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Bogus alerts since last CE update
by Musall, Maik 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

Hi, on Sept 28th I updated one installation to the new CE release (17.9.0). Since then, Observium keeps sending me interface down/up alerts for every single port on every single switch and router, once every day between 11:20 am and 11:35 am (a bunch every 5 minutes). The alerts look like this: They serve to notify me if anyone connects or disconnects something in my absence. That worked well for a year or so, until I did this update. Now I get 114 emails every day at the same time. What could be the cause, and how can I solve that? Maik

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Poller wrapper history stopped working
by Silvio del Val Hinojal 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

Hello, We have upgraded Observium from CE to Pro version following upgrade document, we are now running 17.9.8859 (stable) version and, since then, global "Poller Wrapper history" stopped working. Now it shows "- nan" in all fields. This is what it shows now: [cid:image002.png@01D33E9A.3B2E1D80] Any hint? Regards, Silvio [cid:image001.png@01D03B1C.E8E96F80]<http://www.pandasecurity.com/spain/> Silvio del Val Systems Engineer - Panda Security +34 944 343 728 silvio.delval(a)pandasecurity.com<mailto:silvio.delval@pandasecurity.com> pandasecurity.com<http://www.pandasecurity.com/> This e-mail contains confidential information owned by Panda Security. Any such copy, or use, or distribution or disclosure of its contents is strictly forbidden. Please notify us immediately at our phone number (+34 94 425 11 00) if you receive this e-mail and are not its consignee, and then delete this message from your system without copying it, distributing it, or disclosing its contents P Before printing this message, please make sure it is really necessary

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Multiple mailing options
by Franks Andy (IT Technical Architecture Manager) 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

Hi all, We have a scenario where we'd like, for certain alerts, to not only send via the default mail settings but also to forward to an external sms portal. This particular portal is fairly simple and works via sending an email to a certain domain with a phone number prefix. We'd need to use different mail settings for this purpose though and I was wondering if someone could think of the best way to do this. I can't really find many examples for the external script or web hook transport methods, and ideally we'd be able to do most of the configuration and filtering directly within observium rather than doing the messaging logic elsewhere. Thanks Andy

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Alarm on VLAN?
by Ryan, Spencer 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

Hey Guys, Is there any way to write an alert check to alarm if a VLAN is seen on a port (either access or trunk?). We have a few "untrusted" networks that we want to know if they get stuck on a trunk somewhere they shouldn't be. Thanks! Spencer Ryan | Senior Systems Administrator | sryan(a)arbor.net<mailto:sryan@arbor.net> Arbor Networks +1.734.794.5033 (d) | +1.734.846.2053 (m) www.arbornetworks.com<http://www.arbornetworks.com/>

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syslog not working after observium rsyslog server configuration
by Vikas Kumar 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

I have observium CE addition and i recently tried for syslog integration on it as given here http://docs.observium.org/syslog/ I am able to see syslog messages in observium UI but unfortunately my syslog messages of observium machine itself are not getting logged to /var/log/syslog . please some one help me here. These are my configuration files as attached with this post /etc/rsyslog.conf ################# $ModLoad imudp $UDPServerRun 514 module(load="imuxsock") # provides support for local system logging module(load="imklog") # provides kernel logging support #module(load="immark") # provides --MARK-- message capability # provides UDP syslog reception #module(load="imudp") #input(type="imudp" port="514") # provides TCP syslog reception #module(load="imtcp") #input(type="imtcp" port="514") # Enable non-kernel facility klog messages $KLogPermitNonKernelFacility on ########################### #### GLOBAL DIRECTIVES #### ########################### # # Use traditional timestamp format. # To enable high precision timestamps, comment out the following line. # $ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat # Filter duplicated messages $RepeatedMsgReduction on # # Set the default permissions for all log files. # $FileOwner syslog $FileGroup adm $FileCreateMode 0640 $DirCreateMode 0755 $Umask 0022 $PrivDropToUser syslog $PrivDropToGroup syslog # # Where to place spool and state files # $WorkDirectory /var/spool/rsyslog # # Include all config files in /etc/rsyslog.d/ # $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf $DebugFile /var/log/rsyslogdebug.txt $DebugLevel 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another observium config file is located at /etc/rsyslog.d/30-observium.conf at it contains: #--------------------------------------------------------- #send remote logs to observium template(name="observium" type="string" string="%fromhost-ip%||%syslogfacility%||%syslogpriority%||%syslogseverity%||%syslogtag%||%$year%-%$month%-%$day% %timereported:8:25%||%msg%||%programname%\n") $ModLoad omprog Module (load="imudp") # rsyslog Input Modules input(type="imudp" port="514" ruleset="observium") # rsyslog RuleSets ruleset(name="observium") { action(type="omprog" binary="/opt/observium/syslog.php" template="observium") } *.* stop #--------------------------------------------------------- i have added a new line Module (load="imudp") apart from the original given here at http://docs.observium.org/syslog/ But now when i do tail -f /var/log/syslog i get this : Oct 5 15:45:01 testnet-PC CRON[3000]: (root) CMD ( /opt/observium/discovery.php -h new >> /dev/null 2>&1) Oct 5 15:45:01 testnet-PC CRON[3001]: (root) CMD ( /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 4 >> /dev/null 2>&1) Oct 5 15:47:19 testnet-PC rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="8.16.0" x-pid="2898" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] exiting on signal 15. and nothing more events are shown here. Please someone help how do i get my usual syslog messages back on observium machine. Thanks Regards, Vikas kumar IIT Bombay India -- <http://moodi.org/> *Vikas Kumar | ** Hospitality & PR Coordinator* *Mood Indigo, IIT Bombay* *+91-9694532954 | mailvikasnow(a)gmail.com <mailvikasnow(a)gmail.com>* [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/vikas.cse.iitb> <https://mailtrack.io/> Sent with Mailtrack <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mailtrack-for-gmail-inbox/ndnaehg…>

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Scaling Observium with distributed pollers
by Markus Klock 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

Hi guys, I wrote a blogpost on how you can scale Observium to handle ridiculously large deployments, you will find it here: http://blog.best-practice.se/2017/10/scaling-observium-horizontally.html And comments or feedback is most welcome! /Markus

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VPN site-to-site monitoring by name
by Satish Patel 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

I have posted on JIRA http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-2438 But just wonder if anyone has any solution for this issue, we have many site-to-site tunnel and in observium its just showing count but it would be good if it shows list of tunnel by name so easy to identify down tunnel and alert.

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Graphs not rendering correctly
by Mal Evans 04 Oct '17

04 Oct '17

Hi all, Seem to be having a problem with the graphs on my new install (CE). See the example below: As you can see there are regular gaps in the display. I am wondering if this might have something to do with a polling cycle etc? not sure where to start investigating so any suggestions are welcome. As far as I can tell every graph shows similar behaviour. Cheers Mal

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p2p radio detection
by Joey Stanford 04 Oct '17

04 Oct '17

Howdy, We noticed not that long ago that Ubiquity devices gained p2p radio detection. Is there any consideration for Ubutiks (Ubiquity RF + Microtik routerboard)? We have a number of these and the device_state array contains the p2p radio info just like the Ubiquity radios do. Discovery put the ubutiks into the network category like a normal mikrotik. We’ve been changing them over by hand to wireless for categorization. Thanks, Joey

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Monitor Exchange 2016
by Juan Carlos Rodriguez 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

Hello. I am new to observium and I would like to know how can I monitor an exchange 2016 server via WMI?, I can pull regular SNMP data from the server. thanks for your help Juan

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