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Failure in notification of syslog alerts of the Ob server itself
by Shekhar Basnet 17 Oct '19

17 Oct '19

Hello, Observium is setup to email syslog alerts and it is doing so without any issues of all devices. I have a requirement to email some log alerts of the Observium server to the network team. I did the usual stuff of adding syslog rule and associating with a contact address. The logs (/var/log/messages) are matched by this syslog rule. I can see those matched lines in the Ob GUI. Yet strangely, an email is never triggered. Initially I thought it could be due to the log message and so I tried matching some other log lines, but always the log messages are matched by the syslog rule but email is never triggered. The contact address gets emails of all other alerts. Is there some other settings to enable Observium to email logs of it's own? Am running rsyslog and postfix on the Ob server. [root@observium sbasnet]# rsyslogd -v rsyslogd 8.24.0-34.el7, compiled with: PLATFORM: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu PLATFORM (lsb_release -d): FEATURE_REGEXP: Yes GSSAPI Kerberos 5 support: Yes FEATURE_DEBUG (debug build, slow code): No 32bit Atomic operations supported: Yes 64bit Atomic operations supported: Yes memory allocator: system default Runtime Instrumentation (slow code): No uuid support: Yes Number of Bits in RainerScript integers: 64 [root@observium sbasnet]# postconf mail_version mail_version = 2.10.1 *Observium CE* 19.8.10000 (22nd August 2019) *OS* Linux 3.10.0-862.11.6.el7.x86_64 [amd64] (CentOS 7) *Apache* 2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips mod_fcgid/2.3.9 PHP/5.6.40 mod_perl/2.0.10 Perl/v5.16.3 *PHP* 5.6.40 (OPcache: ENABLED) *Python* 2.7.5 *MySQL* 5.5.60-MariaDB (extension: mysqli 5.5.60-MariaDB) *SNMP* NET-SNMP 5.7.2 *RRDtool* 1.4.8 *Fping* 3.10 (IPv4 only) Thanks for help. Shekhar -- DISCLAIMER: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized use or disclosure is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. IRS CIRCULAR 230 DISCLOSURE: Any U.S. tax advice contained in this communication (including any attachments) is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (i) avoiding penalties under the Internal Revenue Code or (ii) promoting, marketing or recommending to another party any transaction or matter addressed herein.(FR08-i203d)

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Kohler generator issue
by Tony Guadagno 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

Hi, a while ago you added support for the Kohler Generators. (thanks). I am noticing some issues. 1. The generator is listed as in “alarm status” all the time, no matter whats going on with the generator 2. When the generator goes under load, the observium state does not change to reflect that. I have attached 2 screen shots to illustrate as well as a txt file with the corresponding snmpwalk outputs. Also, Kohler has updated the mib, I have attached that as well, can you update the code base with this? thanks Tony

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Tiny diff (adding probes)
by Aaron Finney 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

Hello maintainer friends, I'm not sure the proper protocol to request merging of small added bits, but I added two additional nprobe plugins, check_haproxy and check_ldap, to my install. The diff for probes.inc.php is below, but it also required a small modification to the check_ldap perl script (update hard-coded module dir). The LDAP probe I used is the version in the nagios-probe-contrib package Debian package, not the compiled C version distributed via the plugins tarfile from nagios.org; I used it because the contrib/perl version allows anonymous binding for just a basic service health check and doesn't require user/pwd/base-DN. Aaron Index: includes/definitions/entities/probes.inc.php =================================================================== --- includes/definitions/entities/probes.inc.php (revision 10122) +++ includes/definitions/entities/probes.inc.php (working copy) @@ -58,6 +58,11 @@ $config['probes'][$probe]['descr'] = 'Tests FTP connections'; $config['probes'][$probe]['args']['default'] = "-H %hostname%"; +$probe = 'check_haproxy'; +$config['probes'][$probe]['enable'] = 1; +$config['probes'][$probe]['descr'] = 'Tests HAProxy health by parsing the stats page'; +$config['probes'][$probe]['args']['default'] = "-H %hostname%"; + $probe = 'check_imap'; $config['probes'][$probe]['enable'] = 1; $config['probes'][$probe]['descr'] = 'Tests IMAP connections'; @@ -68,6 +73,11 @@ $config['probes'][$probe]['descr'] = 'Tests Jabber connections'; $config['probes'][$probe]['args']['default'] = "-H %hostname%"; +$probe = 'check_ldap'; +$config['probes'][$probe]['enable'] = 1; +$config['probes'][$probe]['descr'] = 'Tests LDAP/LDAPS connections'; +$config['probes'][$probe]['args']['default'] = "-H %hostname%"; + $probe = 'check_nntp'; $config['probes'][$probe]['enable'] = 1; $config['probes'][$probe]['descr'] = 'Tests NNTP connections'; -- *Aaron Finney*Infrastructure Engineering | OpenX 888 East Walnut Street, 2nd Floor | Pasadena, CA 91101 o: +1 (626) 466-1141 x6035 | aaron.finney(a)openx.com

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Mass Changes Ports Config (Alerting)
by Wissen, Tobias (EDV) 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

Hello, is there a way to set the alerts for all ports centrally to (ignore alerts) true? Would you like to set the alerts separately for each device in a later step. [cid:image001.png@01D58365.30219360] Mit freundlichen Grüßen Tobias Wissen

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cookies error
by Edvinas Kairys 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

Hello, After last stable update we're getting cookies error when entering the observium fronted page. After cookies deletion it starts to work, but only for some time. Is there any information to prevent this from happening ? "redirected you too many times. Try clearing your cookies <https://support.google.com/chrome?p=rl_error&hl=en-US>."

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Strange poller/graph behavior with Palo Alto
by Aaron Finney 13 Oct '19

13 Oct '19

Heya Adam et al, I'm trying to help the corp side of the house monitor a handful of Palo Alto firewalls (3220s/850s) using Observium, and am seeing the gptunnels and sessions graphs being alternately added/deleted each run. Example: ##### firewall.spaghetti.foo.baz [55] completed poller modules at > 2019-10-13 09:07:03 ##### > o Graphs [checked] availability, ping, ping_snmp, uptime, fanspeed, > temperature, processor, mempool, storage, bits, hr_users, poller_perf, > pollersnmp_count,pollersnmp_times, > pollersnmp_errors_count, pollersnmp_errors_times, pollerdb_count, > pollerdb_times,pollermemory_perf > o Graphs [added] panos_sessions, panos_gptunnels > o Poller time 5.6106 seconds > o Updated Data uptime, last_polled, last_polled_timetaken, > device_state and the very next run: ##### firewall.spaghetti.foo.baz [55] completed poller modules at > 2019-10-13 09:07:31 ##### > o Graphs [deleted] panos_sessions, panos_gptunnels > o Graphs [checked] availability, ping, ping_snmp, uptime, fanspeed, > temperature, processor, mempool, storage, bits, hr_users, poller_perf, > pollersnmp_count,pollersnmp_times, > pollersnmp_errors_count, pollersnmp_errors_times, pollerdb_count, > pollerdb_times,pollermemory_perf > o Poller time 5.6037 seconds > o Updated Data uptime, last_polled, last_polled_timetaken, > device_state This pattern repeats ad inifitum - any ideas? Aaron

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automated backup from all configs?
by Farshid Abediny 13 Oct '19

13 Oct '19

Hello, I want to know is there any way to have FTP schedule backup from observium from all configs? RRD, Database, Rancid, ... ?

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disable verify peer for smtp
by Farshid Abediny 12 Oct '19

12 Oct '19

Hello, is there anyway that disable verify peer for smtp option in php ? because when we have tls with self signed certificate php mailer can not connect to our servers. Thanks

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Alerting on custom application values
by Phillip Weller 11 Oct '19

11 Oct '19

Greetings All, Can you set an alert on a value imported from a custom application? E.g, if I’m tracking the %CPU and %Memory of a specific application on a linux host, can I set an alert check on something like cpu greater 50? All graphs are working fine. I know the values are being received by Observium. But its not clear to me what the entity, or even the entity type, would be. Thanks! Regards, Phil Weller

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Changing graph colours to improve readability
by Chris Tomkins 11 Oct '19

11 Oct '19

Hi, I sent this to the list last week but I'm 99% sure it bounced. Apologies if anyone has already seen it. ---- I'm just wondering, has anyone dabbled with getting rrdtool to use more contrasting colours for composite graphs? We have some graphs, such as peering graphs, that are made up of 15+ components, and each component is currently a nearly identical shade of green or purple, which means that even with the legend enabled it is very difficult to see which component is which. I'm imagining that instead of using shades of green, you could use a rainbow of very distinctly different colours and readability would improve. I'm interested to hear whether anyone has tried to do this before, or if it's a non-starter for some reason. Thanks, Chris -- Chris Tomkins | Senior Network Engineer (Linux/Network) christ(a)brandwatch.com Office: +44 (0)1273 448 949 NEW YORK | BOSTON | BRIGHTON | LONDON | BERLIN | STUTTGART | PARIS | SINGAPORE | SYDNEY <https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/digital-consumer-intelligence/>

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