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Configuring E-mail Alert Settings
by Jacob Chavez 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hello, which file should I edit to configure and enable e-mail notifications for when a device is down? I need assistance configuring the mail backend settings and the alert itself. I was working on config.php, but haven't had success with messages being sent while a device is offline. Below is what I have thus far. // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['descr'] = "Default Email Alert"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['type'] = "email"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['contact'] = "you(a)yourdomain.org"; $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['interval'] = 86400; $config['alerts']['bgp']['whitelist'] = NULL; $config['uptime_warning'] ="84600"; $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['email']['from'] = NULL; $config['email']['default'] = "XXXXX(a)XXXX.com"; $config['email']['default_only'] = FALSE; $config['email']['backend'] = 'mail'; $config['email']['sendmail_path'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['email']['from'] = "Observium <XXXX(a)XXXXX.com>"; $config['email']['smtp_host'] = 'localhost'; $config['email']['smtp_port'] = 25; $config['email']['smtp_timeout'] = 10; $config['email']['smtp_secure'] = NULL; $config['email']['smtp_auth'] = FALSE; $config['email']['smtp_username'] = NULL; $config['email']['smtp_password'] = NULL; // End config.php Thanks! -- *Jacob Chavez - IT Support Technician Traffic Management, Inc. * *Toll Free: *800-763-3999 *Direct: *562-264-2275 *Mobile: *562-537-6205 *Fax: *562-424-0266 www.trafficmanagement.com California - Great Lakes - San Jose California License # 785804, Class C31 - Traffic Control Services - Sales and Rentals - Permits and Consulting - Engineering - Training

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Syslogging & Expansion
by Lane Eckley 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hi Everyone, We are considering the possibility of using Observium's syslog capability to handle the syslog output of 50 machines which will be spitting out roughly 300K lines of log per hour for a grand total in the ball park 360,000,000 log entries per 24 hours. Has anyone used/attempted to handle this volume of logging with Observium in the past? If so, would you mind sharing your experience? I am also looking for feedback on hardware suggestions for both the Observium machine as well for the standalone database server. Any feedback is appreciated! Thanks, -Lane

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Newbie... Cambium PTP wireless sorta contribution
by Ron Marosko 08 Nov '14

08 Nov '14

Greetings, New to the product, new to the list, trying it out to see if this will work for us. and I like what I see so far. I note with glee the upcoming support of the Cambium Canopy products with the patch filed under OBSERVIUM-1055, but also see that it's only for the PMP product line. Now it's important to note I'm a network engineer, not a coder, so I'm not sure how to go about some of the more (heck, even the lesser!) intricate details of PHP programming. I've been able to make it as far as the following for the os.inc.php include, but submission of same for the project. I have no idea how to go about doing, and again I'll point back to not being someone who knows how to write code. Just for testing sake, I put the following stuff into my own installation and tested, the discovery php is properly discovering/classifying the devices, and the poller phps being called are fetching the proper information from the devices. Thus, I submit for further determination for the os.inc.php: // Cambium PTP800 $os = "ptp800"; $config['os'][$os]['text'] = "Cambium PTP800"; $config['os'][$os]['type'] = "wireless"; $config['os'][$os]['icon'] = "cambium"; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.17713.8"; $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "CAMBIUM-PTP800-V2-MIB"; // Cambium PTP400/600 $os = "ptp400"; $config['os'][$os]['text'] = "Cambium PTP400/600"; $config['os'][$os]['type'] = "wireless"; $config['os'][$os]['icon'] = "cambium"; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.17713.1"; $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "MOTOROLA-PTP-MIB"; For the polling/os part, I submit: ptp800.inc.php $version = trim(snmp_get($device, "CAMBIUM-PTP800-MIB::softwareVersion.0", "-OQv"),'"'); $hardware = trim(snmp_get($device, "CAMBIUM-PTP800-MIB::productName.0", "-OQv"),'"'); $serial = trim(snmp_get($device, "CAMBIUM-PTP800-MIB::rFUSerial.0", "-OQv"),'"'); ptp400.inc.php $version = trim(snmp_get($device, "MOTOROLA-PTP-MIB::softwareVersion.0", "-OQv"),'"'); $hardware = trim(snmp_get($device, "MOTOROLA-PTP-MIB::productName.0", "-OQv"),'"'); Now there are a lot of other pollable items in the MIBs, but I have no idea how to integrate any graphs or anything like that... I was looking (or trying to look at) the canopy.inc.php that is part of the -1055 patch, but it looks like a lot of gobbledygook to me.. just like Cisco router/switch configs may look to some of ya'll. Thus, if anyone can help with the PHP side of the stuff, I can handle the networking side. Regards, Ron -- Ron Marosko, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CCIE No. 4526 (R/S), NN5DX Senior Network Engineer DirectBytes, LLC. 1108 West Dickinson Blvd, Suite A Fort Stockton, TX 79735 USA o: +1 432 336 5600 x115 c: +1 432 290 6344 e: ron(a)rjr-services.com pgp pubkey: <http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x778B3B0258AB8B5C> 0x58AB8B5C "To know me is to fly with me."

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hostname underscore
by Rob VanHooren 08 Nov '14

08 Nov '14

<oldgrump> underscore is an illegal character for a hostname, per RFC. you may thank a generation of miseducated Microsoft admins for thinking otherwise & polluting the world's DNS gene pool only to cause such untold suffering as this. dashes are perfectly fine because they're not illegitimate characters wrongly used by people who should have known better. bastards. </oldgrump> cheers, R. typogaphical errors courtesy of iPad. On Nov 7, 2014, at 16:55, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: >> does not show due to the underscore in the name. Not sure >> why. Dashes seem to be fine though.

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smokeping ping tab now showing up on device
by Rory Schramm 07 Nov '14

07 Nov '14

H Guys, I'm having a problem with getting smokeping working with some of my devices. I have smokeping setup and it's working correctly ( I'm able to go to the smokeping cgi and see the graphs, etc). However the ping tab for smokeping isn't showing up for the device in observium. The device name is the same in both observium and smokeping. However, it's working fine for one of my switches but not the rest. I don't beleive it's a permission as I'm able to get it working with one of our switches. I added the following to my config for smokeping: $config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/var/lib/smokeping/";<mailto:observium@observium.org> The device in question is a cisco 3825 router. Observium CE 0.14.4.5229 Apache 2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.15 MySQL 5.5.40-MariaDB SNMP NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3 RRDtool 1.4.7 Thanks, Rory ________________________________ The information contained in this transmission is privileged and/or confidential information intended 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. Please contact North Island Credit Union at info(a)myisland.com<mailto:info@myisland.com> if you received this transmission in error.

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SNMP Location string parsing
by Ulrik Ivers 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hi all, We use the geocoding functionality in Observium to place the devices on the front page map. All is working reasonably well. Today we set the SNMP sysLocation field locally in each device to street address ("Street, City, Country") We would like to be able to add "non-Geolocation" information to the sysLocation string without messing up the geolocation functionality. For example, we would like to add "Room 34, Rack 2" to the sysLocation. Is there functionality in Obervium to do this today? E.g. putting the extra information in "()" or other special characters? Regards, /Ulrik Ivers

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Changelog
by Adam Armstrong 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hi Guys, I totally forgot to do the Changelog for the past 2 months, so here it is! http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog adam.

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Rivered Steelhead support
by Colin Stubbs 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hi All Riverbed MIB's are in both Observium stable and trunk... but there's no explicit Riverbed definition in os.inc.php. Was this removed at some point for a reason? Or is someone already working on Riverbed specific discovery and polling code? Thanks -Colin

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Possible to create alerts for MySQL metrics contained in the MySQL agent?
by Hogan Whittall 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

We're trying to find a way to generate alerts on various MySQL metrics, it looks like all of the metrics are already in the monitor agent/graphs. What is involved in getting those metrics into the alerter/alert checker? This is for Pro. Thanks! -Hogan

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Nexus 5596 polling slowness
by Daniel Bliss 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hello, Just curious if anyone else is seeing long polling times for Nexus 5596UP switches. Everything else in our deployment is responding in a timely manner and there are no bottlenecks on the Observium server at this point. ./poller.php: access2-2a.sj2 - 1 devices polled in 243.6 secs Polling times in the high 200 second range are not uncommon while most all of our other high port density devices are well under 30 seconds. If anyone has found a NXOS software version that works better than others please let me know. We have tried on various software version 5,6 and 7 releases. I can only imagine this is a Cisco issue but thought I'd ask here in case anyone solved it. Regards, Dan Bliss

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