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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.

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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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Re: [Observium] Syslog Rules
by Moerman, Maarten 28 Jul '16

28 Jul '16

Hi, I’ve not seen that message yet. What does the rule look like? Maarten -- Maarten Moerman | Mgr, Network Engineering | eBay Classifieds | +31-655122247 | mmoerman(a)ebay.com<mailto:mmoerman@ebay.com> From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> on behalf of Serghei Golipad <s.golipad(a)uk.cdw.com<mailto:s.golipad@uk.cdw.com>> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 3:25 PM To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] Syslog Rules Hi Guys, Having issue with creating a syslog alert rule, getting the following error Failed to create new rule. Incorrect rule passed. Anyone else had this before? Thanks 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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Syslog Rules
by Serghei Golipad 28 Jul '16

28 Jul '16

Hi Guys, Having issue with creating a syslog alert rule, getting the following error Failed to create new rule. Incorrect rule passed. Anyone else had this before? Thanks 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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Unix agent megaraid help
by Eduardo Schoedler 28 Jul '16

28 Jul '16

Hi, I'm runnnig observium_agent on remote device and I'm receiving info about megaraid. # /usr/bin/observium_agent | grep -A8 "<<<megaraid" <<<megaraid_pdisks>>> adapter 0 Adapter #0 Enclosure Device ID: N/A Slot Number: 4 Enclosure position: 0 Device Id: 4 Raw Size: 136.732 GB [0x11177328 Sectors] -- <<<megaraid_ldisks>>> Adapter 0 -- Virtual Drive Information: Virtual Drive: 0 (Target Id: 0) Size : 136.125 GB State : Optimal Strip Size : 64 KB Number Of Drives : 2 <<<megaraid_bbu>>> BBU status for Adapter: 0 BatteryType: BBU Voltage: 3993 mV Current: 44 mA Temperature: 23 C But when I ran the discovery in the server, it shows: # ./poller.php -h remotehost -m unix-agent ___ _ _ / _ \ | |__ ___ ___ _ __ __ __(_) _ _ _ __ ___ | | | || '_ \ / __| / _ \| '__|\ \ / /| || | | || '_ ` _ \ | |_| || |_) |\__ \| __/| | \ V / | || |_| || | | | | | \___/ |_.__/ |___/ \___||_| \_/ |_| \__,_||_| |_| |_| Observium Professional 0.16.7.8013 http://www.observium.org ##### Starting polling run at 2016-07-28 02:19:55 ##### ##### remotehost [54] ##### o OS linux o OS Group unix o Last poll duration 1.13 seconds o Last Polled 2016-07-28 02:16:43 o SNMP Version v2c o Device status Device is reachable by PING (46.3ms) and SNMP (56.72ms) o Modules Enabled unix-agent, system, os ##### Module Start: unix-agent ##### Observium UNIX Agent: execution time: 535ms RPM Packages: ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... No include: No include: Observium No include: df No include: mounts No include: ps No include: mem No include: cpu No include: uptime No include: netif No include: lnx_if:sep(58) No include: tcp_conn_stats No include: multipath No include: md diskstats No include: kernel No include: netctr No include: megaraid_pdisks <=== No include: megaraid_ldisks <=== No include: megaraid_bbu <=== o Module time 0.5837s It was supposed to be working? Thanks. Regards, -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Real time graphs on single page
by Nate Mellendorf 27 Jul '16

27 Jul '16

Observium team, We were curious if it's possible to display multiple real time graphs at once on a single page? It would be great if we could find the ones we want, enable the feature, and display them all full screen in our NOC. Do you know if this is possible, or if it's something on the road map? As the real time graph displays the device and interface name already, it seems like it would work well to just stack them. For now, we're having to load multiple pages in separate windows. Thanks in advance for your time and input on this. Keep up the great work! - Nate

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Alert check for device uptime
by Ben Maschke 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

Hi guys, I want to check whether an AP has rebooted or not (uptime less than 5 minutes). Can I use the following check condition? (Entity Type Device | Boolean ANY | Device * | Entity *) It's not working ... device_uptime less 300 Cheers

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Adding a new application - missing details
by Brad Bendy 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

I sent this Saturday but never got a copy, so im sending again, hope it's not a dupe! Hi, We are running unbound as two instances on our servers, one is a auth with a custom backend and one that is just caching. I have made a copy of all the files and updated names accordingly so they are unbound_auth* and unbound_cache*. Ive looked at the instructions on http://www.observium.org/docs/developing/add_app/ and have made all those changes as well. Under the main apps page how do I get a 2nd link to show up for the unbound app metrics im collecting? Ideally id have one that is Unbound-Auth and one that is Unbound-Cache. When I go under the properties for a server and then applications it shows nothing know as the "unbound" namespace is missing and is either unbound_auth or the unbound_cache (or unbound-auth and unbound-cache in those places). Ive looked around in various files and grep'd everywhere that I can think but can't find where this is at. Also I don't see anything in the database, so not sure what im missing. Thanks!

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Re: [Observium] Traffic accounting Spike Removal
by Cameron Murray 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

Guys, Just following this one up to see if anyone can provide some assistance? Regards, Cameron Murray Senior Communications Manager How am I doing? Please click here<http://www.techpath.com.au/contact-us/feedback/> to rate my work. [cid:image001.png@01D1E675.D75B44E0] P 1300 033 300 F 07 3809 3999 E cameron(a)techpath.com.au<mailto:cameron@techpath.com.au> www.techpath.com.au<http://www.techpath.com.au> Unit 2/55 Tradelink Rd, Hillcrest QLD 4118 [cid:image002.png@01D1E675.D75B44E0] [cid:image003.png@01D1E675.D75B44E0] [cid:image004.png@01D1E675.D75B44E0] Note: This message may contain privileged and confidential information that is the property of the intended recipient. The information herein is intended only for use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, then you are requested to return e-mail to TechPath Pty Ltd and destroy any copies made. Copying or disseminating any of this message is prohibited. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of TechPath Pty Ltd. From: Cameron Murray Sent: Friday, 22 July 2016 11:04 AM To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Traffic accounting Spike Removal Morning All, We've been trying to remove the spike from a Traffic accounting graph with no success. We have sun through the pl and php scripts however the spike remains: [cid:image006.png@01D1E675.D7581090] None of the interfaces this accounts for show the spike. Regards, Cameron Murray Senior Communications Manager How am I doing? Please click here<http://www.techpath.com.au/contact-us/feedback/> to rate my work. [cid:image001.png@01D1E675.D75B44E0] P 1300 033 300 F 07 3809 3999 E cameron(a)techpath.com.au<mailto:cameron@techpath.com.au> www.techpath.com.au<http://www.techpath.com.au> Unit 2/55 Tradelink Rd, Hillcrest QLD 4118 [cid:image002.png@01D1E675.D75B44E0] [cid:image003.png@01D1E675.D75B44E0] [cid:image004.png@01D1E675.D75B44E0] Note: This message may contain privileged and confidential information that is the property of the intended recipient. The information herein is intended only for use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, then you are requested to return e-mail to TechPath Pty Ltd and destroy any copies made. Copying or disseminating any of this message is prohibited. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of TechPath Pty Ltd.

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nvidia-smi
by Dano, Leo 25 Jul '16

25 Jul '16

Hello all, Trying to get info using nvidia-smi The small info on the docs site says to place the nvidia-smi script in the local dir, but what script are they talking about? http://www.observium.org/docs/apps/#nvidia-smi NVidia SMI#<http://www.observium.org/docs/apps/#nvidia-smi> Description#<http://www.observium.org/docs/apps/#description_9> This script allows you to monitor the temperature of NVidia graphics/processing cards installed in your system. Example Graphs#<http://www.observium.org/docs/apps/#example-graphs_7> Placeholder - to be updated soon. Requirements#<http://www.observium.org/docs/apps/#requirements_6> The nvidia-smi package is required for this agent script. Make sure it works with your current nvidia driver by running nvidia-smi from the command line. Instructions#<http://www.observium.org/docs/apps/#instructions_9> Place the nvidia-smi script into the agent's local directory /usr/lib/observium_agent/local Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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Event and alert dates show as 0s in summary tables
by Daniel Horth 24 Jul '16

24 Jul '16

Since updating my lab to pro version I am seeing 0s as time for events and alerts in rollup summary tables. https://www.dropbox.com/s/1zrlxmmocz393e0/Screenshot%202016-07-22%2012.55.1… When I hover over the 0s text it shows me the actual time https://www.dropbox.com/s/fmsjmgz6vzixdph/Screenshot%202016-07-22%2013.04.4… NB the alert from 14 hours ago was triggered when I was running CE version yesterday. All of the 0s alerts and events relate to activity since I switched to subscription version. Checking the eventlog and alertlog pages I see everything reported with correct timestamps. https://www.dropbox.com/s/5tauudx7kvdzfha/Screenshot%202016-07-22%2012.59.0… https://www.dropbox.com/s/tbflbyxhnkvspa4/Screenshot%202016-07-22%2013.00.1… Thanks for looking :) ---- Version Information Observium 0.16.7.7997 (20th July 2016) OS Linux 3.10.0-327.22.2.el7.x86_64 [amd64] (CentOS 7.2.1511) Apache 2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips PHP/5.4.16 mod_wsgi/3.4 Python/2.7.5 PHP 5.4.16 Python 2.7.5 MySQL 5.5.47-MariaDB (extension: mysqli 5.5.47-MariaDB) SNMP NET-SNMP 5.7.2 RRDtool 1.4.8

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Adding a application - missing details?
by Brad Bendy 24 Jul '16

24 Jul '16

Hi, We are running unbound as two instances on our servers, one is a auth with a custom backend and one that is just caching. I have made a copy of all the files and updated names accordingly so they are unbound_auth* and unbound_cache*. Ive looked at the instructions on http://www.observium.org/docs/developing/add_app/ and have made all those changes as well. Under the main apps page how do I get a 2nd link to show up for the unbound app metrics im collecting? Ideally id have one that is Unbound-Auth and one that is Unbound-Cache. When I go under the properties for a server and then applications it shows nothing know as the "unbound" namespace is missing and is either unbound_auth or the unbound_cache (or unbound-auth and unbound-cache in those places). Ive looked around in various files and grep'd everywhere that I can think but can't find where this is at. Also I don't see anything in the database, so not sure what im missing. Thanks!

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rrdtool 1.6.0 & graphs
by Eduardo Schoedler 24 Jul '16

24 Jul '16

Hi, Since I updated rrdtool to 1.6.0, there are some backslashes in the end of the line. [image: Imagem inline 1] # rrdtool RRDtool 1.6.0 Copyright by Tobias Oetiker <tobi(a)oetiker.ch> Compiled Jul 16 2016 01:53:16 # uname -a FreeBSD srv 10.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed May 4 06:03:51 UTC 2016 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Thanks. -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Device's port properties button
by Eduardo Schoedler 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Hi, Is there any chances to restore the old behaviour of the "Enabled & Down" button in Port properties? This button was used to toogle do "No" in port's Alerts. Gif attached. Thanks, -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Getting different results for same interface in original port and the billing port sections
by Arya, Renuka [MED] 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Hi there, I am seeing different throughput results for the same port at two different section of the Observium GUI: The Port summary shows that the the throughput we were getting between 08 Jul to 18 Jul was almost ~ 8 Gbps (in each direction. However, the bill says it was ~ 6 Gbps between that period. Not sure, which one is reporting it correctly. I would expect both of them to match exactly. Thanks! Regards Renuka ******************************************************************************** This e-mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of this e-mail message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and destroy all copies of the transmittal. Thank you University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences ********************************************************************************

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Re: [Observium] Frequent drop outs from WebUI
by Roland Schwingel 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Hi... No idea where my problem (see below) could come from? Thanks for your help, Roland "observium" <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> wrote on 20.07.2016 10:20:10: > From: Roland Schwingel <roland.schwingel(a)onevision.com> > To: observium(a)observium.org > Date: 20.07.2016 10:22 > Subject: [Observium] Frequent drop outs from WebUI > Sent by: "observium" <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> > > Hi... > > I am running Observium for quite a while now. But there is one thing > that bugs me. I first thought this is a bug and would be fixed at some > time but I am updating Observium frequently from svn yet with no change. > > I am frequently dropped out of Observium with an authentication error. > I log in (with LDAP authbackend) just fine. But sometimes after 30 > minutes, sometimes even after a few seconds I am dropped out of > Observium. When I click the "Remember me" (Cookie) button this lasts > a little longer. Sometimes I am immediately kicked directly after > logging in. This is also logged in Observiums "Authentication log" > as "Authentication Failure" in the very same second as the "Logged in" > event occured. > > Is anything known about this? Or is it just a nifty PHP config variable > about session handling I forgot to set? > > Thanks for your help, > > Roland > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Traffic accounting Spike Removal
by Cameron Murray 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Morning All, We've been trying to remove the spike from a Traffic accounting graph with no success. We have sun through the pl and php scripts however the spike remains: [cid:image001.png@01D1E408.BAC99760] None of the interfaces this accounts for show the spike. Regards, Cameron Murray Senior Communications Manager How am I doing? Please click here<http://www.techpath.com.au/contact-us/feedback/> to rate my work. [cid:image002.png@01D1E408.BAC99760] P 1300 033 300 F 07 3809 3999 E cameron(a)techpath.com.au<mailto:cameron@techpath.com.au> www.techpath.com.au<http://www.techpath.com.au> Unit 2/55 Tradelink Rd, Hillcrest QLD 4118 [cid:image003.png@01D1E408.BAC99760] [cid:image004.png@01D1E408.BAC99760] [cid:image005.png@01D1E408.BAC99760] Note: This message may contain privileged and confidential information that is the property of the intended recipient. The information herein is intended only for use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, then you are requested to return e-mail to TechPath Pty Ltd and destroy any copies made. Copying or disseminating any of this message is prohibited. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of TechPath Pty Ltd.

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Alert checker sending email notifications every polling round
by Daniel Horth 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Hi all I have an odd alerting issue where I am receiving email alerts about a failed check each time a polling interval passes. Checking the alert_table for the device_id in question I see that it has_alerted = 1 and everything else appears to be in order. Wondering why I am getting repeated alerts, pretty sure with my other alerts I have configured I only get one when the alert triggers and another if the ‘send recovery information” option is checked. Any advice on how to troubleshoot this would be appreciated. I have tried disassociating my email address from the alert and also rebuilt alerts. Thanks

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Google map not showing devices after fresh install of Subscription Version
by Dano, Leo 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

Finally got everything to work, well at least I thought. Ldap, alerts, etc are all good now. Except I just get a blue map with no host locations. I made sure to put my location in each host properties. Any thoughts? Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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Call to undefined function check_valid_sensors() on IPMI & Unix-agent polling
by Oliver Baker 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

Hi there, When polling with either IPMI or unix-agent modules enabled, the polling run stops with this error: Sensors: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function check_valid_sensors() in /opt/observium/includes/polling/unix-agent.inc.php on line 174 I've updated to the latest non-stable release, and no change. I've also historically had this issue and cleared my /opt/observium directory and re-installed but no change. Any ideas? Happy to provide more info if needed. Many thanks Olly

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Adding users for alerts?
by Dano, Leo 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

Hello all, Is there any way to add multiple users to receive the alerts? Right now, in the config.php it sends all alerts to myself. Is there a way to add users via the webpage? I am using ldap auth. Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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NetApp c-DOT updates
by Jesper Frank Nemholt 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

Hi! I just updated to 7961 and saw that NetApp c-Dot is now reporting volumes like it has done for long on OnTAP 7. Great :-) However, the total and used capacity are all 0, so something with the Index is wrong or simply not done yet. Anyone knows if this is a known issue and being worked on, or ? /Jesper

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Re: [Observium] Steps to add custom oid
by Moerman, Maarten 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi Steve, What do you mean, not getting any data? You said the graphs show up fine? Care to share a screenshot? Also copying the mibs doesn’t work, as this is custom OIDs, the whole meaning behind it, is that you don’t need the MIBs for that. Maarten Moerman From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> on behalf of "Kramling, Steven" <Steve.Kramling(a)Sensus.com<mailto:Steve.Kramling@Sensus.com>> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 5:18 PM To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] Steps to add custom oid Hi, I could use some guidance here. I have recently upgraded to the subscription version of Observium so that I could add some custom oids to graph. I am running on CentOS 7. I followed the guide here: http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=649 No problem adding the oids and applying them to the devices. Graphs show up fine but I cannot get any data. I have also copied the MIBs to the /opt/observium/mibs directory. The MIBs have a *.txt extension on them. I have tried removing this but still no luck. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Steve

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Steps to add custom oid
by Kramling, Steven 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi, I could use some guidance here. I have recently upgraded to the subscription version of Observium so that I could add some custom oids to graph. I am running on CentOS 7. I followed the guide here: http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=649 No problem adding the oids and applying them to the devices. Graphs show up fine but I cannot get any data. I have also copied the MIBs to the /opt/observium/mibs directory. The MIBs have a *.txt extension on them. I have tried removing this but still no luck. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Steve

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JpGraph
by Michaël MORELIERE 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi, I try to install jpgraph. I follow the instruction : No Jpgraph installed *Jpgraph has been removed from the Observium repositories and must now be installed separately* * Please download from http://jpgraph.net/download/ and unpack to html/includes/jpgraph. * Remove the theme definition from the bottom of html/includes/jpgraph/src/jpg-config.inc.php when I refresh the page a get a jpgraph error 25121. Anyone can help me on this ? -- Michaël MORELIERE

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A few Q's for the roadmap...IS-IS support, data sources, etc.
by Aaron Finney 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

I know this has been asked/answered, but the whole archives thing...what's the history behind [the lack of] support for IS-IS data in Observium, are there any plans to add it at any point, and would it be of value to anyone else? Even basics like warning on adjacency changes, tracking neighbors over time, etc. would be great...I would personally find it of value for an additional sanity check during maintenances or outages - an ISIS health overview tab for a device with the ISO address/area, participating interfaces, and stats. Generalizing the data pool: any current thoughts around creating an abstraction layer between Observium and its data source? Mysql as the sole backend presents some challenges for us in trying to scale Observium to production. OBQL? :) Sort-of on the tails of that last question, has there been any discussion about adapting Observium to take advantage of network devices which emit metrics using thrift/protobuf? E.g. using some other data pipeline/collection system as a data source...or even doing the collection itself and doing the necessary quantization/processing to produce a useable view. Last one in that train of thought, any thoughts around incorporating additional data collectors other than simple snmp polling (e.g. facebook's udppinger or fbtracert)? Aaron -- *Aaron Finney*Network Engineer | OpenX 888 East Walnut Street, 2nd Floor | Pasadena, CA 91101 o: +1 (626) 466-1141 x6035 | aaron.finney(a)openx.com *Advertising Age Best Places to Work <http://openx.com/press-releases/openx-named-as-one-of-advertising-ages-top-…>* *Deloitte's Technology Fast 500™ <http://openx.com/press-releases/openx-ranked-3rd-fastest-growing-software-c…>* www.openx.com <http://www.openx.com/>| Twitter <http://twitter.com/openx>| Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/OpenX>| LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/company/openx/products>| YouTube <http://www.youtube.com/user/openxvideos>

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Observium Mailinglist archive gone?
by Roland Schwingel 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi... I just wanted to browse the mailinglist archive but it is not working. Just shows a 404 page. From Observium.org I have opened http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium This still worked. But clicking on "observium archives" directs me to http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/ which is not found. Roland

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Alert for port-channel summary?
by Laszlo Nemeth 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hello, We have Cisco Nexus switches with VPC configuration. On the switches are configured a portchannel (in VPC with 2x10G ethernet) to the same 3. device. The problem is: I would like to create an alert if the traffic to the 3. device more than 8G I have to get an alert. Now because the 2 nexus just show only the own port-channel traffic, if one portchannel traffic on switch#1 is 6G and on the switch#2 is 5G the 8G alert doesn’t work. But because of the redundancy in this case I have to get an alert because the aggregated traffic is 11G (and if one of the 10G goes down this traffic is overloaded). The alert is: Test: ifOutOctets_perc gt 80 Device Match / Entity Match Hostname match *switch* ifAlias match *to 3. device* So it cover the switch#1 and switch#2 and the port-channel interfaces with description “2x10G to 3. device” but this alert check the port-channels like a line not an aggregated traffic. Is there any option to add two device’s interfaces and create an alert for this summary? Or can I create an alert for a port group aggregated traffic? This would be great in this case too. Thanks BR Laszlo

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Frequent drop outs from WebUI
by Roland Schwingel 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi... I am running Observium for quite a while now. But there is one thing that bugs me. I first thought this is a bug and would be fixed at some time but I am updating Observium frequently from svn yet with no change. I am frequently dropped out of Observium with an authentication error. I log in (with LDAP authbackend) just fine. But sometimes after 30 minutes, sometimes even after a few seconds I am dropped out of Observium. When I click the "Remember me" (Cookie) button this lasts a little longer. Sometimes I am immediately kicked directly after logging in. This is also logged in Observiums "Authentication log" as "Authentication Failure" in the very same second as the "Logged in" event occured. Is anything known about this? Or is it just a nifty PHP config variable about session handling I forgot to set? Thanks for your help, Roland

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JunOS autodiscovery where SNMP is in a routing-instance
by Jason Lixfeld 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi, I’ve been reading up on how to interact with a JunOS device where the SNMP agent is contained in a VRF (Routing Instance). In order to poll it properly, I’m required to use '<Routing_Instance_Name>@commmunity' instead of just ‘community’. I think I’ve covered this off in the config.php by adding the equivalent to the proper array: $config['snmp']['community'] = array(“comm",”MANAGEMENT@comm”); While reading up on the autodiscovery process itself in the documentation, it says: "Devices must return valid, resolvable sysName” When I poll it manually, sysName returns <Routing_Instance_Name>@hostname: SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: MANAGEMENT(a)lab01.juniper Does that mean MANAGEMENT(a)lab01.juniper needs to resolve, or will Observium truncate MANAGEMENT@ when trying to resolve the rest of what is in sysName? Thanks!

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Turn off the map?
by Sean Drury 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi All, I've looked through http://www.observium.org/docs/config_options/ a few times now and can see options for maps - I don't need to use the map feature so how do I turn it off? That is, remove it from the front page? Regards, Sean. This email has been scanned by the ES1000.

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Re: [Observium] New Community Edition Date
by ron＠rjr-services.com 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

New community editions are released not less than 60 days after the last person to ask about a community release. Your inquiry has reset the 60 day counter. ;-) (just kidding!!!!!) Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Andrew White <andywhite(a)gmail.com> Date: 7/19/16 2:41 PM (GMT-06:00) To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: [Observium] New Community Edition Date -- This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean.

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New Community Edition Date
by Andrew White 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

Hi, Is there a date for the next community edition ? All I can see is that there should be one every 6 months, and last was 26th Jan. Thanks ! Loving Observium ! Andy

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Google map does not show
by Nixon, Anthony S. 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

Worked during installed. Now map does not show with "Oops! Something went wrong. The page didn't load Google Maps correctly. See the JavaScript console for technical details." Is this an api issue? How to fix or update to get working? Using Observium CE 0.16.1.7533 ----------------------------------------- This message, including any attachments, is intended only for the use of the addressee and contains information that is PROPRIETARY and CONFIDENTIAL. It may be used only by the addressee and may not be divulged without the express consent of the sender. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please erase all copies of the message and its attachments and notify us immediately. Thank you.

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Port description
by MTiVi＠google 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

Hello, all! If I use port description like "Peering: something [40Mbit]" how can I use speed in Observium? Does interface speed (from IfAlias) saved to DB? I expect that I can see traffic graph and select scale to this speed. http://observium.org/docs/port_descr_parsing/

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Making an alert for mapped interfaces
by Heston Kan 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hey All, I want to create an alert if any interface between two managed/discovered devices in Observium. This includes switchers and routers, servers...etc. I'd also like these to be based on Observium's device Mapping that is available per device. In the checker conditions I'd put hostname matches * but under the checker device and entity association. There's no entity for mapped devices whether it be via CDP/LLDP or detected from observium itself. Perhaps I'm missing the obvious. Thanks! Heston

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Subscription Version not showing "Storage" correctly?
by Dano, Leo 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hello all, I have two instances of Observium running with two different hostnames. One is Community and one is the Subscription version. My Community version on is showing storage correctly. My Subscription version is not. All the partitions are showing as 100% free and green when I know / can't be 0bytes as well as all other partitions. Is this a bug? Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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How does SYSLOG Alerting work?
by Сережка Хомяков 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hello! Thanks for higly awaited feature with SYSLOG alerting! Just playing with it, I was unable to make it working (of course, with knowledge of PCRE). The example of my test Alert was based on *SYS-5-CONFIG_I:Configured* message from IOS router. Can you advice on how the regexp should look like and how does SYSLOG Alerter work - on a poll or triggered on a log receipt? -- Best, Sergey

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alert 'time of recovery' reports recovery of previous recovery...
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hello This was touched upon in another discussion but as a sidetrack no solution was found. Pretty much all my alerts 'time or recovery' reports the time of this entities PREVIOUS recovery. So the time reported are always pretty bonkers. I can see that with the help of timestamp on the emails , slack notifications and the timestamp of previous recovery. And for the very first recovery of a device/sensor the duration is list as "unknown". Any idea of what's going on and what I can kick on to make it work properly? =) 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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Alert on device status = degraded
by Daniel Horth 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Howdy all I have a steelhead that is showing “Degraded” status in Observium due to a power supply issue. In Observium I can see the status “degraded” at this location: https://observium/device/device=12/tab=health/metric=status/id=123/ I can also see that the status changed 8 days ago. DB sample:  <database name="observium">  <table name="status"> <column name="status_id">123</column> <column name="status_deleted">0</column> <column name="device_id">12</column> <column name="poller_type">snmp</column> <column name="status_oid">.1.3.6.1.4.1.17163.1.1.2.7.0</column> <column name="status_mib">NULL</column> <column name="status_object">NULL</column> <column name="status_index">systemHealth.0</column> <column name="status_type">steelhead-system-state</column> <column name="status_descr">System Health</column> <column name="entPhysicalIndex">NULL</column> <column name="entPhysicalClass">chassis</column> <column name="entPhysicalIndex_measured">NULL</column> <column name="measured_class">NULL</column> <column name="measured_entity">NULL</column> <column name="status_ignore">0</column> <column name="status_disable">0</column> </table>  <table name="status-state"> <column name="status_id">123</column> <column name="status_value">30000</column> <column name="status_polled">1468819524</column> <column name="status_last_change">1468104632</column> <column name="status_event">alert</column> <column name="status_name">degraded</column> </table> </database> I am trying to set up an alert in Observium such that when a device status / System Health changes I am notified. Is there a way to access values from status-state table in setting up alerts? Thanks

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pps metic
by Matthias Cramer 16 Jul '16

16 Jul '16

Hi There Is there a metric for normal packets per second and not only unicast packets (ifInUcastPkts_rate) and also a metric for non unicast packets per second. According to the doc at http://www.observium.org/docs/entities/#metrics_1 this is not existent... I would like to make an alert on high pps and if possible on high non unicast pps. Any hint is appreciated. Regards Matthias -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zurich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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Tripp-lite UPS Alerts
by Johnston, Tom 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

I’m trying to set up alerting for our tripplite when it goes on battery. I cannot get it to work properly for some reason. Entity Type: Status Check Conditions: upsOutputSource.0 ne normal Device Match: os eq poweralert Entity Match: * Observium Version: 0.16.7.7983 (professional) -A debug from observium yields a value of: upsOutputSource.0 = normal (the normal changes to state of “Battery” when on battery) -Even if I change my check conditions to eq normal to test the alert it does not trigger an alert. -I also tried check conditions of * and that did not help. Also we lost power and the event log showed the following: -Also tried just upsOutputSource (without the .0) Source of Output Power<http://epsobservium.isd273.org/device/device=337/tab=health/metric=status/i…> Status Alert: hs-6509-ups.isd273.org Source of Output Power entered ALERT state: battery (previous: normal) Any help would be appreciated -Tom

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Setting up LDAP Auth
by Dano, Leo 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

Hello all, Anyone care to share your config settings? I am having a hard time setting this up. Please remove your domain info in the reply. /opt/observium/config.php Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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Toner History Graphs
by Richard Franks 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

I have a bit of an odd one. I have two printers in my observium install. One has been in for ages (an HP laser jet), the other I added a couple of weeks ago (A sharp MFD photocopier thingy). By the looks of things, the HP has been collecting data correctly for ages, and graphing it nicely. I can see the pretty line that shows that the toner has reduced over time. Oddly, it stopped collecting on the 7th July, and hasn’t graphed anything since then. The Sharp, which has been in less time (since Thursday 7th), has never graphed its toner properly. They are both showing the correct level of toner (well, the Sharp is showing two of them at -3, but I’ve checked the snmp output, and it’s returning -3, so that’s nothing to do with observium). Even more weirdly, the toner level on the weekly graph is showing the correct number. The rest show -nan% The Sharp: The HP: I don’t know much about how the graphing side of things works, so I don’t have much knowledge with which to do any debugging, but happy to send more debug info if required! Thanks, Richard

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Exim Volume Count
by Tiago Reis 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

Hi, There is anyone here that already create on the exim service for Observium something that reads the volume of sends an not the mail queue? Kind Regards, Tiago Reis

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Incorrect free physical memory for Unix hosts
by Oliver Baker 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

Hi, Loving Observium in general but the only issue I'm having is that for all our Unix-like hosts the free memory is reported too literally to be useful. The cached memory pool is included in the "used memory" count, causing almost all our hosts to appear as having less than 5% free physical memory. Is there a way to get free memory not including the cached memory pool? Currently the alert checker I'm using is flagging all our hosts as "out of memory" Many thanks in advance Oliver B

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Hello world
by Daniel Horth 14 Jul '16

14 Jul '16

Hi all I have some questions to ask however wanted to search archives first. Checking the archives page: http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/ seems to be cactus at the moment. Is this a known issue. Are there archives available anywhere else? Thanks Dan -- Daniel Horth AU +61 458 248 588 USA + 1 505 552 2074 Denmark + 45 50 22 89 55

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