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Observium: Pre-auth and security questions
by Nate Mellendorf 16 Jan '16

16 Jan '16

Good evening everyone, I've been trying to configure Observium with a forms based SSO solution. My reasoning for this, is that I'd like to minimize the attack surface for Observium when published to the Internet. As Observium supports groups, I thought it would be extremely beneficial for clients to view their throughput at anytime from anywhere. I was curious if anyone in the community is using pre-authentication, or if you're publishing Observium directly to the Internet. I'm not as familiar with Apache and PHP, so hardening the service through pre-auth seemed like a good first step. Unfortunately, I can't quite get pre-auth to work. Observium uses forms based authentication, which is hard to capture on the platform I'm using. Here's a link, if you're curious on how I'm trying to capture it: http://fritsesblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/link-to-netscaler-form-sso-kb.html If I could get Observium to use basic authentication, I think I could get it to work. Do we know if this is possible? A better question, is pre-auth even necessary here? Aside from HTTPS, iptables, firewalling, and locking down SSH/root, what other steps do you take to secure your Observium server? Do you think that allowing Internet access is unwise at this time? Thank you for any input on insight into this. This is a concern of mine that I'm trying to address. Your suggestions and opinions are very much appreciated. Regards, - NM

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wiki typo
by Joey Stanford 16 Jan '16

16 Jan '16

Hi, I found a wiki typo. Housekeeping Cron job - /opt/observium/housekeeping.php -rptb the “b” should probably be a “y”

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Strange issue with BGP sessions on Juniper MX104
by Duncan Mossop 16 Jan '16

16 Jan '16

Hello, We are running Observium professional 0.16.1.7407 and we have an issue with BGP session discovery on a Juniper MX104 (dual RE), running discovery against the device displays the fact there are numerous bgp sessions but not a single session appears under the device in the Observium WebUI. This is the output from Discovery: ##### Module Start: bgp-peers ##### o Local AS AS198313 o Caching BGP4-MIB BGP4-V2-MIB-JUNIPER o Try discovering host 91.233.128.253 through BGP o Try discovering host 91.233.128.254 through BGP +------------------------------------+----------+------------------------------------+--------------+------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Local IP | Peer: AS | IP | Family | rDNS | Remote Device | +------------------------------------+----------+------------------------------------+--------------+------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | 91.233.128.244 | 198313 | 91.233.128.253 | ipv4.unicast | lo0-core4.lancs-ycr.systemhost.co. | core4.lancs-ycr.systemhost.uk | | | | | | uk | | | 91.233.128.244 | 198313 | 91.233.128.254 | ipv4.unicast | lo0-edge1.lancs-ycr.systemhost.co. | edge1.car1.systemhost.co.uk | | | | | | uk | | | 149.6.147.122 | 174 | 149.6.147.121 | ipv4.unicast | gi0-0-0-6.nr11.b015668-1.lon01.atl | ... | | | | | | as.cogentco.com | | | 195.66.226.239 | 6939 | 195.66.224.21 | ipv4.unicast | 40ge1-3.core1.lon2.he.net | ... | | 195.66.226.239 | 32787 | 195.66.224.31 | ipv4.unicast | blackhole.prolexic.com | ... | | 195.66.226.239 | 20940 | 195.66.224.168 | ipv4.unicast | linxnap.netarch.akamai.com | ... | | 195.66.226.239 | 5459 | 195.66.224.254 | ipv4.unicast | ge0-0.pr1.linx.net | ... | | 195.66.226.239 | 45014 | 195.66.225.55 | ipv4.unicast | ge-0-2.gw4.rtr.thn.lon.as45014.net | ... | | 195.66.226.239 | 29611 | 195.66.225.78 | ipv4.unicast | linx.a.elite.net.uk | ... | | 195.66.226.239 | 8714 | 195.66.225.230 | ipv4.unicast | rs1.rbs.linx.net | ... | | 195.66.226.239 | 42344 | 195.66.226.71 | ipv4.unicast | linx1.conceptcoders.com | ... | | 195.66.226.239 | 20940 | 195.66.226.81 | ipv4.unicast | | ... | | 195.66.226.239 | 20940 | 195.66.226.167 | ipv4.unicast | | ... | | 195.66.226.239 | 58226 | 195.66.226.197 | ipv4.unicast | | ... | | 217.68.244.122 | 29611 | 217.68.244.123 | ipv4.unicast | ae0.1129.core.a.thm.elite.net.uk | ... | | 2001:07f8:0004:0000:0000:0003:06a9 | 6939 | 2001:07f8:0004:0000:0000:0000:1b1b | ipv6.unicast | 40ge1-3.core1.lon2.he.net | ... | | :0001 | | :0001 | | | | | 2001:07f8:0004:0000:0000:0003:06a9 | 8714 | 2001:07f8:0004:0000:0000:0000:220a | | | ... | | :0001 | | :0001 | | | | | 2001:07f8:0004:0000:0000:0003:06a9 | 45014 | 2001:07f8:0004:0000:0000:0000:afd6 | ipv6.unicast | ge-0-2.gw4.rtr.thn.lon.as45014.net | ... | | :0001 | | :0001 | | | | | 2001:07f8:0004:0000:0000:0003:06a9 | 58226 | 2001:07f8:0004:0000:0000:0000:e372 | ipv6.unicast | | ... | | :0001 | | :0001 | | | | +------------------------------------+----------+------------------------------------+--------------+------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ o Changes 2 updated, 17 unchanged o Duration 3.5349s This issue seems to have appeared since fully enabling chassis Graceful Restart / Switchover. I have removed and re-added the device from Observium to no effect. Regards, Duncan Mossop • Operations Manager, SystemHOST Ltd ________________________________ dmossop(a)systemhost.co.uk [cid:image30bc94.PNG@047b1488.498f55d8] 01524 737414 systemhost.co.uk<http://www.systemhost.co.uk> [Twitter]<https://twitter.com/systemhost> Follow us on Twitter ________________________________ SystemHOST Ltd Registered office: Holmere Hall, Yealand Conyers, Carnforth, Lancs, LA5 9SN Registered in England No.05028996 VAT No. 927386490 This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. By opening this email or its attachments, you accept liability for any damage that may be caused to your computer hardware, software or data. ________________________________

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[ALERT-CHECKER] Alert to pick up on physical failure of disk.
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 16 Jan '16

16 Jan '16

Hi there Have gotten some hints at IRC but can't really wrap my head around on how to set it up. Yeah, I know I'm probably stupid. But I can't find a complete list of all commands available and it doesn't complain if I feed it something invalid. So it's really a guessing game. =/ So the checker needs to do something like: if status of physical_class('storage' or 'hrDeviceDiskStorage') != 1 send alert Possible? Please give detailed instructions if possible. Would be sweet if all different possible combinations of alert checkers was added to the demo instance so once can look there for guidance. =) Cheers and thanks -- Henrik Cednert cto | td | compositor Filmlance International Direct + 46 (0)704 71 89 54

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Monitor DHCP pools
by Anders Alavik 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

Is there any may to monitor DHCP pools in observium? Best Med Vänliga Hälsningar Anders Alavik anders(a)bogalnet.se <mailto:anders@bogalnet.se> / 0322 - 64 24 71 BogalNet AB Alvhemsgatan 3 447 30 Vårgårda http://www.bogalnet.se <http://www.bogalnet.se/>

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r7497
by Eduardo Schoedler 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

Big chances in r7497, huh? :) -- Eduardo Schoedler

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memory showing 0B/0B (0%)
by Simon Smith 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

Hi All, not sure if its a bug ive found or something ive done? all our memory sections are showing 0B/0B (0%) however the graphs is actually being populated with data every 5mins ? attached a screenshot showing a mikrotik switch we monitor also attached is a windows machine we monitor, i it showing the same for its physical memory any ideas? simon

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System Running Very Slow
by Eddie Worthington 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

Hi, Since upgrading to the latest release with the new interface, the system is running extremely slowly. Installed on Ubuntu 14.04 with 12 vCPU's & 4GB RAM. It worked like a dream before but can now take up to 30 seconds to load a page. Upgraded with SVN. What have I done wrong? Many Thanks, Eddie

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Device Bits Graphing error message
by Joey Stanford 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

Howdy, I’m running the community edition on Ubuntu. All the graphs work except the traffic graphs (bits). I get the standard “Draw error”. I don’t get any errors polling (other than a MIB not being supported for engineID). The devices are all Mikrotik routers. I put an &debug=1 on the traffic graph URL and discovered an error all the way at the bottom: “command returned 1 (ERROR: Unused Arguments “” in command : AREA:inbits0#B6D14B:ether1-wan Rx: )" The full text is here: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/14490188/ It’s unclear to me if this is actually causing this one graph (on all my systems) to fail but so far there is a trend from spot checking. Any thoughts on how to debug this further? Thanks, Joey

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Re: [Observium] Radius authentication not work
by ChanTy 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

Any comment ? From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> on behalf of apple <ty.chan(a)corp.mekongnet.com.kh> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 1:57 PM To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Radius authentication not work I am following this http://www.observium.org/docs/authentication to do Radius authentication for user to login to Observium. Radius already allow Observium to connect to Php-radius already install Configuration on Observium is done as the guideline But Login still failed using user from Radius Any comment? _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Alert Emails sent to exchange
by Matt Zillmann 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

I am working on setting up alerting. I have the subscription version of Observium ( version 0.16.1.7407 [stable] running on CentOS 7). I am stuck on the email alerting piece. What settings do I need to configure in sendmail for my email alerts to get sent to my email on our internal exchange server. Anyone have any idea how this needs to be set up? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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RAM
by Matt Zillmann 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

Hello, When my server needs rebooted and comes back online, all of the RAM values read 0%. Has anyone else seen this before?

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Customer Portal
by ChanTy 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

Hi Adam, My subscription is still valid but when I log in to customer portal. I don’t see anything. Username: mekongnet . Please help check as I need to download Invoice. Regards, chanty

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new CE ree version when ?
by Gediminas Karčmarinas 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

Hello, When planned release new CE version ?

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pages slow, maybe nginx instead of apache
by Simon Smith 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

Hi All, I wanted a view on what people think about using nginx instead of apache for obsevium? ive just managed to change apache to nginx (had to change htaccess to get it to work, but got there in the end) and it seems a little bit quicker but not by much I’m having an issue where when the server is polling and i want a graph or load up the page, it seems slow and takes forever! ( about 10 seconds ) if I load the panel when its not polling, the pages are quick, but i poll every 5mins, and it takes the full 5 mins to poll all our devices, so really no room to wiggle... if the anyway i can speed this up? would nginx help at all? my server is virtual based, 12gb ram, 4 virtual xeon 2.2ghz cores, 80gb virtual hard drive regards Simon

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Alert Checker issue
by Matt Zillmann 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

I am having issues with the alert checker. I cannot get entities to populate. When I click the rebuild button this shows up. I have Observium version 0.16.1.7407 (Stable) running on CentOS 7 [cid:image001.png@01D14E08.DB5F5D20]

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Alert Checkers
by Matt Zillmann 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Hello, I just purchased the subscription version and am looking into setting up Alert checkers. How do I get an alert checker to run? I was referring to documentation and looked the DEMO and it looks like the checker will determine a pass/fail. I have set one for storage [cid:image001.png@01D14DF5.9B1B9F20] Is there something else I need to put?

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itsafeaturenotabug (was re: routing tab)
by Rob VanHooren 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

it’s not “broken” in the sense that CSCO officially considers multicontext snmp the “by-design” method (and I have the TAC cases to prove it). remember, snmp *works* which means it’s for grouchy old [grey|neck]beards. netconf & shiny-api-disaster-of-the-week are supposed to rule the new agile! world! of! devops! ( *gag* ) not just ASRs … for instance, it’s the same thing (multicontext snmp hell) with VRFs on n7k’s. so, it’s a “feature” not a “bug” smh R. > On Jan 13, 2016, at 07:00, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > > Because the MIB is broken and doesn?t have any concept of VRF awareness. > > The workaround that I used on my ASR9Ks was to create a different context for the VRF in question. > > This config example basically treats the vrf Inetv4 as the default vrf when polling with community blahpoo. It only applies to that community. I have non-contextual communities to catch my default stuff, i.e. my MP-BGP underpinnings. > > It?s not ideal because you need to create two of the same device in Observium; one for each community (vrf and non-vrf), but it sucks less than the alternative, which is to not have this functionality at all. > > ! > snmp-server vrf Inetv4 > context BGPVRF > ! > snmp-server context BGPVRF > snmp-server community-map blahpoo context BGPVRF > snmp-server community blahpoo RO MANAGEMENT > ! > > http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/2015-June/010467.html <http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/2015-June/010467.html>

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95th percent billing
by ChanTy 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

Hi, I just want to clarify the burstable rate calculation which should work as below according to wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burstable_billing#95th_percentile) : “ Bandwidth is measured (or sampled) from the switch or router and recorded in a log file. In most cases, this is done every 5 minutes. At the end of the month, the samples are sorted from highest to lowest, and the top 5% (which equal to approximately 36 hours of a 30-day billing cycle) of data is thrown away. The next highest measurement becomes the billable use for the entire month. “ Is observium applying the same calculation on BILLING feature ? Is it possible to download RAW file in which has sample of every 5 minutes ? Regards, chanty

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Routing Tab
by Serghei Golipad 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

Guys, Any reason why BGP in a VRF peers are not getting displayed? Cheers PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING THIS EMAIL. Kelway (UK) Ltd is a Company registered in England and Wales. This email is sent for and on behalf of Kelway Holdings Limited. Kelway Holdings Limited is the UK holding company for Kelway (UK) Limited trading as Kelway. The registered office for Kelway 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 Kelway or the sender of its existence. For more information about Kelway please visit www.kelway.co.uk

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ALert on Vlan change
by David Schrok 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

Hello all. Is there a way, or can it be programmed, to get an alert when a port gets set on a particular Vlan or is moved out of it? Example: We have networks (vlans) where admins are put into. Is there a wat to get an alert when a port is set to an admin vlan or is set from an admin vlan to another vlan? With kind regards, David

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Alert options of a device....................!
by Chaman Rathee 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

Hi Team, How to use and enable alert options for an added device ? I have already configured postfix service on observium monitor machine. ......... With Best Regards, Chaman Rathee Mob. No:- +91-9560055816 [Fabrikam] Privileged or confidential information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), please delete this message and kindly notify the sender by an emailed reply. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of Progression and its associate entities shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by them.

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Not receiving email notifications. Has there been a change in Alert system I need to know about?
by Richard Kuhns 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Hello, I recently updated my Observium installation; I'm now running 0.16.1.7473. I haven't changed any configurations. I followed procedure, as far as I know: polling was finished, I did the 'svn up' followed by './discovery.php -u' and everything looked fine. However, I should have just received an email both when a port I'm monitoring went down, and about half an hour later when it recovered. Looking through the alert log, I see the entries that say 'Alert notification sent' followed later by 'Recovery notification sent'. I didn't receive either notification, there's nothing in the mail queue, and maillog doesn't show any attempts. This was working perfectly before my update. I'm afraid I don't remember which version that was, but it was from about a week before I saw comments in the mailing list about the change in layout on the front page. Thanks, -- Richard Kuhns <rjk(a)wintek.com> Wintek Corporation 427 N 6th Street Lafayette, IN 47901-2211 Main: 765-742-8428 Direct: 765-269-8541

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Info
by Gabriele Faucitano 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Hi, We are currently evaluating Observium for a monitoring solution. I have some technical questions to understand if Observium is adequate to our needs. Is this the right contact? BR, -Gabriele

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Reg: Maipu Switch Configuration with Observium
by Madhu Neal 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Hi Guys, badly needed support to configure Maipu switch with Observium, tried many was I don't know how to add it.. Enabled SNMP in maipu device, find the maipu configuration below. snmp-server enable snmp-server view default 1.0.8802 include snmp-server view default 1.1.2 include snmp-server view default 1.3.111 include snmp-server view default 1.3.6.1 include snmp-server name skynetonline snmp-server contact alerts(a)skynetonline.solutions snmp-server location Adithya Tower snmp-server community public view default ro snmp-server enable traps alarm snmp-server enable traps snmp linkdown snmp-server enable traps snmp linkup I'm using Observium Subscription version, please suggest how to take it forward. I look forward to hear from you. //BR Madhu

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Downgrade
by Andrew Colin 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Hi All How do I downgrade to a previous version I am on the professional addition and I updated to the latest revision 7470. But now the layout is very messy and the top pages have moved to the left side How can I downgrade? Kind Regards Andrew Colin Converged Telecoms (Pty) Ltd. Licensed Telecoms Operator : (0258/IECS/JAN/09) (0258/IECNS/JAN/09) Switchboard: +27 (0)10 591 4600 Email: <mailto:andrew@convergedgroup.net> andrew(a)convergedgroup.net Web: <http://www.convergedtel.co.za/> http://www.convergedgroup.net 75 Witkoppen Road, Northriding, Johannesburg, 2169 P O Box 7246, Weltevredenpark, 1715 This communication is confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you believe this message has been sent to you in error, please notify the sender by replying to this transmission and delete the message without disclosing it. Thank you. E-mail including attachments is susceptible to data corruption, interception, unauthorized amendment, tampering and viruses, and we only send and receive emails on the basis that we are not liable for any such corruption, interception, amendment, tampering or viruses or any consequences thereof.

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Feature request
by observium＠istar.net.nz 09 Jan '16

09 Jan '16

Just wondering how hard it would be to implement the following features, please le tme know if these already exist and I've just missed them! 1) Close window button on the hover popups. I think the pop ups are great but I find sometimes they don't disappear, a small X button on the top RH corner would be fantastic! 2) Adding AND and NOT to the Device/Entity filters It would be fantastic to have a little more flexibility in the filters used for Alerts and Groups etc. Would it be easy enough to be able to use AND and NOT statements? Thanks in advanced. SHANE lE <mailto:shanson@istar.net.nz> shanson(a)istar.net.nz lW <https://istar.net.nz/> istar.net.nz lA PO Box 911507, Victoria St West, Auckland lM +64 21 623 903

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Recent update beaks Rancid for Cisco ASAs
by David Wilkinson 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

Hi, We have recently updated our version and the generate rancid script is now using the wrong type for the Cisco ASA devices. The type used for the Cisco ASA should be "cisco", it has recently changed so it sets the type to be "asa" This causes rancid to fail with an unknown type. Can this be corrected? We are using rancid 3.1. Observium: 0.16.1.7396 (rolling) Regards David

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Problem addind Mikrotik device
by Eduardo Schoedler 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

Hi, I added a mikrotik device yesterday. Since then, the page of the device show the message "Device not yet discovered", but I ran manually the discovery. [image: Imagem inline 2] Is there a issue? Thanks. -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Updating Enterprise Edition and Alerts
by Jeffrey d'Ambly 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

I’m looking at updating to the latest stable release, my current version is 0.15.6406. I updated my staging instance to 0.16.1.7433. When looking at the documentation I didn’t see anything new, but in the change log it looks like some changes have made to alerts, do you have documentation on this? —Jeff

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DB errors
by Eduardo Schoedler 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Updated to revision 7434. ___ _ _ / _ \ | |__ ___ ___ _ __ __ __(_) _ _ _ __ ___ | | | || '_ \ / __| / _ \| '__|\ \ / /| || | | || '_ ` _ \ | |_| || |_) |\__ \| __/| | \ V / | || |_| || | | | | | \___/ |_.__/ |___/ \___||_| \_/ |_| \__,_||_| |_| |_| Observium Professional 0.16.1.7434 http://www.observium.org -- Updating database/file schema 260 -> 261 ... (db) done (5 errors). 261 -> 262 ... (php) -- Done. # cat logs/update-errors.log [2016/01/07 17:53:33 -0200] discovery.php(20049): ====== Schema update 260 -> 261 ============== [2016/01/07 17:53:33 -0200] discovery.php(20049): Query: ALTER TABLE `pseudowires` DROP `pwMplsPeerLdpID`; [2016/01/07 17:53:33 -0200] discovery.php(20049): Error: (1091) Can't DROP 'pwMplsPeerLdpID'; check that column/key exists [2016/01/07 17:53:33 -0200] discovery.php(20049): Query: ALTER TABLE `pseudowires` ADD `pwOutboundLabel` INT(11) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AFTER `pwID`, ADD `pwInboundLabel` INT(11) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AFTER `pwOutboundLabel`; [2016/01/07 17:53:33 -0200] discovery.php(20049): Error: (1060) Duplicate column name 'pwOutboundLabel' [2016/01/07 17:53:33 -0200] discovery.php(20049): Query: ALTER TABLE `pseudowires` ADD `pwRowStatus` VARCHAR(16) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT '' AFTER `pwRemoteIfString`; [2016/01/07 17:53:33 -0200] discovery.php(20049): Error: (1060) Duplicate column name 'pwRowStatus' [2016/01/07 17:53:33 -0200] discovery.php(20049): Query: ALTER TABLE `pseudowires` ADD INDEX `row_status` (`device_id`, `pwRowStatus`); [2016/01/07 17:53:33 -0200] discovery.php(20049): Error: (1061) Duplicate key name 'row_status' [2016/01/07 17:53:33 -0200] discovery.php(20049): Query: CREATE TABLE `pseudowires-state` ( `pseudowire_id` INT(11) UNSIGNED NOT NULL , `pwOperStatus` VARCHAR(16) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci NOT NULL , `pwLocalStatus` VARCHAR(16) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci NOT NULL , `pwRemoteStatus` VARCHAR(16) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci NOT NULL , `pwUptime` INT(11) UNSIGNED NOT NULL , `event` ENUM('ok','warning','alert','ignore') NOT NULL , `last_change` INT(11) UNSIGNED NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY (`pseudowire_id`)) ENGINE = InnoDB CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci; [2016/01/07 17:53:33 -0200] discovery.php(20049): Error: (1050) Table 'pseudowires-state' already exists -- Eduardo Schoedler

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SFP sensor alerts
by Martin 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Hi All, What is the best way to suppress alerts for Transceiver TX Power generated when a port is admin-down? cisco-entity-sensor mib has a default minimum value of 1mA, which is a perfectly valid minimum value under normal "up/up" conditions, but if the port is admin-shut it will switch off tx power, which is ok for admin-shut. Same situation for RX-power. Is there a way to take the admin status of the port in account for this kind of sensor readings? (ASR9k, IOS-XR) Thanks, Martin

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Port Errors Showing for Alert-Disabled ports
by Robert Williams 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Hi, Not sure when it started, but we now seem to get “Port Error” alerts on the main page for ports which are set to have their Alerts disabled, for example: [cid:image001.jpg@01D1494E.A318C000] On the device in question, they are indeed ‘No’ under the Alerts toggle: [cid:image002.jpg@01D1494E.A318C000] There are a large number of ports like this on our network with IP PDUs and similar, all of which have 10M/Half links and exist in a state of near-constant input errors as a result. This is of no concern at all and should be ignored (hence the toggle). Any suggestions? Is the Alerts toggle broken (for this feature on the main page) or is there another way to shush these, it’s kind of making the main page list a bit defunct ☺ Cheers all! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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upgrade community version to paid version
by Ankit Dubey 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Hi, I have installed community version and wish to upgrade it to paid version. I have gone through the link http://www.observium.org/docs/updating/#migrate-an-existing-community-editi… Please let me know - Do I need to pay and subscribe in advance on different system and install it on that system and transfer old config.php to new setup Or Do I need to provide internet connectivity to my existing server and need to put below mentioned command on this already running system - but when I will be prompted for payment? cd /opt mv observium observium-old svn co http://svn.observium.org/svn/observium/branches/stable observium cp observium-old/config.php observium mv observium-old/rrd observium-old/logs observium cd observium ./discovery.php -u Please provide contact detail of any sales person, with whom I can chat in detail regarding this as I need to procure two licenses on urgent basis. Best regards Ankit Dubey Lead, Packet Core Planning Division Network, CORPORATE CENTER -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 9:36 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 64, Issue 133 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. MySQL application (Geoff Johnson) 2. Re: MySQL application (Spencer Ryan) 3. upgrade community version to paid version (Ankit Dubey) 4. Re: upgrade community version to paid version (Adam Armstrong) 5. Re: upgrade community version to paid version (Cody Cook) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:43:48 -0800 From: Geoff Johnson <geoff.johnson(a)coanda.ca> To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: [Observium] MySQL application Message-ID: <CAB5X9BuAbNupewAXc=w7hymJPvx_WrAHFY8--YvLF9CW61=HAg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" The instructions for configuring the MySQL application at https://observium.org/w/Application/MySQL are unclear about where the database user must be created. Do the user create steps need to be done on every host running MySQL that you want to monitor, or just once on the Observium server? I assume that it's the former, just looking for clarification. Thanks, Geoff

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On the "Ports" page, can I set the "Quick Filters" option "Hide DOWN" as a default setting?
by Taylor Cassidy 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Hi All, On the "Ports" page, how do I set the "Quick Filters" option "Hide DOWN" as a default setting? Thanks very much, Taylor C.

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test_alerts.php should not be called statically
by Simon Smith 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Hi All. having a strange issue, my HipChat Notifications stopped working, so be trying to debug them - I just keep getting 400 Bad Request but i’ve noticed something else weird, after i run the test_alerts.php with -dd I’m seeing o Notifying [email] Simon: simon(a)hestor.com Load class 'Mail_mime' from '/opt/observium/libs/pear/Mail/mime.php': OK Load class 'Mail' from '/opt/observium/libs/pear/Mail/Mail.php': OK PHP Strict Standards: Non-static method Mail::factory() should not be called statically in /opt/observium/includes/alerting/email.inc.php on line 153 Strict Standards: Non-static method Mail::factory() should not be called statically in /opt/observium/includes/alerting/email.inc.php on line 153 PHP Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically in /opt/observium/includes/alerting/email.inc.php on line 157 Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically in /opt/observium/includes/alerting/email.inc.php on line 157 I haven’t changed anything apart from weekly svn up’s could this error be affecting the hipchat? I’m setting the contact as room_id::ROOMID||from::FROMOBSERVIUMEMAILACCOUNT||token::VERYLONGTOKENHERE||url::https://URLOFHIPCHATSERVERWITHSSL am i missing something or has something changed? regards Simon

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UNIX agent Postgres versions
by Attila Nagy 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Hi everyone! I was in the process of configuring the UNIX agent and I found (as written in the documentation too) that the script only supports Postgres version 9. But after experimenting a little bit I realized that the script works perfectly with the 8.4 version. I was able to test with an 8.3 which was working as well. So maybe the script should be changed to enable any 8.X version. Anyway I created a patch and attached it. If some of you find it helpful then maybe post the version which was working, so we can update the version string. Regards, Tylla

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Re: [Observium] How to aggregate multiple graphs
by ChanTy 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Any comment ? From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> on behalf of apple <ty.chan(a)corp.mekongnet.com.kh> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Date: Saturday, January 2, 2016 at 9:09 AM To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] How to aggregate multiple graphs Hi, Is it possible to aggregate multiple graphs into a single graph ? If yes, please help to provide me the steps. Regards, chanty _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Problem adding devices after upgrading to 0.16.1.7393
by Roland Schwingel 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Hi... Yesterday I upgraded my Observium to Version 0.16.1.7393 via svn. The "svn up" did follow an immediate "./discovery.php -u" and a flush of the browser cache. But when I try to add a device I get a somewhat incomplete screen. See attached screenshot. Is this a bug or did I do something wrong? Thanks for your help, Roland

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Re: [Observium] Problem adding devices after upgrading to 0.16.1.7393
by Roland Schwingel 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Hi Adam... Thanks for your reply... I tried deleting the html folder plus svn up but it did not help... I am using FF43 and Chrome 47. I can reproduce it with both browsers... But I found a way now on getting the panel back! I reduced the browser window width to at least the half of my screen (I do have 1980x1200 resolution). Then bling it popus up. As soon as I make it wider than 50% it goes away. Reproduced it with FF and Chrome on windows. Looks indeed like a CSS issue. Roland "observium" <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> wrote on 05.01.2016 15:31:48: > From: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> > To: "" <observium(a)observium.org>, > Date: 05.01.2016 15:34 > Subject: Re: [Observium] Problem adding devices after upgrading to 0.16.1.7393 > Sent by: "observium" <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> > > What browsers? > > Did you already try : > > rm -rf html > svn up > > ? > > I've just re-synced stable to current, but there are no relevant > changes in there. I suspect something to do with CSS, since it looks > like the form is hidden under the box-header div. Very odd. Removing > html/ and svn up'ing should fix it. > > adam. > On 05/01/2016 14:03:31, Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: > I assume you're both running the stable train? Adam, I think a merge may > be in order.. this works fine on trunk. > > Tom > > On 2016-01-05 14:56, Lyndon Labuschagne wrote: > > I have the same issue > > > > On 2016/01/05, 10:08, "observium on behalf of Roland Schwingel" > > > > roland.schwingel(a)onevision.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi... > >> > >> Yesterday I upgraded my Observium to Version 0.16.1.7393 via svn. > >> The "svn up" did follow an immediate "./discovery.php -u" and a flush of > >> the browser cache. But when I try to add a device I get a somewhat > >> incomplete screen. See attached screenshot. > >> > >> Is this a bug or did I do something wrong? > >> > >> Thanks for your help, > >> > >> Roland

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Mikrotik discovery problem
by Eduardo Schoedler 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Hi, Since last updates, some sensors were deleted from Mikrotik and licence is flapping. 2016-01-05 12:34:32 mk-01 Neighbours: 14 added. 2016-01-05 12:34:31 Sensor deleted: voltage routeros 0 System 0 2016-01-05 12:34:31 Sensor deleted: temperature routeros 0 System 0 2016-01-05 01:56:56 mk-01 Features -> Level 6 2016-01-05 01:52:02 mk-01 Features -> Level 0 2015-12-29 00:05:45 mk-01 Features -> Level 6 2015-12-28 23:58:26 mk-01 Features -> Level 0 2015-12-15 08:18:40 mk-01 Features -> Level 6 2015-12-15 08:13:42 mk-01 Features -> Level 0 2015-12-12 01:23:06 mk-01 Features -> Level 6 2015-12-12 01:18:08 mk-01 Features -> Level 0 2015-12-10 01:08:03 mk-01 Features -> Level 6 2015-12-10 01:03:35 mk-01 Features -> Level 0 2015-12-05 19:48:19 mk-01 Features -> Level 6 2015-12-05 19:43:39 mk-01 Features -> Level 0 2015-11-20 11:57:48 mk-01 Features -> Level 6 2015-11-20 11:53:18 mk-01 Features -> Level 0 2015-11-19 06:28:12 mk-01 Features -> Level 6 2015-11-19 06:22:45 mk-01 Features -> Level 0 Thank you. -- Eduardo Schoedler

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corrupt file ?
by Daniel Rolfe 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Hi all, I suspect a corrupt file, I'm running the paid version but my subscription has currently lapsed *Observium*0.15.12.7265 (15th December 2015) [image: Inline image 1] Could someone please send me a copy of bandwidth-graph.php for the above observium version Regards, Daniel

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User rights: Bill disappears after some hours
by Basile Bluntschli 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Hi Team I have several customers which have their own login to see their particular bill. Since a few days I can add a Bill to a User and it persists. But if I check again in the morning, the User does not have this permission anymore. However access to interfaces still works. Thanks Basile

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Radius authentication not work
by ChanTy 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

I am following this http://www.observium.org/docs/authentication to do Radius authentication for user to login to Observium. Radius already allow Observium to connect to Php-radius already install Configuration on Observium is done as the guideline But Login still failed using user from Radius Any comment?

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On the "Ports" page, can I set the "Quick Filters" option "Hide DOWN" as a default setting?
by Taylor Cassidy 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

Hi All, On the "Ports" page, how do I set the "Quick Filters" option "Hide DOWN" as a default setting? Thanks very much, Taylor C.

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Re: [Observium] TenG port shows up as 1g
by Jeffrey d'Ambly 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

So after looking at this more this interface is a back plane connected to an ASA firewall module, and snmp just reports these things improperly :/ What is the best way to ignore this interface for traffic usage alert checks? Note that because this is a back plane interface there is not way to set a description :/ (because Cisco) —Jeff From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> on behalf of Tony Marquardt <tomarquardt(a)kern.org<mailto:tomarquardt@kern.org>> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at 1:05 PM To: 'Observium Network Observation System' <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: Re: [Observium] TenG port shows up as 1g This will happen is you have a 1gbps SFP / connection. It will show actual connection speed. Verify at the device you actually have 10gbps connection. Thank you, Tony Marquardt Network Operations Coordinator Kern County Superintendent of Schools V: 661-636-4545 E: tomarquardt(a)kern.org<mailto:tomarquardt@kern.org> From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey d'Ambly Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 1:03 PM To: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: [Observium] TenG port shows up as 1g [cid:image001.png@01D14302.BF729C50] I’m using Observium Enterprise and it seems to think this port is 1g (port speed is displayed as 1Gbps) , clicking on the data button shows the following for int speed, and int hight speed. Are these the right values for a 10g port? fSpeed=>1000000000 ifHighSpeed=>1000

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Re: [Observium] Fortinet Fortigate wireless support
by Michael Cushard 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

Hi, Fortinet Fortigates are currently supported in Observium. However, the wireless controller functionality of the Fortigates is currently not graphed. Walking the MIBs show all the wireless data (Access points, clients, errors, bandwidth, S/N ratios) to have corresponding OIDs. Can this be information be implemented and graphed within Observium? Regards, Michael

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VMware ESXI 6 - False Errors
by Daniel Bray 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

We have recently upgraded our test environment from VMware ESXi 5.5 to 6.0. After the upgrade, we are seeing an issue where errors are getting reported on the vmk1 - vmk5 (VMkernel) ports that are connected to distributed switches for SAN access. However, there are no errors (none reported in vSphere nor the SAN). It seems to be a SNMP issue, possibly. We have a near identical production environment that is still running VMware ESXI 5.5, and the similar ESXi hosts are not showing these errors in Observium. This is a completely separate network, with a different Observium server, however both are running similar installs, and patched to the latest Professional version. We have verified using normal snmp commands that everything seems to be working as expected. We have deleted and re-added the ESXi hosts. Issue remains, but only on the vmk ports that are connected to distributed switches. The normal vmnic (vSwitch for management VLAN) show no errors. I've checked the mailing list and Googled this issue for a bit, but not finding anything similar to our issue. Anybody else running Observium with ESXi 6.0 and notice an issue with false Error reports on vmk ports? Any suggestions on what else to try? We have compared everything in the working production environment to the broken test environment, and the only thing we can come up with is that it is an issue with ESXi 6.0 and how it is responding to the Observium SNMP requests. Any guidance or direction would be appreciated. Thanks, -DB

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Frontpage questions
by Jason Lixfeld 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

Hi, The default frontpage with an empty array in the config.php ($config['frontpage']['order'] = array(‘’);) still shows some stuff depending on the width of the browser window. I assume a blanked out array would show nothing at all on the front page, so maybe the presence of these artifacts are a bug (see attached images)? Secondly, is it possible to have the front page only be a front page, removing the title bar as well and only showing the contents of the frontage order array? In that case, I would presume the front page would be some sort of a special URL http://$obsevium/frontpage so you don’t get locked out? My intention is to use the frontpage as a super clean NOC screen mounted on a wall. Anyone who saw an alert would login to Observium through their own workstation if they needed a deeper dive. Thanks!

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How to aggregate multiple graphs
by ChanTy 01 Jan '16

01 Jan '16

Hi, Is it possible to aggregate multiple graphs into a single graph ? If yes, please help to provide me the steps. Regards, chanty

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How long until removed ports are deleted?
by Ron Marosko 01 Jan '16

01 Jan '16

Happy New Year, all ya’ll Observium folks. So while everyone else is on holiday, I’m getting to do work. And this brought up an interesting question. I’m mostly removing old/unutilized 10/100/1000 line cards from a Catalyst 6509 today, and in a couple cases installing 10Gb linecards. Right now, I’ve already pulled three linecards from one chassis, and decided to force some discovery/polling of the chassis to see if the old ports will go away… and they haven’t. Doing a “show modules” on the switch confirms the line cards have been removed, but in the device port properties page, Observium still considers them “disabled / down”. Manually running the housekeeping script with the –p option says there are no ports to delete, even when I have manually gone into config.php and set the time duration to be really short (like 1*1 instead of 30*86400). Which brings me to the question… how long does it take for Observium to consider a port or ports “deleted” after it has been removed from the chassis? Thanks, Ron -- Ron Marosko, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CCIE No. 4526 (R/S), NN5DX Consulting Network Architect, ATS/Wireless Global Technology Resources,Inc. 1108 West Dickinson Blvd, Suite A Fort Stockton, TX 79735 USA o: +1 432 336 5600 x110 c: +1 432 290 6344 e: <mailto:rmarosko@gtri.com> rmarosko(a)gtri.com pgp pubkey: <http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x778B3B0258AB8B5C> 0x58AB8B5C "To know me is to fly with me." This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. Any opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error–free; the sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e–mail transmission. Diese Nachricht enthält vertrauliche Informationen und ist nur für den einzelnen, namentlich genannten gedacht. Bitte benachrichtigen Sie den Absender umgehend per E-Mail, wenn Sie diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben und löschen Sie diese E-Mail aus Ihrem System. Alle Meinungen in dieser E-Mail die vorgestellt werden sind ausschließlich die des Autors und nicht unbedingt die des Unternehmens. E-Mail-Übertragung kann nicht garantiert werden, sicher oder fehlerfrei sind; der Absender übernimmt daher keine Haftung für irgendwelche Fehler oder Auslassungen in den Inhalten dieser Nachricht, die als Ergebnis der E-Mail-Übertragung ergeben. 此消息包含机密信息，并仅用于指定的个人。通过e-mail，请立即通知发件人如果您误收到此电子邮件，并从您的系统中删除此电子邮件。这封电子邮件中提出的任何意见仅仅是那些作者，并不一定代表公司。发送E-mail不能保证是安全或无差错，因此，发件人在该消息的内容，电子邮件传输的结果产生任何错误或遗漏不承担责任。 -- This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean.

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Discovery script crash on build 7383.
by Ron Marosko 31 Dec '15

31 Dec '15

All, Not sure if this is just isolated to me or what… just upgraded to 7383 via svn, and happened to force a discovery on a node trying to troubleshoot why neighbors were no longer being displayed on the ports page on a couple Catalyst 6509s I’m polling, and got the following error: ##### Module Start: bgp-peers ##### No BGP on hostPHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Argument 1 passed to print_cli_table() must be of the type array, null given, called in /opt/observium/includes/discovery/bgp-peers.inc.php on line 458 and defined in /opt/observium/includes/functions.inc.php:2226 Stack trace: #0 /opt/observium/includes/discovery/bgp-peers.inc.php(458): print_cli_table(NULL, Array) #1 /opt/observium/includes/discovery/functions.inc.php(242): include('/opt/observium/...') #2 /opt/observium/discovery.php(182): discover_device(Array, Array) #3 {main} thrown in /opt/observium/includes/functions.inc.php on line 2226 Anyone else seeing this problem? …Ron -- This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [Observium] 6880-X Fan Tray Failure
by Sam Hernandez-gill 30 Dec '15

30 Dec '15

Going back through some old mailing lists, didn’t see a reply to this one: http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/2015-April/010117.html I have the same issue here on Cisco 6880-X’s. Sh Env shows no problem with Fan Tray 1 50V Power Supply status, but observium alerts on the snmp status of the C6880-X Fan Tray 1 – Fan Tray 1 50V Power Supply. [cid:image001.png@01D1419B.9C7B7D10] From any C6880-X itself: fan-tray 1: fan-tray 1 type: C6880-X-FAN fan-tray 1 mode: Mode1 fan-tray 1 fan-fail: OK fan-tray 1 50V Power Supply: OK fan-tray 1 firmware version: 7 I believe this is OID http://tools.cisco.com/Support/SNMP/do/BrowseOID.do?local=en&translate=Tran… Object cevSensorFanTrayStatus OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.12.3.1.8.37 Currently with a status alert checker observium will generate an alert for this. So how can I help determine if the switch is really saying the Fan Tray power status Is bad via snmp or if it’s just a problem in how observium is interpreting the response? Thanks, ---------------------------- This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail (even if the e-mail address above is yours), (i) you may not use, copy or retransmit it, (ii) please delete this message and (iii) please notify the sender immediately. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ----------------------------

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TenG port shows up as 1g
by Jeffrey d'Ambly 30 Dec '15

30 Dec '15

[cid:1F6CEEEE-9AE3-4666-8C8B-B90AE68BB8F7] I’m using Observium Enterprise and it seems to think this port is 1g (port speed is displayed as 1Gbps) , clicking on the data button shows the following for int speed, and int hight speed. Are these the right values for a 10g port? fSpeed=>1000000000 ifHighSpeed=>1000

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rabbitmq and ELK stack
by Stefaans Mostert (GBL) 30 Dec '15

30 Dec '15

Morning all. Pretty new to Observium so I need to ask some questions, as I am under a little time pressure. A bump to the correct doc's will also be appreciated. First server I would like to do is an ELK collector. Ubuntu 14.04 Logstash Rabbitmq Observium unix_agent Now how do I integrate this into my Observium monitoring? unix_agent plugin? I want to monitor things like exchanges, queues and such like. Found this(for zabbix) that I can use to get my rabbitmq stats. Thanx a lot, after the first one I will be able to handle it myself :D Steff Stefaans Mostert Contractor: Linux System Administrator Tel: +27 11 459 1804 Fax: +27 11 459 1872 Website:http://www.grindrodbank.co.za Fourth Floor, Grindrod Tower, 8A Protea Place, Sandton PO Box 78011, Sandton, 2146

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Collectd ping plugin graph issue
by Senses0 30 Dec '15

30 Dec '15

Hi, I have collectd configured in Observium and pretty much all the plugins I tried work. There is an issue rendering one graph generated by ping plugin though. Say, I'm measuring latency to "netflix.com". After measurements, the plugin sends following 3 RRD files to Observium - ping-netflix.com.rrd - ping_stddev-netflix.com.rrd - ping_droprate-netflix.com.rrd While observium renders stddev and droprate graphs, it doesn't render "ping-netflix.com.rrd". RRD command produces below error. "RRDTool Output: ERROR: No DS called 'ping' in '/opt/collectd-rrd/server-f04/ping/ping-netflix.com.rrd'" RRD dump has "value" as DS name in *ALL* 3 rrd files (as opposed to "ping"). For some reason, Observium doesn't use the correct DS name for the first file.

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storage wrong on ubuntu 14.04
by Simon Smith 29 Dec '15

29 Dec '15

Hi All, I’m just wondering if any one has the same issue I’m having im monitoring a ubuntu 14.04 container running vpn software for some reason the storage in observium is showing /run, /run/lock, /run/shm, /run/user, /sys/fs/cgroup and completely missing / i use the unix-agent to get extra info out and i can see in there the following <<<df>>> /var/lib/vz/private/105 simfs 10485760 1307760 9178000 13% / none devtmpfs 1048576 4 1048572 1% /dev <<<mounts>>> /dev/simfs / simfs rw,relatime 0 0 so i don’t understand why its not showing the / mount ? i currently also monitor a ubuntu 12.04 container and that shows the storage correctly ? is it the SNMP thats the issue? or any other ideas? regards Simon

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Revert to previous UI template/theme
by Vaggelis Koutroumpas 29 Dec '15

29 Dec '15

Hello, After upgrading to rev 7360 the whole UI has changed drastically. I have to admit I do not like the new UI layout. My screen resolution is 1920*1080. Resizing the browser window down to ~1870px width or less then I get the old layout. Is there a way to revert to the previous template? I guess it should be a matter of editing some CSS to change that? Thank you.

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Page loading is slow after running a few weeks
by ChanTy 25 Dec '15

25 Dec '15

Hi , Recently, my observium is coming slow in page loading. I tried to optimise using part of this http://www.observium.org/docs/tuning/ But it seems not help. Any comment. Regards, chanty

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WMI information display broken?
by Ron Marosko 25 Dec '15

25 Dec '15

Ok, so I'm beginning to wonder if something was broken. I actually have WMI polling working with my implementation, and once upon a time the information learned via WMI would be displayed on the (workstation, server) display. Now, however, I'm finding that even though the poller.php is learning the WMI information: ##### Module Start: wmi ##### WMI Poller: Windows version updated: Server 2008 R2 Standard SP1 (6.1.7601) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz Storage WMI: .. o Module time 3.2564s When I view the specific page for that server, for example, the system shows: Operating system: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (NT 6.1) (Multiprocessor) And under Processors, it shows "Unknown Processor Type". >From the wmi poll debugging for the processor, for example: CMD[/bin/wmic --user='administrator' --password='hahayeahnope' --workgroup='SERVERNAME' --delimiter=## --namespace='root\CIMV2' -d2 //10.1.9.10 "SELECT * FROM Win32_Processor"] EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[2.5169s] STDOUT[ [param/loadparm.c:2462:lp_load()] lp_load: refreshing parameters from /dev/null [auth/gensec/gensec.c:1205:gensec_register()] gensec subsystem fake_gssapi_krb5 is disabled [auth/gensec/gensec.c:1205:gensec_register()] gensec subsystem gssapi_spnego is disabled [librpc/rpc/dcerpc_connect.c:513:continue_map_binding()] Mapped to DCERPC endpoint 135 [lib/com/dcom/main.c:1172:bind_new_pipe()] lib/com/dcom/main.c:1172: dcom_get_pipe: host=10.1.9.10, similar=10.1.9.10[49154] [wmi/wmic.c:196:main()] OK : Login to remote object. [wmi/wmic.c:200:main()] OK : WMI query execute. [wmi/wmic.c:203:main()] OK : Reset result of WMI query. [wmi/wmic.c:212:main()] OK : Retrieve result data. CLASS: Win32_Processor AddressWidth##Architecture##Availability##Caption##ConfigManagerErrorCode##C onfigManagerUserConfig##CpuStatus##CreationClassName##CurrentClockSpeed##Cur rentVoltage##DataWidth##Description##DeviceID##ErrorCleared##ErrorDescriptio n##ExtClock##Family##InstallDate##L2CacheSize##L2CacheSpeed##L3CacheSize##L3 CacheSpeed##LastErrorCode##Level##LoadPercentage##Manufacturer##MaxClockSpee d##Name##NumberOfCores##NumberOfLogicalProcessors##OtherFamilyDescription##P NPDeviceID##PowerManagementCapabilities##PowerManagementSupported##Processor Id##ProcessorType##Revision##Role##SocketDesignation##Status##StatusInfo##St epping##SystemCreationClassName##SystemName##UniqueId##UpgradeMethod##Versio n##VoltageCaps 64##9##3##Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 1##0##False##1##Win32_Processor##2992##33##64##Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 1##CPU0##False##(null)##0##12##(null)##0##0##0##0##0##6##0##GenuineIntel##29 92##Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz##1##1##(null)##(null)##NULL##False##0FEBFBFF000006F1##3##3841##CPU## CPU socket #0##OK##3##1##Win32_ComputerSystem##DBSRV2K8##(null)##4##Model 15, Stepping 1##2 64##9##3##Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 1##0##False##1##Win32_Processor##2992##33##64##Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 1##CPU1##False##(null)##0##12##(null)##0##0##0##0##0##6##0##GenuineIntel##29 92##Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz##1##1##(null)##(null)##NULL##False##0FEBFBFF000006F1##3##3841##CPU## CPU socket #1##OK##3##1##Win32_ComputerSystem##DBSRV2K8##(null)##4##Model 15, Stepping 1##2 ] SQL[SELECT `processor_descr` FROM `processors` WHERE `device_id` = '121'] SQL RUNTIME[0.00077200s] Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz So I can see where it's reading the information from WMI correctly, but it's not updating the information displayed on the webpage. Ideas? .Ron -- This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean.

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Monitoring Microwave Radio
by Radumalem Tarigan 25 Dec '15

25 Dec '15

Hi All, I have couples of microwave radios on my small network. I have two brand of radios. The first brand is NEC ipasolink and the second brand Ericsson Mini-Link Traffic Node (MLTN).I would like two monitor both of brands using observium, is it possible to monitor/graph microwave radio using observium? Regards, Radu MT

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Billing Not Working
by ChanTy 25 Dec '15

25 Dec '15

Hello, I did enable Billing feature on Observium. I can create the billing 95th CDR on router port. But I don’t see billing is running and reporting. I added cron job for billing too. Pls help. Regards, chanty

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MikroTik CCR interface graphs show lower throughput
by Alasdair MacLeod 24 Dec '15

24 Dec '15

Hi Guys, I just started using Observium. Everything looks great except our CCRs are showing much lower throughput on the interfaces than they are actually passing. One interface is passing a fairly consistent 300-400Mbps but Observium graphs it as 100-130Mbps. Cacti graphs the same interface on the same device correctly so I don't think it's the router, I think I must have set something up incorrectly within Observium. Any pointers on this would be great. Thanks. Regards Alasdair MacLeod Senior Technician [NewarkWirelessFullLogo] Newark Wireless JHCS Ltd 27-29 Kirkgate Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 1AD www.jhcs.com<http://www.jhcs.com/>|Alasdair(a)jhcs.com<mailto:Alasdair@jhcs.com?subject=email%20sent%20by%20reply%20from%20email%20signature> Tel | +44 (0) 1636 682 244 Fax | +44 (0) 1636 704 571 ****************************************************************************************** The statements and opinions expressed here are my own and may not represent those of the company. This e-mail is subject to copyright and the information in it is confidential. This e-mail, its content and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may be legally privileged and/or confidential. Access by any other party is unauthorized without the express written permission of the sender. If you have received this e-mail in error you may not copy, forward or use the contents, attachments or information in any way. Although any attachments to this e-mail have been virus checked, the sender cannot accept liability in respect of any virus which has not been detected. JHCS Ltd (Reg. No. 04742418) (VAT. No. 657914987) ******************************************************************************************

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Storage check entity
by Brad Bendy 24 Dec '15

24 Dec '15

Hi, Ive googled and not seen the answer to this. Can I check only a certain partition in the entity section? Also, if I use the storage_used or storage_free is that in megabytes, gigabytes, kilobytes, etc? I don't see any examples, it seems everyone is using the percent one but I have a single partition I want to check based on size since it's very large and percentage would be a huge variable. Thanks

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Lost ability to add devices
by gt＠gt1.net 24 Dec '15

24 Dec '15

Hello, I had my setup working without any issues (save the map), but today I couldn't add any more devices, including an existing one I removed. The recommended tests are OK: root@kodi:/opt/observium# fping 10.0.0.4 10.0.0.4 is alive root@kodi:/opt/observium# snmpget -v2c -c public 10.0.0.4 sysObjectID.0 SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: NET-SNMP-MIB::netSnmpAgentOIDs.10 Adding the device returns no errors: root@kodi:/opt/observium# ./add_device.php 10.0.0.4 public v2c 161 udp Observium CE 0.15.6.6430 Add Device(s) Try to add 10.0.0.4: Trying v2c community public ... root@kodi:/opt/observium# I attached a debug from add_user, may be it can help to shed some light. Any help is appreciated. Gennadiy.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 65, Issue 120
by Mehmet Akcin 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

Adam no. I didn't press ctrl-c On Wednesday, December 23, 2015, <observium-request(a)observium.org> wrote: > Send observium mailing list submissions to > observium(a)observium.org <javascript:;> > > 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 <javascript:;> > > You can reach the person managing the list at > observium-owner(a)observium.org <javascript:;> > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. error when upgrading (Mehmet Akcin) > 2. Re: error when upgrading (Adam Armstrong) > 3. using postfix_qshape (Andry Nata wijaya) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 15:07:45 -0800 > From: Mehmet Akcin <mehmet(a)akcin.net <javascript:;>> > To: observium(a)observium.org <javascript:;> > Subject: [Observium] error when upgrading > Message-ID: <404A1A6C-BCA5-45ED-8619-6B866E51A5FA(a)akcin.net <javascript:;> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > hey there > > just moving from community edition to latest subscriber edition > > I am getting an error here > > root@observium.lax:/opt/observium# ./discovery.php -u > > ___ _ _ > / _ \ | |__ ___ ___ _ __ __ __(_) _ _ _ __ ___ > | | | || '_ \ / __| / _ \| '__|\ \ / /| || | | || '_ ` _ \ > | |_| || |_) |\__ \| __/| | \ V / | || |_| || | | | | | > \___/ |_.__/ |___/ \___||_| \_/ |_| \__,_||_| |_| |_| > Observium Professional 0.15.12.7231 > http://www.observium.org > > -- Updating database/file schema > 185 -> 186 ... (db) done (9 errors). > > any idea how to fix this? here is how my logs look like > > root@observium.lax:/opt/observium# tail > /opt/observium/logs/update-errors.log > [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Query: ALTER TABLE > `devices` ADD INDEX `disabled_lastpolled` (`disabled`, > `last_polled_timetaken`); > [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Error: (1061) Duplicate > key name 'disabled_lastpolled' > [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Query: ALTER TABLE > `ipv4_addresses` ADD INDEX `ipv4_address` (`ipv4_address`); > [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Error: (1061) Duplicate > key name 'ipv4_address' > [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Query: ALTER TABLE > `ipv6_addresses` ADD INDEX `ipv6_address` (`ipv6_address`); > [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Error: (1061) Duplicate > key name 'ipv6_address' > [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Query: ALTER TABLE > `mac_accounting` ADD INDEX `device_ma` (`device_id`, `ma_id`); > [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Error: (1061) Duplicate > key name 'device_ma' > [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Query: ALTER TABLE > `dbSchema` ADD PRIMARY KEY (`version`); > [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Error: (1062) Duplicate > entry '185' for key ?PRIMARY' >

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using postfix_qshape
by Andry Nata wijaya 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

Hi everyone, can any body explain how to using postfix_qshape working with observium, i'm already setting and work install check-mk-agent on target server has i want to monitored. i'm already copy script from /observium_install_folder/scripts/agent-local/postfix_qshape to /usr/share/check-mk-agent/local. i test telnet port check-mk-agent service and get output : bla bla bla blabla bla bla blaMail queue is empty <<<job>>> <<<local>>> <<<postfix_qshape>>> incoming:0 active:0 deferred:0 hold:0 <<<logins>>> 2 Connection closed by foreign host. but if i'm check to observium web gui no app shown for postfix_qshape please help to make postfix qshape work to our monitored server observium Best regards,Anja

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error when upgrading
by Mehmet Akcin 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

hey there just moving from community edition to latest subscriber edition I am getting an error here root@observium.lax:/opt/observium# ./discovery.php -u ___ _ _ / _ \ | |__ ___ ___ _ __ __ __(_) _ _ _ __ ___ | | | || '_ \ / __| / _ \| '__|\ \ / /| || | | || '_ ` _ \ | |_| || |_) |\__ \| __/| | \ V / | || |_| || | | | | | \___/ |_.__/ |___/ \___||_| \_/ |_| \__,_||_| |_| |_| Observium Professional 0.15.12.7231 http://www.observium.org -- Updating database/file schema 185 -> 186 ... (db) done (9 errors). any idea how to fix this? here is how my logs look like root@observium.lax:/opt/observium# tail /opt/observium/logs/update-errors.log [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Query: ALTER TABLE `devices` ADD INDEX `disabled_lastpolled` (`disabled`, `last_polled_timetaken`); [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Error: (1061) Duplicate key name 'disabled_lastpolled' [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Query: ALTER TABLE `ipv4_addresses` ADD INDEX `ipv4_address` (`ipv4_address`); [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Error: (1061) Duplicate key name 'ipv4_address' [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Query: ALTER TABLE `ipv6_addresses` ADD INDEX `ipv6_address` (`ipv6_address`); [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Error: (1061) Duplicate key name 'ipv6_address' [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Query: ALTER TABLE `mac_accounting` ADD INDEX `device_ma` (`device_id`, `ma_id`); [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Error: (1061) Duplicate key name 'device_ma' [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Query: ALTER TABLE `dbSchema` ADD PRIMARY KEY (`version`); [2015/12/23 23:03:15 +0000] discovery.php(5774): Error: (1062) Duplicate entry '185' for key ‘PRIMARY'

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Re: [Observium] ATM interfaces not showing on Device Overview
by Kent Johannessen 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

Hi, Add the two lines to your config.php instead. Don’t edit defaults.inc.php ☺ From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Sam Hernandez-gill Sent: 23. desember 2015 20:03 To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: Re: [Observium] ATM interfaces not showing on Device Overview Hello, This was the subject of an old mailing list conversation, but if we have routers with ATM interfaces that we *WANT* to monitor, what is the supported method to monitor them that will survive an upgrade? Since currently I’ve had to comment out several lines from includes/defaults.inc.php to monitor these interface types, but what is the proper change to config.php to monitor them? Or something else? I’ve commented out the below from includes/defaults.inc.php $config['bad_if'][] = "-atm"; $config['bad_if'][] = "-atm subif"; Thanks, ---------------------------- This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail (even if the e-mail address above is yours), (i) you may not use, copy or retransmit it, (ii) please delete this message and (iii) please notify the sender immediately. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ---------------------------- 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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Re: [Observium] ATM interfaces not showing on Device Overview
by Sam Hernandez-gill 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

Hello, This was the subject of an old mailing list conversation, but if we have routers with ATM interfaces that we *WANT* to monitor, what is the supported method to monitor them that will survive an upgrade? Since currently I’ve had to comment out several lines from includes/defaults.inc.php to monitor these interface types, but what is the proper change to config.php to monitor them? Or something else? I’ve commented out the below from includes/defaults.inc.php $config['bad_if'][] = "-atm"; $config['bad_if'][] = "-atm subif"; Thanks, ---------------------------- This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail (even if the e-mail address above is yours), (i) you may not use, copy or retransmit it, (ii) please delete this message and (iii) please notify the sender immediately. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ----------------------------

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HDD SMART Monitoring
by Daniel Wandrei 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

I have a few Linux Server running Debian which I want to monitor with Observium. Most important HDD SMART data. Ive already smartd running but like to have all data in one place (Observium). Ive have found no way to collect the SMART values, either with SNMP nor with the Unix Agent. Is there any way not documented or which I may have overseen? Regards Daniel

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Support for Sophos UTM routers
by Kieron Goucher 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

Hi I've recently started using observium and I'm interested to know if observium can recognise Sophos UTM routers. I have 3 of these devices and they are detected as Linux servers in my observium. The Sophos UTM provide MIB download from the device itself. Thanks Kieron Sent from Outlook Mobile<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> Kieron Goucher IT Manager Murphy Surveys Ltd. Global House, Kilcullen Business Campus, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare, R56 K376, IRELAND T: +353 45 484 040 M: +353 87 987 1038 E: kgoucher(a)murphysurveys.ie W: www.murphysurveys.ie Company No: 351283VAT No: 6371283P Dublin · Kildare · Cork · Belfast · London · Warrington · Glasgow Merry Christmas

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Feature Request
by Serghei Golipad 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

Guys, Any chance adding email reports (daily/monthly) for any types of graphs. Would be nice from bandwidth calculation / management point of view. Cheers PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING THIS EMAIL. Kelway (UK) Ltd is a Company registered in England and Wales. This email is sent for and on behalf of Kelway Holdings Limited. Kelway Holdings Limited is the UK holding company for Kelway (UK) Limited trading as Kelway. The registered office for Kelway 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 Kelway or the sender of its existence. For more information about Kelway please visit www.kelway.co.uk

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Graphing Voice Calls
by Matthias Cramer 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

Hi Observium Team I like to fetch and graph the voice call count of a SIP Voice Gateway in the form of calls per minute. Is there already something similar available or do I have to start from scratch and define graphs and such? Is there a conceptual way of doing that? 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 Zürich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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Alerts options
by Andrea 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Hi, I'm interested in the professional edition to activate alerts, but I didn't understand exactly what it's possible to configure. I have 2 questions about them: 1) Is it possible to configure checks only every 5 minutes, or is there some way to configure some devices to be polled for example every 30 seconds only for some specific check? 2) Is it possible to monitor and set alerts only about snmp checks, or is there some way to configure monitor and alerts about tcp/udp query? For example to check if http/smtp/pop3/imap ports are working? Thanks! Andrea

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SNMP Query AIX Host
by FalkE 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Hello everybody, I'm exploring Observium for a few days now and I really like it! I've added some Linux hosts using SNMP and it works like a charm. However, in conjuntion with IBM AIX, I got some problems: Using SNMP, I only get very basic information about OS level and network interfaces. There is no data about cpu, memory and storage usage. I'm using SNMPv1 for now. Could this be the problem? Is some data only available for v2c and v3? If so, can someone give me a sample configuration for SNMPv2c or SNMPv3 on AIX? Kind regards, Manuel

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Unix Agent and Raspberry Pi
by gt＠gt1.net 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Hello, I set up Observium to monitor a RPi device with Unix Agent and RPi script. I see the hardware sensors from RPi on the Observium interface, however all of them show zero values. When running /usr/bin/observium-agent on the RPi, all sensor data is displayed in the dump, but when I try telnet RPi 36602 from the server, the sensor data in the dump shows 0s. What could be the issue? Gennadiy.

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How to shush alarms for sensors that lie...
by Robert Williams 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

Hi, The recent changes to the homepage layout have placed more attention on the summary statistics (alerted ports, alerted sensors etc.) which previously were not as visible. A positive side-effect of this has been the setting of more 'appropriate' manual thresholds for many of the less important sensors, to tidy them up. It has revealed one issue though, which I'm not sure how to work around. Take the following example: As you can see, the (unrealistic) dBm being reported by the Cisco chassis is stuck in a 'warning' state, despite having alarms disabled, the threshold on manual and thresholds set well clear of the 8.1dBm which it is reporting. (This port actually has a copper-converter in it, hence, the dBm is just rubbish spat out by an adapter which doesn't understand copper) So despite my best efforts to silence this warning, it still persists as a 'down' sensor, on the summary page showing up in red. (Not ignored, but actually down). We have quite a few of these adapters as well as a large number of voltage sensors (again, courtesy Cisco entity SNMP crapness) which are being reported as zero volts. These are also set to 'ignore' but continue to show as 'down' on the new summary homepage, some examples below: So - Does anyone know how I can totally and completely ignore/hide the broken sensors like these? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Re: [Observium] Layout & Style Changes
by Kent Johannessen 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

Hi Adam, I am all for a flat design, which is the modern thing today (apparently:)). Some thoughts from me. Background: Does not make the site look good. Sorry. Have a color as previously, or maybe something like the grid background from before (probably a year ago). Icons: Removal of icons, maybe mostly in the device page makes it hard to quickly identify what you are looking for. (reading is boring). Right panel: I see some use for this. But should also be able to disable. Device page: On some resolutions it seems to create three rows, which make the right side too cramped. Had some more thoughts earlier today, but too late now to remember all :D Are there any plans to move completely to bootstrap 3? Best regards 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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join ports together
by Simon Smith 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

Hi All, this is a bit of a daft question, I actually deleted one of our bridges on our mikrotik switches, and had to recreate them, DOH! the observium, then discovered the new bridge, but deleted the old bridge (marked as deleted)? now i have no graphs with old data in them for the new bridge :( can i join the new bridge and old bridge ports together in observium so i can see the old graphs in the new bridge? regards Simon

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Layout & Style Changes
by Adam Armstrong 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

Hi All, Those of you running trunk and updating regularly might have noticed some layout/style changes in the past day or two. We've been running the old "shiny" style for about 3 years and thought it was about time we updated it, and have opted for a more "flat" design. Simplifying the stylistic elements has made it a bit easier for us to do certain things, since the old style was a little clumsy on things like horizontal boxes (check out the docs side bar for proof!). We've also added a wide layout for screens of ~1920 pixels wide which we plan to move some data too. This can already been seen on the /device/ /devices/ and /ports/ page, where some data, graphs and search forms are moved to the left hand pane. If anyone has any suggestions on what should/could go in that pane on various pages, now is the time to suggest it. Similarly any suggestions on the new styling should also be made now, before we move on to something else! :) Thanks, adam.

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Observium and PHP7
by Markus Klock 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

Good news everyone! PHP7 is out and promise great performance to all PHP-applications. I tried it out this weekend on my Observium-installation and it did not disappoint! I have a rather large Observium and some of you that runs very large installations may have noticed that the web UI can get a little slow when rendering all the stuff from a large database. In my case the overview-page loads in about 5s and some of the more heavy pages like /devices/ takes about 7s to load. Well after upgrading to PHP7 my page loadtimes are now down to <1.5s for almost any page and atleast <2s for the heavy ones, I got a 2-3x performance boost! If you want to try it out I made a quick guide on how to run Observium on PHP7 here: http://blog.best-practice.se/2015/12/vastly-improve-observium-performance.h… Note that I don't know if everything in Observium is fully compatible with PHP7, I tried as many features as I could think of with no problems, however I have not tried the billing-module. Even if most of you don't have need for a speedup in the web UI, its great to see PHP improve performance like this. This means Observium will be able to scale even further in the future :) /Markus

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grid not centre aligned
by Simon Smith 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

Hi All, another bug again, the screen is not centre aligned? its happening in chrome and firefox? also the new layout and style in my view is horrible, I preferred the old version! why u have to update :( regards Simon

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Cisco 887VA - No OSPF Graphs
by Federico Olivieri 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

Hi all, I have just enabled OSPF between a Cisco 887VA running c880data-universalk9-mz.154-3.M4 and a Cisco 3750 c3750-ipservicesk9-mz.122-55.SE9. I can see the OSPF process on Observium for Cisco 3750 but nothing for Cisco 887 I tried to get some debug on router and that what I got (not sure if can be useful or not) Dec 16 11:15:09.002: SNMP: Response, reqid 1755104544, errstat 0, erridx 0 ospfGeneralGroup.1.0 = 192.168.0.1 ospfGeneralGroup.2.0 = 1 ospfGeneralGroup.3.0 = 2 ospfGeneralGroup.4.0 = 2 ospfGeneralGroup.5.0 = 1 ospfGeneralGroup.6.0 = 1 ospfGeneralGroup.7.0 = 9505 ospfGeneralGroup.8.0 = 2 ospfGeneralGroup.9.0 = 4 ospfGeneralGroup.10.0 = 3 Dec 16 11:15:09.042: SNMP: Packet sent via UDP to 192.168.0.3 process_mgmt_req_int: UDP packet being de-queued Anyone has experienced something similar? Any suggestion? Thank you Regards, Federico

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Duplicate entry in applications table
by Simon Smith 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

Hi All, not sure if ive found a bug or something is wrong on my server that is being monitored in my db.log I’m getting [2015/12/17 17:05:10 +0000] poller.php(6976): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '64-apache-' for key 'dev_type_inst'), Query: INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('64','apache','') [2015/12/17 17:05:10 +0000] poller.php(6976): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '64-freeradius-' for key 'dev_type_inst'), Query: INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('64','freeradius','') [2015/12/17 17:05:10 +0000] poller.php(6976): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '64-mysql-' for key 'dev_type_inst'), Query: INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('64','mysql','') [2015/12/17 17:09:23 +0000] poller.php(12106): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '64-apache-' for key 'dev_type_inst'), Query: INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('64','apache','') [2015/12/17 17:09:23 +0000] poller.php(12106): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '64-freeradius-' for key 'dev_type_inst'), Query: INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('64','freeradius','') [2015/12/17 17:09:24 +0000] poller.php(12106): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '64-mysql-' for key 'dev_type_inst'), Query: INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('64','mysql','') [2015/12/17 17:15:15 +0000] poller.php(17083): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '64-apache-' for key 'dev_type_inst'), Query: INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('64','apache','') [2015/12/17 17:15:15 +0000] poller.php(17083): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '64-freeradius-' for key 'dev_type_inst'), Query: INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('64','freeradius','') [2015/12/17 17:15:15 +0000] poller.php(17083): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '64-mysql-' for key 'dev_type_inst'), Query: INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('64','mysql','') currently the machine runs apache, freeradius, mysql, openvpn I’m using the unix agents ? and they are installed correctly in /usr/lib/observium_agent/local i can even execute them correctly and get data out from out observium server whats also weird is I’m getting data for openvpn, just not the other? i have deleted the table entrys, but they just re-appear, and then the logs appear again is the a bug possible? regards Simon

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broken app (apache/mysql) integration
by Nils Podzich 17 Dec '15

17 Dec '15

Hello, I have some problems with the 7274 version and the apps. Especially with the mysql and apache app. Mailgraph seems to work fine, the others are not tested. The app script of mysql/apache seem to run fine, if I telnet to 36602 I get output which seems valid to me - and is similar to a release where apache is working. I have no working version of mysql for comparison at the moment. I think I narrowed to problem down. If I try to run the poller-script manually in debug there is an error ---snip--- SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '40' AND `app_type` = 'mysql'] SQL RUNTIME[0.00032902s] Including: applications/mysql.inc.php mysql SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '40' AND `app_type` = 'mysql' AND `app_instance` IS NULL] SQL RUNTIME[0.00021815s] + SQL[INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('40','mysql','')] SQL RUNTIME[0.00914192s] ERROR[Error in query: (Duplicate entry '40-mysql-' for key 'dev_type_inst') 1062] ---snip--- SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '38' AND `app_type` = 'apache'] SQL RUNTIME[0.00032187s] Including: applications/apache.inc.php apache SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '38' AND `app_type` = 'apache' AND `app_instance` IS NULL] SQL RUNTIME[0.00016117s] + SQL[INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('38','apache','')] SQL RUNTIME[0.00899100s] ERROR[Error in query: (Duplicate entry '38-apache-' for key 'dev_type_inst') 1062] ---snip--- The hosts are newly added. I also did a restore of the observium machine because I thought I somehow broke it by adding and testing... but the problems return with readding the hosts. The graphs are showing mainly nothing which is not surprising I think The grahics are there but no values.... I noticed that the demo installation shows similar problems or. graphics, at least for the mysql. Apache seems to work there which it doesn't for me. http://demo.observium.org/apps/app=mysql/ Additionally I have problems removing a group definition. When you click "delete" it always shows "edit" which it makes hard to remove the group because of a typo. Can anyone help me? Am I doing something wrong? Thank you, Best regards Nils

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test_email.php
by Elmas, Murat 17 Dec '15

17 Dec '15

Hi, I'm trying to define e-mail alert using config.php file. I looked the page at http://www.observium.org/docs/config_options/ for configuration options. It says here I can try the settings using the test_mail.php but no test-email.php in observium folder. "SMTP specific options To test email settings use test_mail.php script from main observium dirrectory." What should I do ? Thanks in advance ?NL? & Co ve ba?l? ortakl?klar? hakk?nda daha fazla bilgi www.unluco.com adresinde mevcuttur. Kisiye ?zel bu mesaj ve i?eri?indeki bilgiler gizlidir. ?NL? & Co ve ba?l? ortakl?klar? ("?irket"), bu mesajin icerigi ve ekleri ile ilgili olarak hukuksal hi?bir sorumluluk kabul etmez. Yetkili al?c?lardan biri de?ilseniz, bu mesajin herhangi bir ?ekilde if?a edilmesi, kullan?lmas?, kopyalanmas?, yay?lmas? veya mesajda yeralan hususlarla ilgili olarak herhangi bir i?lem yap?lmas?n?n kesinlikle yasak oldu?unu bildiririz. B?yle bir durumda, l?tfen hemen mesaj?n g?ndericisini bilgilendiriniz ve mesaj? sisteminizden siliniz. ?irketimiz, internet ortam?nda g?nderilen e-posta mesajlar?n?n ve bilgilerinin size de?i?ikli?e u?rayarak veya ge? ula?mas?ndan, b?t?nl???n?n ve gizlili?inin korunamamas?ndan, vir?s i?ermesinden ve bilgisayar sisteminize verebilece?i herhangi bir zarardan sorumlu tutulamaz. More information on ?NL? & Co and its subsidiaries is available at www.unluco.com The information contained in this communication may contain confidential or legally privileged information. ?NL? & Co and its subsidiaries ("the Company") do not accept any legal responsibility for the contents and attachments of this message. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, use, copying, distribution or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by responding to this e-mail and then delete it from your system. The Company shall have no liability for any changes or late receiving, loss of integrity and confidentiality, viruses and any damages caused in anyway to your computer system.

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Re: [Observium] update.php fails to run on latest svn release 7273
by Jason Scholl 17 Dec '15

17 Dec '15

That worked, thanks. I also see that update.php got updated so that it doesn't support direct calls, nice touch.

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New alert options
by Anders Johansson 17 Dec '15

17 Dec '15

Hi, After upgrading to the latest Observium (pro) I've noticed a lot of new alerting destination options. Just curios. * Are they all implemented or just in UI? * If any are activated, how do I configure them? We have internal email to SMS gateways, would it be possible to create one that uses a specific SMS template? I'd like to keep my sms messages short and don't mind creating one myself. When I looked at the code last time it didn't seems to be to much trouble, but perhaps it easier know when some of the code might be written? //Anders

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Re: [Observium] update.php fails to run on latest svn release 7273
by Jason Scholl 17 Dec '15

17 Dec '15

Deleting and re-syncing includes didn't work, though I was able to get it to run successfully by swapping these two lines in update.php include_once("includes/definitions.inc.php"); include("includes/functions.inc.php"); get_obs_attrib is defined in 'includes/common.inc.php', but that is only getting included into update.php through 'includes/functions.inc.php'.

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update.php fails to run on latest svn release 7273
by Jason Scholl 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

I just attempted to upgrade to release 7273 and update.php fails to run. It gives no output (just return code 255), and logs nothing to update-errors.log or any other log file. My php skills are pretty weak, but a bit of "got here" debugging lead me through the following. includes/update/update.php 21: include_once("includes/definitions.inc.php"); #bailed on this line includes/definitions.inc.php 513: $rev_old = @get_obs_attrib('current_rev'); #bailed on this line I wasn't able to track it down any further than that because I couldn't even seem to get get_obs_attrib to execute. As a last ditch effort, I also tried commenting out all of my config except the absolutely required pieces, but it still failed in the same way. Is anyone else having this problem or have any ideas?

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Contact Destination - Local file
by Spencer Ryan 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

Would it be possible to add a local file option to the providers for a contact? There are situations where we would like to manipulate the data with a script of our own based on triggered alerts and recoveries and instead of mucking around the DB by hand having Observium write out the alerts to a file would be the easiest. Maybe just have it take a path and just >> the alert contents to whatever the user enters? *Spencer Ryan* | Senior Systems Administrator | sryan(a)arbor.net *Arbor Networks* +1.734.794.5033 (d) | +1.734.846.2053 (m) www.arbornetworks.com

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Not alerting (probably user fail)
by Robert Williams 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

Hi, We've just finished migrating some of our monitoring targets to an additional instance of Observium, everything is polling fine and all the historic data etc. has been moved OK. The only thing which remains broken is that none of the alerts are actually sending their emails. They do show as being in an alert state OK, for example: However, no actual 'Alerted' time is ever recorded - and no email is ever sent. The sendmail element works fine with: sendmail -vt < testmail.txt The test contains the correct FROM and DEFAULT from the config.php in Observium and this delivers fine. Problem is, it was a very long time ago that I originally configured Observium alerting on the first box and I'm probably missing something stupid. Relevant config sections below: Both of these sections are identical to the working system they were copied from, which works fine. The postfix config is also identical to the working server and I'm confident postfix is OK as the test from it are fine: myhostname = OBSERVIUM.x.y alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases myorigin = /etc/mailname mydestination = OBSERVIUM, OBSERVIUM.x.y, localhost relayhost = 1.2.3.4 mailbox_size_limit = 0 recipient_delimiter = + Can anyone assist by pointing me at the switch I've obviously failed to turn on, or let me know what additional debugs I can provide to help track this? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Alerts, metrics and attributes for applications
by Alex Winder ＠ M5i 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

Hi everyone, Does anyone know if there are any attributes or metrics for the UNIX agent applications, in particular NGINX, MySQL, Apache, and PowerDNS Recursor. I'm looking to create some alert checkers for them if it's at all possible. The only information I can find about the attributes and metrics is the following: http://www.observium.org/docs/attribs_metrics/ https://github.com/mgmoerman/docs/blob/master/observium-alert-checkers.md Regards, Alex.

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hd-screen goofed up
by Simon Smith 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

Hi Adam, oh dear, the HD update in revision 7264, has goofed up my screen :( Ive had a HDPI Macbook Pro 2012 for years now the issue only appears on servers page tho? i goto our mikrotik switches - fine, tp-links - fine, just not linux or windows servers attached is screenshot for you :) Regards Simon

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Re: [Observium] RRD Perms Issue - Error Drawing Graph
by Adam Armstrong 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

It seems that someone has modified your cron jobs to no longer be run as root, since your rrds were created by root and svn has no ability to change them. You need to work out where the poller is run from. It should be /etc/cron.d/observium Adam. Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On 15 December 2015 18:08:08 Robbie Wright <robbie(a)siuslawbroadband.com> wrote: > Not sure who the poller is running as. What's the easy way to check that? > > Yes, svn update has always been run as su. > > /opt/observium/rrd is owned by www-data, not root unlike the other folders > in the main directory. However, digging into the directory, all of the > folders inside for each host are all owned by root. > > > Robbie Wright > Siuslaw Broadband <https://siuslawbroadband.com> > 541-902-5101 > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > >> Are you running your poller observium poller as a non-root user? >> >> Did you svn up as root? >> >> The contents of the rrd directory, and anything else written to by the >> poller, should be owned by the user who runs the poller. >> >> Adam. >> >> Sent with AquaMail for Android >> http://www.aqua-mail.com >> >> On 15 December 2015 17:06:24 Robbie Wright <robbie(a)siuslawbroadband.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Recently upgraded from 69xx to 72xx after we renewed our license and it >>> broke all of our RRD's, resulting in the "Error Drawing Graph" issue. >>> >>> Running this "./poller.php -h <hostname> -m ports -d" gives me two >>> noticeable, but unobjectionable to me things: >>> >>> SNMP_STATUS[TRUE] >>> o Device status Device is reachable by PING (8.28ms) and SNMP >>> (81.63ms) >>> >>> RRD CMD[update /opt/observium/rrd/hostname/status.rrd N:1] >>> RRD RUNTIME[0.0012s] >>> RRD STDOUT[ERROR: opening '/opt/observium/rrd/hostname/status.rrd': >>> Permission denied] >>> RRD_STATUS[FALSE] >>> >>> and this at the end of the results: >>> >>> >>> Log file '/opt/observium/logs/observium.log' is not writable, check file >>> permissions. >>> >>> >>> So clearly some type of permission issue but not sure what happened >>> during the upgrade that would have caused this. Any thoughts on what >>> chmod's need to be set on the directories or what else could have went >>> haywire? >>> >>> >>> >>> Robbie Wright >>> Siuslaw Broadband <https://siuslawbroadband.com> >>> 541-902-5101 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> observium mailing list >>> observium(a)observium.org >>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>> <http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> >> > > > > ---------- > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >

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RRD Perms Issue - Error Drawing Graph
by Robbie Wright 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

Recently upgraded from 69xx to 72xx after we renewed our license and it broke all of our RRD's, resulting in the "Error Drawing Graph" issue. Running this "./poller.php -h <hostname> -m ports -d" gives me two noticeable, but unobjectionable to me things: SNMP_STATUS[TRUE] o Device status Device is reachable by PING (8.28ms) and SNMP (81.63ms) RRD CMD[update /opt/observium/rrd/hostname/status.rrd N:1] RRD RUNTIME[0.0012s] RRD STDOUT[ERROR: opening '/opt/observium/rrd/hostname/status.rrd': Permission denied] RRD_STATUS[FALSE] and this at the end of the results: Log file '/opt/observium/logs/observium.log' is not writable, check file permissions. So clearly some type of permission issue but not sure what happened during the upgrade that would have caused this. Any thoughts on what chmod's need to be set on the directories or what else could have went haywire? Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <https://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101

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CBQoS graphs on MetroEthernet switches
by lom＠digitelitalia.com 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

Hello to everyone, we are experiencing a problem with CBQoS graphs on Cisco Me3600 devices. We have many service instance in the same bridge-domain on the same port. The CBQoS graphs works only on the first one, it's NaN for the others. Could you help me? Regards. digitel Ing. Lorenzo Mainardi Via della Fortezza 6 - 50129 Firenze <http://www.digitelitalia.com/> www.digitelitalia.com - 800 901 669 Tel +39 055 4624933 Fax +39 055 4624 947 lom(a)digitelitalia.com <mailto:lom@digitelitalia.com>

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Address for billing
by Robbie Wright 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

Sorry for the mass email here, but trying to renew our sub to Observium and our CC is getting declined, with the banking tell us the billing address doesn't match what Observium's credit card processor has on file. I don't see a way to update our address in our account on Observium's system or with Paddle or whoever. Thoughts? Aside from using PayPal? Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <https://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101

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SVN password not working
by Anthony Polselli 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

Hi all, Went to update Observium and it's not taking my username & password. Been a while so I might be using the wrong password. Any way to reset the password? Thanks! [cid:image001.jpg@01D135E7.5F2E6A90] __________________________________________ Anthony Polselli, Chief Technology Officer Natural Networks, Inc. 10225 Barnes Canyon Rd. Suite A105 San Diego, CA 92121 anthony(a)naturalnetworks.com<mailto:anthony@naturalnetworks.com> http://www.naturalnetworks.com<http://www.naturalnetworks.com/> (619) 222-3232 office (858) 202-0301 fax

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