoid bugs and more risky problems (like an insane SNMP discoverer, or something like that). So I'll be interested in a stable branch, regularly updated :-) I think the most important things are : 1) Stability 2) "Silence" - in terms of not talking too much on the network 3) Performance 4) Without less information or functionality than the latest updates Regards, Adrien BERTRAND Administrateur Sécurité du Système d'Information Tel : 01.42.79.47.81 Interne : 5.47.81 [Description : Q_BPCE_Assurances.jpg] ************************************************************************** From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx<mailto:tom.laermans@powersource.cx>> To: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Stable vs Trunk Message-ID: <528A414B.5040501(a)powersource.cx<mailto:528A414B.5040501@powersource.cx>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi, > As it turns out, waiting for a bit of software to feel un-buggy enough > to call stable is a little bit like chasing a magic dragon in a > pharmaceutically-enhanced dream, a largely unattainable goal. It's a > little difficult to gauge stability when we have half a dozen commits > per day! > > Are any of you using the stable branch, and if so, how often and under > what conditions would you want me to merge changes? Nobody interested in the stable branch? Tom

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[observium] Graphs has white spaces and not continuous
by Jerico Rubion 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Hi, I'm having a problem with the graphs of all my devices in observium (screenshots attached). What is the advisable crontab settings should I use given the list of devices I am polling? for the list of devices it is in attachment 1 Here are the details of my environment. *Observium* 0.13.7.4172 *Apache* 2.2.15 (CentOS) *PHP* 5.3.3 *MySQL* 5.1.69 *RRDtool* 1.3.8 Crontab settings: */10 * * * * root /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 1 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */10 * * * * root /opt/observium/poller.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1 Recent output of TOP: top - 00:44:01 up 1 day, 18:35, 1 user, load average: 2.89, 2.26, 2.24 Tasks: 187 total, 5 running, 182 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 13.1%us, 65.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 20.5%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st Mem: 5059868k total, 905692k used, 4154176k free, 153836k buffers Swap: 4161528k total, 0k used, 4161528k free, 481076k cached Attachment 1: observium1.jpg list of devices Attachment 2: observium2.jpg snapshot of one linux mail server Attachment 3: observium3.jpg snapshot of network switch device Best Regards, Jerico M. Rubion

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Stable vs Trunk
by Adam Armstrong 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Hi All, When we started the new SVN setup, I had envisioned dropping trunk to stable every couple of weeks when I felt it was un-buggy enough. As it turns out, waiting for a bit of software to feel un-buggy enough to call stable is a little bit like chasing a magic dragon in a pharmaceutically-enhanced dream, a largely unattainable goal. It's a little difficult to gauge stability when we have half a dozen commits per day! Are any of you using the stable branch, and if so, how often and under what conditions would you want me to merge changes? adam.

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duplicate system name
by Zoran Lukenic 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Hello, my observium lab was on 0.12.10.3399. I have some problem with my graphs but it's not a problem i just did a fresh install on new server with last observium version 0.13.10.4721. The tutorial was great and my install work perfect. When i start to add my devices i had some error. Some device have the same system name and when i tri to add them, the 2nd one don't work. "Already got device with SNMP-read sysName (system.name)" I didn't get this on my lab. Is it possible to disable system name check? --- Zoran Lukenic z.lukenic(a)mediactive.fr<mailto:z.lukenic@mediactive.fr> --- Groupe Mediactive 3-4-10, cité Paradis 75010 Paris Tel : +33 1 55 28 80 60 Fax : +33 1 55 28 80 61 Support technique : 0 892 494 777 www.groupe-mediactive.fr<http://www.groupe-mediactive.fr/> Twitter : @mediactivegroup [cid:FB003B7F-1839-4401-8DAE-B37B718E4644]

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billing module not loading three javascript files
by Rutger Bevaart 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Hi all, In my Observium I have issues with the billing graphs where only the quick graphs are loading correctly. The browser inspector shows: Failed to load a resource : A server with the specified hostname cannot be found : http:<my hostname>js/bootstrap-loader.js Failed to load a resource : A server with the specified hostname cannot be found : http:<my hostname>js/bootstrap-tab.js Failed to load a resource : A server with the specified hostname cannot be found : http:<my hostname>js/billing.js It looks like the ‘/‘ after the hostname is missing… Tried to find where this is set and found three files in html/pages/ called: bill.php.inc bills.php.inc packages.inc.php Manually adding a ‘/‘ there does not solve the problem, and then I’m at the end of my l33t observ1um debug skills. Choosing an “transfer graph” gives a “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500” in the inspector for the graph after the other three above, but it might be totally unrelated. Quick graphs work fine. Anybody encounter this too? regards, Rutger

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Re: [Observium] duplicate system name
by Tom Laermans 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

As this is only an issue when adding certain devices, we could make this a commandline option to addhost.php. But that code needs a rewrite to deal with getopt, currently it's a mess :( Tom Mark Boddy <mark(a)boddy.org> wrote: >Mike Stupalov <mike@...> writes: >> >> >> Hi Mark, you can tell the vendor and model of these devices?Maybe we will >add an option to exclude check duplicate sysNames, >> >> but because it is used for autodiscovery, it will not be the default >option. >> >Hi Mike, > >Yes we can tell but only by IP address. To give an example, we might be >monitoring standby generators. If a hospital has 4 buildings each with it's >own generator then we would one of our devices connected to each generator. >All four of our devices would be identical in every way and the only way to >distinguish between them would be via the IP address. If you were to do an >SNMP Walk all 4 they would reply with the exact same header information and >only differ in the actual engine or generator information. > >If it was possible to have duplicate sysNames that would be very helpful. >Please let me know if I have raised more questions. > >Thank-You! >Mark > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Alert notmatch help
by Kevin Cackler 16 Nov '13

16 Nov '13

I would like to run an alert for disk space usage on all of our machines, but want to not alert on our /backup drives (They get alerted at 90%). What do I need to put in the entity field to achieve this? I see theexample in the wiki for mempool_descr match *processor for your example memory check, but it's unclear where mempool_descr comes from. What would be the equivalent for the disk mount point?

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support for Gude product
by Christian Blumer 16 Nov '13

16 Nov '13

Hi, We use Gude products (http://www.gude.info<http://www.gude.info/>) to monitor the power usage of our servers. Specially the two models below: - Expert PDU Basic 8111 (http://www.gude.info/en/power-distribution/elementary-pdu/expert-pdu-basic-…) - Expert Power Control 8211 (http://www.gude.info/en/power-distribution/switched-pdu/expert-power-contro…) Is there any plan to support graphing of power usage on such devices ? Can we contribute to develop the module to graph such devices ? If yes, how ? Thanks in advance for your help and have a good week-end. Christian Blumer

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Re: [Observium] Can't get alert to trigger
by Kevin Cackler 15 Nov '13

15 Nov '13

Yeah, changing to ge fixed it. Just a bug in gt I guess. Kevin Cackler Tech Daddies, LLC 501-205-1512 http://www.techdaddies.com

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