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Unsubscribing from the observium (and many other) mailing list(s) 101 (WAS: RE: Auto Discovery/Automate adding devices.)
by Phillip Baker 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

Dear today's person who asked to be unsubscribed from a mailing list that has an unsubscribe function baked into it, Don't be that guy, guy. Here's a handy dandy guide for you and everyone else who's brain is gradually formulating a thought about this topic, before we get another raft of "I TOO WOULD LIKE TO BE UNSUBSCRIBED FROM RECEIVING THESE MESSAGES IN MY COMPUSERVE I DO NOT WANT ANY VIAGRA" emails like last time this happened. Q1: Have you *tried* to unsubscribe yourself? If no: There's a link at the bottom of every email you've received from this list (hint: http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium ), and at the bottom of the page that results from clicking on that link is a section that you will likely find relevant to your interests. Like most sane/legitimate mailing lists, the List-Unsubscribe header is also set in the mail headers of every message you receive via this mailing list: List-Unsubscribe: <http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/observium> - which takes you to a specific unsubscribe page. If you don't know your mailman password, reset it. The button to do that, is like, right there, maaaaan. If yes: Proceed to Q2, brave traveller. Steel yourself, the next step possibly requires reading message headers. Grab a Snickers (DISCLAIMER: Ask your doctor if Snickers is right for you). Q2: Have you checked you're trying to unsubscribe the address you actually are receiving mail for? Perhaps you're receiving mail for an alias rather than your pimary mailbox address? The message headers should tell you what this is if you can't see it any other way (look for "for <email(a)address.org>" in a "Received:" header close to you). If no: Check, and if necessary, unsubscribe again, but with the right address this time. If yes: Congratulations! You are possibly a special snowflake and possibly have an actual problem that possibly requires someone else's help, possibly, and you should have provided all this information up front to prevent being ridiculed... except you're still telling a bunch of people who can do nothing to help you. Mail the list administrator directly (who's contact email you can find on the above mentioned pages) telling them what you've tried to do, and what the email address is that is receiving the mails from the list, and then they can help you. Adam loves to help. It's practically his middle name. By now, you have now successfully unsubscribed from a mailing list.. unless Adam doesn't like you and is keeping you on the list just to torment you for some sick twisted reason (less common than you might think). A+ super great job! I'm just going to leave these here, from the thread you replied to, to make a point of some sort: > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium YES, I *HAVE* HAD A VERY ANNOYING DAY TODAY, WHY DO YOU ASK?

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Auto Discovery/Automate adding devices.
by Rudolf Hoehler 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

Hello Team, Please can you assist me with the auto discovery. It's not working... :) I read in a mailing list archive dated Nov 2014, that it actually doesn't work? Is this still the case? Can I write my own script that adds devices from the backend? Should I use an API call or can I insert into the database directly? Further to that, 1. What happens if I try to add the same device again? Thinking from an automated system, the same hostname might have multiple interfaces that it is reachable on? 2. What happens if we change a device's host name - does observium create a new device? What is best practice when administering the system wrt device swop outs or hostname changes? Regards, Rudolf

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Interface ifAlias change at every poll
by Nick Ryce 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

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Forbidden Access Permissen Ubuntu 14.04.
by Florian Schnelle 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

Hi everyone, I can´t access our new test installation. I don’t have any Apache knowledge and I guess that´s where the problem lays. I tried to create a vHost, as well as I tried to follow the instructions from the how to page regarding /etc/apache2/sites-available/default <Directory /opt/observium/html/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory> Without any success. Help would be highly appreciated. Thanks and regards, Flo

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 60, Issue 37
by Mathias Giroud 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

Hello, Can you help me for this integration ? https://gist.github.com/arekinath/3384869 Cordialement, GIROUD Mathias Tél.: +41 (0)27 519 00 46 Email: hello <mailto:hello@giroudmathias.ch> <mailto:marketing@giroudmathias.ch>@giroudmathias.ch <mailto:hello@giroudmathias.ch> Site: www.giroudmathias.ch <http://giroudmathias.ch/> This e-mail (including any attached documents) is intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, we kindly ask you not to review, retain, copy or distribute this message, and we ask you to notify the sender by reply e-mail immediately and delete this message from your system. Thank you. Le 07.07.15 13:00, « observium au nom de observium-request(a)observium.org » <observium-bounces(a)observium.org au nom de observium-request(a)observium.org> a écrit : >Send observium mailing list submissions to > observium(a)observium.org > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > observium-request(a)observium.org > >You can reach the person managing the list at > observium-owner(a)observium.org > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: mysql_fetch_array replacement? (Robert Williams) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 11:50:29 +0000 >From: Robert Williams <Robert(a)CustodianDC.com> >To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> >Subject: Re: [Observium] mysql_fetch_array replacement? >Message-ID: <fc447724ec8b486bb68bf179682629ea(a)CDC-EX2.cdc.local> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > >Thanks guys, didn?t realise it was a php function ? > >Interestingly there were no errors at all, just a zero output from the function, which didn?t help! > >Anyway, the solution was indeed from the example given on here: > >foreach(dbFetchRows("SELECT hostname FROM `devices` WHERE `disabled`=0 ORDER BY hostname") as $data) > >(Then the rest of the original code) > >So cheers for that! > > >Robert Williams >Custodian Data Centre >Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com >http://www.CustodianDC.com >From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong >Sent: 05 July 2015 18:54 >To: observium(a)observium.org >Subject: Re: [Observium] mysql_fetch_array replacement? > >I expect he's now using mysqli_* via the config option, which means mysql_* is no longer connected to a database :) > >adam. > >Sent from Mailbird<http://www.getmailbird.com/?utm_source=Mailbird&utm_medium=email&utm_campai…> > >On 05/07/2015 18:43:14, Phillip Baker <phil(a)lchost.co.uk> wrote: >In fact, I?d be surprised if mysql_query is working if you?ve switched Observium to mysqli. What?s the actual error output of the script when you run it? > >Phil > >From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Robert Williams >Sent: 05 July 2015 13:51 >To: Observium Network Observation System (observium(a)observium.org) >Subject: [Observium] mysql_fetch_array replacement? > >Hi, > >After the SVN up on the 18th July the script we use for generating the Smokeping targets stopped producing any data (the list of slightly reformatted hostnames). The script itself was taken from this mailing list about 2 years ago and is as follows: > >#!/usr/bin/env php ><?php > >include("/opt/observium/includes/defaults.inc.php"); >include("/opt/observium/config.php"); >include("/opt/observium/includes/definitions.inc.php"); >include("/opt/observium/includes/functions.php"); > >echo "*** Targets ***\n\nprobe = FPing\n\nmenu = Top\ntitle = Network Latency Grapher\nremark = Welcome to SmokePing\n\n"; > >$query = mysql_query("SELECT hostname FROM `devices` WHERE `disabled`=0 ORDER BY hostname"); > >while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($query)) { > $hostid = str_replace(".","_",$data['hostname']); > $hostname = $data['hostname']; > echo "+ $hostid\n\nhost = $hostname\n\n"; >} > >?> > >I can see that /includes/functions.php no longer exists but it?s replacement in functions.inc.php does not appear to have a function for mysql_fetch_array(). > >So my question is, can someone point me to the correct replacement function for this? I?ve had a look through it and can?t see what I?m looking for, but PHP is not my ?thing? so I?m missing it. > >Any assistance appreciated! > >Robert Williams >Custodian Data Centre >Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:Robert@CustodianDC.com> >http://www.CustodianDC.com >

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Device Alerts on the Frontpage
by Aaron Hite 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

Guys, I have a question regarding alerts showing up on the frontpage. I have alerts coming to me via email when I have a alert checker looking at the memory going above 50% (testing this operation). But on the frontpage I do not see this show up in either the status boxes or under the device alerts section. I search around and can not find anything that I changed that would prevent this from showing up on the frontpage. I am sure I did something, but just not sure what? Any pointers or direction to start looking would be appreciated. Thanks, Aaron

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Linux Memory Alerts
by Jason LeBlanc 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

Hi all, We're running PE 0.15.7.6539, it seems no matter what I set thresholds for on memory utilization for cached (I can ignore this..) and physical memory. I can look at the graphs and set thresholds to 90-95% and always get alarms. Any ideas or advice? Jason LeBlanc IT Consultant Direct: 678-387-5529 | Cell: 954-461-6492 [CTG-logo-TAG-COLOR] 2030 Powers Ferry Road SE | Suite 130 | Atlanta, GA 30339 Main: 404.352.3000 | Fax: 404.352.2962 | www.ctgatlanta.com

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virtual hosts stats
by Patrick Marquetecken 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

All, Is it possible to display traffic for several hosts ? Now I can see only the compete traffic for the http service, I would like to see the traffic for each virtual host. Or give me some pointers to get me on the way, BTW i’m not a programmer only a system engineer. Thanks

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Support
by Dave Bats 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

Dear Observium Team,, We need your support on this, we try to install MIB's from Eltek(power supply tool) in Observium. We did receive the MIB's from Eltek. After install the MIB's and reboot we see that the system is trying to Read the Eltek MIB's but we see that OID's in the system are not recognized. Is there a way how we can solve this problem, do we need to add some script in Observium to make it work? You support is more than welcome! Kind Regards, Dave Bats

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mysql_fetch_array replacement?
by Robert Williams 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Hi, After the SVN up on the 18th July the script we use for generating the Smokeping targets stopped producing any data (the list of slightly reformatted hostnames). The script itself was taken from this mailing list about 2 years ago and is as follows: #!/usr/bin/env php <?php include("/opt/observium/includes/defaults.inc.php"); include("/opt/observium/config.php"); include("/opt/observium/includes/definitions.inc.php"); include("/opt/observium/includes/functions.php"); echo "*** Targets ***\n\nprobe = FPing\n\nmenu = Top\ntitle = Network Latency Grapher\nremark = Welcome to SmokePing\n\n"; $query = mysql_query("SELECT hostname FROM `devices` WHERE `disabled`=0 ORDER BY hostname"); while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($query)) { $hostid = str_replace(".","_",$data['hostname']); $hostname = $data['hostname']; echo "+ $hostid\n\nhost = $hostname\n\n"; } ?> I can see that /includes/functions.php no longer exists but it’s replacement in functions.inc.php does not appear to have a function for mysql_fetch_array(). So my question is, can someone point me to the correct replacement function for this? I’ve had a look through it and can’t see what I’m looking for, but PHP is not my ‘thing’ so I’m missing it. Any assistance appreciated! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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