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Help with Dell X1026P switch
by Heil, Rick 18 Mar '19

18 Mar '19

Hi all – I’m having some issues with a Dell X1026P switch. It polls ports and VLANs, but doesn’t pull in processor info, status checks, etc. like our other switches of similar model in the Dell lineup or even show the Dell logo – its stuck on “Generic Device” with the mascot and question mark. I’m wondering if this switch’s snmp implementation just sucks, or if there’s a MIB or some snmpwalk specific output I can give that might help determine why observium doesn’t seem to understand what the switch is. Thanks for any pointers in the right direction. Rick

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SLA and CBQOS missing
by Bastiaan Topper 18 Mar '19

18 Mar '19

Hello, We are experiencing an issue with IP SLA and CBQOS. The items are missing from the menu and on the device-specific tab. When we do a manual discovery and a manual polling of a device, it all appears back again. After waiting a few minutes (appears to be till the normal poller wrapper runs again), the data is missing again. This is now since a week or 3 and we can’t get it fixed. How can we further troubleshoot this/fix this? Kind regards, Bastiaan Topper

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 104, Issue 13
by Ken R. Friend 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

Alert Changes in newest subscription update? Hello all. I'm fairly green with Linux as well as Observium. I stood up the community edition on Centos 3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64 and found it to be a very useful tool. Management supported moving to subscription. I have various alert checkers setup and everything seemed to be very happy and good until updating to revision 9727 on 2/28/2019. It seemed like Observium started becoming more "sensitive" to things and has generated false positives on devices being down when they actually aren't. I tried locating release notes on the revision to see if any changes were made to alerting, to no avail. I just ran another update this morning and we are now on 9775. I guess what I'm asking is if there were changes to alerting / polling that may require me to tweak my settings. Thank you in advance for any insight...and this is an absolutely terrific tool. The subscription price is a steal compared to other commercial packages available that are 10 times the cost and about 100 times less useful. Very Respectfully, Kenneth R. Friend II Sonnax Transmission Company, Inc. (802) 463-0287 -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: Friday, March 15, 2019 8:00 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 104, Issue 13 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: Ubuntu Distro Upgrade (Adam Armstrong) 2. Re: Ubuntu Distro Upgrade (Ryan Huff) 3. Re: Ubuntu Distro Upgrade (Simon Mousey Smith) 4. Re: Ubuntu Distro Upgrade (Ryan Huff) 5. Re: Ubuntu Distro Upgrade (Adam Armstrong) 6. Observium Enterprise (Joelly, Alexander) 7. Re: Observium Enterprise (Adam Armstrong) 8. Re: Observium Enterprise (Storer, Darren) 9. Re: Observium Enterprise (Joelly, Alexander) 10. Re: Observium Enterprise (Joelly, Alexander) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:12:00 +0000 From: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> To: "Colin Stubbs via observium" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Ubuntu Distro Upgrade Message-ID: <a61235d7-5347-40aa-b664-069ccedccc35(a)getmailbird.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi, No problems from us, we much prefer 18.04. Good luck with Ubuntu surviving, though! :) adam. Sent from Mailbird [http://www.getmailbird.com/?utm_source=Mailbird&utm_medium=email&ut…] On 2019-03-13 10:19:37, Peter Derissen via observium <observium(a)observium.org> wrote: Hello, Currently we are running Observium Pro 19.2.9712 (stable) on Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS Can I run a Distro upgrade to 18.04.2 without any problems? Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Derissen Eurofiber Nederland Network Engineer Safariweg 25-31 +31 (0)6 11587110 3605 MA Maarssen [EF-logo_rood_RGB -handtekening] [http://www.eurofiber.nl/] Volg ons op Twitter [https://twitter.com/Eurofiber] | Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/company/eurofiber] | Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/user/Eurofibergroup] ******** IMPORTANT NOTICE ******** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure and it is intended only for the addressees. 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Eurofiber N.V. has its registered office at Belgicastraat 5 bus 7, 1930 Zaventem and is registered under national number 0435.204.851. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/attachments/20190314/123a4ab…> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:23:01 +0000 From: Ryan Huff <ryanhuff(a)outlook.com> To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> Cc: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Ubuntu Distro Upgrade Message-ID: <BN6PR08MB2724A2564291DF3B6DAF3F90C54B0(a)BN6PR08MB2724.namprd08.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Get familiar with netplan before upgrading Ubuntu ;). Lots of significant changes between 16 lts and 18 lts Sent from my iPhone On Mar 14, 2019, at 10:12, Adam Armstrong via observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> wrote: Hi, No problems from us, we much prefer 18.04. 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Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Derissen Eurofiber Nederland Network Engineer Safariweg 25-31 +31 (0)6 11587110 3605 MA Maarssen [EF-logo_rood_RGB -handtekening]<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eurofi…> Volg ons op Twitter<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.c…> | Linkedin<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linke…> | Youtube<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtu…> ******** IMPORTANT NOTICE ******** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure and it is intended only for the addressees. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any copying, distribution or other use of information contained in this e-mail (and its attachments) is not allowed. 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URL: <http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/attachments/20190314/9d4998b…> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:24:50 +0000 From: Simon Mousey Smith <simonsmith5521(a)gmail.com> To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Ubuntu Distro Upgrade Message-ID: <08E889D6-FCC0-4DE1-B8AE-BB9A259FC243(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I learned that the hard way (upgraded our docker hosts from 16 to 18) Netplan isn’t easy if you dont understand it Regards Simon > On 14 Mar 2019, at 14:23, Ryan Huff via observium <observium(a)observium.org> wrote: > > Get familiar with netplan before upgrading Ubuntu ;). Lots of > significant changes between 16 lts and 18 lts > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 14, 2019, at 10:12, Adam Armstrong via observium <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org>> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> No problems from us, we much prefer 18.04. >> >> Good luck with Ubuntu surviving, though! :) >> >> adam. >> >> Sent from Mailbird <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.getmai…>On 2019-03-13 10:19:37, Peter Derissen via observium <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> >>> Currently we are running Observium Pro 19.2.9712 (stable) on Ubuntu >>> 16.04.6 LTS >>> >>> Can I run a Distro upgrade to 18.04.2 without any problems? >>> >>> >>> >>> Met vriendelijke groet, >>> >>> >>> >>> Peter Derissen Eurofiber Nederland >>> >>> Network Engineer Safariweg 25-31 >>> >>> +31 (0)6 11587110 3605 MA Maarssen >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eurofi… >>> 1.safelinks.protection.outlook.com> >>> >>> >>> Volg ons op Twitter >>> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.c… >>> 1.safelinks.protection.outlook.com> | Linkedin >>> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linke… >>> 1.safelinks.protection.outlook.com> | Youtube >>> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtu… >>> 1.safelinks.protection.outlook.com> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ******** IMPORTANT NOTICE ******** >>> This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure and it is intended only for the addressees. 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URL: <http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/attachments/20190314/72a4c2e…> ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:48:25 +0000 From: Ryan Huff <ryanhuff(a)outlook.com> To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Ubuntu Distro Upgrade Message-ID: <BN6PR08MB2724C730BD25E0E28C6F4013C54B0(a)BN6PR08MB2724.namprd08.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Research Yaml... spacing matters ;). Sent from my iPhone On Mar 14, 2019, at 10:25, Simon Mousey Smith via observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> wrote: I learned that the hard way (upgraded our docker hosts from 16 to 18) Netplan isn’t easy if you dont understand it Regards Simon On 14 Mar 2019, at 14:23, Ryan Huff via observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> wrote: Get familiar with netplan before upgrading Ubuntu ;). Lots of significant changes between 16 lts and 18 lts Sent from my iPhone On Mar 14, 2019, at 10:12, Adam Armstrong via observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> wrote: Hi, No problems from us, we much prefer 18.04. Good luck with Ubuntu surviving, though! :) adam. Sent from Mailbird<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.getmai…> On 2019-03-13 10:19:37, Peter Derissen via observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> wrote: Hello, Currently we are running Observium Pro 19.2.9712 (stable) on Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS Can I run a Distro upgrade to 18.04.2 without any problems? Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Derissen Eurofiber Nederland Network Engineer Safariweg 25-31 +31 (0)6 11587110 3605 MA Maarssen [EF-logo_rood_RGB -handtekening]<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eurofi…> Volg ons op Twitter<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.c…> | Linkedin<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linke…> | Youtube<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtu…> ******** IMPORTANT NOTICE ******** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure and it is intended only for the addressees. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any copying, distribution or other use of information contained in this e-mail (and its attachments) is not allowed. 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URL: <http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/attachments/20190314/e651408…> ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:51:28 +0000 From: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> To: "Ryan Huff via observium" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Ubuntu Distro Upgrade Message-ID: <e44e6c4f-3a43-4a45-8d37-a81f6000ff89(a)getmailbird.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" The state of modern Linux makes me sad. They say you always become the thing you hate, and Linux has become Windows. Voodoo configuration and black box undocumented behaviours. adam. On 2019-03-14 14:48:35, Ryan Huff via observium <observium(a)observium.org> wrote: Research Yaml... spacing matters ;). Sent from my iPhone On Mar 14, 2019, at 10:25, Simon Mousey Smith via observium <observium(a)observium.org [mailto:observium@observium.org]> wrote: I learned that the hard way (upgraded our docker hosts from 16 to 18) Netplan isn’t easy if you dont understand it Regards Simon On 14 Mar 2019, at 14:23, Ryan Huff via observium <observium(a)observium.org [mailto:observium@observium.org]> wrote: Get familiar with netplan before upgrading Ubuntu ;). Lots of significant changes between 16 lts and 18 lts Sent from my iPhone On Mar 14, 2019, at 10:12, Adam Armstrong via observium <observium(a)observium.org [mailto:observium@observium.org]> wrote: Hi, No problems from us, we much prefer 18.04. Good luck with Ubuntu surviving, though! :) adam. Sent from Mailbird [https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.getmai…] On 2019-03-13 10:19:37, Peter Derissen via observium <observium(a)observium.org [mailto:observium@observium.org]> wrote: Hello, Currently we are running Observium Pro 19.2.9712 (stable) on Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS Can I run a Distro upgrade to 18.04.2 without any problems? 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The rest only need svn up for code updates. adam. On 2019-03-14 17:03:55, Joelly, Alexander via observium <observium(a)observium.org> wrote: Hello, Is there a docu or install guide for the distributed setup? I have manually installed the rrd and mysql server – the install script only has the option to install the community, pro stable, pro rolling and unix agent. How to I install the gui server and pollers properly that they are all getting updated? Do I have to run the install script on every poller and remove the packages I do not need on them – like mysql server? thx, Alex -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Many thanks Darren On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 17:04, Joelly, Alexander via observium < observium(a)observium.org> wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a docu or install guide for the distributed setup? > I have manually installed the rrd and mysql server – the install > script only has the option to install the community, pro stable, pro > rolling and unix agent. > How to I install the gui server and pollers properly that they are all > getting updated? > Do I have to run the install script on every poller and remove the > packages I do not need on them – like mysql server? > > thx, > Alex > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > .memetic.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/attachments/20190315/ffa002b…> ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 09:14:42 +0000 From: "Joelly, Alexander" <Alexander.Joelly(a)magna.com> To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium Enterprise Message-ID: <AM6PR02MB5013308E42225CEEC7794C328A440(a)AM6PR02MB5013.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Thanks Adam, yeah – noticed the enterprise version and distributed polling is new and highly appreciate that features. I’ve installed one manually and one with the script – only wanted to make sure I’m not doing anything wrong or messing up something. We have a datacenter in US, EU and CN where the RRDCache and MySQL instance is running in EU and I want to deploy two or three pollers in every other datacenter. Anyone using MySQL active/active or Galera cluster or is it recommended to stick with a single MySQL server? Thanks, Alex From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong via observium Hi Alexander, These are very new features, and the documentation is trailing a little. I think the documentation for the distributed setup on the site is still only partially complete. As is the way when you have to decide between code and documentation! :) At the moment the script doesn't have an option to install a "partial" install, but a regular one will do fine. You can remove mysql and apache after the install. When updating the master and slave instances, you only need to do "./discovery.php -u" on the master, since that's where all of the data is held. The rest only need svn up for code updates. adam. On 2019-03-14 17:03:55, Joelly, Alexander via observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> wrote: Hello, Is there a docu or install guide for the distributed setup? 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Ubuntu Distro Upgrade
by Peter Derissen 14 Mar '19

14 Mar '19

Hello, Currently we are running Observium Pro 19.2.9712 (stable) on Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS Can I run a Distro upgrade to 18.04.2 without any problems? Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Derissen Eurofiber Nederland Network Engineer Safariweg 25-31 +31 (0)6 11587110 3605 MA Maarssen [EF-logo_rood_RGB -handtekening]<http://www.eurofiber.nl/> Volg ons op Twitter<https://twitter.com/Eurofiber> | Linkedin<https://www.linkedin.com/company/eurofiber> | Youtube<https://www.youtube.com/user/Eurofibergroup> ******** IMPORTANT NOTICE ******** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure and it is intended only for the addressees. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any copying, distribution or other use of information contained in this e-mail (and its attachments) is not allowed. If you have received this e-mail in error, kindly notify us immediately by telephone or e-mail and delete the message (including any attachments) from your system. Please note that e-mail messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be subject of unauthorized interception or other interference without the knowledge of sender or recipient. Eurofiber only sends and receives e-mails on the basis that Eurofiber is not responsible for any such computer viruses, corruption or other interference or any consequences thereof. Eurofiber Nederland B.V. is registered in the Chamber of Commerce of Amsterdam with number 34134377, VAT number NL 8088.51.524 B01. Eurofiber N.V. has its registered office at Belgicastraat 5 bus 7, 1930 Zaventem and is registered under national number 0435.204.851.

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Oxidized for config management & notifications
by Colin Stubbs 14 Mar '19

14 Mar '19

All, I've added the first stage of a patch for better Oxidized support via the existing JIRA ticket from 2016, https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-1986 What I'm building is what I've described in the JIRA comment, which basically means that we shift to using the Oxidized API properly rather than files on an immediately accessible filesystem. Not too hard to write and the rest of it'll be done shortly. But I am very interested in feedback about Oxidized. Particularly as the project is in need of maintainers to really keep it going - https://github.com/ytti/oxidized#help-needed Are you using it? How well's it going? Do you agree with what I'm proposing to add to Observium and see value in it? (See below) OR; have you found something better and have since moved away from Oxidized to another OSS or a COTS product? NOTE: Rants about Ruby/Oxidized or SVN/git being bad exist in the same leaky mentally challenged boat as rants about RANCID/Perl being bad. Don't bother. At the moment the main thing that's missing from the existing reuse of the RANCID code in an Oxidized environment; is the ability to see diffs when it's a git repo rather than Subversion. A secondary issue with the existing RANCID support is that the Observium web interface needs access to SVN/configs via the file system. So you either need run Oxidized on the same box; or export the file system to it using NFS/etc. There's a lot of reasons why you might be wanting to run Oxidized elsewhere and don't want to expose a file system from it back to your Observium implementation. -- From JIRA -- The ideal integration here would actually utilise the Oxidized API so the Oxidized system can exist anywhere; rather than on a file system immediately accessible to the Observium webUI. e.g. config from https://oxidized-not-obserivum-server.org.tld/node/fetch/[NODE] Observium would also expose a list of hosts (may already be in API?); that Oxidized would use as a list of devices to monitor, https://github.com/ytti/oxidized/blob/master/docs/Sources.md#source-http Syslog (SNMP trap to syslog where necessary) alerting matches for config change events would trigger Oxidized based collection of new config; which in turn would trigger Oxidized based alerts in close to real time for changes. -Colin

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observium alerting not working any more in last version?
by Farshid Abediny 12 Mar '19

12 Mar '19

Hello, we are using observium community edition and in last version we were able to add alert checker but in latest version its not possible, should we upgrade to pro version? THnak you.

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Re: [Observium] Ignoring Interfaces in Discovery
by Mike Stupalov 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

Hi, really as I see, this is firmware/hardware issue. Better write TAC to Cisco. I added ifType ignoring in validate ports (for this os) in r9755. But I see too many not exist Oids, I'm not sure this will help you.. Benjamin Moore wrote on 07/03/2019 17:58: > This is a cisco RV340 small business router > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 1:47 AM Mike Stupalov <mike(a)observium.org > <mailto:mike@observium.org>> wrote: > > Hi, > > what OS on device? > > Please show/attach debug discovery for device: > ./discovery.php -d -h <device> > > And snmpwalk for ifTable: > > snmpwalk -v2c -c <community> -m IF-MIB <device> .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2 > > Yes, Ports ignored because empty ifType. > Usually it makes no sense to observe them, because all other > counters are missing too. > > But if in ifTable exist counters for this device, I will add > exclude for os. > > Benjamin Moore via observium wrote on 06/03/2019 20:25: >> Can someone tell me how to get Observium to NOT ignore >> interfaces? I'm assuming that it is ignoring them due to the >> fact that they don't have ifTypes assigned - >> ##### Module Start: ports ##### >> >> o Caching OIDs ifDescr ifAlias ifName ifType ifOperStatus >> o Caching DB 0 ports >> o Discovering ports XX VLAN1(12)XXXXXXXX >> +---------+-----------+-----------+---------+--------+-------------+---------+ >> | ifIndex | ifDescr | ifName | ifAlias | ifType | Oper >> Status | Ignored | >> +---------+-----------+-----------+---------+--------+-------------+---------+ >> | 9 | WAN2 | WAN2 | ... | | >> | yes | >> | 10 | WAN1 | WAN1 | ... | | | >> yes | >> | 12 | VLAN1 | VLAN1 | ... | l2vlan | >> | no | >> | 25 | LAN4 | LAN4 | ... | | down >> | yes | >> | 26 | LAN3 | LAN3 | ... | | down | >> yes | >> | 27 | LAN2 | LAN2 | ... | | down >> | yes | >> | 28 | LAN1 | LAN1 | ... | | up >> | yes | >> | 29 | WAN_PORT1 | WAN_PORT1 | ... | | up >> | yes | >> | 30 | WAN_PORT2 | WAN_PORT2 | ... | | down >> | yes | >> | 51 | USB1 | USB1 | ... | usb | >> | yes | >> | 52 | USB2 | USB2 | ... | usb | | >> yes | >> +---------+-----------+-----------+---------+--------+-------------+---------+ >> LAN1 and WAN PORT 1 are the two interfaces I need to have monitored. >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > -- > Mike Stupalov > Observium Limited, http://observium.org > -- Mike Stupalov Observium Limited, http://observium.org

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Re: [Observium] Ignoring Interfaces in Discovery
by Benjamin Moore 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

Just checking - did you get my response? On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 8:58 AM Benjamin Moore <buldamoosh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > This is a cisco RV340 small business router > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 1:47 AM Mike Stupalov <mike(a)observium.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> what OS on device? >> >> Please show/attach debug discovery for device: >> ./discovery.php -d -h <device> >> >> And snmpwalk for ifTable: >> >> snmpwalk -v2c -c <community> -m IF-MIB <device> .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2 >> >> Yes, Ports ignored because empty ifType. >> Usually it makes no sense to observe them, because all other counters >> are missing too. >> >> But if in ifTable exist counters for this device, I will add exclude for >> os. >> >> Benjamin Moore via observium wrote on 06/03/2019 20:25: >> >> Can someone tell me how to get Observium to NOT ignore interfaces? I'm >> assuming that it is ignoring them due to the fact that they don't have >> ifTypes assigned - >> ##### Module Start: ports ##### >> >> o Caching OIDs ifDescr ifAlias ifName ifType ifOperStatus >> o Caching DB 0 ports >> o Discovering ports XX VLAN1(12)XXXXXXXX >> >> +---------+-----------+-----------+---------+--------+-------------+---------+ >> | ifIndex | ifDescr | ifName | ifAlias | ifType | Oper Status | >> Ignored | >> >> +---------+-----------+-----------+---------+--------+-------------+---------+ >> | 9 | WAN2 | WAN2 | ... | | | yes >> | >> | 10 | WAN1 | WAN1 | ... | | | yes >> | >> | 12 | VLAN1 | VLAN1 | ... | l2vlan | | no >> | >> | 25 | LAN4 | LAN4 | ... | | down | yes >> | >> | 26 | LAN3 | LAN3 | ... | | down | yes >> | >> | 27 | LAN2 | LAN2 | ... | | down | yes >> | >> | 28 | LAN1 | LAN1 | ... | | up | yes >> | >> | 29 | WAN_PORT1 | WAN_PORT1 | ... | | up | yes >> | >> | 30 | WAN_PORT2 | WAN_PORT2 | ... | | down | yes >> | >> | 51 | USB1 | USB1 | ... | usb | | yes >> | >> | 52 | USB2 | USB2 | ... | usb | | yes >> | >> >> +---------+-----------+-----------+---------+--------+-------------+---------+ >> LAN1 and WAN PORT 1 are the two interfaces I need to have monitored. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> >> >> -- >> Mike Stupalov >> Observium Limited, http://observium.org >> >>

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Re: [Observium] OBS-2925 - Ping Only Hosts / OBS_SNMP_SKIP flag / snmp_skip attribute
by Colin Stubbs 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

I know where you're at... but, 0) No refactoring required - this is part of the point of the patch ( I would not have even attempted this if it wasn't so easy... ) and my long writeup for Mike given he hadn't actually looked at JIRA yet. Uses existing code/architecture - bit flag and device attributes - to mark a device as "don't do any SNMP to this device right now" 1) Observium uses fping... 2) Smokeping is horrible - can provide great value sure, but horrible to use, and again, extra tool. I'm a long way from unfamiliar with it and have both used it many years ago, and considered it for our current environments. Not useful to us. 3) Smokeping is not integrated to Observium if the device is not monitored by SNMP - this is fine when it's just you or a small team of people who understand this and are happy to flick between interfaces and how to work with Smokeping. Not great when you have a larger team and you really just need one interface on a monitor in your operations room that tells everyone everything that's up/down/problematic right now. Particularly not fine when your level 1's can't really login on CLI and edit config files etc. 4) IP SLA's - vendor specific thing. I love them in the right environment. Fantastic tool and capability to have in a network. We have zero Cisco in this situation and don't want to add a device specifically for this. 5) Your description sounds like it's just you in this environment... and if email fails, or you're hit by a bus, no one else knows there's a problem let alone how your alerting solution works and how to maintain it. Also, manual investigation/access to history. By having Observium do the ping we get to leverage the alerting capabilities inherent to it, e.g. email/webhook/PagerDuty/OpsGenie/VictorOps etc etc etc., as well as the webUI for visual alert notification and access to graphs/history. It's actually a simpler and cleaner solution; unless you value seeing the min/max/average/jitter values that IP SLA or Smokeping can help you see. In which case it's not what you need. -Colin Email: cstubbs @ gmail . com On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 at 22:44, Ryan Huff <ryanhuff(a)outlook.com> wrote: > I really do understand this Colin, on a deeper level than you might > imagine ;). I have no vested interest either way personally, I’m just > offering some unsolicited thoughts... > > I always looked at this specific topic like asking a 10lbs. (4.5kg or > 0.7149 stones) sledge hammer to drive a nail. Sure, it can do it but it’ll > probably be messy and ugly because a sledge hammer was never meant to drive > nails, and when you use tools in ways they weren’t really designed for, > things can get messy. Just use a hammer instead. > > I have done three things to achieve icmp only monitoring and also stick > within the base code (as a developer, I hate mucking with base code or > re-inventing wheels when I want to do different things). Icmp-only > monitoring to me, always just seemed silly (not in purpose) to try and work > into an existing and established application that didn’t already do it. > > It’s just too easy of a problem to solve otherwise, than to go to the > time/expense of refactoring an application IMHO. > > - I use RTT SLAs to monitor next hop devices (which OBS is fabulous at > picking up), assuming the device hopped from is SLA capable and OBS > monitored. > > - I use Fping (Smokeping) integrated with OBS. Using the Smokeping web > wrapper makes a great RTT only tool, and you also have the OBS integration > for when it makes sense to use on OBS devices. > > - I have a small (very small) bash script that reads a text file of IP > address and launches one thread per device to run continuous pings. Not a > very scalable script, but like you, I only need it for a very few limited > cases. The script uses sendmail to email me if it can’t reach something. > > Thanks, > > Ryan > > On Mar 3, 2019, at 06:35, Colin Stubbs via observium < > observium(a)observium.org> wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > They're in the JIRA ticket, but sure, here's some inserted to this email. > > I'm aware of Adam/your preference to reject or simply ignore the regular > requests for this kind of feature, and the confusion it causes new users > considering Observium for use in their organisations when they find out > they can't do the most basic of monitoring to something using Observium. > > A great many of your users would gain a lot of value from being able to > add a few ping only hosts. > > Why build, manage and integrate (to other tools) another ping based > monitoring system when all you need is to monitor a handful of devices with > ping only; simply because those devices fail to offer SNMP for some reason? > > Anything that does have a working SNMP service can and should be monitored > with SNMP to gain greater insight into what's happening on it... but not > everything does. > > No one in their right mind should attempt to use Observium as a system > which monitors massive numbers of DNS names or IP's with ping only, there > are better systems out there for that, but there are so many situations in > a which an Observium install can and should be able to monitor some devices > ping only. > > I've associated the ticket with the two previous JIRA requests for this > feature; which Adam rejected. > > They were just feature requests as I recall; no code proposed. Totally > understandable you guys didn't want to work on the feature when it's not > really what you feel Observium is for. > > Rejecting this now when you have just been gifted working code, that > modifies things fairly minimally, and simply leverages the ping information > that's already occurring to each and every device (that ping is not > disabled for), and uses an existing method to mark devices so that further > SNMP based polling does not occur... would make no sense. > > That said; I totally understand if you want me to fix/add/improve things > before considering it further - simply communicate what's necessary and > I'll do that. > > So, for anyone else on the list, who wants the feature; now is your best > chance to add your voice and explain why this kind of feature is of use to > you. Because you're probably not going to get it otherwise. > > We've been using this internally since early 2017... I just got around to > updating Observium to the latest and greatest (reasons, terrible terrible > reasons...), and had to update my patch. > > But, I'd really prefer not to have to maintain a patch, and I definitely > don't want to have to publish it so others can use it and cause Observium > Ltd further dramas because of it. > > How many hosts do we monitor ping only? > > Six. A grand total of six. Everything else has SNMP in some form; and we > want as much info as we can extract from them via it - which is why we love > Observium. Nothing else compares for SNMP based monitoring IMHO. > > Most of those ping only devices are next hop service provider devices just > outside our network, for which they won't give us any kind of SNMP access. > Ping'ing them offers a small (very small!) degree of insight into link > latency/loss from us to them (manual comparison I must admit), and/or > potential device problems for the thing that's currently responding for > that IP. > > Hey look... a perfect use case for this feature... > > The others are devices that we use but which simply don't offer SNMP > because vendor X didn't bother to add net-snmp to their standard build for > CentOS/Ubuntu/whatever weird and wonderful Linux distro they built them on; > when they really should have. Don't care much just need to know they're on > the network in some way and want a long track record of response time to > them. > > Hey look... a perfect use case for this feature... > > Not surprisingly we don't want to have to operate and maintain a separate > system for six IP's. Alerting can be flappy because Observium/fping is only > sending a single ICMP echo - we're OK with that and don't even really want > more pings which would lead to average values anyway - and we've worked > around flaps with delays and automatic suppression of duplicate alerts in > our alert management and escalation tool. > > The six are monitored by IP; the DNS hostname test below was simply to > double check there was no issue with this and a DNS name. Just a hostname > that I've never managed to forget and use a lot to ping test connectivity > out. > > Also, I just realised that the "Skip ping" option is no longer > automatically hidden in device settings when "Skip SNMP" is checked; I'll > add an updated diff in JIRA shortly after I look at the JS for that again. > > <Capture.PNG> > > <observium_ping_only_screens3.PNG> > > <observium_ping_only_screens4.png> > > <observium_ping_only_screens5.PNG> > > > On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 at 18:07, Mike Stupalov <mike(a)observium.org> wrote: > >> Ohh my dear.. >> >> Which really benefit to use Observium for ping_only hosts? >> >> Pls show (screenshots) how this devices displayed on your install. >> >> Colin Stubbs via observium wrote on 03/03/2019 07:43: >> >> >> For the benefit of anyone on the list who doesn't use JIRA... and also so >> that others who support (want/need) this feature can comment. >> >> https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-2925 >> <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjira.obse…> >> >> Attached patch defines OBS_SNMP_SKIP flag and uses snmp_skip device >> attribute, similar to OBS_PING_SKIP and ping_skip, in order to have hosts >> that are ping only. >> >> Ping only hosts can still have the Observium Unix Agent installed >> (tested), and other poller modules such as IPMI enabled (untested). >> >> Tested: >> >> 1. Add/remove/rename ping only hosts via CLI >> 2. Add/remove ping only hosts via webUI >> 3. View/interact ping only hosts via webUI - SNMP specific >> features/menus etc are hidden while skip SNMP is enabled >> 4. Alerting - device_status equals 0 && device_status_type equals >> ping - will trigger alerts for host down/recovery events >> 5. Shifting a previously SNMP contactable host to ping only by >> ticking skip SNMP box - old SNMP graphs/etc are maintained and remain >> available - remove skip SNMP box and SNMP polling begins again >> >> Things I know kind of don't work right now: >> >> 1. Location override - poller/discovery doesn't seem to perform >> geocoding and whatever else is happening there >> >> Things that could be improved: >> >> 1. Unix Agent poller module etc is enabled by default for all hosts, >> for ping only hosts, perhaps it should be disabled by default? Will improve >> performance by reducing the number of processes that hang while the 10s >> default connect timeout happens. >> >> Totally untested: >> >> 1. Use of autodiscovery SNMP skip - should work in theory, unsure if >> those parts of the patch should actually be used though. Some people out >> there may actually want to add anything that does respond to ping and can >> be found thru adjacency and routing protocol info etc?? >> >> >> >> Patch generated from recent trunk, touches files as below, >> >> [root@desktop observium]# diff -r -u observium-trunk root | grep -v >> ^Only > ping_only_hosts.diff >> [root@desktop observium]# cd root >> [root@desktop root]# svn status >> M add_device.php >> M html/pages/addhost.inc.php >> M html/pages/device/edit/device.inc.php >> M html/pages/device/edit.inc.php >> M html/pages/device/graphs.inc.php >> M html/pages/device/perf.inc.php >> M includes/config-variables.inc.php >> M includes/defaults.inc.php >> M includes/definitions.inc.php >> M includes/discovery/functions.inc.php >> M includes/functions.inc.php >> M includes/polling/functions.inc.php >> M poller.php >> M rename_device.php >> [root@desktop root]# svn info | grep ^Revision >> Revision: 9704 >> [root@desktop root]# >> [root@desktop observium]# mv ping_only_hosts.diff >> ping_only_hosts_r9704.diff >> >> -Colin >> >> Email: cstubbs @ gmail . com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpostman.me…> >> >> >> -- >> Mike Stupalov >> Observium Limited, http://observium.org >> <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fobservium.…> >> >> _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > > https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpostman.me… > >

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Distributed poller
by Luca Sasdelli 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

Hi all, does it exist any updated doc about the distributed polling? What about the drop-down "Poller" menu under general device settings? Thanks! Luca

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Ignoring Interfaces in Discovery
by Benjamin Moore 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

Can someone tell me how to get Observium to NOT ignore interfaces? I'm assuming that it is ignoring them due to the fact that they don't have ifTypes assigned - ##### Module Start: ports ##### o Caching OIDs ifDescr ifAlias ifName ifType ifOperStatus o Caching DB 0 ports o Discovering ports XX VLAN1(12)XXXXXXXX +---------+-----------+-----------+---------+--------+-------------+---------+ | ifIndex | ifDescr | ifName | ifAlias | ifType | Oper Status | Ignored | +---------+-----------+-----------+---------+--------+-------------+---------+ | 9 | WAN2 | WAN2 | ... | | | yes | | 10 | WAN1 | WAN1 | ... | | | yes | | 12 | VLAN1 | VLAN1 | ... | l2vlan | | no | | 25 | LAN4 | LAN4 | ... | | down | yes | | 26 | LAN3 | LAN3 | ... | | down | yes | | 27 | LAN2 | LAN2 | ... | | down | yes | | 28 | LAN1 | LAN1 | ... | | up | yes | | 29 | WAN_PORT1 | WAN_PORT1 | ... | | up | yes | | 30 | WAN_PORT2 | WAN_PORT2 | ... | | down | yes | | 51 | USB1 | USB1 | ... | usb | | yes | | 52 | USB2 | USB2 | ... | usb | | yes | +---------+-----------+-----------+---------+--------+-------------+---------+ LAN1 and WAN PORT 1 are the two interfaces I need to have monitored.

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Ping-only devices
by Ryan Huff 03 Mar '19

03 Mar '19

I really do understand this, on a deeper level than might be imagined ;). I have no vested interest either way personally, I’m just offering some unsolicited thoughts... I always looked at the “ping only” topic like asking a 10lbs. (4.5kg or 0.7149 stones) sledge hammer to drive a nail. Sure, it can do it but it’ll probably be messy and ugly because a sledge hammer was never meant to drive nails, and when you use tools in ways they weren’t really designed for, things can get messy. Just use a hammer instead. I have done three things to achieve icmp only monitoring and also stick within the base code (as a developer, I hate mucking with base code or re-inventing wheels when I want to do different things). Icmp-only monitoring to me, always just seemed silly (not in purpose) to try and work into an existing and established application that didn’t already do it. It’s just too easy of a problem to solve otherwise, than to go to the time/expense of refactoring an application IMHO. - I use RTT SLAs to monitor next hop devices (which OBS is fabulous at picking up), assuming the device hopped from is SLA capable and OBS monitored. - I use Fping (Smokeping) integrated with OBS. Using the Smokeping web wrapper makes a great RTT only tool, and you also have the OBS integration for when it makes sense to use on OBS devices. - I have a small (very small) bash script that reads a text file of IP address and launches one thread per device to run continuous pings. Not a very scalable script, but like you, I only need it for a very few limited cases. The script uses sendmail to email me if it can’t reach something. Thanks, Ryan

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2nd TRY | Generating alerts with firewall sessions thresholds
by Gordon Cheng (gocheng) 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Hi all, We are looking for a way to generate alerts from Observium (19.1.9661) when exceeding certain number of sessions on a Cisco firewall. Is it something easily achievable? [cid:image001.png@01D4CEE1.B8160000] Thanks. - Gordon

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Cisco ASA IPSec tunnels
by Johnathon Voegeli 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Hey guys, Does anyone know where to set the “tunnel name” in a Cisco ASA or more rather where Observium gets that info? I have a dozen or so IPSec tunnels built, but Obs calls them all by the outside interface IP I suspect because I am too dense to figure out where its getting the tunnel name field from? [cid:image001.png@01D4D02B.AA8D38E0] The local address and the tunnel name are all the same.

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Change Device Name Without having to Re-Add Device.
by Connary, Scott 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Is there a way to change the name of a device without having to remove and re-add? E.G. Workstation01 Workstation02.contoso.com Change workstation01 to workstation01.contoso.com Thank you in advance for any help with this. -Scott

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Empty alert log
by Laszlo Nemeth 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

Hello I upgraded from 9667 to 9725 and the alert log page is empty. Before the upgrade there were lot of logs, but now it looks like a not fully rendered page.. The syslog alert shows me logs and the bottom of the page the observium logo and the version number. The alert logs doesn't show this bottom line, just give me an FROM and TO field with a Search button and that is all. Can i check anything for the debug? Thanks Laszlo

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Monitor Furukawa
by hermes.martinez＠pueblobonito.com.mx 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

Hi Everybody, Can someone help me, I'm Trying to monitor some devices Furukawa but Observium doesn't show me too much information.. Does anyone have some MIBs that can help me to get more information from the diveces? Regards,

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Create a new dashboard
by Steve 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

Hi, I'm having issues with "create new dashboard" function in observium (19.1.9661). When I select it from the menu it redirects me to url https://MYOBSERVIUMURL/dashboard_add/ but the dashboard remains the default one. I don't get how can I create a new one, can someone explain this to me? Thank you Stefano

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Generating alerts with firewall sessions thresholds
by Gordon Cheng (gocheng) 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

Hi all, We are looking for a way to generate alerts from Observium (19.1.9661) when exceeding certain number of sessions on a Cisco firewall. Is it something easily achievable? [cid:image001.png@01D4CE0A.4A9F84B0] Thanks. - Gordon

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New webhook integration for alert contacts
by Ryan Huff 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

Hey folks, thought I'd share with the community as I recently had a need that I had to build the tool for and thought others might benefit too: https://github.com/ryanthuff/Observium_Webex_Notifier Its a script an OBS webhook contact can post to, and then post those alert details to a Cisco Webex Teams space. The instructions are pretty clear and found in the README.md. I just run the script on-box in the OBS web path (.../html/...) somewhere, then just use that URL for the OBS contact Webhook. I have been using for awhile and it works really well thus far. Thanks, Ryan Huff, CCDP, CCNP Cisco Certified Network and Design Professional

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IP SLA SNMP OID
by Jason La 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

Hi, IP SLA monitoring is awesome from Observium. Can you please let me know what OID you’re using to achieve such a great stat/result? Thank you Jason La | Lead Systems Engineer, Portware Infrastructure Portware, A FactSet Company (212) 370 8353

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Session lifetime
by Ricardo Franco Cantero 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

Hi, I still keep getting logged out even though Global Settings --> Authentication --> Session Lifetime --> 1 Week, Until browser restarts, it doesn't matter. After 30 minutes I get logged out. Kinda frustrating since we can't use Observium at fullest now. Any advice would be welcome with this. We already rebooted the system several times but no help. Kind regards Ricardo Franco Cantero

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Contact alert webhook json payload
by Ryan Huff 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

What I am looking to do, is when an alert notifies my webhook contact, be able to have it also grab the message_graphs blob (if one exists for the notification), so that my custom coded contact also has the graph that caused the alert, along with the alert details; thinking of jitter and RTT SLAs as the use case... So far I have worked out that the alert makes the post call to the notification queue, and the notification queue posts to the contact webhook. In the JSON payload posted to the contact, I don’t see a way to accurately identify which row I would need to select in the notification queue, to grab the message_graphs blob. There is a alert_table_id, but the message_graphs are in the notifications_queue, and since there isn’t a FK relationship between the two tables, not sure if I could accurately identify the right row in notifications_queue. Anyone ever try something like this and/or have advice? Am I overthinking this and rather than grab the blob, is a way to just remake the graph on the fly using the alert details that are posted to the contact webhook? Thanks for any of your thoughts... -Ryan

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Weathermap not drawing png files
by Tomasz Karczewski 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

I added weathermap to observium from https://github.com/akender/weathermap-for-observium Configured as described but after map creation i doesn’t creat .png files. /usr/bin/php /opt/observium/html/weathermap/map-poller.php -d shows PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function check_extension_exists() in /opt/observium/includes/definitions.inc.php:141 Stack trace: #0 /opt/observium/html/weathermap/map-poller.php(55): include() #1 {main} thrown in /opt/observium/includes/definitions.inc.php on line 141 My php version is PHP 7.0.33 Did you have similiar problems? Tomasz Karczewski Administrator Sieci <mailto:tkarczewski@man.olsztyn.pl> tkarczewski(a)man.olsztyn.pl <http://www.man.olsztyn.pl> http://www.man.olsztyn.pl <http://www.uwm.edu.pl> http://www.uwm.edu.pl tel. (89) 523 45 55 fax. (89) 523 43 47 Ośrodek Eksploatacji i Zarządzania Miejską Siecią Komputerową OLMAN w Olsztynie Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

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NTP MIB Question
by Ryan Huff 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

I see OBS has a Cisco NTP MIB.. when I add Cisco devices (like a router for example), that is also running NTP services (ntp server... etc), I don’t see where OBS is showing the information for the device. When I look at the MIBs under device properties, it doesn’t appear to be there, though the MIB is in the /opt/Observium/mib/cisco folder.... Anyone know if there is anything special you have to do to get these MIBs working? Thanks, Ryan Sent from my iPhone

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SNMP hardware detection bugged
by Peter Watts 24 Feb '19

24 Feb '19

We have a few hundred Cisco 880 series routers (approximately four different variants). Since ~4 days ago, they're all getting reported as the same hardware now - C887VA-K9 Here's an example - actually is a CISCO887VA-K9 - from poller.php 19.2.9721: ##### Module Start: os ##### o OS Poller Group o Vendor Cisco o Hardware C887VA-K9 o Version 15.3(3)M9 o Features UNIVERSALK9 o Serial FGL1811239Z o Asset <empty> >From snmpget: (entPhysicalDescr) iso.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.2.1 = STRING: "887VA chassis, Hw Serial#: FGL1811239Z, Hw Revision: 1.0" (entPhysicalContainedIn) iso.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.4.1 = INTEGER: 0 (entPhysicalName) iso.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.7.1 = STRING: "887VA" (entPhysicalSoftwareRev) iso.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.10.1 = STRING: "15.3(3)M9, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)" (entPhysicalSerialNum) iso.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.11.1 = STRING: " FGL1811239Z" (entPhysicalModelName) iso.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.13.1 = STRING: "CISCO887VA-K9" In the device logs: 2019-02-18 08:46:04 aus0264-r1 Hardware changed: 'CISCO887VA-K9' -> 'C887VA-K9' EB Games | ZiNG Pop Culture | Peter Watts | Infrastructure Supervisor | Australia & New Zealand | Peter.Watts(a)ebgames.com<mailto:Peter.Watts@ebgames.com> | +61 7 3860 7757 | 0438 636 110

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unsubscribe
by Michael Medwid 24 Feb '19

24 Feb '19

unsubscribe On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 4:00 AM <observium-request(a)observium.org> wrote: > 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. OBS Integration with NFSen (Ryan Huff) > 2. Re: OBS Integration with NFSen (xomka686) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 22:04:41 +0000 > From: Ryan Huff <ryanhuff(a)outlook.com> > To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: [Observium] OBS Integration with NFSen > Message-ID: > < > BN6PR08MB27246F6A4F24A7417CD360A8C5780(a)BN6PR08MB2724.namprd08.prod.outlook.com > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I -think-, I have NFSen integration with OBS working correctly, but I'm > not clear on where I can see the flow graphs in OBS. I assume under the > Graphs tab on the device page? > > Thanks, > > Ryan Huff, CCDP, CCNP > Cisco Certified Network and Design Professional >

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PHP Weathermap security issue.
by Hamilton, Kent 22 Feb '19

22 Feb '19

Has anyone solved the security issue with PHP Weathermap such that it honors observium permissions? Currently if you are using weathermap anyone can reach your maps without a password if they know the standard URL for the weathermaps. This is an issue for us as we allow external access to our observium server, but have to block the weathermaps using .htaccess files. ________________________________ This e-mail and any documents accompanying it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information belonging to Exegy, Inc. Such information may be protected from disclosure by law. The information is intended for use by only the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately contact the sender by e-mail or phone regarding instructions for return or destruction and do not use or disclose the content to others.

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Alerts Not Sending to Contacts
by Alex 22 Feb '19

22 Feb '19

Good Morning Adam, I recently raised a ticket in jira OBS-2905. I have an instance of Observium running 19.1.9661 and have enabled alerting for a memory check at 70% for one of our hosts. This alert message works as expected on the web interface, the issue is that it is not sending the alert to the contacts (both slack and email). When tested with the test_alert.php script the emails send correctly this leads me to believe that the configuration of the email is not the issue. Do you have any other suggestions as to what I can test to make the alerts send to my contacts correctly when they are naturally generated? Kind Regards, Alex

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Aggregate graphs
by Christian Eriksson 22 Feb '19

22 Feb '19

Hi, Is it possible to aggregate grahps from a selected graph, eg. firewall sessions within a device group? I have made one for all our Cisco security contexts and want to see total sessions at once See attachment Best regards Christian

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Renamed interface - how to keep unified history?
by Adam Thompson 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

I made a change on one of our routers that caused a new ifIndex & name to be assigned to a customer circuit (interface). Observium is correctly reporting the data on the old virtual i/f (which still technically exists) and – naturally – separately on the new virtual i/f. Is there any way to (retroactively???) tell Observium that these are really the same interface, and to display only one graph for the two ifIndexes? Or, if I correct the situation so the old ifIndex & name is being showing traffic again, is there any way to move, or inject, the collected data on the ‘new’ port into the ‘old’ port’s RRDs? (i.e. avoid a multi-day gap in a multi-year dataset) We are reasonably up-to-date, running 19.2.9712 – not sure what other info will be helpful here. Thanks, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [merlin-email-logo] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athompson(a)merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin.mb.ca<http://www.merlin.mb.ca/>

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Alert Checker Question
by Ryan Huff 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

I have an alert checker called, "device down" and it tests for "device_status = 0". Occasionally, this alert will fire, but the underlying OS still has network connectivity to these device (ICMP). What this tells me, is that the underlying SNMP daemon on the server may be malfunctioning, because if OBS can't make and SNMP poll to a device, it makes sense to me that it would think the device_status = 0 for that device. So given that this doesn't seem to be an OBS issue, is it something others have encountered and found away around? I'm Ubuntu 18.04 here... just wondering if I need to throttle the poller or if there are other known way the community has addressed this? Thanks, Ryan

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L2/L3VPN issues with Juniper MIBs
by Luis Balbinot 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

Hi. This has been bothering me for some time but I've only got the time to look at it now. When we list Ports for any given Juniper device we get a nice green label right below the speed/MTU/lag column with the name of the VRF when it's an L3VPN. Why not the same for L2VPNs? That would be nice, specially if the RT is encoded in the name (makes tracking issues easier). Second, on the righthand side of the Ports table there's an unnamed column right next to the MAC Address with some information regarding the interfaces, LAG membership, etc. There's a xconnect icon that is supposed to show the remote interface and device for L2VPNs, but that's completely messed up (see image attached). Are you aware of that? Can that be fixed? The device is correct, but the interface isn't. The same goes for L3VPN. The interfaces shown on that right column are not endpoints of the same VPN and even the devices are wrong. I'd love to help on that. Just checking ahead to see if there's anything stopping you from fixing it at MIB level or something. Thanks! Luis

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Session lifetime
by Ricardo Franco Cantero 18 Feb '19

18 Feb '19

Hi, We just upgraded our Observium and (perhaps it's already mentioned but the archive doesn't work) since the upgrade we keep being logged out every 30 minutes or so. We have it running on a large screen but every 30 minutes (it looks like 30 minutes, haven't timed it) it need to enter my credentials again to log in. I know I can check the box Remember my Credentials but that's not what I'm asking. I want it to keep the session alive longer like it did. Kind regards, Ricardo Franco Cantero

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IPv6 privacy addresses vs IP Session binding
by Darrell Budic 18 Feb '19

18 Feb '19

Pretty obvious when I figured out what was happening, IPv6 privacy addresses aren’t really compatible with IP Session binding. As I discovered and was driven nuts by for a day or two after my ISP added v6 :) If you’re using v6 and seeing rapid session expiry, try disabling IP Session binding. Consider this a RFE for IP Session binding on IPv4 addresses only. Maybe a second request for a loose form of IPv6 session binding to within the same network range (either /64 or user configurable?) to allow some restrictions on it? Not sure how feasible that would be, but it sounds like it could give us some reasonable v6 protections. Thanks for reading, -Darrell

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Custom Widgets
by Mirditor Kuçaj 18 Feb '19

18 Feb '19

Hello I am searching for a way to customize the widgets. With the old dashboard it was easy with the frontpage filters. With the new one I cant EDIT the SYSLOG Widget for displaying only desired severity and any Filter (Only in widget, not in global config) And the device status boxes doesnt display more than 10 boxes even if I has a lot of dashboard space. Displays a unclickable XX more Is there any documentation where can I edit them. I am running Observium 19.1.9661 Regards Mirditor Kuçaj Backbone Network Director <mailto:miri@abissnet.al> miri(a)abissnet.al Abissnet Sh.a. +355 69 60 91 364 +355 (0)44 300 003 Ext 139 Rr. Ismail Qemali, Pallati Abissnet, Tiranë <http://www.abissnet.al/> www.abissnet.al <https://www.facebook.com/Abissnet> <https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AbissnetalISP> <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAIAABqLWRAB88ljU6t8b67oVm8PAlvPrh mPybE&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile%20>

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Question on alerts migration
by xomka686 16 Feb '19

16 Feb '19

Hi Adam, Recently you've mentioned "/migrate_alerts/" link to be used to migrate old alert format to the new one. Is it's usage documented anywhere? Or it's just 1-click operation? I was looking for such functionality and have a few customers with old alerting seaking for easy migration to new style. --- Best regards, Sergei

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Questions regarding parsing
by Ryan Huff 15 Feb '19

15 Feb '19

Are there currently any built-in ways (that I clearly would have missed in the documentation) to create/add custom parsing/metrics? For example; I am a telephony engineer and my routers do the normal route-y things, but they also do specialized things with specialized configurations that are not present on all or most routers (e.g Dial Peers). Is there a way to define/capture configuration sections to parse (clearly, outside the bounds of SNMP, I get it..) and then either populate as a tile on the device page or some type of menu item added to the navigation bar; thinking perhaps the regex engine that is used to create the Syslog alerts or something.. I hate one-offing and "plugin'ing" code, cause then that's something I have to support; so I'm committed to using OB the way its offered, just trying to see if there was a creative way to get this done.. Thanks, Ryan Huff, CCDP, CCNP Cisco Certified Network and Design Professional

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Edit Alert Association Ruleset
by Steve 15 Feb '19

15 Feb '19

Hi, is it possible to edit "Alert Association Ruleset" on an alert checker ? How? Many Thanks Steve

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reverse geocoding not working
by Joey Stanford 15 Feb '19

15 Feb '19

Hi, We have our SNMP location strings set in all but a few cases to “NAME [xx.xxxxxx,-yy.yyyyyyy]” and as you can see from the screenshot that works for over a hundred hosts. For some reason though, not all of them are being interpreted properly. Any idea how to troubleshoot (or fix) this? We’re not overriding anything in config.php.

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Add Lxd edfa/emtx devices patch
by Reto Zingg 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Hi, In a network we monitor there are Langxunda (Lxd) Externally Modulated Optic Transmitters and Erbium Dotted Fibre Amplifiers. E.g: http://www.langxunda.com/en/goods/1167.html The current OS detection for the NSCRTV-ROOT mib does not work on them. So I added rules for them in os.inc.php. The limits which are set for the sensors in nscrtv-root.inc.php do not work for us. So I added some checks to not set a limit. Additionally I added some more sensors. We do not own the copyright of the Lxd logo, I don't know what your policy is, wrt the use of logos. I got it from the web page and cropped it to look nicer. It would be nice if the attached patch and logo could be added. If there are changes needed, please let me know (style, naming convention, etc). Thanks and best regards Reto

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is there any solution to linux not having persistent port ifIndexes ?
by Edvinas K 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Hello, Since we'all know that Linux is not having persistent port if Indexes, is there any quick-fix workaround to make the ifindexes stay after server reboot ? Observium wise or Linux wise ? Thanks

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Assign specific dashboard to user
by Fiberwide Sysadmins 13 Feb '19

13 Feb '19

Hi All, i'm trying to setup a configuration to give access to traffics data to our customers, but I've encounter some problems on the dashboard. Now You can define more dashboards but I can find a way to define a dashboard for our NOC and a dashboard for the customers... The default is applied to all users, but i set this with backbone graphs, so in the case of customer with only USER privilege log in all the graph are showed as "Permission error", that's because are related to device or ports not assigned to that specific customer. So my idea was to create a dashboard only with "Status summary" and "Event Log", those to widget show only the info related to the customer. Other minor question, can You tell Me a way to change the name of the dashboard? Distinti saluti --- Davide Lima Daum - System & Network Engineer Fibering S.p.a. - www.fiberwide.com T: +39.02.00632100 F: +39.02.00632199 e: sysadmin(a)fiberwide.com

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Changelog
by Benjamin Moore 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

Is there somewhere I can see the changelog for the rolling version of Observium?

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Having issues with the email alerting..
by Ryan Huff 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

Having issues getting the alert to mail. I am not using SMTP, I have sendmail installed locally to the OS. If I use the PHP mail(); function in a test script and execute it in the broswer, it sends mail just fine. Here is the email params in my 'config.php' file: $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['email']['backend'] = 'mail'; $config['email']['sendmail_path'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; $config['alerts']['interval'] = 40000; $config['email']['default'] = "me(a)company.com"; $config['email']['from'] = "Observium <observium(a)company.com>"; $config['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; Any thoughts mates? Thanks, Ryan Huff, CCDP, CCNP Cisco Certified Network and Design Professional

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mcrypt deprecated
by Lane Russell 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

It appears that the install instructions for Ubuntu 18.04 still require that mcrypt be enabled. However, mcrypt was deprecated in PHP 7.1 and fully removed in PHP 7.2, which is used in Ubuntu 18.04. In addition to updating the install documentation, what is the timeline for replacing mcrypt in Observium? What are the correct steps for installing Observium on Ubuntu 18.04? Regards, Lane Russell Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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Dealing with Alert Storms
by Joey Stanford 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

Hi All, I’m looking for advice on how to deal with alert storms. For example, we lost a UPS last night at a critical hub which cause Observium not to be able to reach most of our networks (and of course, all the alternative OSPF routes were powered via that UPS). Consequently we had several hundred alerts sent out via email and telegram. Is there any interesting way to deal with this that anyone can recommend? Thanks, Joey

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Printing reports
by Ryan Huff 09 Feb '19

09 Feb '19

Using latest CE.. Just making sure I haven’t missed something in the docs and config guides.. I do not see a way to print any type of reports/PDFs.. but I do see a ../html/pdf.php which looks like it would do that. Did I miss a page in the docs? -Ryan

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Map Location
by Ryan Huff 09 Feb '19

09 Feb '19

It seems that no matter what addressing schema I've tried to set with config['location_map']['nice_name'] ['real_address'], it continues to populate the front page map with the proper location names, but all located in Ponta Delgada on the island of São Miguel. The USA addressing formats I've tried are: street address, city, state, country and street address, city, state (Ex: 180 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia, USA) Is there an additional override I am missing, or a way to verify the location value I'm typing is understandable to the correct geopositioning on the map? Thanks, Ryan Huff, CCDP, CCNP Cisco Certified Network and Design Professional

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Alert Priority
by Mike Hyslop 08 Feb '19

08 Feb '19

Hi All Is there a way to add priorities to alerts at the moment all I have to choose from is critical Cheers Mike.

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Graph scale question
by Ryan Huff 08 Feb '19

08 Feb '19

Using the latest CE.. All the graphs’ time scale seems to be off by a few hours. For example, a device’s port graph shows traffic for today at 2100 hours, and it’s only 1723 currently. I have verified the PHP instance Observium is using reports the correct TZ (America/New_York) and also the monitored device is in the correct TZ. Is there a UTC offset I need to adjust somewhere? Thanks, -Ryan

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APC PDU's, some change have made outlet status to show twice.
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Hello Some fairly recent update and made my PDU’s a bit messy in obervium. I know have two statuses per outlet. See pictures of two different APC models. Cheers [cid:BE5E0B1D-C29C-4C36-B635-931B3D24A996@metronome.local] [cid:11A976F8-A9AD-4931-A332-6F143F3B7EA3@metronome.local] -- Henrik Cednert / + 46 704 71 89 54 / CTO / Filmlance Disclaimer, the hideous bs disclaimer at the bottom is forced, sorry. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Disclaimer The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.

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Minigraphs, names and labels. Some issues.
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Hello I mentioned this in a thread about something else but think it drowned and got lost. lifting it out to a separate thread since I find these issues very frustrating. Not sure if I’m alone or not. 1. Can’t I rename graphs like we could in config.php? 2. Is there any way to move the label so that it doesn’t hide parts of the graph? 3. They mini graphs are a lot slower to refresh now, can this be tweaked? 4. I get the feeling that “show legend” on the larger graphs is semi-broken and is more or less always off here. Or is there some global setting that can have been changed when upgrading? Cheers and thanks [cid:782CC26C-348D-4DBE-95F4-097AC52CBFBA@metronome.local] -- Henrik Cednert / + 46 704 71 89 54 / CTO / Filmlance Disclaimer, the hideous bs disclaimer at the bottom is forced, sorry. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Disclaimer The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.

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Cisco RV340/345
by Benjamin Moore 06 Feb '19

06 Feb '19

It appears that the interfaces and everything else isn't working in Observium. Does anyone have any experience with this device? I'm happy to post an snmpwalk if it might help it get better support.

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CDR Overage Alerts
by Andrew Lemin 04 Feb '19

04 Feb '19

Hi List, I know there has been a long-time request to enable the ability to generate an Alert when traffic (peak or 95%) goes over the CDR (as configured within [CDR] on the interface), and we would like to know if this has been realised yet? We just need a way of dynamically detecting and reporting when traffic goes over the configured CDR, using the port description’s [CDR] value. We cannot create Observium billing reports for every single customer facing port as we have thousands, and we are trying to keep manual processes to a minimum as this could easily be a generic alert of the form; ifInUcastPkts_rate > CDR OR ifOutUcastPkts_rate > CDR I believe historically there was some outstanding work to convert the discovered [CDR] field data into a normalised bps value in the database (as CDR can be given in units of Bits/Megabits/Gigabits etc). Thanks, Andy.

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subscription to community
by Michael Medwid 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

Can you switch from the subscription version of observium to the community version by following the Upgrade to latest Major release procedure? Community Edition¶ Upgrade to latest Major release¶ Disable observium cronjobs optional Run the following commands (as root): cd /opt mv observium observium_old wget -Oobservium-community-latest.tar.gz http://www.observium.org/observium-community-latest.tar.gz tar zxvf observium-community-latest.tar.gz mv /opt/observium_old/rrd observium/ mv /opt/observium_old/logs observium/ mv /opt/observium_old/config.php observium/ Update DB schema: /opt/observium/discovery.php -u If it has been a very long time since you've updated (12 months or more), you may want to force an immediate rediscovery of all devices to make sure things are up to date : /opt/observium/discovery.php -h all Re-enable observium cronjobs optional You may now delete your observium_old directory if everything has updated correctly: rm -rf observium_old

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Re: [Observium] Starline Busway Monitoring
by David Ross 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

Hello again, Adam! The attached file contains two -Obentu format snmpwalks for the Skyline Busway CPM. Please let me know if this walk isn't the correct format. Regards, *David W. Ross, Sr.* Sr. Lab Ops Engineer 50 Fremont St, 42nd Floor San Francisco, California 94105 415.589.4930 - O 415.926.3483 - C david.ross(a)salesforce.com <http://smart.salesforce.com/sig/david.ross//us_mb/default/link.html> On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 3:06 AM Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > Hi, > > These walks are not quite in the correct format, they need to be made > with -ObentU > > It does look like there are a bunch of sensors and stuff in there, but I > can't tell what they are easily in that format. :) > > adam. > > > On 2019-01-02 21:11, David Ross wrote: > > Hello, Adam! > > > > About a month ago, I sent you snmpwalks for the Starline Critical > > Power Meter (CPM), hoping that Observium support for Starline could be > > added. Has any progress been made with developing code base? Any > > update would be appreciated. > > > > Regards, > > > > David W. Ross, Sr. > > Sr. Lab Ops Engineer > > > > 50 Fremont St, 42nd Floor > > > > San Francisco, California 94105 > > > > 415.589.4930 - O > > > > 415.926.3483 - C > > david.ross(a)salesforce.com > > > > [1] > > > > On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 10:17 AM David Ross <david.ross(a)salesforce.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Hello, Adam! > >> > >> Within the attached text file are the two Starline snmpwalks. Pleas > >> let me know if there is additional information needed. > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> David W. Ross, Sr. > >> Sr. Lab Ops Engineer > >> > >> 50 Fremont St, 42nd Floor > >> > >> San Francisco, California 94105 > >> > >> 415.589.4930 - O > >> > >> 415.926.3483 - C > >> david.ross(a)salesforce.com > >> > >> [1] > >> > >> On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 4:51 PM Adam Armstrong via observium > >> <observium(a)observium.org> wrote: > >> > >> See the walk commands in the previous mail :> > >> > >> adam. > >> > >> On 2018-12-02 20:19:49, Darrell Budic via observium > >> <observium(a)observium.org> wrote: > >> > >> I’m monitoring mine with some custom OIDs, works for what I need. > >> Would be nice to have them fully supported, I can provide sample > >> data if it helps someone set that up. > >> > >> -Darrell > >> > >> On Nov 30, 2018, at 4:22 PM, Adam Armstrong via observium > >> <observium(a)observium.org> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> It's not actually possible to just add mibs to a directory. You need > >> to write definition arrays and/or code to support that mib. > >> > >> Adam. > >> > >> Sent from BlueMail [2] > >> On 30 Nov 2018, at 19:43, David Ross via observium > >> <observium(a)observium.org> wrote: > >> > >> Hello! > >> > >> I sent this question yesterday but got no response. Please reply as > >> soon as possible. > >> > >> I've added monitoring to our Starline Busway CPMs (Critical Power > >> Meters) and have added latest MIB to the Observium SNMP MIBs > >> directory. However, I get very little to no monitoring data. Is > >> the Starline MIB not supported by Observium? Please advise; thanks! > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> David W. Ross, Sr. > >> Sr. Lab Ops Engineer > >> > >> 50 Fremont St, 42nd Floor > >> > >> San Francisco, California 94105 > >> > >> 415.589.4930 - O > >> > >> 415.926.3483 - C > >> david.ross(a)salesforce.com > >> > >> [1] > >> > >> ------------------------- > >> > >> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > observium mailing list > > observium(a)observium.org > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > > > > Links: > > ------ > > [1] http://smart.salesforce.com/sig/david.ross//us_mb/default/link.html > > [2] http://www.bluemail.me/r?b=14063 >

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Manage Output Value of custom OID
by walter＠onda.ch 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

Hello I'm happy to using Observium and its Custom OID. Eveything is working fine. My question is the presentation of the values to the web. Is it possible to manipulate just for the presentation the collecte values? For example wie collect the SNR (Signal to noise) from the CMTS, this value has 3 digits like 325 in the RRD. Now for the human I would like to change it to 32.5 in the grafic. Is it possible? If not, would it be a nice features? Regards Walter

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Port label parsing - Mikrotik possible bug?
by Lyndon Labuschagne 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

Hi I have picked up that the port cable parsing does not seem to work on Mikrotik routers, a port description of Core: sfp-sfpplus1- Trunk to 6509 becomes CoreCore: sfp-sfpplus1- Trunk to 6509 An SNMP walk gives be the below iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2.1 = STRING: "Core: sfp-sfpplus1- Trunk to 6509" iso.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.1.1 = STRING: "Core: sfp-sfpplus1- Trunk to 6509" iso.3.6.1.2.1.55.1.5.1.2.1 = STRING: "Core: sfp-sfpplus1- Trunk to 6509” If I run a poller on the device, the “Descr” under the sensors display shows the correct "Core: sfp-sfpplus1- Trunk to 6509” but later on under the ifIndex listing the Label there is CoreCore: sfp-sfpplus1- Trunk to 6509 Regards

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When trying to upgrade observium I'm prompted for a root pw
by Michael Medwid 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

[juser@observium logs]$ sudo svn update [sudo] password for juser: Updating '.': Authentication realm: <http://svn.observium.org:80> Observium Professional Repository Password for 'root': Looking through our password vault I don't see a "root" user for observium upgrades. I do see another user ID labeled "Observium SVC" and the original system owner noted "used for upgrades". But as the only instruction for the upgrade is "svn update", it's not clear to me where this other username would come into play. Looking through the observium update doc I don't see any reference to being prompted for a root password nor an alternate svn user. Insight appreciated. Thanks, Michael

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Database errors insert
by Michael Medwid 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

Mariadb Errors such as the one below are filling up db.log to the tune of 10GB per day. There's plenty of disk space. Any suggestions on how to correct this? [2019/01/26 15:14:11 -0800] poller.php(156776): Failed dbQuery (#1114 - The table 'ports_cbqos' is full), Query: INSERT INTO `ports_cbqos` (`device_id`,`port_id`,`policy_index `,`object_index`,`direction`,`PrePolicyPkt`, `PrePolicyByte`,`PostPolicyByte`,`DropPkt`,`DropByte`,`NoBufDropPkt`) VALUES ('132','11977','301990276','301990277','output','0','0','0','0','0','')

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Geolocation is broken?
by Tommy Nevtelen 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

Hi When I clear geolocation for a device openstreetmap shows not found and it places it to the default in the middle of the Atlantic. Now for some reason all our stuff is being placed there. This also means that most devices are in Unknown in the Devices-> Location menu. But if I take the API request and clean it up, remove *** and amp; stuff it gives the correct answer, see the second screenshot. The url requested for this is: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?format=json&accept-language=en&a… Running the latest pro version from trunk but had the issue before, just upgraded to see if it would go away. /T

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update seems to be failing
by O'Connor, Gerry 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Hi, We have the Professional Subscription running on Ubunto 16.4.1 64 bit version. I am trying to upgrade from v9662 to 9684. I can't find any errors in the logs. Any thought on what I could be missing would be appreciated. When I run the update procedure, I get the following: root@bobservium:/opt/observium# svn update Updating '.': At revision 9684. root@bobservium:/opt/observium# Here is the Version info from the GUI: Version Information Observium 19.1.9661 (6th January 2019) OS Linux 4.13.0-41-generic [amd64] (Ubuntu 16.04) Apache 2.4.18 (Ubuntu) PHP 7.0.30-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (OPcache: ENABLED) Python 2.7.12 MySQL 5.7.22-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (extension: mysqli 5.0.12-dev) SNMP NET-SNMP 5.7.3 RRDtool 1.5.5 Fping 3.13 (IPv4 and IPv6) As you can see the GUI version is still the old version. I killed the browser and checked again, same version number, Thanks Gerry O'Connor Arris Group 630-281-3057

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svn update issue
by John Dicks 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Hi all. I have an issue running svn update. My system details below. What happens is I get 'GET request returned unexpected delta base' or less commonly a checksum mismatch'. I then revert to my saved snapshot of the VM and start again. Each time it fails at a different part. We are 588 rev's behind so I attempted to svn update -r 9217 which I believe is only one version ahead of where we are. Hoping that with fewer committed changes it would make it through. Same error though. Does anyone have any thing for me to try. I have not seen anyone else online with this issue? Thanks a LOT! Vsphere 6.5 VM Debian GNU/Linux 8 \n \1 Observium 18.3.9073 (stable)<http://www.observium.org/> Observium Professional License Version 1.1 Running Svn cleanup Svn update The svn update will get to a random spot before hitting me with a 'GET request returned unexpected delta base' or less commonly a checksum mismatch' [cid:image001.jpg@01D4B496.7B724F10] [cid:image002.jpg@01D4B496.7B724F10] [cid:image003.jpg@01D4B496.7B724F10] [cid:image004.jpg@01D4B496.7B724F10] [cid:image005.jpg@01D4B496.7B724F10] John Dicks IT Engineer NewPort Tank Containers NAM / SAM 1340 Depot St. Cleveland, OH 44116 United States Direct: +1 440 356 8866 Ext: 1119 Mobile: +1 330 687 7847 John.Dicks(a)newporttank.com<mailto:John.Dicks@newporttank.com> www.newporttank.com<http://www.newporttank.com> This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and/or otherwise authorized personnel. The information contained herein and attached is confidential and the property of Newport. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that viewing this message and any attachments, as well as copying, forwarding, printing, and disseminating any information related to this email is prohibited, and that you should not take any action based on the content of this email and/or its attachments. If you received this message in error, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this email and any attachment. Please note that the views and opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the company. While antivirus protection tools have been employed, you should check this email and attachments for the presence of viruses. No warranties or assurances are made in relation to the safety and content of this email and attachments. Newport accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by or contained in this email and attachments. No liability is accepted for any consequences arising from this email.

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Power graph aggregation
by Brandwatch NOC 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Hi, Does anyone have experience of creating aggregated graphs for power? Basically I would like to combine power graphs to get a view of power across aisles in a similar way to how we can aggregate ports for traffic accounting. Thanks for any thoughts. Chris -- Chris Tomkins Brandwatch | Senior Network Engineer (Linux/Network) christ(a)brandwatch.com | (+44) 01273 448 949 @Brandwatch New York | San Francisco | Brighton | Singapore | Berlin | Stuttgart Discover how organizations are using Brandwatch to create their own success <https://www.brandwatch.com/customer-success/> Email disclaimer <http://www.brandwatch.com/email-disclaimer/> [image: bw-signature logo.png]

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Can you manually re-run conversion of old front page to new? No minigraphs left...
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Hello Had totally missed that there was a new front page/dash board. So was sort of chocked when running the upgrade and I lost all my minigraphs. Is it normal that the minigraphs isn’t carried over? Can I EASILY read that line in coinfig.php and have a new dashboard created from it? Sorry if there’s a thread about this, read back a few month but couldn’t find anything exactly like this. Please point me to it if there are one or more threads. Cheers and thanks -- Henrik Cednert / + 46 704 71 89 54 / CTO / Filmlance Disclaimer, the hideous bs disclaimer at the bottom is forced, sorry. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Disclaimer The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.

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IPv6 Traffic Statistics Alert for Interfaces
by Klimek, Denis 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Hi all, I tried to create an alert for IPv6 Traffic from a interface which is able to display such traffic. There is also a RRD graph for it, but I can not find any values in the database. Would it be possible to add those so that a Alert Rule can be created? Mit freundlichem Gruß Stadtwerke Norderstedt Denis Klimek Professional Network Engineer IP-Systemtechnik Tel: 040 / 521 04 - 1049 Mobil: 0151 / 652 219 06 dklimek(a)stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<mailto:dklimek@stadtwerke-norderstedt.de> www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<http://www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de/>

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Cisco Umbrella VA Monitoring
by Benjamin Moore 24 Jan '19

24 Jan '19

Any chance we can get the following to monitor Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliances via Observium? Here are the necessary mibs - https://docs.umbrella.com/deployment-umbrella/docs/appendix-c-enable-snmp-m… I can send an SNMPwalk of appliances if needed. Thanks!

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Observium Enterprise
by Joelly, Alexander 24 Jan '19

24 Jan '19

Hello, Our company is split into two major regions (EU & NA) where we have a central datacenter in each region, all sites in the particular region is connected to it's regional datacenter and the two datacenters are red. connected together. As I understand with the enterprise version multiple pollers can be deployed within the topology to scale vertically where in our scenario we would place them in our datacenters as everything is reachable from there (DC and WAN equippement on remote sites). How would we monitor both regions? Our concern is that the latency between the datacenters (~120ms) could cause some issues and might slow in response if the gui,rrd and mysql servers are hosted in one region. Can the rrd and mysql servers deployed redundant - one node in EU and the second in NA and also each region a local gui instance? Or is it possible to run a separate instance in each region and have a common gui with visibility of all devices? We possibly might also monitor the LAN equipment of the sites in the future - that might add a couple of thousands devices per region (no real numbers known yet) We have a network team and service desk in each region, where we have about 1.500 datacenter and WAN devices in each region to monitor in the first step - we are calculating to have around 30 people from each region using the gui daily. Does someone have such a setup? We setup the CE for testing and we would go ahead using it globally, but not sure how the setup should/would like for that and we haven't found anything in that direction... Thanks, Alex

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Cisco DCM
by Kamil Wojtas 24 Jan '19

24 Jan '19

Are there any plans for monitoring Cisco DCM 9900/9902 devices?

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Alert Checker not picking up newly added switches
by Sam Jones 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

Observium, I had to do a manual rebuild of Alert Checkers to add new devices. These devices are newly added in the last 6 months. Is this expected behaviour and if so can I automate a rebuild of the Alert Checkers as I don't want to have to remember to click the rebuild button every month/week/day? Sam

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Tp-link switch showing no stats even tho debug shows stats?
by Simon Mousey Smith 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

Hi All, Im trying to work out if the is something wrong with my switch or observium? Observium detects all the ports fine, vlans fine, But its not showing any traffic on the ports? And when I run the -dd in the poller.php the output shows that the is traffic on the ports? Attached is the debug and a screenshot showing the ports in observium Regards Simon

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Poseidon2 4002 dry contact check
by Laszlo Nemeth 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

Hi All, We have some new HWGroup - Poseidon 24002 devices with dry contacts (digital) connected to door sensor in our racks and some temperature sensors. Our current Observium (r9667) can see the temperature sensors but not the dry contact. There is any way to get the status of the contacts? It would be nice to do alerts if somebody open the rack cabinets. Thanks! Br Laszlo -- László Németh Senior Network Engineer [emarsys]<http://www.emarsys.com/> Emarsys-Technologies Kft Kossuth Lajos utca 7-9. II. emelet 1053 Budapest T: +36 1 781 6001<tel:+36%201%20781%206001> E: laszlo.nemeth(a)emarsys.com<mailto:laszlo.nemeth@emarsys.com> W: www.emarsys.com<http://www.emarsys.com> » Get the latest insight from Emarsys<http://emarsys.com/en/resources/whitepapers/> This email and any attachments contain confidential information for the intended recipient to which it has been addressed. This information may not be copied nor disclosed to any third party without prior permission of the sender. If you are not the intended recipient, or if received in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. emarsys eMarketing Systems AG does not accept responsibility for losses and any other damages resulting from information, including viruses and other harmful content, contained in this email and any attachments.

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Alert message in event log
by Ming Wong, CLSA 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Hi team, I am running Observium Professional 18.10.9472. An alert check has been created for monitoring high CPU. The Default Notifier (email) works fine, but there is no alert message in the Observium event log. In Device Property -> Alert Settings, I have the option to choose "Disable alerts -Don't send alert emails (but write to eventlog)". When enabled and threshold is reached, there is no alert message in the event log either. How can event logging for alarms be enabled ? Thanks for advice. Ming The content of this communication is intended for the recipient and is subject to CLSA Legal and Regulatory Notices. These can be viewed at https://www.clsa.com/disclaimer.html or sent to you upon request. Please consider before printing. CLSA is ISO14001 certified and committed to reducing its impact on the environment.

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SLA polling
by Andre.Punt＠kpn.com 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

Hi, I have an old server running observium and am busy migrating to a new server. Currently running into the following problem: ##### Module Start: sla ##### o CISCO-RTTMON-MIB CMD[/usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -Cr'100' -t '1' -r '5' -v2c -c *** -Pu -OQUs -m CISCO-RTTMON-MIB -M /appl/observium/mibs/rfc:/appl/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'host':'161' rttMonCtrl] CMD EXITCODE[1] CMD RUNTIME[0.0451s] STDOUT[ ] STDERR[ MIB search path: /appl/observium/mibs/rfc:/appl/observium/mibs/net-snmp Cannot find module (CISCO-RTTMON-MIB): At line 1 in (none) rttMonCtrl: Unknown Object Identifier (Sub-id not found: (top) -> rttMonCtrl) ] SNMP STATUS[FALSE] SNMP ERROR[#996 - MIB or oid not found] Updated this morning (r9661) but still the same problem Base install is in /appl/observium The MIB is present in the path: /appl/observium/mibs/cisco/CISCO-RTTMON-MIB Any ideas where to start looking to solve this? (also had the problem in r9472 and in r8959 but worked before that) Regards, André

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Hard Drive Alert Checking
by Benjamin Moore 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

I've got a condition where one of the hard drives in my Cisco C240 chassis failed. Is there a way to build an alert checker to check on the status of drives in a server?

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Disabling redundancy/stack metrics for standalone Cisco switch
by Peter Watts 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

Hello, I have commissioned a few new Cisco 3650 switches (WS-C3650-24TD-L) which are stacking-capable, but I have them running standalone. They're on IOS XE 16.6.5 and Observium is detecting/reporting the redundancy attributes for these switches but because they're not stacked, I'm getting an alert for 'nonRedundant'. cRFCfgRedundancyOperMode = 1 Is there a way I can force Observium to ignore the redundancy metrics for these switches? I tried disabling CISCO-RF-MIB on the device but it still persists and when I run './poller.php -h my3650switch -m status' I see the redundancy attributes coming through (assumed I shouldn't? not sure). Observium 19.1.9673 EB Games | ZiNG Pop Culture | Peter Watts | Infrastructure Supervisor | Australia & New Zealand | Peter.Watts(a)ebgames.com<mailto:Peter.Watts@ebgames.com> | +61 7 3860 7757 | 0438 636 110

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Dashboard: Syslog-Widget Filter
by Wiethoff, Helge 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

Hi, since the introduction of the new dashboard, the filtered display of the syslog-entries no longer works. Previously (TM) it could be configured in config.php: $config['frontpage']['syslog']['priority'] = array(0,1,2,3); Is it possible that it will work again? Cheers Helge

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Non working pop-ups on new dashboard
by Kamil Wojtas 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

Hello, I have just migrate from CE 18.9.1 to Professional 19.1.9661 (stable) a I have problem with non working pop-ups on main page (new dashboard with widgets). In rest of environment are pop-ups working correctly. I tried switch to rolling (unstable) version, but the problem had persisted. In source code I can see missing mouseover events for all items. Is it a bug? Thank you. Kamil

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Broadcast storm monitoring
by Philippe Laurent 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Before I reinvent the wheel, does anyone have a screenshot of your checker that monitors for broadcast storms? Many thanks in advance. Philippe

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Generic Notification API SMS
by chott＠praha1.net 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Hello, Is there some method how we can set notification via generic HTTP GET ? We have SMS provider and there is example of GET command https://{base_url}<https://dev.infobip.com/getting-started/base-url>/sms/1/text/query?username=myUsername&password=myPassword&to=41793026727,41793026834&text=Message text Where for example variable "text" will be Environment Variable from Observium like text=OBSERVIUM_ALERT_STATE, OBSERVIUM_DEVICE_HOSTNAME, OBSERVIUM_DEVICE_LOCATION Thank you Tom

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Can't run svn update
by Tom Sciesinski 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

We have the pro license subscription, but every time I try to run a svn update, I receive this: Skipped '.' svn: E155007: None of the targets are working copies Here's the Version Information: Observium 18.7.9334 (10th July 2018) OS Linux 4.15.0-43-generic [amd64] (Ubuntu 18.04) Apache 2.4.29 (Ubuntu) PHP 7.0.32-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (OPcache: ENABLED) Python 2.7.15rc1 MySQL 5.7.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 (extension: mysqli 5.0.12-dev) SNMP NET-SNMP 5.7.3 RRDtool 1.7.0 Fping 4.0 (IPv4 and IPv6) Any ideas? Tom

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Junos BGP info from Logical System (LSYS)
by Chris Wopat 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 15:35:42 +1100 > From: Daniel Rolfe <daniel.rolfe.au(a)gmail.com> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: [Observium] Junos BGP info from Logical System (LSYS) > Message-ID: > <CAA+VvYRiyYCKFv--qQ8Z_CcPGSy1bv=iiM2= > hXn9RHbEERq+ow(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi, > > I've recently added some SRX5800 firewalls that have all their BGP config > within LSYS > > Observium doesn't seem to be able to pick up the peering info which I > would like to monitor Junos Logical Systems are just that- another system. Any interfaces, peers, etc that re inside the LS do not appear in global, and vice-versa. Treat the LS like an entirely different router and snmp poll it, using: name of LS, name of routing instance (default if none) @ community name: LSNAME/default@public This of course requires SNMP to be configured properly within the LS, which is something like this in global: set snmp community public logical-system LSNAME routing-instance default

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Mikrotik and RouterBoard Firmware
by chott＠praha1.net 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

Hello team, I could be possible add Mikrotik RouterBoard Firmware to Observium ? By mikrotik vulnerability, we can monitore RouterOS version and firmware. OID iso.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.7.4.0 = STRING: "6.42.3" get firmware [cid:image001.png@01D4AC13.378E8470] For example under Operating system version Thank you ! Tom

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Junos BGP info from Logical System (LSYS)
by Daniel Rolfe 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

Hi, I've recently added some SRX5800 firewalls that have all their BGP config within LSYS Observium doesn't seem to be able to pick up the peering info which I would like to monitor I"m running the pro version of observium , all the version details are below: Hardware SRX5800 Operating system Juniper JunOS 12.3X48-D45.6 (Internet Router) Observium 18.10.9472 (16th October 2018) OS Linux 4.15.0-29-generic [amd64] (Ubuntu 18.04) Apache 2.4.29 (Ubuntu) PHP 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 (OPcache: ENABLED) Python 2.7.15rc1 MySQL 5.7.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 (extension: mysqli 5.0.12-dev) SNMP NET-SNMP 5.7.3 RRDtool 1.7.0 Fping 4.0 (IPv4 and IPv6) Regards, Daniel

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Cisco VRF
by Andre Geißler 12 Jan '19

12 Jan '19

Hi all, any Idea how that could be? We're using two Cisco 3850 (WS-C3850-24S-E) and VRF lite. On each discovery VRF information are deleted from observium. When doing an manual discovery of module cisco-vrf I can see the VRFs again. I can see the difference between a) /opt/observium/discovery.php -h hostname b) /opt/observium/discovery.php -h switch-vwd-sp1 -m cisco-vrf In the first case no VRFs are shown under module cisco-vrf in the second case they are. Thanks in advance. Have a nice day Andre

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Rename/Relabel new dashboard graphs?
by Darrell Budic 11 Jan '19

11 Jan '19

Is it possible to rename dashboard graphs? My install kept some good names for some graphs when converting, those are fine. When I add new ones, especially combined transit/peering graphs, I wind up with names like "7 Port :: bits_seperate”. Especially with two of those, it’s not as pretty as it used to be with named mini-graphs. Thanks! -Darrell

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SVN update
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

We have Subscription Edition of observium with Version 18.10.9472 (stable). We trying of update to Version 19.1.9661 by svn update, and we are getting many conflicts. we can resolve all this once? or we must solve each one? -- Saluda cordialmente

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a way to keep current dashboard
by Mirditor Kuçaj 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

Hello I upgraded to Version 19.1.9661 but It brooked my customized dashboard and I reverted back to 18.10.9472. Is there a way to keep current dashboard without changes? Regards

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logging failed discoverd devices
by Reisner Martin 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

Hi! If i run "./discovery.php -h all" at the shell observium will find new devices. Observium try to access the device with snmpV3, snmpV2 and snmpV1. If Observium can access the device it will be added to Observium and show up in the GUI. If Observium failed to access the Device it would not show up in the GUI and i don't even know, that there was a device found. Is there a way to log dicovered but failed Devices? Maybe with the failed message, Hostname and IP-Address? Or a notification in the gui like "found 3 new devices but could not access the devices. [click more for details]" would be nice. :) Thank you in advanced! Kind regards Martin

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SVN update failing
by tech＠tempehgirl.com 09 Jan '19

09 Jan '19

I'm trying to update to the latest Observium using svn update, but this error is thrown: svn: Checksum mismatch while updating 'includes/polling/os/lancom-l310..inc.php'; expected: '1879bc17ba610d3114887696778b5fca', actual: '7c8bf78f7ae1d6d9b0a43d1620a126b1' I tried removing the file in question and svn'ing again, but same result. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to resolve? Thank you.

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old 3rd-party script, need help
by Adam Thompson 09 Jan '19

09 Jan '19

I’m attempting to use a ~4yr-old script that uses data Observium stores in the MySQL database, but the Observium schema has changed since then. First, the script attempts to use the “links” table, which is now called “neighbors” – this is an easy fix. Secondly, it uses the “ports-state” table, which was removed last may in updates/341.sql, with the matching SVN comments of “Remove bgpPeers-state and bgpPeers_cbgp-state” which doesn’t mean much to me. Is the functionality of the “ports-state” table gone, and I should remove the corresponding functionality from this other script, or has it been refactored into something else, in which case I’ll need to refactor my script just as much? (FYI: I’m trying to use https://github.com/kedare/observium_map_generator) Thanks, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [Description: sig] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athompson(a)merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin.mb.ca<http://www.merlin.mb.ca/>

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Syslog notifications
by Simon Mousey Smith 09 Jan '19

09 Jan '19

Hi All Im not sure if this is me being thick or simply how its designed I have devices sending observium syslogs and all is good… I have setup an some syslog rules and they work fine as I can see the alerts in the syslog alerts I have then assigned the syslog rules to the contacts, but strangely enough im only getting the syslog alerts every 5 minutes when the poller is run Is this designed this way or have I mis configured something somewhere ? Its also annoying because I can get 4 notifications at a 5 min interval, 1 to say port down, 1 port up, 1 port down, 1 port up, etc… I would like them to be instant notifications when observium receives the syslog Regards Simon - Hestor

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syslog-ng load logs but observium does not showit!
by Farshid Abediny 09 Jan '19

09 Jan '19

Hi, i have configure syslog-ng and its receiving the logs and also hostname/ip is match with devices list but it does not show in syslog page, whats wrong? thanks

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Multiple dashboards
by Eric W. Bates 09 Jan '19

09 Jan '19

Can we create multiple dashboards now? How would I do that? -- Clark 159a, MS 46 508/289-3112

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Trial for professional version
by Farshid Abediny 09 Jan '19

09 Jan '19

Hello, in demo version we can not test syslog alert rules or such features, do you have any trial license for professional license? thanks

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multiple authentication mechanisms at the same time for observium?
by Steve Costaras 09 Jan '19

09 Jan '19

I'm running the current stable release. A question came up today about authentication, basically is it possible to have accounts authenticated via mysql AND have other accounts authenticated via radius? i.e. I want to have some local/mysql accounts on the system but have the general major population authenticated via radius. Was thinking something of a lookup process to check to see if a user is local first and if they don't exist then continue down to the next authentication mechanism. Steve

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Old Overview
by Peter Derissen 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

Hello, I just updated to the new version. Im missing the old overview. Dashboard cannot be configured like it should (I cannot adjust the map size). Anyone else have this problem? Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Derissen Eurofiber Nederland Network Engineer Safariweg 25-31 +31 (0)6 11587110 3605 MA Maarssen [EF-logo_rood_RGB -handtekening]<http://www.eurofiber.nl/> Volg ons op Twitter<https://twitter.com/Eurofiber> | Linkedin<https://www.linkedin.com/company/eurofiber> | Youtube<https://www.youtube.com/user/Eurofibergroup> ******** IMPORTANT NOTICE ******** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure and it is intended only for the addressees. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any copying, distribution or other use of information contained in this e-mail (and its attachments) is not allowed. If you have received this e-mail in error, kindly notify us immediately by telephone or e-mail and delete the message (including any attachments) from your system. Please note that e-mail messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be subject of unauthorized interception or other interference without the knowledge of sender or recipient. Eurofiber only sends and receives e-mails on the basis that Eurofiber is not responsible for any such computer viruses, corruption or other interference or any consequences thereof. Eurofiber Nederland B.V. is registered in the Chamber of Commerce of Amsterdam with number 34134377, VAT number NL 8088.51.524 B01. Eurofiber N.V. has its registered office at Belgicastraat 5 bus 7, 1930 Zaventem and is registered under national number 0435.204.851.

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Cisco NME-WAE - simple diff
by Ron Marosko 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

Howdy Adam, I thought I had put a Jira ticket in for this once upon a time…. Simple diff adding the Cisco NME-WAE to the existing ACNS definition… Index: includes/definitions/os.inc.php =================================================================== --- includes/definitions/os.inc.php (revision 9661) +++ includes/definitions/os.inc.php (working copy) @@ -1411,6 +1411,7 @@ $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.708"; // ciscoCe611K9 $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.759"; // ciscoCe512K9 $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.761"; // ciscoCe612K9 +$config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.823"; // ciscoNmWae $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.982"; // ciscoCe7341 $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.983"; // ciscoCe7371 $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.996"; // ciscoCe574 For reference, from the CISCO-PRODUCTS-MIB: ciscoNmWae OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { ciscoProducts 823 } -- Wide Area Application Engine Network Module Possible to get that diff dropped in? Thanks, Ron -- This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean.

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$config['frontpage']['order'] no longer taken into account ?
by Thibault Richard 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

Hello, Since my recent update to the latest stable version (19.1.9661) I've noticed the variable $config['frontpage']['order'] defined into /opt/observium/includes/defaults.inc.php is no longer taken into account. Actually it displays what I had defined before but my new changes there are not taken into account. Did I miss something ? Best Regards Thibault

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