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Sensors auto-deleted and re-added.
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 21 Sep '16

21 Sep '16

Hey Anyone with an idea to why this would happen on its own? 2016-09-21 12:38:54 Sensor deleted: humidity apc emsProbeStatusProbeHumidity.4 Temp/humid 2016-09-21 12:38:54 Sensor deleted: temperature apc emsProbeStatusProbeTemperature.4 Temp/humid 2016-09-21 12:37:58 Temp/humid Sensor added: humidity apc memSensorsHumidity.0.4 Temp/humid 2016-09-21 12:37:58 Temp/humid Sensor added: temperature apc memSensorsTemperature.0.4 Temp/humid An APC/Schneider Netbotz200. Cheers -- Henrik Cednert cto | compositor Filmlance International | www.filmlance.se mobile [ + 46 (0)704 71 89 54 ] skype [ cednert ]

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Problem with Alert Checker
by Patrick LAM 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

Anyone got this problem?? The measured should not over 100%?! [cid:image001.png@01D2133F.17437550] Best Regards, Patrick Patrick LAM Computer Officer Office of Medical Education Faculty of Medicine The Chinese University of Hong Kong Tel : (852) 2632 1437 Fax : (852) 2637 5470 Email : patrick(a)med.cuhk.edu.hk [35 Email Signature_4C]

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Bls: observium Digest, Vol 74, Issue 8
by Radumalem Tarigan 17 Sep '16

17 Sep '16

Hi Adam & All, I got same problem with Fitriadi (below) for alerting with Telegram.Is there any way to change alert notification repetition for CE? Regards, Radu MT Pada Jumat, 9 September 2016 18:00, "observium-request(a)observium.org" <observium-request(a)observium.org> menulis: 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. Notification via Telegram Messenger (Fitriadi Rustam) 2. Master-Search bar (Tomas) 3. Re: SNMP MIB Import (David Schrok) 4. Re: Master-Search bar (Mike Stupalov) 5. Re: Ubuntu 16 support? (Dano, Leo) 6. Enable HipChat Intergration (Stephen Bateman ( M5i Limited )) 7. Re: Enable HipChat Intergration (Adam Armstrong) 8. Re: tcp reset via http on some devices (Daniel Rolfe) 9. Re: SNMP MIB Import (Markus Klock) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 19:11:56 +0700 From: Fitriadi Rustam <pipit.rustam(a)gmail.com> To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: [Observium] Notification via Telegram Messenger Message-ID: <CABJubyWnchVFDNjVdHNL_L25K3whZ6b=1a--xgUh_gqpC=UdQQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" hi all, currently i am using notification via telegram messenger for link down, the problem is when link down observium send notification every 5 minutes. is there a way to change notification repetition every one hour or notification when link down and up only. Thanks, Fitriadi

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VLANs on Nexus C31128PQ
by Vater, Wolfgang 16 Sep '16

16 Sep '16

Hi, On my Nexus C31128PQ switch I do not get the VLANs into Observium. Instead it claims all ports are in VLAN 16777216. How can I help troubleshoot this? Wolfgang Wolfgang Vater | Lead Client Architect | Enterprise Services Unisys Deutschland GmbH GmbH | +49 162 255 9338 | wolfgang.vater(a)unisys.com | Philipp-Reis-Str. 2 | 65795 Hattersheim [unisys_logo]<http://www.unisys.com/> Unisys Deutschland GmbH | Geschäftsführer: Dr. Uwe Heckert | Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hattersheim | Amtsgericht: Frankfurt/Main HRB 73114 THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. DIESE E-MAIL IST AUSSCHLIESSLICH FÜR DEN ADRESSATEN BESTIMMT UND KANN VERTRAULICHE INFORMATIONEN ENTHALTEN. Sollten Sie nicht der Adressat dieser Informationen sein, bitten wir Sie, sich mit dem Absender in Verbindung zu setzen und die Informationen von Ihren Endgeräten zu entfernen. [Grey_LI]<http://www.linkedin.com/company/unisys> [Grey_TW] <http://twitter.com/unisyscorp> [Grey_GP] <https://plus.google.com/+UnisysCorp/posts> [Grey_YT] <http://www.youtube.com/theunisyschannel> [Grey_FB] <http://www.facebook.com/unisyscorp> [Grey_UB] <http://blogs.unisys.com/>

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Feature Request
by Serghei Golipad 16 Sep '16

16 Sep '16

Guys, Any chance to have something similar to Nectar plugin (for Cacti) integrated into Observium? Would be nice to have daily/weekly reports for specific graphs automatically emailed through? Cheers PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING THIS EMAIL. CDW Limited is a Company registered in England and Wales. This email is sent for and on behalf of CDW Finance Holdings Limited. CDW Finance Holdings Limited is the UK holding company for CDW Limited trading as CDW. The registered office for CDW Finance Holdings Limited (Company Number 05872067) and its UK group undertakings is 10 Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7RB. VAT Registration 902 1949 39. Confidentiality: This e-mail contains proprietary information, some or all of which may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by replying to this e-mail and then delete the original. If you are not the intended recipient you may not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on any information contained in this e-mail. You must not inform any other person other than CDW or the sender of its existence. For more information about CDW please visit www.uk.cdw.com

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Netscreen VPN tunnel stats
by Daniel Rolfe 16 Sep '16

16 Sep '16

Hi all Just wondering Would it be possible using these VPN OIDs to get VPN tunnel details from our netscreen firewalls (os 6.2 and 6.3) into observium ? http://www.oidview.com/mibs/3224/NETSCREEN-VPN-MON-MIB.html Regards Daniel

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Alert ifInOctets_perc doesn't match port ifInOctets_perc?
by Mailing Lists 15 Sep '16

15 Sep '16

Had a couple of utilisation alerts come through today reporting a 10Gig port as over 80% utilisation, when in reality it doesnt appear to be that busy?. The alert email shows this graph, showing over 100% utilisation and a solid 80+% most of the day: [image: Inline images 1] When you click through the embedded link to the 'real' graph in Observium itself, it reports the correct utilisation figures I would epxect to see based on the traffic graph: [image: Inline images 2] Traffic graph for the port: [image: Inline images 3] Are the alerts reading the information from a different rrd? Doesn't seem like it as the port would be alarming constantly based on the graph in the email as it shows over 80% for most of the day? Happy to accept that the port may have spiked to 8Gbps, but I would have thought this would have been reflected in the graphs somewhere but if anything traffic was tailing off? Is there possibly an issue with the alerting on ifInOctets_perc or do I need to be looking more closely at what the device is reporting, which on face value _seems_ OK looking at a debug of poller.php? Thanks, Tim C

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Send logs to SIEM server
by Mike Khalil 12 Sep '16

12 Sep '16

hello, is there any way where I can setup Observium to send its logs to an SIEM system, primarily OSSIM? *Michael Khalil* | System Administrator *CONTROLTEC* 999 Republic Drive, Suite 100, Allen Park, MI 48101 *P* 313.438.5107 *F* 313.982.1305 *www.control-tec.com <http://www.control-tec.com/>* *This e-mail, and any attachments, is intended solely for use by the addressee(s) named above.* *It may contain confidential or proprietary information of Control-Tec LLC, its subsidiaries, affiliates or business partners.* *If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail or are an unauthorized recipient of the information, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or any attachments, is strictly prohibited.* *If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and permanently delete the original and any copies or printouts.* *Computer viruses can be transmitted via email.* *The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses.* *Control-Tec LLC accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail.*

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Observium Network Mapping with real time traffic
by Sandvik Agustin 12 Sep '16

12 Sep '16

Hi, Just want to ask if does observium have this feature like network mapping with real time traffic monitoring like weathermap that used by the cacti or any similar to that? TIA :)

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Any ideas how i maight chase down a near identical location ? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by Peter.Hine＠familycourt.gov.au 12 Sep '16

12 Sep '16

There is probably a space in it somewhere, that the location system detects but clicking on the location shows all 15 devices. (Embedded image moved to file: pic45025.gif) maybe an sql to pull out just the locations and device names ? thanks Peter Hine Senior Technical Support Engineer (Servers) Corporate Services | Federal Court of Australia ********************************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail (including any attachments) is for the exclusive use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. It is noted that legal privilege is not waived because you have read this e-mail. **********************************************************************

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tcp reset via http on some devices
by Daniel Rolfe 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

Hi All, I'm not sure why only some devices are showing just a blank page or tcp reset Running latest CE Just wanting to know how one enables php errors to be displayed via the browser in observuim ? Regards, Daniel

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Ubuntu 16 support?
by Dano, Leo 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

Hello all, I was able to add it to observium, it pulled up network and cpu but it's giving an error that it is down and it's not. Any thoughts? Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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Re: [Observium] SNMP MIB Import
by David Schrok 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

Hello Markus, Any news or update on the pastebin output? Thank you in advance David Schrok Van: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] Namens Markus Klock Verzonden: maandag 5 september 2016 09:22 Aan: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Onderwerp: Re: [Observium] SNMP MIB Import Oh, so you get the sensors in Observium but it shows them as wrong type of sensor? Then please attach a screenshot and run polling.php and discovery.php towards this device and use the -d flag for debug. example: ./discovery.php -h mydevice.com<http://mydevice.com> -d save the debug output to a pastebin or similar and give us the link :) /Markus 2016-09-05 9:15 GMT+02:00 David Schrok <dr.schrok(a)avans.nl<mailto:dr.schrok@avans.nl>>: Thak you for your reply. If I add a MIB, can it then make a difference between temp and humidity readout? Now all sensors of the new probe are shown in temperature. Met vriendelijke groet, David Van: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] Namens Markus Klock Verzonden: maandag 5 september 2016 07:52 Aan: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Onderwerp: Re: [Observium] SNMP MIB Import Hi David, Sadly just adding a MIB will not add support for a device, a SNMP MIB is only translating OID numbers, nothing more. Observium needs code written to actually support a new device, how much code depends on what kind of sensors you would like to support. /Markus 2016-09-05 7:37 GMT+02:00 David Schrok <dr.schrok(a)avans.nl<mailto:dr.schrok@avans.nl>>: Hello, Is there a wau to import MIB’s for devices that aren’t supported by Observium yet? I bought a new environment sensor which isn’t recognized by observium. I have the MIB’s, just don’t know how to import, if that is even possible. Any help? With Kind Regards, David Disclaimer ( http://www.avans.nl/over-avans/e-mail-disclaimer ) _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium Disclaimer ( http://www.avans.nl/over-avans/e-mail-disclaimer ) _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium Disclaimer ( http://www.avans.nl/over-avans/e-mail-disclaimer )

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Enable HipChat Intergration
by Stephen Bateman ( M5i Limited ) 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

Hello All, Does anyone have a guide or tips on how-to add HipChat notification transport to observium? I can see it is supported however cannot find a way to add or enable it anywhere. Thanks Stephen

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Master-Search bar
by Tomas 08 Sep '16

08 Sep '16

Hi all, we are using Observium as support tool and have some difficulties with search bar. If someone want to search a description like: Asia-mSwitchVRF_5 you have to fill all letters in one line, for example: mswitchvrf_5 , otherwise no result found. Event if you type "mswitch5" or "asia-mswitchvr5" nothing.. I think we are not alone with this problem here? And how to find ports from this place? https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8459860/Temp/Screenshot%20from%202016-0…

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Notification via Telegram Messenger
by Fitriadi Rustam 08 Sep '16

08 Sep '16

hi all, currently i am using notification via telegram messenger for link down, the problem is when link down observium send notification every 5 minutes. is there a way to change notification repetition every one hour or notification when link down and up only. Thanks, Fitriadi

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Observium Professional Edition
by Kacper Czerwonka 08 Sep '16

08 Sep '16

Hello, I've got quick question. I must to bay 3 Prof subscriptions. I've bought first. What will happen if I push again "Purchase Subscription"? First will extend or I will have second subscription? Best regards, Kacper Czerwonka.

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processors no rrd graphs
by Simon Smith 08 Sep '16

08 Sep '16

Hi All having a strange issue for some reason when i originally added a server, it only found 4 processors, (the server actually had 2 x quad core xeons) i did an observium update recently and suddenly 8 processors now appear but the processors graph is just showing ERROR now ive been able to find the issue the 4 new processors arnt putting any data into the rrd files ? RRDTool Output: ERROR: mmaping file '/opt/observium/rrd/ad.rbs/processor-hr-13.rrd': Invalid argument -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117272 Sep 2 08:50 processor-hr-10.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117272 Sep 2 08:50 processor-hr-11.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117272 Sep 2 08:50 processor-hr-12.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 26 18:35 processor-hr-13.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 26 18:35 processor-hr-14.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 26 18:35 processor-hr-15.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 26 18:35 processor-hr-16.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117272 Aug 26 18:30 processor-hr-5.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117272 Aug 26 18:30 processor-hr-6.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117272 Aug 26 18:30 processor-hr-7.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117272 Aug 26 18:30 processor-hr-8.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117272 Sep 2 08:50 processor-hr-9.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117272 Sep 2 08:50 processor-hr-average-1.rrd what is the best way to fix this or even debug this? Regards Simon - Hestor Ltd

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Disable email alerts
by Sjoerd de Vries 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Hi all, When temporarily disabling email alerts we used to set: $config['email']['enable'] = FALSE; As per: http://www.observium.org/docs/config_options/#email-backend-settings <http://www.observium.org/docs/config_options/#email-backend-settings> However this is no longer working. Is this a bug or can we (temporarily) disable all alerts in a better way? Kind Regards, Sjoerd

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Device availability - possible feature request?
by Lyndon Labuschagne 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Hi For the purposes of alerting, is availability a a metric that can be used, and if not is it possible to add somthing where we could create an alert i.e. Type device device_availabilty le 99.5% Device Match * Entity Match * Delay 1 The issue I see is that the duration or scope is a defining factor, i.e availability over X days or X months etc

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Alerts interval.
by Gabriel Zamorski 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Hello, I have this parameter $config['alerts']['interval’] with a value 86400 to resend alert notification after a day. Is there any option to have custom intervals depending on alert checker name or.. device name or something?

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I/O Latency Metric Alert?
by Robert Williams 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Hi, Is there an attachment point for alerts to be triggered from the metric of I/O Latency? Reason for asking is that I could do with an alert checker which would have spotted this issue (the scale is in seconds!): It went unnoticed overnight until it crippled a virtual host when users started accessing VMs on it this morning. The underlying fault was a RAID card issue, but nothing else detected it and I've just found that Observium 'knew' about it, but we have not alerts which would have caught this. Any ideas? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Observium maps and locations
by Tomasz Karczewski 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Today my maps changed from Google to openstreetmap (in configuration file I have defined google?!). Meanwhile some locations are not in proper places. Could you tell me what happened? J Tomasz Karczewski Administrator Sieci olman tkarczewski(a)man.olsztyn.pl http://www.man.olsztyn.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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SNMP MIB Import
by David Schrok 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

Hello, Is there a wau to import MIB’s for devices that aren’t supported by Observium yet? I bought a new environment sensor which isn’t recognized by observium. I have the MIB’s, just don’t know how to import, if that is even possible. Any help? With Kind Regards, David Disclaimer ( http://www.avans.nl/over-avans/e-mail-disclaimer )

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Alerts on Availability
by Lyndon Labuschagne 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

Hi Is it possible to alert on a service if the availability is lower than X% I didn't see anything in the example that seem to do this but I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction

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Device Commets and notes
by Andy Lemin 02 Sep '16

02 Sep '16

Hi, I can see that a ticket has been raised for adding a place to add comments and notes to devices on ticket OBSERVUM-249 http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-249 The workaround is to use the Description field. However this field is too small to store much useful info, and cannot be read easily as the field does not expand to show more characters. It would be really nice to have the field be able to show all our device notes, currently you can see the information is clipped beyond 65 CHARS as seen below in this example; Thanks and keep up the great work (we love Observium here) :) Cheers, Andy *Linux ar1406 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2 (2016-04-08) x86_64* Description Old Hypervisor running some networking VMs etc. The disk mode is Hardware Generic x86 [64bit] Operating system Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 System name ar1406 Contact Me <me(a)example.org> Location Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Uptime 106 days, 20h 10m 13s

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IPMI
by Laurence Mayer 02 Sep '16

02 Sep '16

Hi, I have two servers both with IPMI ports enabled and working. Within Observium I have configured the IPMI Settings for both servers. For one of the servers Observium displays the relevant IPMI information (e.g, CPU Temp etc) however for the second server, the information is not displayed. Firmware are identical. I have confirmed the IPMI configuration a number of times and connectivity does not appear to be the issue. Anyway to troubleshoot this? Thanks Laurence

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HP Storage
by ffuentes 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Any plans on adding HP MSA 2040 as a supported device? The custom MIB from HP is available to the public. Regards, -- Fernando Fuentes Supervisor & Senior Systems Administrator Email: ffuentes(a)aasteel.com American Alloy Steel, Inc. Houston, Texas Website: http://www.aasteel.com Phone: 713-744-4222 Fax: 713-300-5688

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billing outbound/95th same values
by Gregory Storme 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Hi, We configured a billing type CDR/95th, but notice the values for outbound & 95th percentile are the same.Screenshot of the historical usage overview: We have a subscription and this is on version 0.16.3.7703 (22nd March 2016).Today we updated to version 0.16.8.8068 (23rd August 2016). Is this a known issue or it something wrong on our side? Regards, Gregory

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APC NetBotz. Support for 'Dry contact inputs'....?
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Hello Not sure if this is the proper channel for feature requests. But it would be awesome to have support for the ‘Dry contact inputs’ on the APC NetBotz devices. Still not sure how to do a proper likeable snmpwalk so someone will probably shake their head and wave their fist in fury over this one. But hey, at least I tired. =) Snmpwalk output: http://pastebin.com/qcV8vX98 That one have 4 connected ‘dry contact inputs’ and you can see their name under for instance ‘emsProbeConfigProbeName.<n>’, ‘emsProbeStatusProbeName.<n>’ and ‘emsInputContactConfigInputContactName.<n>’ and then some... Also normal state and current state are represented in that walk. This particular netbotz is in charge of switching to secondary cooling circuit and firing those pumps up in case of failure on main circuit. So would be really nice to have that monitored in Observium. =) Cheers and thanks Ps. If my snmpwalk sucks, tell me once and for all how to do it and how it is supposed to look. =) -- Henrik Cednert cto | compositor Filmlance International | www.filmlance.se mobile [ + 46 (0)704 71 89 54 ] skype [ cednert ]

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PHP Error
by Nurbek Suleimanov 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Hi, support! Please help me, about this problem, when i make discovery all device, i see always this error: PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 22 bytes) in /opt/observium/includes/snmp.i Thanks best regard Nurbek

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Not seeing unix system graphs
by Glenn Cooper 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

I’ve got a CentOS 6.7 VM (that runs my Observium instance, currently at version 8068-stable) that I’m trying to monitor with the unix agent described here: http://www.observium.org/docs/unix_agent/ Installation of the agent went fine, as did the telnet testing from the host itself. I got a bunch of data via telnet. Also, SNMP has already been configured on the server and it’s polling itself properly (as far as I can tell) From my Observium web page, I see the system and can some details for it. The Overview shows me high level system info (kernel version, hostname, Location, uptime, etc) and the Event Log. Graphs only show Agent Execution Time, Ping Response, SNMP Response, and Poller Duration. From looking at the live demo on the Observium website, I’m assuming I should be seeing a bunch of additional data (processors, memory, netstat data, load averages, etc, etc, etc). I’ve taken a look at the device configuration settings and can’t see anything that I’m missing. Any ideas for what to look at next will be much appreciated. Thanks, Glenn Cooper

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Observium group alerting?
by Andrew.Jones＠kiewit.com 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Can the grouping system be utilized for alerting at this time? Example: setup alert checker to monitor device status of a group of devices and send single alert if any of those devices goes down. Or is the grouping feature only used for information viewing and scheduled maintenance? We are looking at options for suppressing amount of alerts that can occur at some of our larger locations. Thanks for your help! [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: cid:image001.jpg@01CB9CF5.E087FC40] Andrew Jones Sr. IM Technician, Network Kiewit Corporation 12720 I st, Omaha, NE 68137 402-938-4402 402-214-2681 cell www.kiewit.com<http://www.kiewit.com>

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Feature Request
by Mike Khalil 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Hello, Can you guys integrate your next release with DataDog? Datadog has their API open source thanks, -- *Michael Khalil* | System Administrator *CONTROLTEC* 999 Republic Drive, Suite 100, Allen Park, MI 48101 *P* 313.438.5107 *F* 313.982.1305 *www.control-tec.com <http://www.control-tec.com/>* *This e-mail, and any attachments, is intended solely for use by the addressee(s) named above.* *It may contain confidential or proprietary information of Control-Tec LLC, its subsidiaries, affiliates or business partners.* *If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail or are an unauthorized recipient of the information, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or any attachments, is strictly prohibited.* *If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and permanently delete the original and any copies or printouts.* *Computer viruses can be transmitted via email.* *The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses.* *Control-Tec LLC accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail.*

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bind_cache failing to write via RRDCached
by Robert Williams 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Hi, Having a good time today…! Got another oddity since the upgrade of the Observium server itself to 16.04 unfortunately :( In summary, all servers running BIND (they are still on 14.04) have now got zero ‘cache content’ stats since the Observium server was upgraded on Tuesday. However, all the other BIND stats are working OK: [cid:image001.jpg@01D1D944.38CA7190] Looking at the debug output, it is getting the data fine, and it’s writing out the values to RRDCacheD OK. I tried disabling RRDCacheD – it started working straight away. So, it looks like RRDCacheD (version 1.5.5 under 16.04) is unhappy with writing the ‘Cache’ elements content output for BIND. If I had to guess, I’d say it’s either: 1) something to do with the quantity of DS elements within that RRD (all 42 of them) 2) something relating to the use of an “!” in the name of the elements (that’s a proper random guess) The write attempt is: mupdate /opt/observium/rrd/x.y.net/app-bind-23-cache-default.rrd N:6:3:::392500:799:13060:27296:825744:29:17815:555:67263:160:8::9660:2238:49:382:23:14:::::::259181:22:2::45094::26347::::::6715::::::: My old RRDCacheD config was: DISABLE=0 OPTS="-w 1800 -z 1800 -f 3600 -s www-data -l unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock -j /var/lib/rrdcached/journal/ -F -b /opt/observium/rrd -B" MAXWAIT=30 ENABLE_COREFILES=0 The new config has different parameters, so I’ve setup as follows: DAEMON=/usr/bin/rrdcached WRITE_TIMEOUT=1800 WRITE_JITTER=1800 BASE_PATH=/opt/observium/rrd/ JOURNAL_PATH=/var/lib/rrdcached/journal/ PIDFILE=/var/run/rrdcached.pid SOCKFILE=/var/run/rrdcached.sock SOCKGROUP=www-data BASE_OPTIONS="-F -B" Does anyone know of anything which could cause this? Or a magic value in RRDCacheD like “maximum number of DS elements”…? Cheers, Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Device rediscover issue
by Tomasz Karczewski 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Hi, I'm trying to rediscover one of my devices and when i use command "/usr/bin/php /opt/observium/discovery.php -h <myhost>" Result is: WARNING: 0 devices discovered. Did you specify a device that does not exist? Tomasz Karczewski Administrator Sieci olman tkarczewski(a)man.olsztyn.pl http://www.man.olsztyn.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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RANCID tab gone after update to 8068
by Robbie Wright 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

As the title says, upgraded via svn to 8068 and the config tab is gone. Integration to smokeping still works, as well as the user agents and everything else, but no rancid. Rancid setup is still in the config file too. Anyone else seen it disappear after any update? On a side note, svn is reporting at revision 8069 while the gui is reporting 8068. Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <https://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101

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Ldap issues with edit users
by Dano, Leo 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Hi All, If anyone is using the ldap piece, I need your assistance. When you navigate to users --> edit users, it says no users in database, then any navigation to any other link, it brings you to the login screen. Most of the time, it will never load the edit users page and you can no longer navigate anything. Closing the tab out on the browser doesn't help either. Observium becomes unresponsive. Very rarely, it will actually show the users. It seems like something is clearing some cache in the background. Anyone experiencing these issues with ldap? Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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Email Alerts
by Mike Khalil 30 Aug '16

30 Aug '16

Hello, i know that Observium was made so that it can send alerts from an internal email server but is there any way to get it to work with GMAIL? and if not what do i have to do to write my own script so that it sends me alerts to my GMAIL account. -- *Michael Khalil* | System Administrator *CONTROLTEC* 999 Republic Drive, Suite 100, Allen Park, MI 48101 *P* 313.438.5107 *F* 313.982.1305 *www.control-tec.com <http://www.control-tec.com/>* *This e-mail, and any attachments, is intended solely for use by the addressee(s) named above.* *It may contain confidential or proprietary information of Control-Tec LLC, its subsidiaries, affiliates or business partners.* *If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail or are an unauthorized recipient of the information, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or any attachments, is strictly prohibited.* *If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and permanently delete the original and any copies or printouts.* *Computer viruses can be transmitted via email.* *The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses.* *Control-Tec LLC accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail.*

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Time on X-axis of graphs is 1 hour off.
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 30 Aug '16

30 Aug '16

Hello What setting have I missed when my time on the X-axis on the graphs is one hour off (-1). Time of alerts are okay. So only the graph that shows -1 hour. ‘date’ on the server shows proper date and time. Cheers -- Henrik Cednert cto | compositor Filmlance International | www.filmlance.se mobile [ + 46 (0)704 71 89 54 ] skype [ cednert ]

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Active Directory Services
by Ciro Iriarte 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

Hi!, anybody tried to get capacity metrics for AD services?, like DHCP scopes, LDAP connections, etc?. DHCP scope is exported by SNMP, for SCOPE capacity and usage, but given generic OID feature can graph a single data source, it's dificult to make that counter useful. Any suggestions? Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://iriarte.it --

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Problem to update machine location
by Bernard Savonet (M) 28 Aug '16

28 Aug '16

Hi, I have moved some virtual servers to another data center. I have updated their syslocation code in their snmp file /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf Snmpwalk and poller display the right (new) syslocation code, but Observium does not. Which items did I miss on the checklist? Thx Bernard

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App alerting
by Neil French 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

I saw a few weeks back a commit 8083 added "Add ability to store JSON data for apps.” and got all excited. Is this the starting for app-based alerting? I have amended my FreeSWITCH poller to store an array in my app name in readiness for the potential of some app-alerting goodness and see it now gets logged in a new column applications.app_json. If only there were a way to create an alert checker that polled it! :) Maybe like Device Match: "os equals linux” Entity Match: “application equals freeswitch”, condition: "peaksessionspersecond greater 10”? Cheers, Neil.

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ubuntu upgrade 14.04->16.04; VRF list is not showing?
by Steve Costaras 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

Tried a test upgrade here on a system running observium professional (0.16.8.8086). Ubuntu upgrade went fine, added in mcrypt, php7.0. Was able to get into observium and most items looked ok that I could find with the exception of the VRF listing. (attached) The other areas, BGP, OSPF, etc all list out fine. The VRF section, as you can see lists the 2151 VRF's that we have but they are not displayed/listed. I checked php.ini, memory limit was set to 1024M which is the same I had w/ php5 under 14.04. Went back to 14.04 and figured I'd ask if anyone here who's done a similar upgrade has seen anything similar or any ideas on what else I can check?

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Log's spammed by "Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0'" for two devices after svn up.
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

Hi there. Since the 19th of July, when I most probably svn up'ed, I have two identical devices that spams the logs with "Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0'". They're 2 Tandberg LTO libraries and the're no sensor monitored in it, since not supported, but only the admin interface availability. The interestng thing about the alert is that it's always the same. 2016-07-23 08:12:21 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 08:06:47 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 08:01:41 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:56:47 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:51:44 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:46:52 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:41:48 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:37:21 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:31:45 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:26:44 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:21:42 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:16:50 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:11:43 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:07:19 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:01:44 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:56:46 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:51:43 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:47:20 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:41:41 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:36:53 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:32:17 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0'; [ifLastChange] '2016-06-17 17:28:42' -> '2016-06-17 17:27:10' 2016-07-23 06:26:44 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:21:45 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:16:45 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:11:44 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:06:45 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:01:50 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' Have something changed that can cause this? Is more info needed? If so, what? Cheers and thanks -- Henrik Cednert cto | compositor Filmlance International | www.filmlance.se mobile [ + 46 (0)704 71 89 54 ] skype [ cednert ]

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Apache Error
by Dano, Leo 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

Was looking at the apache error logs and keep seeing this. [Fri Aug 26 13:44:44.148360 2016] [:error] [pid 7759] [client 129.46.71.218:64087] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /opt/observium/html/includes/status-summary.inc.php on line 166 Should I be concerned? Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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Question about Google Maps
by Mike Khalil 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

i just setup observium yesterday and i am very pleased with it. the only thing that isn't working for me is google maps thinks that Michigan USA is in Ponte Delgada? what i'm i doing wrong? -- *Michael Khalil* | System Administrator *CONTROLTEC* 999 Republic Drive, Suite 100, Allen Park, MI 48101 *P* 313.438.5107 *F* 313.982.1305 *www.control-tec.com <http://www.control-tec.com/>* *This e-mail, and any attachments, is intended solely for use by the addressee(s) named above.* *It may contain confidential or proprietary information of Control-Tec LLC, its subsidiaries, affiliates or business partners.* *If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail or are an unauthorized recipient of the information, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or any attachments, is strictly prohibited.* *If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and permanently delete the original and any copies or printouts.* *Computer viruses can be transmitted via email.* *The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses.* *Control-Tec LLC accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail.*

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ARP policer counter
by Eduardo Schoedler 26 Aug '16

26 Aug '16

Hi Observium Team, Is there a chance to add arp packets counters to the interface graphics? JUNIPER-FIREWALL-MIB::jnxFWCounterPacketCount."__default_arp_policer__"."__default_arp_policer__".policer = Counter64: 0 JUNIPER-FIREWALL-MIB::jnxFWCounterPacketCount."ARP-POLICER-ge-1/0/0.0-inet-arp"."ARP-POLICER-ge-1/0/0.0-inet-arp".policer = Counter64: 0 JUNIPER-FIREWALL-MIB::jnxFWCounterPacketCount."ARP-POLICER-ge-4/0/0.0-inet-arp"."ARP-POLICER-ge-4/0/0.0-inet-arp".policer = Counter64: 376 Thanks! -- Eduardo Schoedler

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New Version alert on Subscription Version?
by Dano, Leo 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

How do we update the subscription version? Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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test
by Adam Armstrong 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

test

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Polling time.
by Gabriel Zamorski 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

Hello, I’m using Observium on a virtual machine, with rrdtool 1.6.0 and rrdcached. For now, it takes up to 80 seconds to poll 87 devices. I'm just curious - is it good or bad time? poller-wrapper.py(10710): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 87 devices in 77.74 seconds with 12 workers Regards,

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Re: [Observium] Alert checker and Toner
by Moerman, Maarten 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

Checker conditions: toner_current lt 5 Device association: whatever you please Entity association: * But I could be wrong, there was something different between CE & Pro as well, supply_level or toner_level or something like that. Tom might know better, he uses printers! Maarten -- Maarten Moerman | Mgr, Network Engineering | eBay Classifieds | +31-655122247 | mmoerman(a)ebay.com From: observium on behalf of "chott(a)praha1.net<mailto:chott@praha1.net>" Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System Date: Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 9:15 AM To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" Subject: [Observium] Alert checker and Toner Hello, Please can you help me wit create Alert Checker for Toner usage? (Printer Supplies) What is in „Tests“ and in „Entity“ Thank you Tom

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Alert checker and Toner
by chott＠praha1.net 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

Hello, Please can you help me wit create Alert Checker for Toner usage? (Printer Supplies) What is in "Tests" and in "Entity" Thank you Tom

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test
by Adam Armstrong 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

test

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test
by Adam Armstrong 24 Aug '16

24 Aug '16

test

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MAPS
by Erwin Botas 23 Aug '16

23 Aug '16

Adam: We are getting errors on the ssl certificates of the map portion on main screen and looking for the information of the CartoDB, they publish a different host naming that correspond to the SSL Certificates indicated in this documentation. in the map.inc.php file needs some changes in case of the SSL, please help. https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb/wiki/BaseMaps-available All basemaps follow the same URL structure (be careful as the URL might change in the future) http://{s}.api.cartocdn.com/<http://api.cartocdn.com/>{basemap_id}/{z}/{x}/{y}.png And if you need them over SSL use: https://cartocdn_{s}.global.ssl.fastly.net/{basemap_id}/{z}/{x}/{y}.png Erwin Botas Gerente tecnolog?as de informaci?n [http://www.criticalcolocation.com/firma/logo.jpg] Tel.: +506 2010-5050 * Cel.: +506 8982-4885 * Fax.: +506 2223-7055 San Jos?, CR * www.criticalcolocation.com [http://www.criticalcolocation.com/firma/line.jpg] NOTA DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD: "La informaci?n contenida en este mensaje y sus adjuntos es estrictamente confidencial y se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario. Si usted no es el destinatario indicado, cualquier divulgaci?n, copia, distribuci?n o uso del contenido de este documento es prohibido y ser? sancionado de acuerdo con la ley. Si recibi? este mensaje por error, debe notificarlo de inmediato al remitente y destruirlo".

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Test
by Dano, Leo 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

Not seeing my posts Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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FW: New Version alert on Subscription Version?
by Dano, Leo 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

From: Dano, Leo Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 8:56 AM To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: New Version alert on Subscription Version? How do we update the subscription version? Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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Openstreetmap / Cartocdn wrong certificate
by Matthias Cramer 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

Hi All I just came back from vacation and updated Observium. The map is now done with OSM/Carto, which is nice, boot it took me a while to find out why no map was loading. As it looks like all the cdn nodes have no SAN for *.basemaps.cartocdn.com The tiles get loaded in my browser from a.basemaps.cartocdn.com b.basemaps.cartocdn.com c.basemaps.cartocdn.com After adding an exception for these, all works well.. Does anyone have the same issue? Regards Matthias -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 <sip:0435001111> Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 <sip:0442713535> CH-8048 Zürich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250 -- This mail was scanned by BitDefender For more information please visit http://www.bitdefender.com/frams/

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Observium LDAP Edit Users very buggy
by Dano, Leo 19 Aug '16

19 Aug '16

Hello, I think I may have found the specific device access only via the Edit Users area. The only issue is that it is hit n miss. I sometimes can see my ldap users that have logged in and sometimes not. Once I do see the users, I edit one and give that person access to a group, but if I click any link, it puts me back at the login page. Which takes a few tries to log back in. Then sometimes when I click the edit users, no users show up. Is this part of the bugginess of Observium and LDAP integration? I am using the latest version per Subscription. Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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Rebooted and now mysql wont start?
by Dano, Leo 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

Ughh, need help. Got this message on the webpage DB Error 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) Got this in the mysql error log, not sure why there is an issue with the mysql user 160818 12:41:08 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended 160818 12:46:32 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql 160818 12:46:32 [Warning] Using unique option prefix key_buffer instead of key_buffer_size is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the full name instead. 160818 12:46:32 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't change to run as user 'mysql' ; Please check that the user exists! 160818 12:46:32 [ERROR] Aborting 160818 12:46:32 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete 160818 12:46:32 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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ldap login levels and narrow what they see?
by Dano, Leo 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

We currently have ours using ldap and have a specific ldap group as admins "level 10" We also have a level 5 login which is not admins. Is there a way to narrow down what the non admins see as far as hosts? Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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Observium relate two hosts
by Tsvetan Blagoev 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

Hello, I am using observium to monitor ESX servers and their DRACs ( I am using DELL hardware) How could I possibly link the host obejcts ? Can I have a link in the host’s page to it’s DRAC ? Regards, Tsener

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Rancid integration - config tabs won't show up
by Pirmin Sidler - Computerline 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

Hi @ll First, I want to give you guys from Observium a big thumb up because having a such easy webapp, so easily maintainable, so powerful and all without marketing layers and super complicated licensing makes you kind of unique on the market. Now to the issue, I'm trying to integrate my rancid files into the latest stable version of Observium (did it last week following official observium tutorial). Now I have multiple entries in the config.php (because of multiple router.db files/directories in rancid) : $config['rancid_configs'][] = "/var/lib/rancid/ juniper1/configs/"; $config['rancid_configs'][] = "/var/lib/rancid/ juniper2/configs/"; $config['rancid_configs'][] = "/var/lib/rancid/ juniper3/configs/"; $config['rancid_ignorecomments'] = 0; All the /var/lib/rancid/ directory is chowned by rancid:rancid. www-data is in rancid group. I restarted apache2. I cleared the cache from browser. I checked the config in the observium web-interface and it's correctly read by the server (I see the lines above). I checked the hostnames, and the ones I am backing up with rancid are matching the ones registered in the observium. But there are some observium devices I am not backing up yet. (I guess it's not an issue right?). Can anybody help me out with this? Thanks a lot Kind regards, Freundliche Grüsse, Pirmin Sidler System & Network Engineer [cid:image001.jpg@01D1F865.CC141AB0]

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Interface percent usage (ifInOctets_perc) going above 100
by Oliver Baker 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

Hi there, I've configured an alert that checks if ifInOctets_perc exceeds 80% utilisation and I'm finding that the alert is being triggered for normal amounts of traffic. What steps can I take to resolve this? Here's an example alert email: ALERT *Alert* *Entity* en1 *Conditions* ifInOctets_perc ge 80 (275) ifOutOctets_perc ge 80 (80) *Metrics* ifInOctets_perc = 275 ifOutOctets_perc = 80 *Duration* 4m 36s (2016-08-17 08:31:09) Device *Device* server1.example.com *Hardware* Generic x86 [64bit] *Operating System* Mac OS X 15.6.0 *Location* *Uptime* 12 days, 10h 45m 35s port_percent

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Citrix NetScaler VIp stats gone
by Daniel Rolfe 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

Hi, We recently upgraded our CE version from 0.15.6.6430 => 0.16.1.7533 Now all of our Citrix LB's aren't showing per VIP stats We really use the individual vip stats alot Now we get the error attached which effects NetScaler v9 and v10 devices Any ideas how to fix this one ? [image: Inline image 1] Regards, Daniel

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UNIX agent for PostgreSQL creating a new RRD file every poll since Aug 12
by Musall Maik 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

Hi, I noticed that postgresql application data disappeard on all servers recently. It ran fine for years, but since Aug 12, a new rrd file gets created on every poll, and the postgresql application tab is absent for all servers. I'm updating my installation daily on 9am, so this started happening after the Aug 12 update. Here's the oldest few files (out of over 1200 so far) for one of the servers: -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Aug 12 09:40 app-postgresql-12.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Aug 12 09:35 app-postgresql-11.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Aug 12 09:30 app-postgresql-10.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Aug 12 09:25 app-postgresql-9.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Aug 12 09:20 app-postgresql-8.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Aug 12 09:15 app-postgresql-7.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Aug 12 09:10 app-postgresql-6.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Aug 12 09:05 app-postgresql-5.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Apr 14 09:00 app-postgresql-_index_.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Apr 16 2015 app-postgresql-.rrd Apparently some change went wrong? Maik

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Authentication
by Zoellers, Billy 15 Aug '16

15 Aug '16

Is there any way to utilize local authentication and LDAP authentication simultaneously? We would like to utilize LDAP for our technicans, but also be able to create local users for client access. Would it be possible to create multiple login pages or something similar? Thanks, Billy [cid:DeanDortonbox.png] Billy Zoellers Infrastructure Engineer 106 W. Vine St., Ste 600 Lexington, KY 40507 ph (859) 425-7640 fax (859) 425-3640 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The preceding email message, and any files or attachments transmitted with it, may contain confidential and privileged information, and may constitute protected work product, confidential client information, trade secrets, and/or other non-public information. Furthermore, this message and any attachments may be protected by accountant/client privilege, attorney/client privilege, and/or other applicable privileges. Any unauthorized review, use, dissemination, distribution, disclosure, or reproduction of this message is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This message is intended to be conveyed and transmitted only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately by email or by telephone at 859-255-2341. Also, please delete this email message including all attachments and destroy all copies.

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How add MIBs MPLS LDP
by Nurbek Suleimanov 15 Aug '16

15 Aug '16

Hello support, Please can you help me? I have monitoring MPLS sessions and MPLS Interface in my Observium server. How i can add MIBs to Observium? I have MPLS-LDP-MIB file in my server in directory /opt/observium/mibs Thanks King regard Nurbek Suleimanov skype: nfastik

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Thoughts on "locations" front-page module
by Daniel Horth 15 Aug '16

15 Aug '16

In our setup the ‘map’ frontage module is pretty and impresses exec level types, however the space is mostly wasted as far as an engineer is concerned, requiring multiple clicks to drill in to areas of interest. I’d like to have the location table as seen at http://observium/locations <http://observium/locations> on my home page instead. Is this an option that can be implemented simply enough? Does anyone else think that this is a good idea? Thanks for looking!

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Migrating from Debian 3.2 to Ubuntu OS
by Idzma Zakaria 15 Aug '16

15 Aug '16

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delete my email in system
by Oguzhan Yonar 12 Aug '16

12 Aug '16

I dont wanna see any email from observium about somebody's problem. Could you delete my email in system? İyi çalışmalar dilerim. Saygılarımla. Oğuzhan YONAR Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisi-(Network&Security) Esentepe Mah.Tuna Cad.Yeşil Sok 3/1 Akdeniz Plaza Kat: 2 Daire : 5 16140 Nilüfer Bursa Tel : 0224 246 0 100 Faks : 0224 246 00 10 Gsm : 0533 155 64 52 E-mail : <mailto:oguzhan.yonar@2mbt.com.tr> oguzhan.yonar(a)2mbt.com.tr Web : <http://www.2mbt.com.tr/> www.2mbt.com.tr

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Please help create an alert :) Nexus FEX PS problem
by Laszlo Nemeth 11 Aug '16

11 Aug '16

Hello At the night the Observium showed an alert (fortunately) that I never set up in the Alert checks . I see this alert in Global/Alerts and the left up box there is an “1 alert” in the Statuses row. If I click the “1 alert” it shows me that a Cisco Nexus FEX modul’s powersupply EVENT is alert and Status is offDenied. So it is a dead PS. What I can to do if I would like to get alert if this happen again? I have lot of Alert Checks but I am not able to do an alert for this PS check because I don’t know what is the correct Entity match of it. I tried the “sensor_class equals powersupply” and Test is “sensor_value greater 2” (looks the normal PS value is 2, now this failed PS value is 4). But it doesn’t work (no matched entities). Thanks Laszlo

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alerting problem
by Laszlo Nemeth 11 Aug '16

11 Aug '16

Hello, At the morning I was on the 7933 but 2 hours ago I updated to 8039. I used a CPU alert for my routers. In the older version it is worked, I got the alerts via mail and PagerDuty as I set up. Now after the upgrade I would like to test the alerting because on 7933 i “pached” the pagerduty.inc.php for more info in the PD message (the default file just send like “something wrong somewhere” :) So. After the upgrade with the original (nor pached) PD file I would like a test to see how looks out a PD message now. I set a lower value for the CPU alerting (from 50% to 15%) to generate alerting (now the cpu load is 18-25%) After a few minutes I see in the Alers / Processor that my deviced appear and show that the status is FAILED. It is ok. In the Alert Logging I get the “Checks failed” so it is great. But. I never get “Alert notification sent” messages. (I get “Alert notification sent” for other events, so the alerting is working for other services). I see in the Alerts that the router’s status is Failed, Checked 18s Changed 20m 36s, Alerted: never. What I have to do for send the alerts? Or for the debug? Thanks BR Laszlo

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Re: [Observium] Alerting on Application attributes
by Neil French 09 Aug '16

09 Aug '16

Hi, Thanks for the confirmation, it’s great that alerting on an OID will be coming soon and in my case that will work, I’ll keep the App for viewing graphs and use a custom OID to monitor alerts by. Ultimately alerting on data collected by apps would be beneficial but not essential, as it will give neater integration options but I can see the complexities in that, maybe allowing apps to store pertinent stats for alerting in a column holding an array with a sub-array for each app? Anyway, I look forward to seeing the OID alerting soon. Thanks, Neil. ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 09:50:00 -0500 From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org <mailto:adama@memetic.org>> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org>> Cc: observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Alerting on Application attributes Message-ID: <fd070f1f-899c-4772-896b-540b771c7c16(a)typeapp.com <mailto:fd070f1f-899c-4772-896b-540b771c7c16@typeapp.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi, Alerting on custom oid is planned for the not too distant future (along with some other additions to custom oid). Alerting on apps is much more complex, I'm not entirely sure how to approach it at the moment. I suspect it may not look exactly like the current alerting, but it is probably some time away. Thanks, Adam. Sent from BlueMail On 4 Aug 2016, 09:34, at 09:34, Neil French <neil(a)numbergroup.com <mailto:neil@numbergroup.com>> wrote: > Hi, > > Apologies if this has been covered previously, I can’t seem to browse > any mailing list archives as the link is dead. > > I have previously used custom OIDs to monitor a VoIP Application > (FreeSWITCH) but found I couldn’t alert on custom OIDs, and that the > graphing wasn’t as customisable as I wanted, so I have built a custom > application for freeswitch. > > I now want to be able to raise alerts on a few things, such as when the > number of new sessions per second is over a predefined value or when > the uptime resets (application pop and restart). > > I can’t seem to find a way of creating an alert check for anything > that’s not one of the basic properties of a device though. > > Could someone please tell me if this is possible? For example can I > create my own attributes in the device then query them with an alert > check? I have tried adding something like: > > $device[‘device_state’].[’my parameter’] = value > > But that doesn’t seem to be stored outside of the php script. > > It’s quite important that we are able to alert on custom parameters and > I can either provide these as OIDs or through the unix agent, whichever > gets the job done. > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Neil. > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium <http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium>

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OpenWRT && wifi
by Ciro Iriarte 09 Aug '16

09 Aug '16

Hi!, anybody knows if it's possible to take wifi performance data from OpenWRT?. Regards, CI.-

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DeltaUPS graphs broken after r8016
by Kent Johannessen 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

Well not really... but it will not use renamed RRDs before after a new discovery of sensors. Meanwhile polling will create new RRDs with old names, so it seems you have lost all data. Several hours of data can be missed because of this. Maybe some improvements can be done for that. NOTICE: Please immediately e-mail back to sender if you are not the intended recipient. Thereafter delete the e-mail along with any attachments without making copies. The sender reserves all rights of privilege, confidentiality and copyright.

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Holes in graphs
by Zoellers, Billy 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

Hello all, We're seeing holes on our graphs (example attached). This appears to be affecting all graphs in our installation on all devices. I know our connection is good (affecting LAN and WAN devices), but looking for any other ideas for correcting this? We have also tried increasing the number of poller processes. Only around 1000 ports on this install, 8 GB of RAM and 4 vCPU. Thanks, Billy [cid:image001.png@01D1EEFD.85030800] [cid:DeanDortonbox.png] Billy Zoellers Infrastructure Engineer 106 W. Vine St., Ste 600 Lexington, KY 40507 ph (859) 425-7640 fax (859) 425-3640 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The preceding email message, and any files or attachments transmitted with it, may contain confidential and privileged information, and may constitute protected work product, confidential client information, trade secrets, and/or other non-public information. Furthermore, this message and any attachments may be protected by accountant/client privilege, attorney/client privilege, and/or other applicable privileges. Any unauthorized review, use, dissemination, distribution, disclosure, or reproduction of this message is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This message is intended to be conveyed and transmitted only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately by email or by telephone at 859-255-2341. Also, please delete this email message including all attachments and destroy all copies.

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VictorOps and Observium
by Andy Lemin 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

Hi guys, Can I please add a +11 to this one please ;) http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-1800 VictorOps is great, and alerting through Slack is just not good enough for critical incidents. Thanks, Andy.

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Graphs no longer draw after restore
by Vlad Kratsberg 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

Hi, I recently restored observium to a different machine. I restored the following: config.php mysql db rrd Everything looks good except for the fact that graphs stopped drawing and display data in a real time. When i click on port to see real time data, i get "can't get data about port xxx". See attached images. Any ideas ? Thanks

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No memory pools detected for OSX hosts
by Oliver Baker 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

Hi there, I'm running Observium 0.16.7.8003 (stable) for monitoring OSX hosts which is working great, except no memory pools are being detected for any hosts apart from "Swap space". Memory for OSX hosts did work previously, but after I mailed in re: "Incorrect free physical memory for Unix hosts" and Adam A. made a change, the memory pools have disappeared. What's the best course of action? Many thanks Olly

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Apps tab used to show a single graph per item.
by Ricardo Meleschi 07 Aug '16

07 Aug '16

Hello Observium overlords, In the past the Apps tab in observium would only show a single graph per item/array, but with the later versions it shows four graphs per item of varying timelines. Is it possible to configure Observium to only show a single timeline graph per array? When a large number of servers are running the application, it’s difficult to compare graphs when they are displayed in the current manner. Thanks, Ricardo

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subscription problems
by ffuentes 06 Aug '16

06 Aug '16

Team, We are trying to renew our subscription and every single CC fails to process and pay pal errors out. Any other ways to pay for our yearly subscription? Regards, -- Fernando Fuentes Supervisor & Senior Systems Administrator Email: ffuentes(a)aasteel.com American Alloy Steel, Inc. Houston, Texas Website: http://www.aasteel.com Phone: 713-744-4222 Fax: 713-300-5688

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svn update not working
by Gumilar Siegfried 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

Hello! I just wanted to update my observium installation with svn up, but I get the message: At revision 8033. This is the version I have really installed, according to the Web GUI: [cid:image001.png@01D1EF01.11590EF0] Regards, Siegfried

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Device not yet discovered
by Laurence Mayer 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

Hi, Almost once a day I receive the following on one of the switches. Device not yet discovered This device has not yet been successfully discovered. System information and statistics will not be populated and graphs will not draw. This device should be automatically discovered within 10 minutes. It does not go away until I have manually run the /opt/observium/discovery.php Any ideas why? Thanks Laurence

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Eaton 5130 'Inverter Off' Flipped
by Robert Williams 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

Hi, We've got several Eaton 5130 RT 3000 (with extended battery packs) being deployed to some remote locations. One of my guys has been setting them up overnight but has noticed that Observium reports one of the metrics incorrectly for all of the new units. Ironically the inverter status is, well, inverted. The platform is detected as: Hardware 5130 RT 3000 Operating system MGE UPS 6006AC (Firmware: JI) A debug of the status module, shows: SQL[UPDATE `status-state` set `status_value` ='2',`status_name` ='No',`status_event` ='ok',`status_last_change` ='1470278633',`status_polled` ='1470295701' WHERE `status_id` = '1289'] SQL RUNTIME[0.00013590s] Checking (snmp) Inverter Off CMD[/usr/bin/snmpget -v1 -c *** -Pu -OUqnv -m SNMPv2-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'ups-41.thn.oob.local':'161' .1.3.6.1.4.1.705.1.7.9.0] CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[0.0414s] STDOUT[ 1 ] SNMP STATUS[TRUE] RRD CMD[update /opt/observium/rrd/ups-41.thn.oob.local/status-mge-status-state-upsmgOutputInverterOff.1.0.rrd N:1 --daemon unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock] RRD RUNTIME[0.0011s] RRD STDOUT[OK u:0.00 s:0.00 r:0.65] RRD_STATUS[TRUE] - /opt/observium/includes/polling/status.inc.php:45 /opt/observium/includes/alerts.inc.php:61 ================================================ array( [status_value] => int(1) [status_name] => string(3) "Yes" [status_name_uptime] => int(17068) [status_event] => string(5) "alert" )) Reading the standards for that OID, that does seem to be the wrong way around. After a simulated power failure, you can see it goes to '2' when the power is failed and the inverter is (actually) off. As a side note, I noticed that Observium is polling the OIDs for a Merlin Gerin unit (.1.3.6.1.4.1.705.x) for when the unit is actually Eaton. Should it maybe be looking here instead? iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "EATON" iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.1.2.0 = STRING: "5130 RT 3000" iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.1.3.0 = STRING: "INV: 6006AC" iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.1.4.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.2.1.0 = INTEGER: 350 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.2.2.0 = INTEGER: 78 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.2.3.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.2.4.0 = INTEGER: 23 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.2.5.0 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.2.6.0 = "" iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.3.1.0 = INTEGER: 490 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.3.2.0 = Counter32: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.3.3.0 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.3.4.1.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.3.4.1.2.1 = INTEGER: 226 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.3.4.1.3.1 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.3.4.1.4.1 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.3.4.1.5.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.3.5.0 = INTEGER: 3 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.1.0 = INTEGER: 67 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.2.0 = INTEGER: 490 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.3.0 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.4.1.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.4.1.2.1 = INTEGER: 226 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.4.1.3.1 = INTEGER: 8 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.4.1.4.1 = INTEGER: 1809 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.4.1.5.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.5.0 = INTEGER: 3 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.6.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.7.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.8.0 = Counter32: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.5.1.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.5.2.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.6.1.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.6.2.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.6.3.0 = INTEGER: 40 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.6.7.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.7.1.0 = Gauge32: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.7.18.0 = Gauge32: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.8.1.0 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.8.2.0 = INTEGER: 2 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.9.1.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.9.2.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.9.3.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.9.4.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.9.5.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.9.6.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.9.7.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.10.1.0 = INTEGER: 230 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.10.2.0 = INTEGER: 230 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.10.3.0 = INTEGER: 2700 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.10.4.0 = INTEGER: 500 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.10.5.0 = STRING: "08/04/2016 08:34:38" iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.10.6.0 = INTEGER: 160 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.10.7.0 = INTEGER: 294 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.10.8.0 = "" iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.11.1.0 = INTEGER: 5 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.11.2.0 = INTEGER: 2 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.11.3.0 = "" iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.1.0 = INTEGER: 2 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.1.2 = INTEGER: 2 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.2.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.2.2 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.3.1 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.3.2 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.4.1 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.4.2 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.5.1 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.5.2 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.6.1 = INTEGER: 3 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.6.2 = INTEGER: 6 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.7.1 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.7.2 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.8.1 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.8.2 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.9.1 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.9.2 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.10.1 = Counter32: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.10.2 = Counter32: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.13.1.0 = INTEGER: 32 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.13.2.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.13.3.0 = INTEGER: 0 I could be very wrong, maybe there is a valid reason to us the Merlin Gerin instead (I know they merged, but I thought I'd mention it in light of the odd issue). Any ideas anyone? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Search custom keywords / description
by Daniel Horth 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

Howdy all. Wondering if there is a way to allow users to search for a custom string / keyword as configured in Observium. I am adding a variety of linux boxes to our monitoring setup and would like to be able to have users search on an application name or service name and have all servers matching that keyword show as options. Thanks

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power levels for Juniper MX
by Richard Savage 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

Hi Looks like there might be a slight issue with the reporting of power levels for SFP's in Juniper MX's. Seeing the following: on the Juniper MX: Laser rx power high alarm threshold : 2.0000 mW / 3.01 dBm Laser rx power low alarm threshold : 0.0000 mW / - Inf dBm Laser rx power high warning threshold : 0.7900 mW / -1.02 dBm Laser rx power low warning threshold : 0.0315 mW / -15.02 dBm But looks like observium is treating '-Inf' as '0' and this throwing an alert. (see attached) [cid:image001.png@01D1EC12.14D27B80] Might need to change how observium interprets Infinite values? Thanks Rich This e-mail is sent on behalf of Timico Partner Services Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, registered number 03128506, registered office Beacon Hill Park, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 2TN and regulated by Ofcom. The information in this e-mail is confidential and is intended solely for the use of that individual or entity to which it is addressed. Unauthorised use, dissemination, distribution, publication or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you receive this in error, please notify us by email to privacy(a)timico.co.uk<mailto:privacy@timico.co.uk> and delete any copies. For information about how we process data and monitor communications please see our privacy statement<http://www.timico.co.uk/downloads/terms/Privacy_Statement.pdf>.

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Help in New QoS support
by obm＠obm.cl 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

Hi, years ago I collaborated with huawei's integration and its MIBs files. It was before change to a commercial edition Now I've been working on Huawei's CBQoS support, but I have a few questions about. Already I've written for Huawei NE40 family a discovery and polling modules, using the mysql table called ports_cbqos. I found that every vendor has different implementations, even one vendor has different implementations for each their models. My questions: 1.- Could I create a new table or just modify the ports_cbqos table. 2.- Right now I have finished this URL and it's working fine: http://10.184.8.136/device/device=1/tab=port/port=8/view=hqos/ (a new VIEW called hqos and I know you can't reach it but I can create a public address) I do not know how to integrate it into the navigation panels or port links (How to chose between cisco's qos or huawei's qos when somebody follow the cbqos link) I think we need to create a new QoS module with multi-vendor support. (modify the database schema) Thanks, Oscar

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Alerting on Application attributes
by Neil French 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

Hi, Apologies if this has been covered previously, I can’t seem to browse any mailing list archives as the link is dead. I have previously used custom OIDs to monitor a VoIP Application (FreeSWITCH) but found I couldn’t alert on custom OIDs, and that the graphing wasn’t as customisable as I wanted, so I have built a custom application for freeswitch. I now want to be able to raise alerts on a few things, such as when the number of new sessions per second is over a predefined value or when the uptime resets (application pop and restart). I can’t seem to find a way of creating an alert check for anything that’s not one of the basic properties of a device though. Could someone please tell me if this is possible? For example can I create my own attributes in the device then query them with an alert check? I have tried adding something like: $device[‘device_state’].[’my parameter’] = value But that doesn’t seem to be stored outside of the php script. It’s quite important that we are able to alert on custom parameters and I can either provide these as OIDs or through the unix agent, whichever gets the job done. Thanks, Neil.

2 1

SNMP Changes and rediscovery
by Derek 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

I've recently switched several devices off of SNMP v2c to v3, and I've updated my config.php with all the v3 parameters, and I'm wondering if there's a way for force a re-discovery using the new info without having to go into each individual device and enter in all the new SNMP information? I didn't see any flags in for discovery.php that would force it.

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db.log
by Charlie Bell 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Hi, I've had a small Observium (c. 5500 ports) running for a couple of years (SVN version). Have configured housekeeping, which is fab and has kept things from getting out of hand. However, noticed /opt/observium/logs/db.log is a 5.6GB file... Can I clean this up? Should I be running a cron cleanup task on this? Thanks Charlie Bell ________________________________ [Maddocks Web Site]<http://www.maddocks.com.au> Maddocks is an Employer of Choice for Equality | WGEA 2004-2015 Recommended | Asia Pacific Legal 500<http://www.legal500.com/firms/32094/32422> | Chambers Asia<http://www.chambersandpartners.com/asia/Firms/144628-96471> | Best Lawyers<http://www.bestlawyers.com/Search/Default.aspx?country=AU&firm_name=Maddocks> Canberra - Tel: (61 2) 6120 4800 Fax: (61 2) 6230 1479 Melbourne - Tel: (61 3) 9258 3555 Fax: (61 3) 9258 3666 Sydney - Tel: (61 2) 9291 6100 Fax: (61 2) 9221 0872 Follow us on Twitter<http://twitter.com/#!/MaddocksLawyers> LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/company/16131> Please consider the environment before printing this email. ________________________________ The information in this electronic mail is privileged and confidential, intended only for use of the individual or entity named. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, copying or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error please delete it immediately from your system and inform us by email on info(a)maddocks.com.au<mailto:info@maddocks.com.au> ________________________________

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False Alert (snmp)
by Laurence Mayer 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

Hello, Today for no known reason we received the below alert in the "Recent Events" (and via email), everything on the switch appears to have been ok and could not find any issue that should have caused this alert. 6h 36m 15scisco10g1 cisco10g1 Device status changed to Up 6h 36m 16scisco10g1 cisco10g1 Device status changed to Down (snmp) Is there a timeout that may have caused this that i can increase to avoid false/positives? Thanks Laurence

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Ports Shown As Down
by Laurence Mayer 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

Hi, After a power outage, the front page (and Status Warnings and Notifications) is showing a Cisco device's Ports as Down, of all ports that have NO devices (workstations) connected. The alert I have defined (taken from the example) Port is enabled, but operationally down ifAdminStatus equals up ifOperStatus notequals up * ifType equals ethernetCsmacd I have run the poller.php multiple times with no success. Is there a default amount of time until these warnings will be cleared, is there a process that can be run to clear these alerts? Thanks Laurence

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Email Alerts Not Working
by Laurence Mayer 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

Hi, I have recently installed Observium and updated to the stable version. I have successfully configured a number of alerts, however despite the alerts being generated (I see them via the web gui) I do not receive them to email. Using test_alert.php -a 1 (see below) I am able to receive email, however the test email looks a little empty from what I would expect. I receive the following error, see below for the debug. *ERROR[Error in query: (Incorrect table name '') 1103]* Any guidance will be appreciated. Thanks Laurence ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALERT Modify <http://observiumsrv.istraresearch.com/device/tab=alert/> *Alert* *Entity* *Metrics* *Duration* Unknown Device *Device* <http://observiumsrv.istraresearch.com/device/> *Hardware* *Operating System* *Location* *Uptime* Never polled E-mail sent to: laurence@ <laurence(a)istraresearch.com>mydomain.com E-mail sent at: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 16:33:53 +0300 ./test_alert.php -a 1 Observium 0.16.7.8003 Test Alert Notification ##### Software versions ##### o OS Linux 3.5.0-23-generic [amd64] (Ubuntu 12.04) o Apache 2.2.22 o PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.23 o Python 2.7.3 o MySQL 5.5.46-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 (extension: mysqli 5.5.46) o SNMP NET-SNMP 5.4.3 o RRDtool 1.4.7 ##### MySQL mode ##### o MySQL ##### Charset info ##### o PHP UTF-8 o MySQL utf8 ##### Timezones info ##### o Date Sunday, 31-Jul-16 16:33:53 IDT o PHP +03:00 o MySQL +03:00 o Notifying [email] : {"email":"laurence(a)mydomain.com"} root@observiumsrv:/opt/observium# ./test_alert.php -a 1 -d DEBUG! SQL[SELECT `attrib_value` FROM `observium_attribs` WHERE `attrib_type` = 'dbSchema';] SQL RUNTIME[0.00009990s] SQL[SELECT @@SESSION.sql_mode;] SQL RUNTIME[0.00012803s] SQL[SELECT `attrib_value` FROM `observium_attribs` WHERE `attrib_type` = 'current_rev';] SQL RUNTIME[0.00007296s] SQL[SELECT * FROM `config`] SQL RUNTIME[0.00008488s] CMD[/bin/hostname -f] CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[0.0017s] STDOUT[ observiumsrv.mydomain.com ] Observium 0.16.7.8003 Test Alert Notification CMD[/opt/observium/scripts/distro] CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[0.038s] STDOUT[ Linux|3.5.0-23-generic|amd64|Ubuntu|12.04 ] CMD[/usr/bin/env python --version 2>&1] CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[0.0025s] STDOUT[ Python 2.7.3 ] SQL[SELECT version();] SQL RUNTIME[0.00017810s] CMD[/usr/bin/snmpget --version 2>&1] CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[0.002s] STDOUT[ NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3 ] CMD[/usr/bin/rrdtool --version |head -n1] CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[0.0036s] STDOUT[ RRDtool 1.4.7 Copyright 1997-2012 by Tobias Oetiker <tobi(a)oetiker.ch> ] CMD[date "+%:z"] CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[0.0016s] STDOUT[ +03:00 ] SQL[SELECT TIMEDIFF(NOW(), UTC_TIMESTAMP);] SQL RUNTIME[0.00012493s] CMD[/usr/bin/env apache2 -v | awk '/Server version:/ {print $3}'] CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[0.0132s] STDOUT[ Apache/2.2.22 ] SQL[SELECT @@SESSION.sql_mode;] SQL RUNTIME[0.00013804s] SQL[SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set_connection'] SQL RUNTIME[0.00036120s] ##### Software versions ##### o OS Linux 3.5.0-23-generic [amd64] (Ubuntu 12.04) o Apache 2.2.22 o PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.23 o Python 2.7.3 o MySQL 5.5.46-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 (extension: mysqli 5.5.46) o SNMP NET-SNMP 5.4.3 o RRDtool 1.4.7 ##### MySQL mode ##### o MySQL ##### Charset info ##### o PHP UTF-8 o MySQL utf8 ##### Timezones info ##### o Date Sunday, 31-Jul-16 16:34:23 IDT o PHP +03:00 o MySQL +03:00 SQL[SELECT * FROM `alert_tests` WHERE 1] SQL RUNTIME[0.00008202s] Cached 12 alert rules. SQL[SELECT * FROM `alert_assoc`] SQL RUNTIME[0.00006294s] SQL[SELECT * FROM `alert_table` WHERE `alert_table_id` = '1'] SQL RUNTIME[0.00006318s] SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE `device_id` = ''] SQL RUNTIME[0.00007415s] SQL[SELECT * FROM `` WHERE ``.`` = ''] SQL RUNTIME[0.00006485s] *ERROR[Error in query: (Incorrect table name '') 1103]* SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE `device_id` = ''] SQL RUNTIME[0.00009012s] SQL[SELECT * FROM `alert_contacts` WHERE `contact_disabled` = 0 AND `contact_id` IN (SELECT `contact_id` FROM `alert_contacts_assoc` WHERE `aca_type` = 'alert' AND `alert_checker_id` = '');] SQL RUNTIME[0.00006199s] o Notifying [email] : {"email":"laurence(a)mydomain.com"} SQL[UPDATE `alert_log` set `notified` ='1' WHERE `event_id` = ''] SQL RUNTIME[0.00025702s]

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Observium poller/discovery module descriptions
by Andrew.Jones＠kiewit.com 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

I have searched your webpage and FAQ and can't seem to find answer to my question: Do you guys have a list handy describing what each of the poller and discovery modules do exactly? $config['poller_modules']['system'] = 1; $config['discovery_modules']['os'] = 1; I am working on a new deployment of Observium and am trying to optimize it and configure some custom requirements and it would be helpful having some additional information regarding each module. Thank you!

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unix agent / squid app
by Daniel Horth 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

Howdy again. I am looking to add some graphs for squid performance metrics - wondering if there has been any work done on this to get me started or do I need to roll my own? Thanks

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Unable to see login in users in Observium
by Nilesh Mohankar 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

Hello Team, I am beginner to install and configure Observium . I have installed Observium and added AP access point device but I am unable to see the login user on that device. Please help me to sort out this issue. Thanks & Regards, Nilesh G Mohankar Contact:9930086232 *"Always wear a smile, because your smile is a reason for many others to smile"*

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Slow poller speeds after migration
by Lyndon Labuschagne 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

Hi All I have moved from a VM server to a physical server. as the VM was taking a bit of a pounding, graph dropouts etc The physical server is a dual quad core Xeon, 2.66Ghz with 128GB of RAM and a 32GB ramdisk, and rrdcache I also have 2.5TB or SAS storage in a raid6 config Will all of this my average poller-wrapper time is around 60 to 70 seconds per device if I manually run an snmpwalk a single device takes around 6 seconds I have also disabled the ramdisk, rrdcached etc and I am not seeing much of a difference either way I have around 900 devices and the VM server was way faster, any idea where to start looking for a bottleneck? Regards Lyndon

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The list archive enquiry meme
by Daniel Horth 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

https://alterslash.org/day/20160728#article-9452929 What about using the mail archive service linked at bottom of summary? Then again I wonder how long that will survive for.

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