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Building an Observium appliance
by Serge Caron 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

It's time I give something back to the community. This project, GitHub - SergeCaron/observium_appliance: Build and maintain an Observium appliance<https://github.com/SergeCaron/observium_appliance>, is aimed at SMB environments and walks the sysadmin through each phase of creating and maintaining (backup, restore, upgrade) an Observium appliance. It also covers the installation of Let's Encrypt certificates, secure (https) access to the Observium web site, basic email configuration for notifications, and log aggregation. It's basically a recipe with scripts. A small appliance with fault tolerant network configuration is shown to emphasize the standalone nature of the project. Of course, any virtual environment can do ;-) I hope I kept the typos and omissions to a minimum. Regards, Serge Caron

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User access levels
by Tibor Marchyn 06 Dec '24

06 Dec '24

Hi, I have another beginner question please. I have setup Active Directory authentication, but how can I limit users to exact devices? I really do not want for some users to see anything else than they need to and all of them have level 1 access. And I can't see any option to limit them or assign user to device. Also it would be great to assign users to exact device group I have created. Thanks a lot Tibor

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Alert Checker question
by Kalafus, Miroslav 04 Dec '24

04 Dec '24

Hi, Adam, is it possible to create an Alert Checker which will check number of trunks (see picture - trunk1,3,6 = 3) for trunk6 ? Something like: if it greater than 1, alert me? Trunk1,3,6 are discovered by Observium itself, I do not know how to check that type of item. Thanks in advance, Miro

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limit time retention of device
by Raphael Pierazzi 04 Dec '24

04 Dec '24

Hello , I am using the Professional edition. I would like to limit the retention of graph information on a device to a maximum of 2 years. I often have to increase my disk capacity. thank you very much, Best Regard's Raphael

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Observium isn't checking devices anymore.
by Bar Russo 03 Dec '24

03 Dec '24

Greetings, When I check the alerts I've created I can see that it's been 6 days since the last check was done, six days that the observium didn't check it. [cid:image001.png@01DB4580.CC60ADA0] For some reason it stopped checking my devices, I shut down a server and I don not receive an alert obviously. If I'm checking logs from /opt/observium/logs/observium.log I can see from the 27/11 [2024/11/27 09:45:46 +0200] poller.php(4002645): poller.php: 10.1.6.203 - 1 devices polled in 2.6017 secs [2024/11/27 09:45:46 +0200] poller.php(4002858): poller.php: 10.1.6.70 - 1 devices polled in 2.2512 secs Any ideas please? Best regards, Bar Russo | Information Technology Phone: 03-9546064 Address: Ariel Sharon 8 blvd. Or-Yehuda Linkedin<https://www.linkedin.com/company/77639321/admin/> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/mgroup.mgar> | Mgrp.co.il [תמונה שמכילה גופן, גרפיקה, לוגו, עיצוב גרפי התיאור נוצר באופן אוטומטי]<https://www.mgar.co.il/>

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How to Download Professional Edition
by eddie.reyes＠lscu.coop 03 Dec '24

03 Dec '24

I have a valid subscription to the professional edition. I have decided to start from scratch and build a new Observium server, but cannot find where to download the Professional edition. Can someone help? Thanks.

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Re: ... subscription has been disabled from email nikto.barrada@gmail.com
by Tobias Cederlund 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

I don't know why... But exactly the same for me. Last message I received on the mailing list was on feb 15. /Tobias

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Ports switch are deleted after polling
by jan.croene＠police.belgium.eu 14 Nov '24

14 Nov '24

I have more than 100 alcatel switches configured in my observium. All of these can be discoverd/polled properly. However, I have 3 switches whose ports are deleted after the devices were added (I think after polling). When I run a discover again the ports show up in the GUI for a while, until the next polling. Other data such as vlans, temperature etc are always available. Other switches in the same environment does have normal behaviour. Of course the switch does operate normally all the time. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks, Jan

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OBSERVIUM STOP GRAPH
by SIMEON COMPANY CHILE SPA 11 Nov '24

11 Nov '24

Observium does not show the graphs. We are using Observium on a VPS server in the Cloud. We manage the devices via VPN. When you start adding several devices, more than 5 approximately, Observium shows the devices online, but does not show any information in the graphs of the interfaces. We have the professional subscription license. Thanks, José

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Re: Ports showing it error.
by Bar Russo 10 Nov '24

10 Nov '24

? [cid:image001.png@01DB337E.0BE0A850] בר רוסו | מערכות מידע מייל: barr(a)mgrp.co.il<mailto:barr@mgrp.co.il> קבוצת Mgroup | אריאל שרון 8, אור יהודה www.mgrp.co.il<http://www.mgrp.co.il>

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Ports showing it error.
by Bar Russo 07 Nov '24

07 Nov '24

Hey there. For some reason there are some ports in a few switch of mines that seems to be in error. [cid:image001.png@01DB3116.7130B2A0] The ports works fine, is it something I need to deal with or just don't mind it? Best regards, Bar Russo | Information Technology Phone: 03-9546064 Address: Ariel Sharon 8 blvd. Or-Yehuda Linkedin<https://www.linkedin.com/company/77639321/admin/> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/mgroup.mgar> | Mgrp.co.il [תמונה שמכילה גופן, גרפיקה, לוגו, עיצוב גרפי התיאור נוצר באופן אוטומטי]<https://www.mgar.co.il/>

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alert box
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 05 Nov '24

05 Nov '24

Hi A few days ago we updated observium (from 23.2.12520 to 24.8.13606) and now we don't see the alerts for monitored ports. Before we saw yellow boxes (warnings), now they don't appear. Does it no longer show that information? port down we must add something in the config file? -- Saluda cordialmente

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Air gapped device - status and monitoring
by Ivo van Tulden 28 Oct '24

28 Oct '24

Hello We have an air gapped device for back-up. This devices is active once a week for a couple of hours to get the latest back-up and then the device goes offline. The default behaviour is that the device is down and gives a 'error' for the rest of the week because it can't be reached. Is their a way to: * For a working window of the device? Meaning that outside the specified couple of hours the device will not show down/error? * Flip the device status when not in the working window? Meaning if the device goes online on a different time there is an alert? Met vriendelijke groet, Ivo van Tulden Industrial Automation [cid:image001.png@01DB2954.D83E8810] **** DISCLAIMER: The information sent in or attached to this e-mail is for the addressee only. If this e-mail message is unclear please contact VLISCO by e-mail or telephone. Disclosure or reproduction of this information to a third party without prior agreement of VLISCO is not allowed. VLISCO does not accept any responsibility for the correct and complete interpretation of this e-mail nor for the time of its arrival. VLISCO cannot be held responsible for any claim resulting from negotiations and/or decisions made directly or indirectly based on information contained in this e-mail message. Vlisco Netherlands B.V. Binnen Parallelweg 27, 5701 PH, Helmond, The Netherlands. Chamber of commerce Eindhoven 50751492. Tel.: +31 (0)492 570922 Fax: +31 (0)492 570230 Visit our website: www.vlisco.com ****

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Observium - Halkbank Enterprise Plan Purchasing
by Recep Oguz AKKUS 25 Oct '24

25 Oct '24

Hello Dear Sir/Madam, We are one of the largest banks in Türkiye. With Observium, we want to monitor more than 4000 UPS and Printers in our branches. We are interested in purchasing a Enterprise plan. In accordance with the institution's procedures, we need to sign a contract for the purchase. We also request technical support for installation. Can we organise a meeting to get acquainted? Do you have a business partner in Turkey? Thanks in advance. Best Regards. [https://beraber.halkbank.com.tr/hbcdn/assets/image/mail/images/imza/logo.png]<https://www.halkbank.com.tr/> Information Technologies Operation Department [https://beraber.halkbank.com.tr/hbcdn/assets/image/mail/images/imza/konum.p…]<https://www.halkbank.com.tr/tr/iletisim.html> [https://beraber.halkbank.com.tr/hbcdn/assets/image/mail/images/imza/web.png] <https://www.halkbank.com.tr/> [https://beraber.halkbank.com.tr/hbcdn/assets/image/mail/images/imza/twitter…] <https://twitter.com/halkbank> [https://beraber.halkbank.com.tr/hbcdn/assets/image/mail/images/imza/faceboo…] <https://tr-tr.facebook.com/halkbank/> [https://beraber.halkbank.com.tr/hbcdn/assets/image/mail/images/imza/linkedi…] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/halkbank/> [https://beraber.halkbank.com.tr/hbcdn/assets/image/mail/images/imza/youtube…] <https://www.youtube.com/halkbank> [https://beraber.halkbank.com.tr/hbcdn/assets/image/mail/images/imza/instagr…] <https://www.instagram.com/halkbank/> Recep Oguz AKKUS / IT Technician [https://beraber.halkbank.com.tr/hbcdn/assets/image/mail/images/imza/mail.png] RecepOguz.AKKUS(a)halkbank.com.tr<mailto:RecepOguz.AKKUS@halkbank.com.tr> 📞 +90 216 503 47 62<sip:0216%20503%2047%2062> [https://beraber.halkbank.com.tr/hbcdn/assets/image/mail/images/imza/doga.png] I avoid wasting paper, I don't print unless necessary. *Bu e-posta ve ilişikteki dosyalar hukuken gizli ve kişisel veri/özel nitelikli kişisel veri içermektedir. Kişisel verilerle ilgili bilgilendirmeyi halkbank.com.tr adresinden okuyabilirsiniz. E-posta ve içeriği, sadece gönderilen gerçek veya tüzel kişinin gönderim amacıyla sınırlı kullanımı içindir. Muhatap, kendisine gönderilen bilgileri gönderim amacıyla sınırlı ve ölçülü olarak kullanacağını kabul eder. Eğer bu e-postanın muhatabı değilseniz bu e-postanın ve eklerinin kopyalarını herhangi bir şekilde kullanamaz, gönderemez, dağıtamaz ve yedekleyemezsiniz. Lütfen bu e-postayı yanlışlıkla aldıysanız, gönderene bu durumu bildiriniz ve e-posta ve ilişiğindeki belgeleri sistemden siliniz. Bu mesaj aksi sözleşme ile belirtilmedikçe herhangi bir işlem teklifi amacı taşımamaktadır. Türkiye Halk Bankası A.Ş.’nin hiçbir çalışanı veya temsilcisi, elektronik posta yolu ile Türkiye Halk Bankası A.Ş. adına bağlayıcı bir sözleşme yapmak için yetkilendirilmemiştir.* *This message contains confidential information and personal data/sensitive personal data. You can reach and read acknowledgement about data protection on halkbank.com.tr. It’s intended only limited use of the individual or legal entity to whom they are addressed only for sending purpose. Recipient acknowledges that he/she shall only use the information in accordance with its sending purpose. If you are not the named addressee, you should not use, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and its attachment. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this email by mistake and delete this email and its attachment from your system. Unless otherwise specified by a mutual agreement, this message is not intended to be a request for a transaction. No employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Türkiye Halk Bankası A.Ş. with any third party by e-mail.*

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VMware VMs keeps discovering more and more
by Ivo van Tulden 24 Oct '24

24 Oct '24

Dear community, This week I started with a new Observium installation, and love the product. A small problem is with my VMware 6.7 hosts (I know they are old) which keeps adding the same VM's to the list. How can I resolve this? Same VM a lot of times: [cid:image001.png@01DB1B14.94FE47F0] Met vriendelijke groet, Ivo van Tulden Industrial Automation **** DISCLAIMER: The information sent in or attached to this e-mail is for the addressee only. If this e-mail message is unclear please contact VLISCO by e-mail or telephone. Disclosure or reproduction of this information to a third party without prior agreement of VLISCO is not allowed. VLISCO does not accept any responsibility for the correct and complete interpretation of this e-mail nor for the time of its arrival. VLISCO cannot be held responsible for any claim resulting from negotiations and/or decisions made directly or indirectly based on information contained in this e-mail message. Vlisco Netherlands B.V. Binnen Parallelweg 27, 5701 PH, Helmond, The Netherlands. Chamber of commerce Eindhoven 50751492. Tel.: +31 (0)492 570922 Fax: +31 (0)492 570230 Visit our website: www.vlisco.com ****

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Observium Professional Subscription
by Joseph Padueng 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

Hi Sir, If i want to Purchase Observium Professional Subscription, so what is the procedure? Regards, Joseph Padueng

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Can't log into Observium
by dwalcott＠asgllc.com 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

Hey everyone, I had a functioning install of Observium 24.4.13528 (26th April 2024) running on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS, just using mysql for auth. I then tried to switch to AD by entering info in the "AD" section of the /settings web UI config page. Once I did that, I got the error below when trying to log in. I switched back to mysql login, by manually changing $config['auth_mechanism'] = "ad"; to $config['auth_mechanism'] = "mysql"; in config.php, and am able to log in again. Can anyone point me in the direction of what's wrong? array_keys(): Argument #1 ($array) must be of type array, null given in /opt/observium/html/includes/authentication/ad.inc.php:38 #0: (unknown function) called at [/opt/observium/html/includes/authentication/ad.inc.php:38] 33: } 34: } 35: 36: // If no access control groups are specified, use the defined level groups as access control 37: if (!is_array($config['auth_ad_group'])) { 38: $config['auth_ad_group'] = array_keys($config['auth_ad_groups']); 39: } 40: 41: // Synthesize Base DN from configured domain name, if it is not set 42: if (!isset($config['auth_ad_basedn'])) { 43: if (isset($config['auth_ad_domain'])) { #1: array_keys called at [/opt/observium/html/includes/authentication/ad.inc.php:38] 33: } 34: } 35: 36: // If no access control groups are specified, use the defined level groups as access control 37: if (!is_array($config['auth_ad_group'])) { 38: $config['auth_ad_group'] = array_keys($config['auth_ad_groups']); 39: } 40: 41: // Synthesize Base DN from configured domain name, if it is not set 42: if (!isset($config['auth_ad_basedn'])) { 43: if (isset($config['auth_ad_domain'])) { #2: include_once called at [/opt/observium/html/includes/authenticate.inc.php:126] 121: // Always load mysql as backup 122: include_once($config['html_dir'] . '/includes/authentication/mysql.inc.php'); 123: 124: // Load primary module if not mysql 125: if ($config['auth_mechanism'] !== 'mysql') { 126: include_once($auth_file); 127: } 128: 129: // Include base auth functions calls 130: include_once($config['html_dir'] . '/includes/authenticate-functions.inc.php'); 131: } else { #3: include called at [/opt/observium/html/index.php:72] 67: $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] = $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] ?? ($_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO'] ?? ''); 68: 69: // Clean global $vars variable, it populated only after correct authenticating 70: unset($vars); 71: 72: include($config['html_dir'] . "/includes/authenticate.inc.php"); 73: 74: // Default theme set in global or user setting 75: if ($config['web_theme_default'] === 'system' && isset($_COOKIE['screen_scheme'])) { 76: $theme = $_COOKIE['screen_scheme']; 77: } else {

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Buy subscription via invoice / bank transfer ?
by anders.jonsson＠norconsult.com 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

Hello, Thanks for your excellent software. We are very interested in buying a Professional Subscription subscription (to begin with) but we don't have company issued cards and not allowed to used paypal either. Is there any possibility to do a invoice / bank transfer instead ?

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Custome Dashboard
by Bar Russo 15 Oct '24

15 Oct '24

Hello there. I want to know if there's an option to make a custome dashboard in the Observium that will show me CPU, Memory, Storage usage in percents like it shows me when I press on 'Health' and choose one of them. So instead of pressing on 'Health' and choose 'Processors' or 'Memory' or 'Storage' it'll show me in a dashboard of them in one dashboard. If it's possible I'll be more than glad to get help how to do it. Best regards, Bar Russo | Information Technology Phone: 03-9546064 Address: Ariel Sharon 8 blvd. Or-Yehuda Linkedin<https://www.linkedin.com/company/77639321/admin/> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/mgroup.mgar> | Mgrp.co.il [תמונה שמכילה גופן, גרפיקה, לוגו, עיצוב גרפי התיאור נוצר באופן אוטומטי]<https://www.mgar.co.il/>

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Question about evaluation licenses
by Jonathan Sélea 14 Oct '24

14 Oct '24

Hi! I am wondering if Observium offers evaluation licensenses? I am looking into intergrating Observium with Zabbix, and noticed that Observium has a RESTful API included in the Professional License. I am however, unable to purchase a license in the current organization that I am in due to bureaucracy, and would love to have a evaluation license to we could test it for a month. Would that be possible? Thanks :) -- Jonathan Sélea

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Ubuntu 24.04, rsyslogd 8.2312.0 Syslog integration
by prkjnr＠hotmail.com 11 Oct '24

11 Oct '24

Hi all, I have recently built to introduce Observium into my business. I can see Syslog entries running "tail -f /var/log/syslog" as soon as i enter config into /etc/rsyslog.d/30-observium.conf like from https://docs.observium.org/syslog/ and follow the 8.X instructions i get from an auto install version 2024-10-10T13:49:02.462169+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: action 'action-8-omprog' resumed (module 'omprog') [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2359 ] 2024-10-10T13:49:02.469290+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: omprog: failed to execute program '/opt/observium/syslog.php': Permission denied 2024-10-10T13:49:02.470590+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: child process (pid 565567) exited with status 1 [v8.2312.0] 2024-10-10T13:49:02.470763+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: omprog: program '/opt/observium/syslog.php' (pid 565567) terminated; will be restarted [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2119 ] 2024-10-10T13:49:02.470894+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: action 'action-8-omprog' suspended (module 'omprog'), retry 0. There should be messages before this one giving the reason for suspension. [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2007 ] 2024-10-10T13:49:03.476197+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: action 'action-8-omprog' resumed (module 'omprog') [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2359 ] 2024-10-10T13:49:03.485802+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: omprog: failed to execute program '/opt/observium/syslog.php': Permission denied 2024-10-10T13:49:03.486960+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: child process (pid 565568) exited with status 1 [v8.2312.0] 2024-10-10T13:49:03.487106+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: omprog: program '/opt/observium/syslog.php' (pid 565568) terminated; will be restarted [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2119 ] 2024-10-10T13:49:03.487173+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: action 'action-8-omprog' suspended (module 'omprog'), retry 0. There should be messages before this one giving the reason for suspension. [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2007 ] 2024-10-10T13:49:04.495956+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: action 'action-8-omprog' resumed (module 'omprog') [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2359 ] 2024-10-10T13:49:04.503258+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: omprog: failed to execute program '/opt/observium/syslog.php': Permission denied 2024-10-10T13:49:04.503510+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: omprog: program '/opt/observium/syslog.php' (pid 565569) terminated; will be restarted [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2119 ] 2024-10-10T13:49:04.503658+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: child process (pid 565569) exited with status 1 [v8.2312.0] 2024-10-10T13:49:04.513839+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: action 'action-8-omprog' suspended (module 'omprog'), retry 0. There should be messages before this one giving the reason for suspension. [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2007 ] 2024-10-10T13:49:05.519132+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: action 'action-8-omprog' resumed (module 'omprog') [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2359 ] 2024-10-10T13:49:05.526462+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: omprog: failed to execute program '/opt/observium/syslog.php': Permission denied 2024-10-10T13:49:05.527605+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: child process (pid 565571) exited with status 1 [v8.2312.0] 2024-10-10T13:49:05.527715+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: omprog: program '/opt/observium/syslog.php' (pid 565571) terminated; will be restarted [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2119 ] 2024-10-10T13:49:05.527812+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: action 'action-8-omprog' suspended (module 'omprog'), retry 0. There should be messages before this one giving the reason for suspension. [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2007 ] 2024-10-10T13:49:06.533091+01:00 Observium rsyslogd: action 'action-8-omprog' resumed (module 'omprog') [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2359 ] from a manual install 2024-10-10T12:48:21.195520+00:00 observium2 rsyslogd: action 'action-2-omprog' resumed (module 'omprog') [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2359 ] 2024-10-10T12:48:21.203242+00:00 observium2 rsyslogd: omprog: failed to execute program '/opt/observium/syslog.php': Permission denied 2024-10-10T12:48:21.203529+00:00 observium2 kernel: audit: type=1400 audit(1728564501.202:847): apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" class="file" profile="rsyslogd" name="/opt/observium/syslog.php" pid=3214 comm=72733A6D61696E20513A526567 requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=103 ouid=1000 2024-10-10T12:48:21.203871+00:00 observium2 rsyslogd: child process (pid 3214) exited with status 1 [v8.2312.0] 2024-10-10T12:48:21.208108+00:00 observium2 rsyslogd: omprog: program '/opt/observium/syslog.php' (pid 3214) terminated; will be restarted [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2119 ] 2024-10-10T12:48:21.208234+00:00 observium2 rsyslogd: action 'action-2-omprog' suspended (module 'omprog'), retry 0. There should be messages before this one giving the reason for suspension. [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2007 ] 2024-10-10T12:48:22.213298+00:00 observium2 rsyslogd: action 'action-2-omprog' resumed (module 'omprog') [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2359 ] 2024-10-10T12:48:22.220546+00:00 observium2 kernel: audit: type=1400 audit(1728564502.219:848): apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" class="file" profile="rsyslogd" name="/opt/observium/syslog.php" pid=3215 comm=72733A6D61696E20513A526567 requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=103 ouid=1000 2024-10-10T12:48:22.220765+00:00 observium2 rsyslogd: omprog: failed to execute program '/opt/observium/syslog.php': Permission denied 2024-10-10T12:48:22.221161+00:00 observium2 rsyslogd: child process (pid 3215) exited with status 1 [v8.2312.0] 2024-10-10T12:48:22.275077+00:00 observium2 rsyslogd: omprog: program '/opt/observium/syslog.php' (pid 3215) terminated; will be restarted [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2119 ] 2024-10-10T12:48:22.275233+00:00 observium2 rsyslogd: action 'action-2-omprog' suspended (module 'omprog'), retry 0. There should be messages before this one giving the reason for suspension. [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2007 ] 2024-10-10T12:48:23.279060+00:00 observium2 rsyslogd: action 'action-2-omprog' resumed (module 'omprog') [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2359 ] 2024-10-10T12:48:23.287555+00:00 observium2 rsyslogd: omprog: failed to execute program '/opt/observium/syslog.php': Permission denied 2024-10-10T12:48:23.287798+00:00 observium2 kernel: audit: type=1400 audit(1728564503.286:849): apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" class="file" profile="rsyslogd" name="/opt/observium/syslog.php" pid=3217 comm=72733A6D61696E20513A526567 requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=103 ouid=1000 2024-10-10T12:48:23.288399+00:00 observium2 rsyslogd: child process (pid 3217) exited with status 1 [v8.2312.0] 2024-10-10T12:48:23.292012+00:00 observium2 rsyslogd: omprog: program '/opt/observium/syslog.php' (pid 3217) terminated; will be restarted [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2119 ] 2024-10-10T12:48:23.292140+00:00 observium2 rsyslogd: action 'action-2-omprog' suspended (module 'omprog'), retry 0. There should be messages before this one giving the reason for suspension. [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2007 ] 2024-10-10T12:48:24.296075+00:00 observium2 rsyslogd: action 'action-2-omprog' resumed (module 'omprog') [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2359 ] 2024-10-10T12:48:24.304221+00:00 observium2 rsyslogd: omprog: failed to execute program '/opt/observium/syslog.php': Permission denied 2024-10-10T12:48:24.304648+00:00 observium2 kernel: audit: type=1400 audit(1728564504.302:850): apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" class="file" profile="rsyslogd" name="/opt/observium/syslog.php" pid=3218 comm=72733A6D61696E20513A526567 requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=103 ouid=1000 2024-10-10T12:48:24.305192+00:00 observium2 rsyslogd: child process (pid 3218) exited with status 1 [v8.2312.0] i have checked permisions -rwxrwxr-x 1 user user 3376 Feb 22 2024 syslog.php any assistance would be gratefully received

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syslog entries
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

Hi, Every 5 minutes we are notified about the same messages sent by a device (repetitive messages). Is there a way to be notified only once a day? Or every 12 hours? example: [image: image.png] -- Saluda cordialmente

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traps
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

Observium do not support traps? -- Saluda cordialmente

2 1

Enterprise Discord Channel - Can I get added?
by Chris Cottingham 03 Oct '24

03 Oct '24

Is there an Enterprise discord support channel for Observium? If so, can I get added to it? Enterprise license number: Bmaschke-26972681 Thanks! Chris Cottingham Systems + R&D | Apple Music 512-412-1082 ccottingham(a)apple.com

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widgets
by jose.napoli＠neuralsoft.com 03 Oct '24

03 Oct '24

Can ! change the config of any widget or generate new? When clic in config show this: > $widget['widget_config']ajax/actions/edit_widget.inc.php:146 array()

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footer is not showed on alert's email
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

Hi, Yesterday we upgrade the observium version (from 23.2.12520 to 24.8.13606), but we don't see the time when alert was generated. Would be good show (on email alert) the alert checker's name. i attach screenshots. observium 24.8.13606 [image: image.png] observium 23.2.12520 [image: image.png] Because the alert can be generated at time distinct of mail -- Saluda cordialmente

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Can't see alerts.
by Bar Russo 30 Sep '24

30 Sep '24

Greetings. For some reason recently I can NOT see any alert status, if I press on 'Alerts' it is empty and doesn't show anything. Sometimes it's showing the alert for a second and then all of the alerts disappeared. I tried to reboot the Ubuntu VM and also tried to see some logs but couldn't handle it, still having this issue. I didn't change anything within the Ubuntu machine the Observium installed on so ain't got a clue what's happened. Maybe you'll be able to assist me please. Best regards, Bar Russo | Information Technology Phone: 03-9546064 Address: Ariel Sharon 8 blvd. Or-Yehuda Linkedin<https://www.linkedin.com/company/77639321/admin/> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/mgroup.mgar> | Mgrp.co.il [תמונה שמכילה גופן, גרפיקה, לוגו, עיצוב גרפי התיאור נוצר באופן אוטומטי]<https://www.mgar.co.il/>

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Purchase multiple instances in one CC transaction
by ccollar＠voltagepark.com 20 Sep '24

20 Sep '24

Greetings, I'd like to purchase multiple instances (multiple systems, multiple DBs) of Observium Pro with one credit card transaction, and am wondering if this is possible, and if so how? Thanks!

2 1

Setting up alerts on received power
by Laurent CARON 19 Sep '24

19 Sep '24

Hi, I'd like to setup alerts on RX power levels of my optical interfaces (on juniper and cisco equipment). In the web interface, this value can be obtained @URL: /device/device=yy/tab=health/metric=dbm/id=xx/ I really can't figure how to properly build an alert checker on this. Did anyone already set it up ? Thanks

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Sensor limit nominal and delta OIDs need different scaling
by Corwin Ziegler Hunts 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

Hi, We are trying to set appropriate limits for a frequency sensor. There are OIDs for the nominal frequency and the acceptable deviation from it. The problem is the nominal OID needs 0.1 scaling while the deviation OID needs 1 scaling (the measured value needs 0.1 scaling). Is there a way to handle this? We tried using 'limit_scale' but that applies the same scaling to both the nominal and delta limits. The specific device is a CyberPower ATS PDU. The OIDs are ePDU2SourceStatusSourceAFrequency, ePDU2SourceStatusSourceBFrequency, ePDU2SourceStatusNominalFrequency and ePDU2SourceConfigFrequencyDeviation. Corwin

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API Error 500
by Nicolas Korten 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

Hello dear Observium Team, I'm trying to add a device using the API and get an error 500 message instead of the expected notice that the device is not respondig to snmp. > curl -u korten:secret https://observium.domain.net/api/v0/devices/ -X POST -d '{"hostname":"pe-lab02.domain.net", "snmp_community":"test", "ping_skip":"on"}' <h1>500 Internal Server Error</h1><h3>flight\Engine::_json(): Argument #2 ($code) must be of type int, string given, called in /opt/observium/libs/flight3/core/Dispatcher.php on line 86 (0)</h3><pre>#0 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/core/Dispatcher.php(86): flight\Engine->_json() #1 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/core/Dispatcher.php(50): flight\core\Dispatcher->runEvent() #2 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/Engine.php(113): flight\core\Dispatcher->run() #3 [internal function]: flight\Engine->__call() #4 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/core/Dispatcher.php(287): call_user_func_array() #5 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/Flight.php(143): flight\core\Dispatcher::invokeMethod() #6 /opt/observium/html/api/v0/includes/devices.inc.php(133): Flight::__callStatic() #7 [internal function]: api_add_device() #8 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/core/Dispatcher.php(250): call_user_func_array() #9 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/core/Dispatcher.php(237): flight\core\Dispatcher::callFunction() #10 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/Engine.php(508): flight\core\Dispatcher::execute() #11 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/core/Dispatcher.php(86): flight\Engine->_start() #12 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/core/Dispatcher.php(50): flight\core\Dispatcher->runEvent() #13 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/Engine.php(113): flight\core\Dispatcher->run() #14 [internal function]: flight\Engine->__call() #15 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/core/Dispatcher.php(287): call_user_func_array() #16 /opt/observium/libs/flight3/Flight.php(143): flight\core\Dispatcher::invokeMethod() #17 /opt/observium/html/api/v0/index.php(66): Flight::__callStatic() #18 {main}</pre> As far as I can see, the error is in: api/v0/includes/devices.inc.php at line 133: >Flight::json($json, '400'); should be: Flight::json($json, 400); Agree? Thank you and have a nice day, Nico -- Nicolas Korten Dipl.-Ing. Systemtechnik und Dienste/EDV komro GmbH Am Innreit 2 DE-83022 Rosenheim Telefon: +49 8031 365 7913 Telefax: +49 8031 365 7699 Mail: korten(a)komro.net / http://www.komro.net __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Geschäftsführer: Dipl. Ing. Gert Vorwalder Vorsitz im Aufsichtsrat: Oberbürgermeister Andreas März Sitz der Gesellschaft: Rosenheim Registergericht: Traunstein, HRB-Nr. 10689 USt.-IdNr.: DE 188814299 Hinweise zur Verarbeitung Ihrer personenbezogenen Daten gem Art. 13 DSGVO: Verantwortlich für die Verarbeitung Ihrer personenbezogenen Daten im Rahmen des vorliegenden Kontakts ist die komro GmbH Weitere Informationen zur Verarbeitung Ihrer Daten, insbesondere zu den Ihnen zustehenden Rechten, können Sie unserer Homepage unter https://www.komro.net/datenschutz entnehmen oder auf jedem anderen Wege unter den o.g. Kontaktdaten bei uns erfragen.

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Group section not working in Status Summary widget
by Ricardo Puig 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

Dear Observium Team, The group section in Status Summary widget is pointing to nowhere (javascript:void(0)) Regards.

1 0

NAT Counters Cisco
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '24

Hi. How can I get a NAT's sessions total from Cisco ASR-1002X? We get SNMP results by snmp v2 and Observium version is 23.8.12.912. I must enable NAT MIB, but ¿where is an example? NAT MIB can be enable after add the device? -- Saluda cordialmente

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Hello.
by Bar Russo 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '24

I want to subscribe because I need some help with the metrics of the Observium. [cid:image001.png@01DB04FB.F42B1C50] בר רוסו | מערכות מידע מייל: barr(a)mgrp.co.il<mailto:barr@mgrp.co.il> קבוצת Mgroup | אריאל שרון 8, אור יהודה www.mgrp.co.il<http://www.mgrp.co.il>

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Alert Checker association "Storage Description" major problem
by kalafus＠energotel.sk 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

Hello, Creating storage alert checker using entity association "Storage Description" renders page https://observium.xxx.sk/alert_checks/ totally unavailable (just blank whole page). Deleting that alert makes it work again. Looking for a solution...

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Unix agent not working on non-default port
by ricardo＠banak.com 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

We have several devices behind a NAT that require using an agent_port other than 36602. Even though I have changed the port in the GUI, the poller seems to continue using the standard port. It seems to me that $device['attribs']['agent_port'] has not been populated. Running 24.9.13634 Pro on debian 12. Thank you. Ricardo Puig

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The graphs for few network devices not getting displayed
by Renuka Arya 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Hi Team! We are running Observium pro version Observium 24.6.13582(stable). Lookslike the memory,processor and network graphs are seeing a draw error. You can still the values beside but it wont draw the graphs. It says "Draw error"/nan I looked into the permissions for the rrd folders for these devices and did change a non-working one similar to a working one as root:observium but that did not fix the issue. I also tried deleting (which was not ideal) a device and adding it back but that did not work as well. Please guide! Thanks! Regards Renuka Arya

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Incorrect sensor limits caused by duplicate unit conversion
by Corwin Ziegler Hunts 04 Sep '24

04 Sep '24

The definition for the temperature sensor on a CyberPower PDU (or UPS) environmental sensor accessory defines both "unit" and "limit_unit" as "F". This seems to cause the limit values to get converted (to Celsius) twice: first in "entity_limits_definition" using "limit_unit" and then in "discover_sensor_ng" using "sensor_unit" which is set from "unit". For us, the SNMP read limits of 59 and 90 F end up as -9.44 and 0.12 C on the sensor in Observium. This is on version r13629. Simply not setting "limit_unit" is a workaround if both the sensor and limit values use the same unit (maybe that is preferred when defining sensors?). If the units are different a proper fix is needed. Also, is this the preferred method for reporting this kind of issue? Corwin

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How to add a device which only responds to ping/icmp?
by Thomas Stather 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

Hi How can i add a device which cannot (!) speak any snmp and only responds to ping/icmp requests? We have an Aruba wlan setup (Mobility Master and two Mobility Controllers) and i want to add the aps to Observium, so that they are monitored but only by ping/icmp. (The MM and the two MCs are already added to Observium, but i cannot see if one AP went offline or came back online again) The aps cannot speak any snmp when managed by the MM or MC, thats why it fails when i try to add one via ./add_device.php I appreciate any help :) Best, Thomas -- Thomas Stather IT Services VCP4, VCP6-DCV, VCP6.5-DCV Tel: +49 6221 486 628 Fax: +49 6221 486 561 Bevor Sie diese Mail ausdrucken, prüfen Sie bitte ob dies wirklich nötig ist. Umweltschutz geht uns alle an!

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Observium doesn't show interfaces within VPRN on Nokia routers
by Tao Zhang 21 Aug '24

21 Aug '24

Hi Observium team, We are using Observium as a main tool to monitor our router interfaces and collect SNMP stats. We recently replaced our Juniper routers with Nokia SR 7750. We noticed that Observium doesn't work very well with Nokia routers. Observium can only show the interfaces in the master instance, not the interfaces within VPRN or VPLS instances (Nokia call those interfaces SAPs). To be able to see interfaces within VPLS or VPRN, we need to enable two other MIBs, TIMETRA-SAP-MIB and TIMETRA-VRTR-MIB. We are not sure how to enable those two MIBs. Do we need to add them manually? This is the MIBs enabled on the Nokia router (default). [cid:ece89bfc-3ae2-4dcd-9c7c-641c3978f803] Any suggestion is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tao

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Re: How to add a device which only responds to ping/icmp?
by Croene Jan (PZ Antwerpen) 21 Aug '24

21 Aug '24

Dear, We bought the license to monitor devices via ping-check (with the probe functionality). "Observium is designed to collect and display data from SNMP-capable devices, but not every device supports SNMP. In order to monitor non-SNMP capable devices, the probes system can be used to perform checks on non-SNMP devices". I am just wondering how we can add a device in observium that cannot handle snmp? ________________________________ Als u niet de beoogde ontvanger van deze email bent, lees onze disclaimer<https://www.politie.be/nl/maildisclaimer>. Si vous n'?tes pas le destinataire pr?vu de cet email, lisez notre disclaimer<https://www.politie.be/fr/maildisclaimer>. Wenn Sie nicht der beabsichtigte Empf?nger dieser email sind, lesen Sie unseren disclaimer<https://www.politie.be/de/maildisclaimer>. If you aren't the intended recipient of this email, read our disclaimer<https://www.politie.be/en/maildisclaimer>.

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Observium stops displaying stats for all monitored hosts for a period of time
by Kevin Riahi 21 Aug '24

21 Aug '24

Hello Team, It seems Observium stops displaying stats for all (most) monitored hosts for a period of time and then back to normal.!!! I've attached a few screenshots. Has this behavior been documented in the past? If not what is the best way to debug this. Observium ver 24.8.13606 Running on a dedicated server. 12 Core Xeon Proc 64 GB RAM Raided SSD drives. Thank you Kevin Riahi

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Running on a subdomain
by d.wiersma＠dw-its.nl 20 Aug '24

20 Aug '24

Hi, I want to run overservium on a subdomain. My main domain is https://dw-its.nl Is it possible to run in under observium.dw-its.nl?

2 1

Bandwidth alerts based on value in "Device Port Parsed Speed"
by Brad Bendy 14 Aug '24

14 Aug '24

Hi, Checked around and can't figure out a way to do this and don't see anything in mailing list about it. Is there a way to build alerts based on the bandwidth value we are setting this way? For example we have a description of "[600Mbit]" and then want to alert on 80% of this value for example. I don't see a way to do this as the test conditions are all the parameters from SNMP. Obviously can make up a checker and do the math manually and what not but would not auto adjust and I need 100+ of these created. Would anyone else find this helpful? Thanks

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Missing some nice stats from Cisco 9800 that I got from Cisco 5520
by andri＠harpa.is 12 Aug '24

12 Aug '24

Hi Our organization recently upgraded from Cisco 5520 WLC to Cisco 9800 WLC. In observium I get really good statistics about wireless client count and wireless ap count on the 5520 but not on the 9800. I am not sure if this is something on observium side or cisco side. But I wanted to ask if anyone has the same issue and if they found a solution. Or maybe this is just something that needs to be added. Please let me know if there is any further information I can submit. Best regards Andri

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aerohive devices
by antero.vasconcelos＠truenet.pt 09 Aug '24

09 Aug '24

Hi team is there a way to view the wlans on aerohive AP and connected clients? what mib shoud be enabled? Anterov

2 1

Bug report: Broken scaling on some SFP receive power graphs
by Corwin Ziegler Hunts 09 Aug '24

09 Aug '24

Hi Observium team, We're having issues with some of the generated graphs. Some of our devices report the light level received by SFPs using mW (rather than dBm). We are on the latest stable revision (13582). Issue 1: The graphs generated by Observium for these sensors usually show an excessive scale of at least -100 mW to 100 mW when the data in the specified time interval are entirely within the range 100 nW to 1 mW and usually only a small chunk of that. The calculated minimum and maximum values shown below the graph are correct. These graphs worked properly in the past with a prior version of Observium. Issue 2: Selecting and deselecting the Force Autoscale option appears to have no effect on the generated graph or displayed rrd graph command. Manually running the generated rrd graph command after removing the "--alt-autoscale" option results in a good graph. Here is the raw SNMP output for one of the these sensors showing a current value of 0.5560mW: ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB::entPhySensorType.1000004631 = INTEGER: watts(6) ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB::entPhySensorScale.1000004631 = INTEGER: milli(8) ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB::entPhySensorPrecision.1000004631 = INTEGER: 4 ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB::entPhySensorValue.1000004631 = INTEGER: 5560 ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB::entPhySensorOperStatus.1000004631 = INTEGER: ok(1) Corwin

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Switch overview: configurable interface sorting?
by Wiethoff, Helge 06 Aug '24

06 Aug '24

Hello everyone, The port sorting in the device overview has been changed at some point. Previously, it was sorted alphanumerically, but now the numbers are prioritized. Before, the order was A1, A2, A3..., B1, B2, B3, etc. And now it is A1, B1, A2, B2..., A3, B3, etc. Is there a way to change the sorting back to the old method using a configuration switch? Thank you and best regards Helge

2 1

Percent CPU
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 05 Aug '24

05 Aug '24

Hi, cuestion. we have about 600+ devices (switchs, wireless, router), we want know CPU usage on each one . On many devices we see 93% CPU usage. but login into device we can see only 1 measure and shows less than 7% on slot 0.0. While on observium we have 3 measures: processor, processor 1 and slot 0.0. please helpus to get the right measure. example [image: image.png] [image: image.png] [image: image.png] on centos 7 from CLI [image: image.png] -- Saluda cordialmente

1 0

Missing rebuild buttons for groups and alert checkers
by Corwin Ziegler Hunts 05 Aug '24

05 Aug '24

Hi, We use Observium groups extensively, often nested several times. Our alert checkers then reference these groups. After making changes to a group, including by adding a device, we used to force rebuilds of the groups (possibly several times) and checkers so the changes would propagate all the way through. We are on the latest stable revision (r13582) and the rebuild buttons are no longer available in the UI (possibly removed in r13391). What should we do now when we need to forcibly propagate changes? Corwin

2 2

Oxidized Integration?
by Wiethoff, Helge 05 Aug '24

05 Aug '24

Hi, I am currently testing a replacement for rancid. Rancid has worked for a long time, but adding new device classes feels more and more unwieldy. Oxidized [1] makes a good first impression and I was able to add new device classes without big problems. Then of course I would also like to see an integration with my favorite network management tool :-) There are people who have already worked on this: https://github.com/colin-stubbs/observium-oxidized It looks like this patch doesn't quite work for current observium versions, so I'd like to ask if anyone is working on it and what are the chances that there could be an Observium integration (professional edition)? Thanks Helge [1] https://github.com/ytti/oxidized

3 4

Polling - Real time port graphs are different on devices that run Linux natively
by ruben.aninoiu＠zananet.com 01 Aug '24

01 Aug '24

Hi Guys, I have noticed that the real-time graphs for devices that run Linux natively (JunosOS, UnifiOS, etc) display the traffic with "intervals in between". The non-native Linux devices (FortiOS, Cisco IOS) provide a nicer real-time graph for port traffic when polled. Is there something that could be adjusted so that the native Linux devices show the nicer graph? Best regards, Ruben

2 1

Status of OBS-4873
by Williams Sr., Mark Charles (Fed) 31 Jul '24

31 Jul '24

Hello Adam, Following up on the status of OBS-4873 (Oops during discovery of Dell N4000 Series Switches). Or Was this the correct place to send Maintenance issues? Mark C Williams Sr. Scientific Systems | Research Services Office Office of Information Systems Management National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) US Dept of Commerce

1 0

Abend on alert checker
by Joey Stanford 25 Jul '24

25 Jul '24

2 3

F5 Device not discovered
by dariusz.nowak＠contemi.com 24 Jul '24

24 Jul '24

Hi All, First email - welcome! I believe got small problem with discovering my F5 device , see below screenshot: https://postimg.cc/D4vm9mm8 Please correct me If I'm wrong but these F5 MiBs should not fail yeah? Now device is discovered with OS: F5 BIG-IP 16.1.0 Build 0.28.19 Engineering Hotfix (afm apm asm avr ltm) And I have basic stats like Network interfaces but nothing related to virtual servers that I believe is in other MIBs. Can somebody point me in right direction where to start troubleshoot this? Thanks Dariusz

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Many devices shown as down(dns)
by Marios.P＠crowe.com.cy 19 Jul '24

19 Jul '24

Hello all, I can see in my observium installation that many devices changed their status to down(dns). This is a new installation and we migrated the configuration yesterday on a new server and devices were working properly. At around the same time (14:20:00) a lot of our machines changed their status to down. The message in the Event log is "Device status changed to Down (dns)". I tried to find what the problem may be but I can see SNMP are correct and dns records exist for the systems. Any ideas? Thank you, Marios

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BGP alert
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

hi, in the observium's web keeps [image: image.png] This alert box appears from sunday (expected, we change of isp) but now is wednesday and show 0s. not 2d or real time since down we can disable this alert? without disable all bgp sessions -- Saluda cordialmente

2 1

Apache / https hung after updating Observing
by Roger Larsen 24 Jun '24

24 Jun '24

Dear Observium Community We have for several times experienced problem after Obsevium Professional update. Today we updated from 24.4.13501 to 24.6.13582 (by using $ svn update & $ ./discovery.php -u) OS CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core) updated today w/ kernel: 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 After restarting server we struggle logging in to WebGUI. Apache /httpd is complaining on “to many concurrent connections”. Are there any suggestion on how to update Observium without getting these problems? Any householding processes needed for a better update? Or maybe we need to be more patient and give the server some more minutes after update? Today we waited 30 minutes, and still not able to login… R Austevoll Breiband AS - LYSGLIMT Roger Larsen Teknisk sjef / CTO Tlf +47 9523 7640 / +47 5508 0111 Epost roger.larsen(a)ikt.lysglimt.net<mailto:roger.larsen@ikt.lysglimt.net> [signature_3169845242] www.lysglimt.net<http://www.lysglimt.net> Denne e-posten er beregnet for den institusjon eller person den er rettet til og kan være belagt med lovbestemt taushetsplikt. Dersom e-posten er mottatt ved en feil, vennligst returner den til Austevoll Breiband AS og slett den fra systemet. This email with attachments is solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. It may contain information that is confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please return the e-mail to the Austevoll Breiband AS without producing, distributing or retaining copies thereof.

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incomplete list of windows services
by Tony Guadagno 21 Jun '24

21 Jun '24

Hi, I have noticed (now that I am looking) that the list of services on my windows servers is incomplete. In particular, I installed a service about 1 month ago on all my servers and this services does not show on any server in Observium. Can someone tell me how to start troubleshooting this issue? thanks Tony

2 3

Import end devices via CSV - What's the format?
by Chris Cottingham 17 Jun '24

17 Jun '24

I want to import a lot of my devices via a CSV file. I know there is a way to import from the command line but I don’t see much on the file format for the command line utility. Anyone know the best way to import a lot of devices quickly? Is a CSV the best way to go? Thanks!!

2 1

Trial version help
by Chris Humphreys 13 Jun '24

13 Jun '24

Hi all, We are trialling the software and it was working fine but now when accessing the site we get this message. “DB not connected, please check database connection configuration. DB Error 2002: No such file or directory” Any ideas how I might be able to sort this? Thanks Chris Humphreys Senior IT Infrastructure and Applications Manager (m) +44 7852 040601 www.fladgate.com<https://www.fladgate.com/> for Fladgate LLP (p) +44 20 3036 7151 Address click here<https://www.fladgate.com/contact-us> [cid:image001.jpg@01DABCBC.07213020] [Twitter]<https://twitter.com/fladgatellp> [LinkedIn]<https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-humphreys-1b199535/> [cid:image004.jpg@01DABCBC.07213020]<https://www.fladgate.com/> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are CONFIDENTIAL to the named recipient(s) and may be legally privileged. If you are not a named recipient please notify us and ensure that this e-mail is deleted and not read or copied or disclosed to anyone else. E-mail may be corrupted, intercepted or amended and so we do not accept any liability for the contents received unless they are the same as sent by us. E-mail sent or received using our system may be monitored, intercepted or read by us before or after it reaches the recipient; if you reply to this message you consent to this activity in relation to your response. Fladgate LLP is a limited liability partnership, registered in England and Wales with registered number OC334334. It is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, number 484783. The term partner is used to refer to a member of Fladgate LLP. A list of members is available at the above registered office. For more information, including our Terms of Business and Personal data processing notice, please visit http://www.fladgate.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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LDAP - Synology
by Lanham Rattan 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

I believe I have LDAP sort of working. I am trying to authenticate against a Synology LDAP server. When I use debug mode I see debug info for invalid users and bad passwords but if I enter a proper user and password there is no debug information and I get the error message “User is disabled”. So, I believe I am missing something. Beyond the server bindings I have these settings: $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "uid"; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",dc=clearnetworx,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "dc=clearnetworx,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_groups']['Observium-Users']['level'] = 5; $config['auth_ldap_groupmembertype'] = "fulldn"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmemberattr'] = "memberOf";

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Cisco ASA stopped reporting port metrics
by Tony Guadagno 24 May '24

24 May '24

Hi, around October 2023 all my asa graphs start looking like this: [cid:image001.jpg@01DAAD26.4CD63480] All my port counters are zero from then on. I have 17 asa's and they all are behaving this way. It is very possible about that time, I applied an update to the asa's. Can someone give me some steps to troubleshoot this, so I can figure out if cisco actually broke something, or if there is an observium issue.... Much appreciated Tony Guadagno

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postgres / nginx app script update?
by Wolf Noble 23 May '24

23 May '24

the "current" version of the postgresql app `unix agent stats script` doesn't seem to work on "modernish" postgres installs ``` root@bluebox:/usr/lib/observium_agent/scripts-available# ./postgresql.pl Use of uninitialized value $version in pattern match (m//) at ./postgresql.pl line 88. Use of uninitialized value $version in pattern match (m//) at ./postgresql.pl line 134. Use of uninitialized value $version in pattern match (m//) at ./postgresql.pl line 140. <<<app-postgresql>>> Use of uninitialized value $version in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 151. version: cCount:0 tDbs:0 tUsr:0 tHst:0 idle:0 select:0 update:0 delete:0 other:0 Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 161. xact_commit: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 162. xact_rollback: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 163. blks_read: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 164. blks_hit: Use of uninitialized value $version in pattern match (m//) at ./postgresql.pl line 165. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 166. tup_returned: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 167. tup_fetched: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 168. tup_inserted: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 169. tup_updated: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./postgresql.pl line 170. tup_deleted: ``` (this is on postgres 14... current is 16... ) Has someone already solved this problem? Also, are there plans to address the current limitation of the nginx `unix agent app script` that constrains it to a single instance of nginx? for systems with multiple containers running isolated nginx stacks, the current 'one instance of an app per monitored device' is kinda limiting... is this something that's likely to be addressed anytime soonish? hope the world's treatin y'all well! W Wolf Noble Hoof & Paw loiosh(a)wolfspaw.com -=[ This message has been composed and transmitted with 100% recycled electrons ]=-

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Locking Down Observium
by Chris Cottingham 22 May '24

22 May '24

Is there any way to setup SAML or Mutual TLS on the Observium server? Chris Cottingham Transmission Facility Engineering Systems + R&D | Apple Music (512) 412-1082 Cell. ccottingham(a)apple.com

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Script transport to Line Notify
by kfps214＠kfps.tp.edu.tw 17 May '24

17 May '24

I write a php script about alert notify，in scripts I use observium variable ex:ALERT_STATE but is valids, vareabels can not show，how do I do?

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Unknown Ports Showing Down.
by lawrence＠e2snail.com 11 May '24

11 May '24

I am very sorry but I am new to Observium and I don't really know how to ask this question. This also means that I have tried but cannot find questions of issues similar to what I am asking. I have a Unifi network. This question happens on all my switches. Is there a way to send a screenshot of what I am seeing. Basically I have an 8 port switch as can be seen below. Each of the physical ports are showing good, apart from port 8 where nothing is connected, but everything from 3/5 up to 3/26 are all down. what are all these ports and where do they source from. Is there a way to suppress them, and have them not showing. Device Port Name Bits[In/Out] Media[In/Out] 192.168.1.50| 0/1|Port 1 2.92Mbps|142kbps| Ethernet|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c UP 192.168.1.50| 0/2|Port 2 125kbps|2.91Mbps| Ethernet|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c UP 192.168.1.50| 0/3|Port 3 8bps|5.85kbps| Ethernet|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c UP 192.168.1.50| 0/4|Port 4 2.83kbps|7.85kbps| Ethernet|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c UP 192.168.1.50| 0/5|Port 5 9.96kbps|5.78kbps| Ethernet|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c UP 192.168.1.50| 0/6|Port 6 48bps|5.89kbps| Ethernet|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c UP 192.168.1.50| 0/7|Port 7 2.22kbps|7.34kbps| Ethernet|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c UP 192.168.1.50| 0/8|Port 8 0bps|0bps| Ethernet|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/1| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c UP 192.168.1.50| 3/2| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c UP 192.168.1.50| 3/3| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c UP 192.168.1.50| 3/4| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c UP 192.168.1.50| 3/5| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/6| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/7| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/8| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/9| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/10| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/11| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/12| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/13| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/14| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/15| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/16| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/17| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/18| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/19| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/20| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/21| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/22| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/23| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/24| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/25| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| 3/26| 0bps|0bps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9c DOWN 192.168.1.50| CPU Interface: 5/1| 6.33kbps|3.7kbps| Other|f0:9f:c2:19:50:9b UP Thanks Lawrence

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NEWBIE Question: Global MIB Configuration
by lawrence＠e2snail.com 11 May '24

11 May '24

I am looking through the Global MIB Configuration and I see loads and loads of MIBs that are not used within my infrastructure. Things like Cisco, and A3COM, and many more. My question is two fold. The first is, is it good practise to disable non-used MIBS Then my second question is, is there a way to mass update the disabling of MIBS. The issue is, if I select a MIB and click disable, then the page refreshes and goes to teh top of the page. This is annoying for many because there are very many MIBs that I would like to disable. Thanks in advance for a GREAT product. Keep it up. Thanks Lawrence

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Strange VLAN ID's 4096 + 4097 with VMWare ESX Hosts
by grendel＠grendelbox.de 08 May '24

08 May '24

Observium 23.9.13005 Community Edition shows under PORTS --> VLANs two VLAN which are out of IEEE 802.1Q Range (0-4095) VLAN ID VLAN Name 4096 vlan4096 31 4097 VLAN 4097 after klicking on the VLAN Names it shows for both VLAN-Names all LAN Connects of our VMWare ESXi Hosts we got 2 older ESXi Hosts (v6 level) and 4 new ESXi Hosts (v8 level) an of course NO ESXi has a VLAN ID 4096/4097 Is this some kind of misinterpretation?

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PowerDNS recursive Unix Agent
by Bergen, Ryan 02 May '24

02 May '24

Observium polling PowerDNS Recursor stats broke in Fall 2023 CE update, could we get this fixed? [Observium] Re: PowerDNS Recursive Server application (mail-archive.com)<https://www.mail-archive.com/observium@lists.observium.org/msg00563.html> Oops! Something went wrong! You may want to report this to the Observium developers. explode(): Argument #2 ($string) must be of type string, array given in /opt/observium/includes/polling/applications/powerdns.inc.php:17 Stack trace: #0: (unknown function) called at [/opt/observium/includes/polling/applications/powerdns.inc.php:17] 12: */ 13: 14: if (!empty($agent_data['app']['powerdns'])) { 15: $app_id = discover_app($device, 'powerdns'); 16: 17: foreach (explode(",", $agent_data['app']['powerdns']) as $line) { 18: [$key, $value] = explode("=", $line, 2); 19: $powerdns[$key] = $value; 20: } 21: 22: $data = [ Ryan Bergen Network Lead HyLife Ltd 30 Market Boulevard Steinbach, Manitoba R5G 2X9 p 204-424-2300 x472 hylife.com<https://hylife.com/> • Ryan.Bergen(a)Hylife.com<mailto:Ryan.Bergen@Hylife.com> [cid3813500305*image001.png(a)01D93182.760726F0]

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test ml
by Mike Stupalov 01 May '24

01 May '24

pls ignore me. -- Mike Stupalov, Discord channel: https://discord.gg/GjpNXKWm8W Observium Limited, https://observium.org

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Help with UNIX Agent and Bind
by Timothy Stoddard 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

All, I would like some help with the UNIX Agent. I have been able to get the agent up and running on the device and listen on port 36602 which in turn the Observium server can communicate with. I have UNIX Agent turned on in Obervium config and the server does show me a button to turn on "BIND" with a slider button. When I slide the BIND button to ON and press save Observium says "No Application found on this device." I have provided screenshots. What am I missing because I am close to getting this working. I am running Observium 24.3.13396 (stable) Thanks, -- Tim

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Need help with a business question using OBSERVIUM.
by Han Scott 12 Apr '24

12 Apr '24

Dear Team, We are Lineup Korea, a company that provides IT services to customers in South Korea. https://lineupkorea.com/en/main/main.php I am not sure if I am asking the right question, but I am contacting you because I would like to start a business using your OBSERVIUM to provide solutions to our customers. We would like to ask for guidance on whether we need to enter into a business agreement with you for this business, or if there are any regulations in this regard. We look forward to your response. Thanks and Regards, Scott Han SangKi Scott Han Assistant Manager Infra Sales Division Lineupkorea.Co.,Ltd. Mobile: +82 10 4712 0238 Email: skhan(a)lineupkorea.com For take a look at our company website www.lineupkorea.com For urgent assistance dial / +82 2 786 8836 -----Original Message----- From: observium-request(a)lists.observium.org <observium-request(a)lists.observium.org> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2024 3:55 PM To: Han Scott <skhan(a)lineupkorea.com> Subject: Welcome to the "observium" mailing list Welcome to the "observium" mailing list! To post to this list, send your message to: observium(a)lists.observium.org You can unsubscribe or make adjustments to your options via email by sending a message to: observium-request(a)lists.observium.org with the word 'help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you will get back a message with instructions. You will need your password to change your options, but for security purposes, this password is not included here. If you have forgotten your password you will need to reset it via the web UI.

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Inquiry to find a temporary Professional Observium Licence
by BESANCON Damien [EXT] 11 Apr '24

11 Apr '24

Hello Mrs. / Mr, I'm contacting you regarding our new project to Upgrade our Observium version for the Laposte Company. We would like to find an Observium contact to Discuss and exchange because we'd like to present the Professional Version Of Observium to our colleagues, in order to integrate it in our IT system. We are actually with the Free version of Observium and we were wondering if we may have access to a temporary Professional version of Observium in order to present its benefits, before actually buying it and install it Best regards BESANCON Damien INETUM pour la poste / DSI Groupe La Poste Administrateur réseau CDS LAN DC CENTRE DE SERVICES MUTUALISES SI - CSMSI SERVICES TELECOM, RESEAU & SECURITE Département Exploitation Services Télécom, Réseau & Sécurité 9 rue Konrad Adenauer, 44300 Nantes [Une image contenant texte Description générée automatiquement] Ce message est classifié: [] C0-Public [] C1-Interne [X] C2-Restreint[] C3-Confidentiel Diffusion Restreinte aux groupes ou catégories de personnes identifiées . Si vous n'êtes pas destinataire de ce message, merci de le détruire et d'en avertir immédiatement l'expéditeur. Toute utilisation ou diffusion non autorisée est interdite. Post-scriptum La Poste Ce message est confidentiel. Sous reserve de tout accord conclu par ecrit entre vous et La Poste, son contenu ne represente en aucun cas un engagement de la part de La Poste. Toute publication, utilisation ou diffusion, meme partielle, doit etre autorisee prealablement. Si vous n'etes pas destinataire de ce message, merci d'en avertir immediatement l'expediteur.

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status field in devices table
by Eric W. Bates (he) 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

I have 2 Palo Alto firewalls which dropped off the map at the same time about 25 days ago. I think it may have coincided with an Observium upgrade; but I didn't write down update particulars and I don't think Observium maintains a history? When I run discovery with debug there is a SQL query posted (which fails) attempting to lookup the device: SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE `disabled` = 0 AND `hostname` LIKE 'vpn01-p.{redacted}' AND `status` = '1' AND `poller_id` = '0' ORDER BY `last_discovered_timetaken` ASC] In this case, the query fails because "status" is actually set to 0. So what is the "status" field for in the "devices" table and how is it set 'wrong?' There is a "statuses" tab in the web GUI for the device's "properties", but in this case (a PAN firewall) there are 2 MIB entries for indicating the fail-over status of the device pair ("HA State" and "HA Peer State"); so I don't think they have anything to do with the "status" field in the DB. -- Clark 159a 508/289-3112

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Cisco9200L
by Dąbrowski Jacek 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

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Problems with downgrade from commercial edition to community edition
by observium-mailing-list＠centropolis.net 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Hi, my company was using Observium (Subsciption Edition, SE) for quite a long time so I wanted to stick with Observium for my private lab. Since I have just some private Mikrotik routers and APs in the lab, the commercial edition might be way too mighty for my ~ 10 devices. So I tried to get the old installation downgraded to the CE edition. There was a hint on Observium's website a long time ago but I was not able to find it anymore. So I tried the idea from the current webpage (starting from Community Edition): Since I had an old Mariadb installation, I had to upgrade to Mariadb10.6.17 as well during installation. After I updated the databases with |/opt/observium/discovery.php -u | and made a full discovery with |/opt/observium/discovery.php -h all | |But I ran in trouble with the installation: | |So, my downgrade does not work this way. And yes, I got a backup of the previous installation ;-) | | | | | |I think, this derives from the information, that the CE Version does not support groups (?), but this is just a guess. | | | | | |So basically, I have two questions:| |1. Is there a recipe to downgrade from commercial to community edition? | |2. Would'nt it make sense to have an subscription edition limited to private / home lab (aka advanced private users) users with a limitation in the max. amount of devices? I think, the SE is a little bit too expensive to private installations. And yes, therefore is a CE, but therefore I would need to downgrade which did not work out for me.| | | |Cheers,| |John | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || ||

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support for Planet
by Dąbrowski Jacek 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Hi, Thank you for the hint, it helped 😊 Still open my second question * Is there any chance to add support for media converter from planet ? https://www.planet.com.tw/en/product/mc-1610mr-mc-1610mr48 Regards Jacek Dąbrowski From: Mike Stupalov <mike(a)observium.org<mailto:mike@observium.org>> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2024 4:06 PM To: Observium <observium(a)lists.observium.org<mailto:observium@lists.observium.org>>; Dąbrowski Jacek via observium <observium(a)lists.observium.org<mailto:observium@lists.observium.org>> Cc: Dąbrowski Jacek <Jacek.Dabrowski(a)selgros.pl<mailto:Jacek.Dabrowski@selgros.pl>> Subject: Re: [Observium] Locations and support for Planet Nie otrzymujesz często wiadomości e-mail z adresu mike(a)observium.org<mailto:mike@observium.org>. Dowiedz się, dlaczego jest to ważne<https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> Hi, this is nohow related with this update and mostly earlier updates. You have config option for Nested locations menu, and default split char is `,` (comma). Global Settings -> Locations -> Web UI [cid:image003.png@01DA85B4.FB3409B0]

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Observium update
by Eaton, Danny 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

All, I’ve inherited the company Observium instance, and it’s been a good 6 months since an update. How difficult is that process to upgrade the Observium software? [https://www.westlake.com/sites/default/files/WestlakeEmailFooter.jpg] The information transmitted, including any attachments, is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited, and all liability arising therefrom is disclaimed. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.

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VM Tab on Observium
by farhaan.haroon＠hellogroup.co.za 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

Hi Guys Can you advise on how to get the VM Tab to appear on my console? I am using Observium Pro. Installed on a debian box. i have added my host onto observium and that works fine. I would like to be able to see each vm on that host Via Observium.

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Locations and support for Planet
by Dąbrowski Jacek 29 Mar '24

29 Mar '24

Hello, I have two threads * After the last update (24.3.13402 15th March 2024) the locations have split, it is first there are streets, then cities ??? [cid:image011.png@01DA81E2.C0A98CA0] * Is there any chance to add support for media converter from planet ? https://www.planet.com.tw/en/product/mc-1610mr-mc-1610mr48 Regards Jacek Dąbrowski

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Rebuild Device Group
by mamitchell＠kern.org 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

I noticed that in the code change r13391 the rebuild button has been removed. Is there a manual way to rebuild still or do I just have to wait?

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span port on hp switch alerts as down....why?
by Tony Guadagno 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

Hi, I have created a simple checker to notify on some specific ports. The way I built it is that I include the word "alert" on the description. The checker parses that and alerts if that port goes down. This is working fine for the most part...except on one port. On my switch, C8 is a fiber 10gig port and it is up as shown here: Status and Counters - Port Counters for port C8 Name : random span port MAC Address : eaaaa3-cd9bb8 Link Status : Up Port Enabled : Yes [cid:image002.jpg@01DA7C37.EF9B2A60] However, the checker lists it as down: [cid:image009.jpg@01DA7C37.EF9B2A60] The test conditions are pretty simple: [cid:image010.jpg@01DA7C37.EF9B2A60] The only difference between the ports that work and C8 are; it is 10gig fiber and it is a span port...do either of these issues explain why this port is listed as down (only by the checker)??? Thanks in advance! Tony Guadagno O +1 585 577 1003 C +1 585 703 6700 E tonyg(a)guadagnoconsulting.com<mailto:tonyg@guadagnoconsulting.com> [cid:image001.jpg@01D84DD6.FC9912E0]

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Capture gaps when retrieving interface traffic data …
by Stefan Schmidt 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

Hello! We query with snmp Observium the port data from a Mikrotik router (CCR2004-16G-2S+) with RouterOS 7.14.1 (Level 6) via SNMP from 4 WAN interfaces with polling and alerts. However, we always have gaps in the data. Every now and then 5-10 minutes of data are missing, so that vertical lines without data appear in the rrd - of course this only becomes clear in the 6h overview. We are surprised because we have the impression that it only started on this device (and others) almost a year ago. We therefore renewed the hardware, reinstalled the system (debian12) and only queried this router alone (also deleted the query from the old Observium to avoid parallel double queries). We look at https://.../pollerlog/ and see our patient there: Device Last Polled 10.X.X.1 100% 108.67s (...) and others of the location with 1-19%... Why 100%... where are the key data relevant here? We would be happy if someone could help us adjust the Observium "Poller Wrapper" parameters if necessary. Is there potential for adaptation there? Greetings Frankfurt/Main Stefan

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Alert checker conditions
by David Milton 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

Hello, I'm attempting to create an alert checker for our router and switch power supplies. I seem to be part way there but am seeing some unexpected behaviour that I cannot explain. I started with the test condition: sensor_event notequals ok and the associations are "or:" Sensor Description match PEM* Sensor Description match Power Supply 0 @* Sensor Description match Power Supply 1 @* Here's a specific device inventory showing PEM 0 status is currently down: It seems the last two associations don't mach anything and for some reason the PEM* association only matches the power supplies that are ok, not the one I want the alert for which is currently down. I've tried to match against "Power Supply" and that matches power supplies in my servers but they don't seem to have a status, more like a current sensor instead. I'm attempting to deal strictly with the power supplies in our Juniper routers and switches and from what I can tell they all have a status/sensor_event state. I think the two "Power Supply 0 @*" associations should also match additional power supplies as shown in the list below taken from the hardware inventory and filtering for a description of Power Supply: Clearly I'm missing something en the alert checker associations but I'll be darned if I can figure out what that is. I've tried to match on MIB as well but nothing seems to match those power supplies. What am I missing here? Thanks, Dave.

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port down on UI
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

How I can keep a port down (monitored) warning until recover mail is sent? by default it's showed 1 day, i want show while alert is active (1, 2, 3...n days) -- Saluda cordialmente

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Dell RAID Controllers etc. appearing as failed
by Chris James 16 Mar '24

16 Mar '24

Morning, Anyone know why "Drive Controller PERC H730 Mini (Embedded)<http://192.168.0.250/device/device=4/tab=health/metric=status/id=826/>", "Drive ID<http://192.168.0.250/device/device=4/tab=health/metric=status/id=827/>", "Drive List of Physical Disks on Controller PERC H730 Mini (Embedded)<http://192.168.0.250/device/device=4/tab=health/metric=status/id=825/>", and "Controller Status<http://192.168.0.250/device/device=4/tab=health/metric=status/id=824/>" show as "fail"? This is on various Dell servers (R620, R730). It would be good to either have this working or just ignore them altogether. Any ideas welcome. Chris Chris James Vessel Production Systems Manager

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How Can I Update SNMP Community of devices without losing history Data
by Farah Ameri Mahabadian (famerima) 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

Hello Observium Team, I want to update the total Devices SNMP configuration, but I don’t want to lose the history of data what should I do ? Thanks in advance !! Farah

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Assistance Updating Observium
by Shedd, Ryan 11 Mar '24

11 Mar '24

Hi There, I have been attempting to reach someone from the Observium team to assist my company and I in updating our Software. We followed the instructions on the website located here: https://docs.observium.org/updating/ We did not have success. Our Observium server is hosted on a Linux Ubuntu server. Is there someone at Observium that could take a few minutes and assist us please? I look forward to hearing from you. Ryan Shedd Network Engineer Slocum-Dickson Medical Group P.L.L.C. 1729 Burrstone Road New Hartford, New York 13413 (315) 798-1777 (315) 798-1712 - Fax rshedd(a)sdmg.com<mailto:rshedd@sdmg.com> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.

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Re: observium Digest, Vol 164, Issue 3
by Rob VanHooren 06 Mar '24

06 Mar '24

nobody said Happy Birthday Adam?? geez you guys ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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jnxVirtualChassisMemberLocation for Juniper Virtual-Chassis
by Laszlo Mazsari 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

Hello Observium Team, In our Datacenters we would like to make use of "jnxVirtualChassisMemberLocation" for Juniper switches using Virtual-chassis techhnology. Normally virtual-chassis are in different locations for redundancy reasons. The "snmp location" is not really good to capture the location of the device (as the two switches are in different places but location will show what is configured with "snmp location" command). We updated our switch config with "jnxVirtualChassisMemberLocation" information, but we still dont see the data in Observium. > show snmp mib walk jnxVirtualChassisMemberLocation jnxVirtualChassisMemberLocation.0 = B-U-099 R01.01 jnxVirtualChassisMemberLocation.1 = B-U-098 R01.02 Is this feature on the roadmap to be added? Not sure how much additional work this feature to be added, but going for the Enterprise model may potentially help with this feature request? Thank you for the feedback. Best regards, Laszlo Mazsari Network Engineer laszlo.mazsari(a)green.ch<mailto:laszlo.mazsari@green.ch> Z: +41 56 460 23 23 D: +41 56 460 23 37 [cid:image001.png@01DA6E0F.64E03130]<https://www.facebook.com/green.ch.datacenter> [cid:image002.png@01DA6E0F.64E03130]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/green-ch-datacenter/> [cid:image003.png@01DA6E0F.64E03130]<https://www.youtube.com/@green.ch.datacenter> [green.ch]<http://www.green.ch/de/blog/detail/green-wo-neue-welten-wahr-werden> Green Datacenter AG * green.ch AG * Industriestrasse 33 * 5242 Lupfig * www.green.ch<https://www.green.ch/>

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... subscription has been disabled from email nikto.barrada@gmail.com
by Klaatu Barrada Nikto 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

observium(a)lists.observium.org Good day, I am reacting to your decision to prohibit the sending of information. Based on your decision, I checked my email settings and found no problems. I received the last email from your email address observium(a)lists.observium.org on February 15, 2024 at 1:06 p.m. I have not received any email since then. Can you please explain to me why the problems occur when I don't see anything (this does not rule out that there may be problems)? If I understood correctly, my email box refuses to accept your emails. Short summary: - the email address is on the list of Trusted senders - the storage size set aside for emails is 15 GB (0.21 GB occupied) - the number of senders is limited to the designated list, others are in SPAM - Your email address observium(a)lists.observium.org is not there... Sincerely, Barrada Nikto PS: Automatic translation

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Casa c100G SNR curve on upstream interface
by sebastien.gay＠mycable.ch 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

The casa is recognized as "CASA-DCTS". I don't have the upstream noise curves. Should I add mib

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ping probe not running
by Tony Guadagno 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

Hi, i have created a bunch of ping probes in the past and never had an issue, however, on this particular install...I created a single ping probe and it has not run after days. How do I troubleshoot this issue? Thanks [cid:image003.jpg@01DA6955.14B8C140] [cid:image004.jpg@01DA6955.14B8C140] Tony

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Mass SNMP Edit
by Nirmolak Singh Bajaj 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

Hi, I have migrated my devices from SNMp v1/2c to SNMP v3. As we have quote a number of devices, is there a script or anyway to mass edit the SNMP settings to v3 for these specific devices? We have put in config.php for v3 autodiscovery, but it isn't working. Warmest Regards, Nirmolak Singh

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Adding more Nagions plugins
by Brad Bendy 19 Feb '24

19 Feb '24

I went ahead and added another plugin to the /usr/lib/nagios/plugins directory where all the other working plugins are. When I go to add a probe it doesn't show up in the drop down box. Is there something that has to be ran to look for new plugins? Permissions/use/group are the same as the other plugins that work. Thanks

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dark ui image legend legibility
by Wolf Noble 16 Feb '24

16 Feb '24

Howdy, all! is there some voodoo necessary to coerce observium to generate graphs with textual legends that aren't black when dark mode is active? it's kinda hard to view black text on dark blue backgrounds :) I don't see an obvious knob for this, but it's entirely possible I'm just missing the "legend text color" or "make graph text legible in dark mode" or "learn to read" button somewhere :) [= The contents of this message have been written, read, processed, erased, sorted, sniffed, compressed, rewritten, misspelled, overcompensated, lost, found, and most importantly delivered entirely with recycled electrons =]

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Syslog repetitive alerts
by joston.gatt＠hudson.com.mt 16 Feb '24

16 Feb '24

Is it possible to suppress repetitive syslog alerts? if yes how can I do this? The issue is I have a particular site which has an issue with one of the internet connections, it keeps disconnecting and reconnecting every 2 minutes. A syslog event is logged each time and I am getting an email alert for each log.

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Upgrading O/S of Observium Server - Debian 10 to 11 (or 12)
by Andy Hartwell 15 Feb '24

15 Feb '24

Advice please ! 😊 I have a server which has been running Observium well for some time. Although upgrading the Observium build is easy enough following the instructions at Updating - Observium<https://docs.observium.org/updating/#upgrading-the-subscription-edition-to-…> this obviously does not update the O/S itself. I had a try at upgrading following online instructions yesterday but after he upgrade was complete the Observium web interface would not display – I just got a page of text which I assumed to be PHP script being displayed rather than “running”. Does anyone have any idiot proof (ie aimed at Linux novice) guidance to upgrade the OS without breaking Observium ? Luckily I had taken a snapshot of the VM so could roll back without any drama. Thanks, Andy Hartwell

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sysLocation gets rewritten
by Martin 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

Hello, I am experiencing something I don't understand. During polling of a host the syslocation -which is returned correctly by snmp- gets changed into another location (which is an old location before moving from "Address B" to "Address A"). $ /usr/bin/snmpget -v3 -l 'authPriv' -n '' -x 'AES' -X 'passwd' -a 'SHA' -A 'passwd' -u 'username' -Pud -Ih -OQUs --hexOutputLength=0 -m SNMPv2-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'HostName':'161' sysUpTime.0 sysLocation.0 sysUpTime.0 = 0:8:31:49.72 sysLocation.0 = "Address A" This is the correct address returned. A few lines lower in my debugging output I see: sysLocation rewritten from 'Address A' to 'Address B' by DB override. Even if I change the address in mysql to the correct address the polling process keeps changing it to the old address. MariaDB [observium]> select hostname, location from devices where device_id=9811; +-------------------------+--------------+ | hostname | location | +-------------------------+--------------+ | HostName | Address B | +-------------------------+--------------+ My questions: - Why is this happening? - How can I prevent this from happening? - Where does the old address come from? I hope someone can shed some light on this strange issue... Thanks, Martin

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