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gaps in graphs
by ecaroh 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

Hello, i got sporadic dropouts over all my graphs. If this happen most of my graphs have dropouts. The poller runs not longer than a minute. `Total time for all devices: 41.07s 35.17s' Memory usage 200 of 1000 MB RAM. All devices are in the same physical gigabit network. Ping is less than 50 ms to each device. Monitored are only 16 devices. Observium itself runs as a openvz container (turnkeylinux). I searched the web but does not find anything that matches my setup. Does anybody have a hint for me? Thanks, ecaroh

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billing not working
by Simon Smith 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

Hi All, I’m having a problem trying to create bills for ports for one of our customers… we currently monitor the ADSL routers of our clients, and wanted to see if we can get a pretty bill/graph for the PPP ports of all the routers however adding ports to the bills just seem to make the bill disappear and not work? so far I add the bill successfully, and set a quota of say 1TB but when I go into the edit tab of the bill, the quota field is empty!? also i can’t seen to add more than 5 ports? any ideas Simon

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SVN What am I doing wrong
by Mike Hyslop 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

H all When I run svn update on my observium box it usually just says At revision 6089 (This increments to the latest revision number), however it sometimes downloads updated files, but not all the time, I am updating from the stable branch Have I got some settings out of place somewhere with svn? Kind Regards Mike Hyslop | Infrastructure Manager

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Upgrade to Observium 0.14.12.6089 Cisco WLC 2504 not anymore recognized as WLC
by Basile Bluntschli 10 Dec '14

10 Dec '14

Hi Mike after the upgrade to Observium 0.14.12.6089 the Cisco WLC 2504 is no longer recognized as WLC. It is a generic device, it even removed the basic temp sensor after a discovery... "Sensor Sensor deleted: temperature wlc 0 Unit Temperature 0" I can handover you debug information if you want to. Just let me know how i can provide them :) Kind regards Basile

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Summary Graphs stopped working Yesterday
by Matthias Cramer 10 Dec '14

10 Dec '14

Hi Since I updated to the latest SVN Version yesterday all summary graphs (Ports->Customers/Transit/Peering etc.) stopped working. Anyone else has this issue ? 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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Spikes in 1 and 2 year graphs
by GT4NE1 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

Almost all of my 1 and 2 year graphs look like this. http://i.imgur.com/SnDlXz3.png I've tried several times to fix them with removespikes.pl and .php but never had any luck. Has anyone ever gotten the removespikes scripts to work in these cases? I run the command on a single device at a time and receive no output, but it doesn't fix the issue. I've also tried several of the other flags with no luck. Any pointers? Thanks! -GT

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Device location not updated in database (already fixed?)
by Erwin Heringa 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

Hi Observium developers, I just found out that when i changed the snmp location of a device it is not changed in the database. We are currently using R5919 (yeah… i know. ;-)) Poller output with debugging shows the new location correctly. CMD[/usr/bin/snmpget -v3 **************** SNMPv2-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'arn2-kafw1.mgmt.sidn.nl':'161' sysUpTime.0 sysLocation.0 sysContact.0 sysName.0] EXITCODE[0]) RUNTIME[0.0304s], STDOUT[ sysUpTime.0 = 5:18:28:36.57 sysLocation.0 = Arnhem ==> OK, this is the new location <cut> On every poll we see the location change in the syslog, but the location is not updated in the database. SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES ('78','NULL','system',NOW(),'Location -> Arnhem')] Module [ system ] time: 0.1684s 2014-12-09 11:43:03 System Location -> Arnhem 2014-12-09 11:38:10 System Location -> Arnhem 2014-12-09 11:33:09 System Location -> Arnhem 2014-12-09 11:28:13 System Location -> Arnhem 2014-12-09 11:23:12 System Location -> Arnhem 2014-12-09 11:18:08 System Location -> Arnhem A manual change of the location in the device record resolved this issue. It seems that there is a statement missing to update the device record. Met vriendelijke groet, kind regards, Erwin Heringa SIDN | Meander 501 | 6825 MD | Postbus 5022 | 6802 EA | ARNHEM T +31 (0)26 352 55 59 | F +31 (0)26 352 55 05 erwin.heringa(a)sidn.nl | www.sidn.nl

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Re: [Observium] sourcing@qbs.co.uk - Re: After the license expires... - Email found in subject
by Sourcing 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

Hi Mike I used this link yesterday. I have done it again now. Hopefully it will work. Kind regards Maria From: Daniel Winter On Behalf Of Administrator Sent: 09 December 2014 11:13 To: Sourcing Subject: FW: sourcing(a)qbs.co.uk - Re: [Observium] After the license expires... - Email found in subject From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Simon Smith Sent: 09 December 2014 11:11 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: sourcing(a)qbs.co.uk<mailto:sourcing@qbs.co.uk> - Re: [Observium] After the license expires... - Email found in subject http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium look at the bottom of the page about how to unsubscribe… On 9 Dec 2014, at 9:37 am, Sourcing <sourcing(a)qbs.co.uk<mailto:sourcing@qbs.co.uk>> wrote: Hi Mike I did not intentionally add myself to an emailing list. I tried to get a quotation from Observium a couple of weeks ago for a customer. Somehow instead I must have ended up on this email listing. Please advise how I may ‘unsubscribe’ to get my email removed from this. Kind regards Maria From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: 09 December 2014 09:09 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] After the license expires... Do you mean you're on an e-mail list and you're getting copies of the e-mails? That's how e-mail lists work. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com<http://www.ics-il.com/> [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png]<https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/googleicon.png]<https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png]<https://twitter.com/ICSIL> ________________________________ From: "Sourcing" <sourcing(a)qbs.co.uk<mailto:sourcing@qbs.co.uk>> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Cc: "Support" <support(a)qbs.co.uk<mailto:support@qbs.co.uk>>, "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 3:07:16 AM Subject: Re: [Observium] After the license expires... Hi Adam/Kleber Please can you sort this out? I keep getting copied in to every mail you send out. I have already emailed you regarding this matter. Kind regards Maria Parrado Sourcing Specialist DD: +44 (0) 20 8733 7139 Main: +44 (0) 20 8733 7101 Fax: +44 (0) 20 8902 7600 Email: sourcing(a)qbs.co.uk<mailto:sourcing@qbs.co.uk> QBS Software Ltd 7 Wharfside, Rosemont Road, Wembley, Middlesex, HA0 4QB www.qbssoftware.com<http://www.qbssoftware.com/> From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: 09 December 2014 06:08 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] After the license expires... Did you subscribe? Adam. Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com<http://www.aqua-mail.com/> On 8 December 2014 19:34:32 Kleber C S Coelho <kcscoelho(a)ig.com.br<mailto:kcscoelho@ig.com.br>> wrote: It seems fair . And how do I get a license? I found instructions on this in observium page . tks KC Em 08/12/2014 17:19, Tom Laermans escreveu: Indeed, the code is not timebombed - it will keep working if you stop paying. But you'll stop receiving updates, bug fixes and security updates. Tom On 08/12/2014 19:05, Moore, Cameron wrote: Technically, the license doesn’t expire, but your subscription does. You have a perpetual license to use Observium, so it won’t stop working if your subscription expires. Your subscription simply grants you access to the SVN repository to get updates. -- Cameron Moore From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Kleber C S Coelho Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 10:29 AM To: Observium System Network Observation Subject: [Observium] After the license expires... Adam, good afternoon! I have a question: what happens after the license expires. For example, buy a license, which is valid for one year. What happens after that first year? We only stayed without updates or the system stops working? Do you have a license without time limit? Is there any way to achieve this? Thank you. Kleber C S Coelho _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Kleber C S Coelho _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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After the license expires...
by Kleber C S Coelho 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

Adam, good afternoon! I have a question: what happens after the license expires. For example, buy a license, which is valid for one year. What happens after that first year? We only stayed without updates or the system stops working? Do you have a license without time limit? Is there any way to achieve this? Thank you. Kleber C S Coelho

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extending observium to handle custom MIBs
by Richard Broberg 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

I have added a tree of MIBs (in the ‘experimental’ section of the tree) for my own application services to respond to snmp requests. This is for determining the health of a running service. I can view the objects using snmpwalk, and I can add the host running the agent to observium. I can see all the information retrieved from the ‘well-known’ MIBs (uptime, load, etc.) in observium for my extended agent, but I can’t see any of my own MIBs. Where do I look for how to let observium know about my MIBs so that it can show the data in a tabular or graphical format? I see the includes/polling/unix-agent/* as some examples, but it’s not clear to me where the mapping between my OIDs goes to the variables inside of running observium, so I can invoke rrdtool_create properly. It’s also not clear to me how I layout the various graphs on the page, once I have them created. If there is some documentation for that somewhere, or a particularly good example in the code to look at which would make it clear, that would be great. Thanks

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Wireless Support (Aruba, Ruckus, Trapeze, Cisco, etc)
by adama＠observium.org 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

Hi All, Could those of you who are interested in wireless support email me off-list? I've totally lost track of who has offered to financially sponsor development and/or provide access to test hardware. Please include the following information : Contact/Company/Subscriber information What type of support you'd be willing to provide What type of hardware you use What you use the hardware for (WISP, Enterprise, etc) Additionally if you already use some other platform with your wireless kit, perhaps some screenshots and description of how you use the platform would be useful, as would any suggestions on how a wifi infrastructure management interface might be structured. We're not wireless infrastructure experts, but you guys might be! :) Depending upon the level of interest when everyone is accounted for, we might consider building specific wireless support into Observium. Please reply to this mail but change the "to" field to adama(a)observium.org. If you use a different subject, your mail might be lost forever :) Thanks, adam.

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Full access live demo?
by Aurélien PERRODY 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

Hello guys I'm currently looking for a monitoring tool and try a lot of them (freeware, opensource, etc...) Observium sounds good for me, definitely. I checked the live demo and can't access to the threshold/alert options, which are the most interesting part for me. I know if you give access as a admin to your demo, your Observium demo will be destroy within 1 minute. So before paying for a pro version, is there a possibility to test a live demo as a admin user or install a "time limited full version" on my VM ? Regards, Aurélien

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Control-Plane class-maps
by Robert Williams 07 Dec '14

07 Dec '14

Hi, Is there are way to get the CBQoS stats for the control-plane on the 6500 (or indeed any Cisco with control-plane policies really)? I know they are presented via SNMP as we have the stats in Cacti, showing against “CPP” which is the same name as Observium has for the Control Plane interface (after I un-filtered it in config.php). For what it’s worth, here is the table from the Cacti query: [cid:image002.jpg@01D0121F.7F26CDC0] In this example, you can see 4 of the CoPP classes, alongside one of the interface classes. We use Cacti to get the control-plane classes only (hence grey) and all the interface classes are done by Observium because it handles the dynamic changes which occur MUCH better than Cacti does. Observium sees the same interface index (19) and name (CPP): [cid:image004.png@01D0121F.497847D0] But for some reason it doesn’t attach the CBQoS statistics for the control-plane…? All other QoS stats are present, so in general it is working OK, just the CPP ones which are missing (or I can’t find them). Any ideas? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Re-enable previously disabled app
by Arnaud Launay 06 Dec '14

06 Dec '14

Hello, Title mostly says it all. I've disabled certain apps (from the unix agent) from a device, and now I'd like to re-enable them, but I don't see where I could do that... Any pointer ? Thanks, Arnaud.

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Unix Agent
by Mike Hammett 05 Dec '14

05 Dec '14

I have read the Unix Agent troubleshooting section. The Observium-wide FAQ didn't provide any guidance either. I set this up within the past week. Running Community Edition, Debian Wheezy. I got one box (CentOS) setup with the Unix Agent and at least one polling worked as it's now populated with different packages, MySQL information (that's one of the scripts it setup). It hasn't worked since the first polling or two. It isn't pulling in any new scripts on the monitored box and the information it does have appears to be stale. I can telnet from the Observium box to the monitored box via FQDN on port 36602 and get a bunch of stuff back. However, the observium.log and my router shows requests going to the FQDN at ports 1 and 6556 that are refused. I don't show anything in netstat listening on those ports on the monitored box. What's my next step? TIA ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com

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SonicWall NS2400 CPU
by Paul Harrington 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

Hi there, Does anyone have a Sonicwall NS2400 reporting CPU usage to Observium. The default settings didn't seem to pick it up. I tried adding the OID (1.3.6.1.4.1.8741.1.3.1.3.0) to the SNMP configuration in the Sonicwall, but still no sign of them in Observium. Where am I going wrong? Thanks, Paul NoSigPLS!

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Adding a SNOM 320 VoIP Telefon failed
by ecaroh 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

Hello, i tried to add a SNOM 320 VoIP Telephone. I saw that Observium has an include for snom devices. As a first test a bare snmp request from cli with v1 succeded, with v2 i got no response. But Observium does not discover the device with v1. DNS / host name service is working. I have read in the web that SNOM SNMP support is awful. They have their own mib, a request for "system" does not give an answer from cli. Does anybody have SNOM Devices monitored in Observium and if so, what could be the error that the device could not discovered and added? thx, ecaroh

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Collectd integration to Observium
by Joy, Jees 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

Hello All!! Greetings. I was wondering, where to get collectd plugin for Observium. The below documentation doesnot say where to download the collectd plungin for observium. If somebody could help me with the download and documentation of collectd plugin for observium, it would be great help. http://observium.org/wiki/Collectd_Integration Thank you. Best Regards, Jees Joy Internal IT **************************************************************** "PLEASE NOTE: This email, and any attachments hereto, are intended only for use by the specified addressee(s) and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential and/or proprietary information of KVH Co., Ltd. and/or its affiliates (including personal information). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please immediately notify the sender by email, and please permanently delete the original, any print out and any copies of the foregoing. " ****************************************************************

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add device type
by Justin Miller 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

Under Device Settings - Device properties - there is device type. I’d like to add router and switch there. Checked the mailing list archive. Nothing conclusive on how to do this. Does not look like something in a config file. Checked there as well. Is this used someplace other then he device menu subtree for grouping? Justin

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Observium and Google downtime
by Milton Ngan 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

We use the Google Map API, and it appeared that Google was unreachable here for several minutes. In that time, our Observium box ground to a halt due to all the PHP processes hanging on what I can only guess were map API calls. Once Google came back the machine became responsive again after all the processes finally cleared out.

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Re: [Observium] Proffesional services to create new monitoring of SNMP
by Barry Murphy 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

Hey guys, My offer still stands, happy to pay someone that's willing to make a MIB work with Observium, any takers? :) I have all the instructions and some test data, I don't see it taking more than 2-3 hours from someone that knows what they doing. Cheers -- Kind regards, Barry Murphy / Chief Operating Officer +64 27 490 9712 / barry(a)vibecommunications.co.nz<mailto:barry@vibecommunications.co.nz> [3sparks llc]<http://www.vibecommunications.co.nz/> [Vibe Communications] <https://www.facebook.com/VibeCom> [Vibe Communications] <https://twitter.com/vibecomnz> [Vibe Communications] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/1941512> Office: +64 9 222 0000 / Fax: 0800 842 326 Unit A7, 1 Beresford Square, Auckland, New Zealand Web: www.vibecommunications.co.nz<http://www.vibecommunications.co.nz/> / Peering: AS45177<http://www.peeringdb.com/view.php?asn=45177> This communication, including any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. Thank you. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002. From: Barry Murphy <barry(a)vibecommunications.co.nz<mailto:barry@vibecommunications.co.nz>> Reply-To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Thursday, 27 November 2014 6:37 am To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] Proffesional services to create new monitoring of SNMP Hey guys, Wonder if anyone on the list is willing to build some SNMP enhancements for Observium, I believe the work would only take 2-3 hours from someone that knows SNMP MIBS and observium. Reply to me offlist if you are interested; the MIB will be provided open source to the community following its development. Many thanks Kind regards, Barry Murphy / Chief Operating Officer +64 27 490 9712 / barry(a)vibecommunications.co.nz<mailto:barry@vibecommunications.co.nz> [3sparks llc]<http://www.vibecommunications.co.nz/> [Vibe Communications] <https://www.facebook.com/VibeCom> [Vibe Communications] <https://twitter.com/vibecomnz> [Vibe Communications] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/1941512> Office: +64 9 222 0000 / Fax: 0800 842 326 Unit A7, 1 Beresford Square, Auckland, New Zealand Web: www.vibecommunications.co.nz<http://www.vibecommunications.co.nz/> / Peering: AS45177<http://www.peeringdb.com/view.php?asn=45177> This communication, including any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. Thank you. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002.

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Re: [Observium] Patch: rancid integration
by Steffen Klemer 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

Is there a reason, the patch didn't make it into the release? Am Di, 17.06.2014 um 17:24 schrieb Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org>: > Hah! That looks like a Russian search/replace bug! :D > > adam. > > On 2014-06-17 11:07, Steffen Klemer wrote: > > Hey, > > > > for me (recent ubuntu) the rancid integration wasn't working quite > > well. The following patch corrects this: > > > > --- showconfig.inc.php.old 2014-06-17 18:05:06.341845752 > > +0200 +++ showconfig.inc.php 2014-06-17 18:03:08.336048633 > > +0200 @@ -72,12 +72,12 @@ > > > > if ($config['rancid_ignorecomments']) > > { > > - $lines = explode('\n',$text); > > + $lines = explode(PHP_EOL,$text); > > for ($i = 0;$i < count($lines);$i++) > > { > > - if ($lines[$i][0] == '#') { unset($lines[$i]); } > > + if ($lines[$i][0] == '!') { unset($lines[$i]); } > > } > > - $text = join('\n',$lines); > > + $text = join(PHP_EOL,$lines); > > } > > > > $text = '<pre class="prettyprint linenums">' . PHP_EOL . $text; > > > > > > Steffen > > > > -- > > Steffen Klemer E-Mail: Steffen.Klemer(a)gwdg.de > > Tel: +49 551 39 172361 > > __________________________________________________________________ > > GWDG > > Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen > > URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: gwdg(a)gwdg.de > > Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 > > Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour > > Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Kfm. Markus Hoppe > > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen > > Registergericht: Göttingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > lg /Steffen -- Steffen Klemer E-Mail: Steffen.Klemer(a)gwdg.de Tel: +49 551 39 172361 __________________________________________________________________ GWDG Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: gwdg(a)gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Kfm. Markus Hoppe Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598

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Missing graphs?
by Gabriel Zamorski 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

Hello, Today I discovered that some statistics are missing. There are empty graphs since one week in all App tabs - apache, mysql, postgres, etc. There are also no graphs in tab Temperature. I think, I didn't change anything since then. I can do telnet <server> <port> to receive all that informations.. Do you have any idea what’s going on? (Observium Pro) Regards,

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New Interface Desc Parsing
by Cleiton Spindola 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

Hi Adam Its possible to add a new interface description parsing? Because we have many CDNs (Akamai, GGC, LimeLittle and etc) in my network and i would like to measure the traffic only them. CDN: CDN Name ( ASCDN ) [10gb] -- T+_+ Cleiton Spindola MAC OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 "O futuro tem varios nomes: para os fracos, ele é inatingível; para os temerosos, ele é desconhecido; para os corajosos, ele é a chance..."

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Health Disk I/O Graphs Filter
by Ximena Cardinali 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

Hello There, I just upgraded Observium to the latest CE Edition, and I was wondering if someone can help me or give me an example of how to set up a Filter for the Disk I/O Graphs. We have a Storage Cluster in which we would like to filter, for example the dm-* devices. Cheers, x.

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Alerting through gnokii
by Gabriel Zamorski 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

Hello, Is there any chance to send through a gnokii an alert triggered by the alert checkers? There is something about gnokii commented out in alerts.php, but I’m not sure if it should work? (Observium Professional) Regards,

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Translates
by Kleber C S Coelho 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

Dear, good afternoon! I wonder if there is a project underway to translate the Observium. I'm interested in helping with the Pt-BR language. If the interest of the project, please contact. Att. Kleber Coelho

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License
by Kleber C S Coelho 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

Dear, good afternoon! We are studying the Observium acquire a license. However we are running into some bureaucratic issues of our institution. I can talk privately about this? Thank you. Kleber

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Some contributions to get observium working better in our env.
by Anton Lundin 27 Nov '14

27 Nov '14

Hi there! I'm a quite new user of observium and i think its a really nice tool to keep a collected view of my network. I've done a couple of hacks on observium to get it working better in our enviorment that i would like to contribute upstream. I haven't seen any doc on how you would like contributions done so I'm just attaching them here as git-format-patch on top of latest community edition of observium, md5sum of tarball: 887e9ec061a751c0cb96fc5b774aa392 observium-community-latest.tar.gz If you have any other preferred way of getting contributions, just tell me. //Anton -- Anton Lundin anton(a)dohi.se +46702-161604 http://www.dohi.se/

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Email alerts on subscription version (again)
by Gavin Henry 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hi all, I've read all the archives and am sure below is right, but on a recent BGP flap from one of our peers we didn't see the email (but got an SNMP Trap from our NMS anyway). Is this all correct or do we have to config *all* alerts and there are no defaults? ./test_mail.php -h xxx.uk.suretec.net Observium v0.14.11.5936 Test E-mail Configuration My Hostname: xxx.suretec.net E-mails ENABLED globally E-mails use PHP-builtin MAIL backend E-mails send from: "Observium" <observium(a)xxx.suretec.net> Try send test notification for xxx.uk.suretec.net to these email(s): noc(a)suretec.net Notification for xxx.suretec.net SENT. root@xxx:/opt/observium# cat config.php <?php ## Have a look in includes/defaults.inc.php for examples of settings you can set here. DO NOT EDIT defaults.inc.php! // Database config $config['db_host'] = "localhost"; $config['db_user'] = "xxx"; $config['db_pass'] = "xxx"; $config['db_name'] = "xxx"; // Location $config['install_dir'] = "/opt/observium"; // Thie should *only* be set if you want to *force* a particular hostname/port // It will prevent the web interface being usable form any other hostname #$config['base_url'] = "http://observium.company.com"; // Default community list to use when adding/discovering $config['snmp']['community'] = array("xxx"); // Authentication Model - move to LDAP once confirmed. $config['auth_mechanism'] = "mysql"; // default, other options: ldap, http-auth, please see documentation for config help // Enable alerter // $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; //$config['enable_syslog'] = "1"; ## Enable email backend settings $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; // Needed on subscription product //$config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = FALSE; $config['enable_billing'] = 1; // End config.php -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry.

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Subscription $ my mistake - twice order
by Wojciech Dyląg [DOMENY.PL sp. z o.o.] 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hello Guys! Today, 10 minutes ago, I’ve purchased a subscription for Observium (PayPal transaction 5UL24208P67929042). It was unfortunately my mistake because my friend has purchased the same subscription a few days ago… and he didn’t tell me :( Today we have a two subscriptions but we need just a one… can I ask you to cancel today order and refund our PayPal account for this purchase? Thank you for your understending. Wojciech Dyląg (CTO) e-mail: wojciech.dylag(a)domeny.pl <mailto:wojciech.dylag@domeny.pl> tel.: +48 12 296 36 63 <tel:+48122963663> <http://www.domeny.pl/> ul. Marcika 27 30-443 Kraków <http://domeny.pl/domeny-internetowe.html> NIP: 6792772660 | KRS: 0000175791 Kapitał zakł. wpł.: 50.000 PLN

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APC UPS Current is zero
by chott＠praha1.net 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hello, We have monitored APC Smart-UPS 1500 RM with module AP9605 But Capacity/Output load is 11% and Current Output is 0A Tomas

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Proffesional services to create new monitoring of SNMP
by Barry Murphy 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hey guys, Wonder if anyone on the list is willing to build some SNMP enhancements for Observium, I believe the work would only take 2-3 hours from someone that knows SNMP MIBS and observium. Reply to me offlist if you are interested; the MIB will be provided open source to the community following its development. Many thanks Kind regards, Barry Murphy / Chief Operating Officer +64 27 490 9712 / barry(a)vibecommunications.co.nz<mailto:barry@vibecommunications.co.nz> [3sparks llc]<http://www.vibecommunications.co.nz/> [Vibe Communications] <https://www.facebook.com/VibeCom> [Vibe Communications] <https://twitter.com/vibecomnz> [Vibe Communications] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/1941512> Office: +64 9 222 0000 / Fax: 0800 842 326 Unit A7, 1 Beresford Square, Auckland, New Zealand Web: www.vibecommunications.co.nz<http://www.vibecommunications.co.nz/> / Peering: AS45177<http://www.peeringdb.com/view.php?asn=45177> This communication, including any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. Thank you. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002.

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Cisco WLC access points
by krause＠rus.uni-stuttgart.de 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hi, since Aruba access points are found just fine, is there anyone having Cisco APs on WLC/WiSM2 in Observium already? If not, has anyone checked already how much "patching" would be required to feed those APs into the db model? Best, Kilian

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Refreash of login page
by Fältman, Mikael 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hi. There is an html instruction making the login page to be refreshed every 300 sec. If you try to login to Observium using wrong credentials (user may have forgot it) and then leave the web browser there will be an Failed login event every refresh cycle. This leads to unnecessary alerts in SIEM systems for those who are doing security monitoring. Are there a need to have the login page refreshed ? Regards Mikael

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Unable to login
by Aaron Smith 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Hi everyone, We're testing Observium and I've come across an issue with logging in this morning. I have LDAP/Active Directory configured for auth and has been working perfectly up until now. At first I thought it was my account, but nope all good there. Then I thought it was the LDAP configuration so I changed the config back to the default mysql auth but still not able to log in. I tried rebooting the box but didn't work either also checked the file system and it's not full. I also tried deleting the cache and cookies and using different browsers but still no dice. Not sure if it's related but I updated to the new CE yesterday but it was working fine after the update yesterday afternoon. Any help will be much appreciated! Thanks.

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Graphs netstats error
by Simon Smith 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Hi All, after the latest SVN update 6009 my Netstats page on my Mikrotik equipment show the wrong graph? attached screenshot showing what i mean i think the is still a bug? how do i revert back one version as this was fine till just before Regards Simon

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Webpage stays blank after update to 0.14.11.6008
by Branzko, Matthias 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Hello all, today morning I did an update from an older version of observium (sorry, don't know the exact version - but IIRC only 1 sql update file was executed afterwards) to the latest svn version. But if I try to open the Observium in the browser, the page shows nothing (only white background is shown). First I thought it's an issue with LDAP-Authentication. So I switched to mysql, created a new user with permission 10 and tried again. But still no luck. The user database looks like: mysql> select * from users; +---------+-------------------+------------------------------------+-----------------+--------------------------+-------+-------+-------------------+--------------+ | user_id | username | password | realname | email | descr | level | can_modify_passwd | user_options | +---------+-------------------+------------------------------------+-----------------+--------------------------+-------+-------+-------------------+--------------+ | 4 | admin | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | | root@localhost | | 10 | 1 | NULL | If I try to open the webpage with debug=1 the following output is shown: > $vars /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT * FROM `entity_permissions` WHERE `user_id` = '4' string(56) /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT `value` FROM `users_prefs` WHERE `user_id` = '4' AND `pref` = 'atom_key' string(79) /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT `value` FROM `users_prefs` WHERE `user_id` = '4' AND `pref` = 'atom_key' string(79) /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT * FROM `device_graphs` ORDER BY `graph` string(46) /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT * FROM `devices` ORDER BY `hostname` string(43) /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT `device_id`, `ports`.`port_id`, `ifAdminStatus`, `ifOperStatus`, `deleted`, `ignore`, `ifOutErrors_delta`, `ifInErrors_delta` FROM `ports` LEFT JOIN `ports-state` ON `ports`.`port_id` = `ports-state`.`port_id` string(244) /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT * FROM `sensors` LEFT JOIN `sensors-state` ON `sensors`.`sensor_id` = `sensors-state`.`sensor_id` So the login or mapping to user_id seems to work. Any ideas / what to do next? Thanks in advance Matthias

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Power Meter MIB
by chott＠praha1.net 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Hello, i have I have Power Meter HWg-PWR - http://www.hw-group.com/products/HWg-PWR/hwg-pwr25_M-bus_gateway_en.html Is there some future implementation? Tomas

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CE 0.14.11.6000
by Dan Ratzlaff 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Thanks for the new version! My RADLAN and BCM PowerConnect switches show up nicely now. I recently picked up a few Cisco Small Business switches, but Observium wasn't detecting them correctly. After some digging, I found I only needed to add their sysObjectID's to the definition file: diff --git includes/definitions/os.inc.php includes/definitions/os.inc.php index c54d476..135f3ae 100644 --- includes/definitions/os.inc.php +++ includes/definitions/os.inc.php @@ -714,6 +714,8 @@ $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.81."; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.82."; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.83."; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.85."; +$config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.87."; // SF200-48 +$config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.88."; // SG200-50 $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.89."; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.11.82."; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.3955."; Thanks! -- Dan

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Mako
by Tom Henderson 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Has anyone used any of the Mako appliances (http://www.makonetworks.com/) with observium? They have their own management/monitoring platform but wondering if I'll be able to also add them to our observium server. We're looking at the 6500 model. Cheers Tom Henderson IT Manager | Pack & Company | 027 461 4403 | 09 929 2750 | tom(a)pack.co.nz -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must not disclose, copy, or distribute any information contained in or attached to it, or take any action/inaction based on it. Please contact us immediately, and delete this email from your system. Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and not of Pack & Company (NZ) Limited (the "Company"), however any intellectual property contained in or attached to this email is the property of the Company. Thank you.

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idrac
by Robert Hatch 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Dear all, Has anyone had any success in using observium with idracs? The auto discover doesn't appear to find any useful sensors other than the physical nic of the idrac itself. Has anyone else worked on support for idracs? All the best rob

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Interface Parsing
by Robert Hatch 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Dear all, Just wondering if there was an appetite out there for expanding the interface labelling feature of observium. The existing description parsing (http://www.observium.org/wiki/Interface_Description_Parsing) is pretty useful but also a bit limiting at times, as it seems more useful when labelling layer 3 services and less so for layer 2. Just a few general comments: * For us the pseudowires tab does not seem to auto populate (we use a variety of juniper, brocade and extreme switches and routers), just wondering if I have missed something here... * This aside there are more frequent occasions where we are providing VPLS services for a client and it would be nice if it were possible to label an interface as both a customer and a P2P link for example and then have these separately broken down in observium itself * There are also occasions where it would extremely useful to label backhaul circuits such as dark fibre and waves. Currently the only option for this is to label things as core but that page becomes so big it is not that useful unless you know what you are after (and then you would just go straight to the interface). Something like BACKHAUL: , PROVIDER:, END (A/B etc.) would be immensely useful and time saving. * The other issue we have that I don't have a simple answer for is the unhelpful aggregation of customer switch ports (quite often both ends of a P2P) and their layer 3 router ports. Could we start by having a separate aggregate graph for each circuit reference for each specific client. Maybe if END A and B are specified then the graph could demonstrate that these are actually different ends of the same link? What do people think? BW rob

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New Community Edition
by Adam Armstrong 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Hi All, We've released a new Observium Community Edition, version 0.14.11, based on SVN revision 6000. There've been over 770 new commits since the previous release. http://www.observium.org/observium-community-0.14.11.tar.gz http://www.observium.org/wiki/Upgrading#Upgrade_to_latest_Major_release http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog (will be updated later!) adam.

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Observium Location Naming
by Gary Tang 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Is there some kind of convention as to how to set the sysLocation snmpd parameters? I am currently having some trouble finding the right naming for OVH BHS. So far none of the following work. OVH, Montregie, Quebec OVH, Beauharnois, Quebec OVH, Beauharnois, Montregie OVH, Beauharnois-Salaberry, Montregie -- Gary Tang Sent with Airmail

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Paid support
by Gavin Henry 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Hi all, I can see some of the support options on the main website, but not way to purchase or get in touch? -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. http://www.surevoip.co.uk

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Multiple SNMP Queries
by Lane Eckley 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

Hi Guys, On a limited number of CentOS & Ubuntu machines we are monitoring with Observium we are seeing dozens of SNMP queries from Observium in a very short window (10-20 seconds). Snip of the logs from /var/logs/messages Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:55776->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] We are trying to understand why Observium would be sending so many queries back to back as well as why we are seeing this on some machines, but not others. Thanks! -Lane

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hddtemp on CE 0.14.4.5
by deeepdish 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

Hello. Great product. Looking forward to evaluating the subscription version after I get a minimum base operational using the CE edition. I have an issue around viewing HDD TEMP graphs driven by data extracted from the UNIX agent and hddtemp script. I can confirm output when auditing output of: telnet (hostname) 36602 or ./poller.php -h (hostname) -d I can also confirm temp. sensor driven graphs do come up for other hosts when using SNMP lmsensors, however not for unix-agent / hddtemp data sources. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thank you.

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Updated changelog!
by Adam Armstrong 22 Nov '14

22 Nov '14

The abridged changelog is now up to date with October and November to date! http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog

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unsubscribe
by David Ford [NTLWORLD] 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

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Re: [Observium] hddtemp on CE 0.14.4.5
by deeepdish 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

My apologies…. Not using hddtemp script. Using the temperature script (that uses hddtemp).. sn = serial number. Using ZFS on Linux by-vdev definition to map /dev/hd? -> /dev/disk/by-vdev/(sn - serial number) My temperature script below as on monitored host. #!/bin/bash echo "<<<temperature>>>" echo “(sn 1):" `hddtemp /dev/disk/by-vdev/(sn 1) -n` echo “(sn 2):" `hddtemp /dev/disk/by-vdev/(sn 2) -n` echo “(sn 3):" `hddtemp /dev/disk/by-vdev/(sn 3) -n` echo “(sn 4):" `hddtemp /dev/disk/by-vdev/(sn 4) -n` echo “(sn 5):" `hddtemp /dev/disk/by-vdev/(sn 5) -n` ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:27:27 -0600 From: "Ron Marosko" <ron(a)rjr-services.com <mailto:ron@rjr-services.com>> To: "'Observium Network Observation System'" <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: Re: [Observium] hddtemp on CE 0.14.4.5 Message-ID: <001b01d005a8$0aa08140$1fe183c0$(a)rjr-services.com <mailto:001b01d005a8$0aa08140$1fe183c0$@rjr-services.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Just having a look at the hddtemp agent script. # hddtemp sensor readings # needs hddtemp daemon listening on (at least) localhost # requires netcat to be installed and in the path Have you satisfied those requirements? From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] On Behalf Of deeepdish Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 9:36 AM To: observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: [Observium] hddtemp on CE 0.14.4.5 Hello. Great product. Looking forward to evaluating the subscription version after I get a minimum base operational using the CE edition. I have an issue around viewing HDD TEMP graphs driven by data extracted from the UNIX agent and hddtemp script. I can confirm output when auditing output of: telnet (hostname) 36602 or ./poller.php -h (hostname) -d I can also confirm temp. sensor driven graphs do come up for other hosts when using SNMP lmsensors, however not for unix-agent / hddtemp data sources. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thank you.

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hddtemp on CE 0.14.4.5
by deeepdish 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

Hello. Great product. Looking forward to evaluating the subscription version after I get a minimum base operational using the CE edition. I have an issue around viewing HDD TEMP graphs driven by data extracted from the UNIX agent and hddtemp script. I can confirm output when auditing output of: telnet (hostname) 36602 or ./poller.php -h (hostname) -d I can also confirm temp. sensor driven graphs do come up for other hosts when using SNMP lmsensors, however not for unix-agent / hddtemp data sources. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thank you.

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r6001 backward compatibility
by Tom Laermans 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

Dear all, Revision 6001 cleans up a bunch of old code paths that should not have been used in recent days. If you are upgrading from a revision before r5000, it's probably best to upgrade to r6000 (svn up -r6000) first, run a full discovery and poll cycle, then upgrade to latest trunk. We've removed RRD renaming code for files which should since long have been renamed, and variables that should not exist anymore in your config. Variables to double check: $config['email_*'] should be renamed to $config['email'][*] instead. Tom

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Groups
by Milton Ngan 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

What is the intention of the groups feature? It seems like a really powerful way to group stuff together and have interesting views of things. But right now it just generates a list of entities that you can click through or hover over. I took a look at the code that generates all the various graph layouts (iftypes, health, ports). It seems that every page has its own code for handling the graph layout. It seem like this would be a great place to leverage a bunch of the existing code so you can create group specific views of sensors, ports etc... But it doesn't look like the code is structured that way (i.e reusable components/widgets). The standard views are good, but I want to be able to see them on a per datacenter/region basis rather than globally. The global view is visually interesting/pretty it is less useful.

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Re: [Observium] Avoid Ignored Ports
by Pedersen, Sean 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Where are you disabling / ignoring the ports? Screenshot(s) would be helpful here. You can set each port to poll or alert (Yes/No) under the settings of the device the port is on. I¹m not sure if the Alert toggle is tied to the new alerts or a remnant of the old alerting system. On 11/19/14, 10:14 AM, "Josh Hopper" <joshhopper(a)protectplus.com> wrote: >Some ports in Observium I set to ignore because I don't need to watch >them right now but I will eventually. >Even though they are ignored, I'm still alerted by them. How do I filter >out ignored ports? > >-- >Sincerely, >Joshua Hopper, A+ CE >Network Administrator > > 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 >Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium Founded in 2007, IO is a worldwide leader in software defined data center technology, services and solutions that enable businesses and governments to intelligently control their information. The communication contained in this e-mail is confidential and is intended only for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary, attorney work product or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this message in error, or are not the named recipient(s), please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately notify the sender of the error, and delete this communication including any attached files from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.

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New Community edition?
by John P Arends 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Is a new version of the community edition coming out soon? Based on the schedule of the past two releases it looks like it may be soon.

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Re: [Observium] Old map on frontpage?
by Jonathan Green 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Hello All: Just upgraded to v14. Curious if there is a way to use the old map on the frontpage, the map from v13? Thank you. -Jonathan

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RAID Alert Check
by Lane Eckley 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Hi Guys, I am looking to setup an alert check for LSI & Adaptec RAID arrays, however looking over the docs and I uncertain on how to properly configure it. Here is what I think I know: -Use the Observium agent to query the RAID controller and drive status -Create an alert check under “sensor” What I don’t know -The rest of the variables for the alert check Thanks guys! -Lane

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Re: [Observium] Amperage Calc
by Pedersen, Sean 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

Alerts can¹t be added up. They¹re attributed to whatever entity/device/metric combination you create, triggering on the individual values that match your rules. You could create rules to match both of your individual PDUs, or all PDUs, but you can¹t ask it to add/subtract the values of multiple rules or metrics to trigger an alert. Curious - what kind of scenario are you looking at that would warrant this kind of alarm? On 11/19/14, 10:37 AM, "Josh Hopper" <joshhopper(a)protectplus.com> wrote: >Is there a way to add PDU Amerage together so you get an alert based on >the Amperage Usage of 2 PDUs together? > >For Example: >PDU A - 10 Amps >PDU B - 1 Amps > >If PDU A + PDU B = 12 Amps then Send Alert > >Something like that. > >-- >Sincerely, >Joshua Hopper, A+ CE >Network Administrator > > 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 >Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium Founded in 2007, IO is a worldwide leader in software defined data center technology, services and solutions that enable businesses and governments to intelligently control their information. The communication contained in this e-mail is confidential and is intended only for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary, attorney work product or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this message in error, or are not the named recipient(s), please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately notify the sender of the error, and delete this communication including any attached files from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Amperage Calc
by Josh Hopper 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

Is there a way to add PDU Amerage together so you get an alert based on the Amperage Usage of 2 PDUs together? For Example: PDU A - 10 Amps PDU B - 1 Amps If PDU A + PDU B = 12 Amps then Send Alert Something like that. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565

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Avoid Ignored Ports
by Josh Hopper 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

Some ports in Observium I set to ignore because I don't need to watch them right now but I will eventually. Even though they are ignored, I'm still alerted by them. How do I filter out ignored ports? -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565

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HSRP event tracking
by Pedrosi, Derek G. 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Is there a way to add a checker for Cisco HSRP events? >From CISCO-HSRP-MIB... HsrpState ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The current state of the HSRP protocol for a given HSRP group entry." SYNTAX INTEGER { initial(1), learn(2), listen(3), speak(4), standby(5), active(6) } This does not work... [cid:image003.jpg@01D0033A.077E5250] Regards, derek Subscriber v14.11.5987

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Re: [Observium] Performance
by Desir Antoine 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi all, Xavier : About IO issues, did you make changes from rrdcached or Obervium/kernel tuning ? Муслим : The SQL Server has 8 Go RAM and CPU is really not used (95%Idle), and quite difficult to answer to memory question, the physical memory is used at 95% by buffers Cheers, -- Antoine Deisr ________________________________ Ce message et les pieces jointes sont confidentiels et reserves a l'usage exclusif de ses destinataires. Il peut egalement etre protege par le secret professionnel. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci d'en avertir immediatement l'expediteur et de le detruire. L'integrite du message ne pouvant etre assuree sur Internet, la responsabilite de Worldline ne pourra etre recherchee quant au contenu de ce message. Bien que les meilleurs efforts soient faits pour maintenir cette transmission exempte de tout virus, l'expediteur ne donne aucune garantie a cet egard et sa responsabilite ne saurait etre recherchee pour tout dommage resultant d'un virus transmis. This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy it. As its integrity cannot be secured on the Internet, the Worldline liability cannot be triggered for the message content. Although the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus-free network, the sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and will not be liable for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted.

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Problems
by Darian Jimenez 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hello, I have a couple of problems with observium which really hinder me trusting it's alerting feature etc. 1 - Some servers show as down, when in fact they aren't down and snmp is started (i've also tried to restart) 2 - Some server show as up and while I have an alert for storage to send warning only when its below 5% full it will send an alert saying C drive space is at 0% but in fact the servers have more than 10% left. Can these issue's be related to iop's or the polling time? I'd like to figure this out because the SNMP servers are windows servers and everytime one of them is down, I can't afford to troubleshoot by removing snmp and reinstalling it because windows requires a reboot, which I just can't do on domain controllers, file servers etc. Is it possible to put the login portal to observium on a seperate webpage completely so that customers can log into it from our site for example/

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Re: [Observium] ifAlias Script replacement
by tromp wezelman 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi Sascha, This script worked well for us, but not anymore. No output is generated if i test it on the command line. How can i debug this? Thanks, Tromp

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Assistance with Port Alert Checker
by Chip Pleasants 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi all, I'm looking for a little help figuring our why my port alert checker didn't seem to work.I set up port alert checker to trigger when greater than 80%. The actual usage was at 100% for a couple hours. This is a gigabit interface set to 100m with a bandwidth statement. The screen shot reflects the 100m speed correctly. I've attached a couple screen shots with my port and alert check. Any ideas why it didn't fire off? Thanks, Chip

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Exim module problem
by Manuele Di Nunzio 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi al All, I've added at Unix agent the exim module (I've already apache). But Observium can't locate this module. If I type from local server 'telnet myip 36602' there are the exim information. What could be the problem? Thank You in advance for your help

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Performance
by Desir Antoine 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi, A solution for a large network like yours could be using a distributed architecture. Here is a feedback from our usage : Current architecture in our organisation graphs 2000 devices and 70k ports and target is 6000 devices. We have built a farm of Observium pollers ( 6 physical servers ) and 1 more for mysql server (+Apache for GUI). Our 6 poller servers are 70% CPU idle and disks are ok for now. We progressively are adding new devices. We did a small patch in mysql scheme, to add a "poller_id" into devices table. At each new device added, script "add_device.php" choose the poller the least used (based on numbers of devices per poller server). Each poller asks to SQL Server devices with its poller_id. The GUI server can read via NFS all rrd files stored in pollers. Hardware used for each poller is HP DL360 Gen7 / 4 GB RAM / 6 disks SAS 10k Raid 1+0 / 2*E5620 2.40Ghz (4 cores each). Here is a diagram : http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img538/3225/iMXiYb.png By the way, may it be a good idea to add this distributed feature for monitoring of large platforms (adding the poller_id field into devices table) ? Cheers, Antoine Desir ________________________________ Ce message et les pi?ces jointes sont confidentiels et r?serv?s ? l'usage exclusif de ses destinataires. Il peut ?galement ?tre prot?g? par le secret professionnel. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci d'en avertir imm?diatement l'exp?diteur et de le d?truire. L'int?grit? du message ne pouvant ?tre assur?e sur Internet, la responsabilit? de Worldline ne pourra ?tre recherch?e quant au contenu de ce message. Bien que les meilleurs efforts soient faits pour maintenir cette transmission exempte de tout virus, l'exp?diteur ne donne aucune garantie ? cet ?gard et sa responsabilit? ne saurait ?tre recherch?e pour tout dommage r?sultant d'un virus transmis. This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy it. As its integrity cannot be secured on the Internet, the Worldline liability cannot be triggered for the message content. Although the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus-free network, the sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and will not be liable for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted.

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E-mail Notifications & Backend Settings
by Jacob Chavez 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hello, does anyone know which parameters need to be added within config.php to enable e-mail notifications. Also, where do I configure the backend settings? Is that in config.php as well? Below is what I got from the documentation and I was able to send a test e-mail from Observium, but not receive a message if a device was down when I tested that portion. Any help is appreciated. Thank you! Jacob Email backend settings $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; Enable/Disable send email globally $config['email']['from'] = NULL; Mail from. Default: "Observium" <observium@`hostname -f`> $config['email']['default'] = NULL; Default alert recipient $config['email']['default_only'] = FALSE; Only use default recipient (all alerts send to default recipient) $config['email']['backend'] = 'mail'; Mail backend. Allowed: "mail" (PHP's built-in), "sendmail", "smtp". $config['email']['sendmail_path'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; // The location of the sendmail program. Sendmail specific options $config['email']['smtp_host'] = 'localhost'; // Outgoing SMTP server name. $config['email']['smtp_port'] = 25; // The port to connect. $config['email']['smtp_timeout'] = 10; // SMTP connection timeout in seconds. $config['email']['smtp_secure'] = NULL; // Enable encryption. Use 'tls' or 'ssl' $config['email']['smtp_auth'] = FALSE; // Whether or not to use SMTP authentication. $config['email']['smtp_username'] = NULL; // SMTP username. $config['email']['smtp_password'] = NULL; // Password for SMTP authentication. SMTP specific options For test email settings use test_mail.php script from main observium dirrectory.

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Power Statistics
by Josh Hopper 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

How do I make an alert for power where it alerts me if my amperage (current) is over 80%. For me that would be about 11 AMPs on my UPS. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CFFFFF.5CF8B420] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Junos 4-byte ASN support
by bt 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

Hello, I tried digging through the mailing archives but jet lag from my recent trip is stymieing my efforts in finding relevant threads. I'm running 0.14.11.5945 and notice that 4-byte ASN is still not supported. We use 4-byte ASN for the greater range as we eventually plan to run eBGP down to our servers. On Junos devices -- anything from MX, QFX to SRX -- I notice that ASNs show as a negative integer (example "-94967243"). On our Cisco's, they show up as our favorite 23456. The main question is: Are the negative integers a limitation of the Junos MIB? On those individual devices I do not have a "tab=routing/proto=bgp/", the BGP sessions do not show up at all under the general "routing -> BGP All Sessions" tab, and consequently we're missing a large chunk of our network and we don't have any BGP alerts (though I have all the above with Cisco Nexus gear). Are there any workarounds or plans to support 4-byte ASN in Observium, specifically with Junos equipment? Thank you! bt

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Linux Load Average Alert Check
by Lane Eckley 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

Hi Guys, Has there been any changes to the alerting system that will allow us to create a check for a Linux system’s load average? Looking through the list archives it appears it wasn’t yet supported back in August, but I am unsure if that may have changed since then. Thanks! -Lane

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Auto-discovery Woes
by Garland McAlexander 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

I'm having some major issues with Auto-discovery (read, I can't seem to get it working at all). Here is what I have in my config: $config['autodiscovery']['xdp'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts via discovery protocols (CDP, LLDP, FDP, AMAP and other) $config['autodiscovery']['ospf'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts via OSPF $config['autodiscovery']['bgp'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts via iBGP $config['autodiscovery']['libvirt'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts found via libvirt $config['autodiscovery']['ip_nets'] = array("10.0.0.0/8"); // Networks to permit autodiscovery $config['discover_services'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover services via SNMP on devices of type "server" I'm using resolution via hosts file, and I have about 150 machines there. However, autodiscovery seems to do nothing.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 52, Issue 51
by Brett Jones 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Hi there, We monitor APC pdu's here and have set up the following metrics: 41 PDU SENSOR ALARM notification of a warning/alert/down event on sensor sensor_event eq warning sensor_event eq alert sensor_event eq down type match power * This then picks up on all the sensors on that device: power banks 1 and 2 , power supply and voltage. Then if you go into the the node, click settings and then "sensor" you can manually set the min/ max for each one . once this hits it will alarm! Hope this helps ndex MIB Type Class Descr Current Min Max Custom Limits Reset Limits Alerts rPDULoadStatusLoad.1 apc current Bank Total 8.1A xx rPDULoadStatusLoad.2 apc current Bank 1 6.2A xx rPDULoadStatusLoad.3 apc current Bank 2 1.8A rPDUIdentDevicePowerWatts.0 apc power Input 1.86kW rPDUIdentDeviceLinetoLineVoltage.0 apc voltage Line-to-Line 230V rPDUPowerSupply1Status.0 powernet-rpdusupply1-state state Power Supply 1 powerSupplyOneOk Brett Jones 2nd/3rd line support engineer Tel: 01202 612000 Fax: 01202 612111 W:www.voip-unlimited.net E:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net E:support@voip-unlimited.net Registered Office: Co Carter & Coley, 3 Durrant Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH2 6NE Registered in England No: 05225497 -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: 14 November 2014 16:38 To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 52, Issue 51 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. Power Statistics (Josh Hopper) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:37:25 -0500 From: Josh Hopper <joshhopper(a)protectplus.com> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Power Statistics Message-ID: <5BBFC1D5E54E9341821836E23038ADEC04DC527A21E1@SVR-EXCHANGE> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" How do I make an alert for power where it alerts me if my amperage (current) is over 80%. For me that would be about 11 AMPs on my UPS. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CFFFFF.5CF8B420] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Memory Metrics
by Josh Hopper 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

I'm having a little trouble. Metrics mempool_free mempool_perc mempool_used Using the above how would I properly setup an alert to notify me if my memory being used is over 65%? I'm not sure I understand how to properly use _free, _perc and _used. -- Sincerely, Josh Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Re: [Observium] CISCO-BRIDGE-EXT-MIB
by Mike Stupalov 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

You need disable 'fdb-table' poller module (in device edit -> module tab) On your device too many active vlans, on cisco devices FDB entries stored in separate contexts for each vlan. That why for cisco devices walked BRIDGE-MIB::dot1dTpFdbEntry as many times as have active vlans on device. Module [ fdb-table ] time: 329.5584s On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Marco Spicuglia < Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > > thank you for picking this up. > > Please find attached the debug output about one of our Nexus, with vlan > module and vtp mib already disabled via de GUI. > > I kindly ask you to avoid the public distribution of this file and to > immediately destroy it after your analysis has been completed, please. > > Thanks in advance for your time. > > > Best regards, > > Marco Spicuglia > > ReasonNet.com > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> on behalf of Mike > Stupalov <mike(a)observium.org> > *Sent:* 13 November 2014 11:16 > *To:* observium(a)observium.org > *Subject:* Re: [Observium] CISCO-BRIDGE-EXT-MIB > > Hi, > > On 13.11.2014 13:11, Marco Spicuglia wrote: > > Hello there, > > > how can I disable CISCO-BRIDGE-EXT-MIB from the GUI? > > If possible, send me debug output for poller: > ./poller.php -d -h <your_nexus> > > This is the Nexus polling killer, but I can't find it in the list of > MIBs that I can disable. > > I'm running rev. 5975 stable > > > Cheers, > > Marco > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > > -- > Mike Stupalovhttp://observium.org > > -- Mike Stupalov http://observium.org/

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Re: [Observium] FW: Re[6]: Performance
by Adam Armstrong 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Well, seems that's our list drama for the winter sorted. He's been removed and banned, so no need to reply to him. :) BACK TO OUR NORMAL PROGRAMMING. NOTHING TO SEE HERE! ------ Original Message ------ From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org>; "'Observium Network Observation System'" <observium(a)observium.org> Sent: 11/14/2014 1:09:44 AM Subject: RE: [Observium] FW: Re[6]: Performance >I wish you good luck and hope you get well soon. >Please confirm that you will cancel the subscription. >Br >Ole Bryde > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of >Adam Armstrong >Sent: den 14 november 2014 08:06 >To: Observium Network Observation System >Subject: Re: [Observium] FW: Re[6]: Performance > >You need to look up the word "harass". You're the one harassing me. > >Fuck off. > >------ Original Message ------ >From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> >To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >Sent: 11/14/2014 1:03:39 AM >Subject: [Observium] FW: Re[6]: Performance > >>Well, aint you the perfect gentleman. >>I want to cancel my subscription for Observium, that should be pretty >>obvious. >>You constantly harass and abuse the people in the mailinglist, why ? >>The platform you provided is pretty good, but does that in any way >>compensate for you poor manners ? >>I have no idea what is eating you, but as you so elegantly put it, I >>most certainly will "Go away" >>Also , as you are well aware, I have never utilized the subscription , >>so maybe a refund would be in place.. >>I urge you to get some social training or at least get laid once in a >>while, could do you some actual good. >> >>Have a nice day >>Br >>Ole Bryde >> >> >> >> >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] >>Sent: den 14 november 2014 07:50 >>To: Bryde, Ole >>Subject: Re[6]: [Observium] Performance >> >>You got irritated that I said something mean about something you have >>deployed on the mailing list so you felt the need to email me >>*directly* to display your irritation like some kind of passive >>aggressive alpha-neckbeard. >> >>I don't give a fuck what you think. Go away. >> >>adam. >> >>------ Original Message ------ >>From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> >>To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org> >>Sent: 11/14/2014 12:46:22 AM >>Subject: RE: Re[4]: [Observium] Performance >> >>>So you are basically calling me a liar? >>>Wow. >>> >>>Ole >>> >>> >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] >>>Sent: den 14 november 2014 07:43 >>>To: Bryde, Ole >>>Subject: Re[4]: [Observium] Performance >>> >>>I long ago learned not to believe a single word said by someone who >>>is >>>defending something they have deployed. >>> >>>adam. >>> >>>------ Original Message ------ >>>From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> >>>To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org> >>>Sent: 11/14/2014 12:28:50 AM >>>Subject: RE: Re[2]: [Observium] Performance >>> >>>>Well , I guess we have different experiences then. >>>>We have VSS pairs that have been running perfectly for several >>>>years. >>>>(including patching) >>>>We have stacks for our access layer that works just fine. >>>> >>>>You provide us with a great product, to unbeatable price, but, >>>>pissing up your "customers" leg could be considered rude. No ? >>>> >>>>//Ole >>>> >>>> >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] >>>>Sent: den 14 november 2014 07:20 >>>>To: Bryde, Ole >>>>Subject: Re[2]: [Observium] Performance >>>> >>>>Greatly increased surface area for software failure. >>>> >>>>Pretty much every deployment of stacked/virtual chassis switches >>>>I've >>>>encountered has had issues be them simple performance issues from >>>>intra-stack communication to serious problems like configuration >>>>corruption and instability. >>>> >>>>VSS is the poster child of "stacking: not even once". >>>> >>>>adam. >>>> >>>> >>>>------ Original Message ------ >>>>From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> >>>>To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org>; "Observium Network >>>>Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >>>>Sent: 11/14/2014 12:17:17 AM >>>>Subject: RE: [Observium] Performance >>>> >>>>>Really ? >>>>>How come ? Please elaborate on that. >>>>> >>>>>Ole Bryde >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>>From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf >>>>>Of Adam Armstrong >>>>>Sent: den 13 november 2014 18:21 >>>>>To: Observium Network Observation System >>>>>Subject: Re: [Observium] Performance >>>>> >>>>>Stacking switches is pretty naive. >>>>> >>>>>adam. >>>>> >>>>>------ Original Message ------ >>>>>From: "Raphael Mazelier" <raph(a)futomaki.net> >>>>>To: observium(a)observium.org >>>>>Sent: 11/12/2014 4:09:49 AM >>>>>Subject: Re: [Observium] Performance >>>>> >>>>>>Observium is great tool, have a nice gui, made plenty of things... >>>>>>But the poller is "naive". >>>>>> >>>>>>For example I have a couple of stacked EX3300 I cannot poll with >>>>>>observium (the snmp is slow on this equipemnt ok). >>>>>> >>>>>>Think about that : in observium the poll of this equipment take >>>>>>more than 5min (so it is unusable), in cacti with spine 20s. >>>>>> >>>>>>Doing snmpbulwalk on all oid is not always the better solution.... >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>Le 11/11/14 22:12, Spencer Gaw a écrit : >>>>>>>Oh great, this guy again... >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Regards, >>>>>>> >>>>>>>SG >>>>>>> >>>>>>>On 11/11/2014 1:58 PM, Alex Povolotsky wrote: >>>>>>>>I'm working on about 20 times better poller for Observium, >>>>>>>>current one is awful. Mysql should not be a bottleneck, I guess. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>>observium mailing list >>>>>>observium(a)observium.org >>>>>>http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>>>> >>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>observium mailing list >>>>>observium(a)observium.org >>>>>http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>>> >>> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>observium mailing list >>observium(a)observium.org >>http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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FW: Re[6]: Performance
by Bryde, Ole 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Well, aint you the perfect gentleman. I want to cancel my subscription for Observium, that should be pretty obvious. You constantly harass and abuse the people in the mailinglist, why ? The platform you provided is pretty good, but does that in any way compensate for you poor manners ? I have no idea what is eating you, but as you so elegantly put it, I most certainly will "Go away" Also , as you are well aware, I have never utilized the subscription , so maybe a refund would be in place.. I urge you to get some social training or at least get laid once in a while, could do you some actual good. Have a nice day Br Ole Bryde -----Original Message----- From: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] Sent: den 14 november 2014 07:50 To: Bryde, Ole Subject: Re[6]: [Observium] Performance You got irritated that I said something mean about something you have deployed on the mailing list so you felt the need to email me *directly* to display your irritation like some kind of passive aggressive alpha-neckbeard. I don't give a fuck what you think. Go away. adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org> Sent: 11/14/2014 12:46:22 AM Subject: RE: Re[4]: [Observium] Performance >So you are basically calling me a liar? >Wow. > >Ole > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] >Sent: den 14 november 2014 07:43 >To: Bryde, Ole >Subject: Re[4]: [Observium] Performance > >I long ago learned not to believe a single word said by someone who is >defending something they have deployed. > >adam. > >------ Original Message ------ >From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> >To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org> >Sent: 11/14/2014 12:28:50 AM >Subject: RE: Re[2]: [Observium] Performance > >>Well , I guess we have different experiences then. >>We have VSS pairs that have been running perfectly for several years. >>(including patching) >>We have stacks for our access layer that works just fine. >> >>You provide us with a great product, to unbeatable price, but, pissing >>up your "customers" leg could be considered rude. No ? >> >>//Ole >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] >>Sent: den 14 november 2014 07:20 >>To: Bryde, Ole >>Subject: Re[2]: [Observium] Performance >> >>Greatly increased surface area for software failure. >> >>Pretty much every deployment of stacked/virtual chassis switches I've >>encountered has had issues be them simple performance issues from >>intra-stack communication to serious problems like configuration >>corruption and instability. >> >>VSS is the poster child of "stacking: not even once". >> >>adam. >> >> >>------ Original Message ------ >>From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> >>To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org>; "Observium Network >>Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >>Sent: 11/14/2014 12:17:17 AM >>Subject: RE: [Observium] Performance >> >>>Really ? >>>How come ? Please elaborate on that. >>> >>>Ole Bryde >>> >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of >>>Adam Armstrong >>>Sent: den 13 november 2014 18:21 >>>To: Observium Network Observation System >>>Subject: Re: [Observium] Performance >>> >>>Stacking switches is pretty naive. >>> >>>adam. >>> >>>------ Original Message ------ >>>From: "Raphael Mazelier" <raph(a)futomaki.net> >>>To: observium(a)observium.org >>>Sent: 11/12/2014 4:09:49 AM >>>Subject: Re: [Observium] Performance >>> >>>>Observium is great tool, have a nice gui, made plenty of things... >>>>But the poller is "naive". >>>> >>>>For example I have a couple of stacked EX3300 I cannot poll with >>>>observium (the snmp is slow on this equipemnt ok). >>>> >>>>Think about that : in observium the poll of this equipment take more >>>>than 5min (so it is unusable), in cacti with spine 20s. >>>> >>>>Doing snmpbulwalk on all oid is not always the better solution.... >>>> >>>> >>>>Le 11/11/14 22:12, Spencer Gaw a écrit : >>>>>Oh great, this guy again... >>>>> >>>>>Regards, >>>>> >>>>>SG >>>>> >>>>>On 11/11/2014 1:58 PM, Alex Povolotsky wrote: >>>>>>I'm working on about 20 times better poller for Observium, current >>>>>>one is awful. Mysql should not be a bottleneck, I guess. >>>>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>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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Performance
by Morten Guldager 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

'Aloha! I'm in the process of evaluating observium for my organisation's needs. We have some instances running already, but my task is to do the evaluation in a more structured way. I have some questions which I will keep in different posts to keep the threads clean. Performance: We are looking at a network currently consisting of 4000 devices with close to 100'000 ports. These devices are well known to observium and a subset of them got auto discovered just fine. But how about performance. Will it require vast amounts of computing power? Also, our network grows quite rapidly, might be 50% bigger 12 months ahead. I found an old thread from July 2013 where Joe Hoh describing a complex multi server setup to scale observium to something approx 2-3 times my current needs. Will I have to go through similar "struggles" to get it working? Or has observium changed much to make it scale different than it did 1.5 year ago? Pointers to information regarding scaling observium are most welcome. -- /Morten %-)

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Setting up alerts
by Sanjeev Gupta 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hi, I am using svn 5973. I am trying to setup an Alert Checker. No matter what I do, I get an error that the alert name must be unique. I have tried strange names in the "Alert Name" field, but everything seems to be taken :-( Leaving the entity field blank, gives me another error. I am trying to setup, to start with, alerting if a port on the upstream router runs at 80%. Please see http://postimg.org/image/ah4h97ly7/ Checking what alerts exist gives me this page: http://postimg.org/image/sl08oy6y1/ I delete them all, and they reappear after a Regenerate. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://sg.linkedin.com/in/ghane

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hddtemp from arch linux workstation PC
by David Ford 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hello, I wonder if anyone has the local HDDTEMP script working on an Archlinux PC that could help me. It works fine on my server (ubuntu), but I just get intermittent output of 1 disk (sda) and no temp reading at all from the Arch linux PC. It seems to be: if [ $? -eq 0 ] && [ `$nc -zv $hostname $port 2>&1 | awk '{print $5}'` = "open" ] that causes the error and I am not knowledgeable enough to work out a solution. nc localhost 7634 outputs... |/dev/sda|TOSHIBA THNSNH128GBST|30|C||/dev/sdb|ST500DM002-1BD142|32|C||/dev/sdc|Hitachi HDT725050VLA360|38|C| Thank you, Fordy. #!/bin/sh # hddtemp sensor readings # needs hddtemp daemon listening on (at least) localhost # requires netcat to be installed and in the path # (c) 2012, Tom Laermans for Observium hostname="localhost" port=7634 nc=`which nc` if [ $? -eq 0 ] && [ `$nc -zv $hostname $port 2>&1 | awk '{print $5}'` = "open" ] then echo '<<<hddtemp>>>' $nc $hostname $port echo fi

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Re: [Observium] No storage graphs and storage module keeps switching to disabled
by Richard Boezerooij 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hi Xavier, When I deactivate the WMI storage module, I don't get any information about storage. I also get only the total installed memory, but not the usage of it. Regards, Richard ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:00:18 +0100 (CET) From: Xavier Beaudouin <xavier.beaudouin(a)hsoftware.com> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] No storage graphs and storage module keeps switching to disabled Message-ID: <534948181.88198.1415869218802.JavaMail.zimbra(a)hsoftware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi, > Unfortunately, your solution has not worked for me. > The wmi polling module was already enabled. I get the storage > information, but not the graphs. I want to use the graphs to > proactively monitor the storage on the servers. > > Is there another solution? Seems that WMI storage module can be picky. In our side, we decided that Storage module used is using SNMP and desactivate WMI Storage module. Xavier -- Xavier Beaudouin - Senior Network and System Administrator Infrastructure and network director Horizon Software - http://www.hsoftware.com/ 13 rue La Fayette - 75009 PARIS - France Phone: +33 (0)1 4260 9490 Fax: +33 (0)1 44 56 97 01 ------------------------------ De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, wordt u verzocht de inhoud niet te gebruiken en de afzender direct te informeren door dit bericht te retourneren. Aan de inhoud van deze e-mail kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Incassade staat niet in voor de juistheid en volledigheid van dit e-mailbericht. Niet gegarandeerd kan worden dat dit bericht vrij is van virussen noch dat dit bij de geadresseerde is overgekomen zonder inbreuk of tussenkomst van onbevoegde derden.

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CISCO-BRIDGE-EXT-MIB
by Marco Spicuglia 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hello there, how can I disable CISCO-BRIDGE-EXT-MIB from the GUI? This is the Nexus polling killer, but I can't find it in the list of MIBs that I can disable. I'm running rev. 5975 stable Cheers, Marco

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Re: [Observium] No storage graphs and storage module keeps switching to disabled
by Richard Boezerooij 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hi Simon, Unfortunately, your solution has not worked for me. The wmi polling module was already enabled. I get the storage information, but not the graphs. I want to use the graphs to proactively monitor the storage on the servers. Is there another solution? Regards, Richard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:30:53 +0000 From: Simon Smith <simonsmith5521(a)gmail.com> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] No storage graphs and storage module keeps switching to disabled Message-ID: <09F2EFCE-BC2B-4E00-9363-6F81E8EE31D4(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi i had this issue too! I simple enabled the wmi polling and that got the storage information and other info too Please give this a try and see if it works :) http://jira.observium.org/secure/attachment/11319/WMIPoller-011013-1429-4.p… Regards Simon - Hestor Ltd > On 12 Nov 2014, at 3:22 pm, Richard Boezerooij <R.Boezerooij(a)incassade.nl> wrote: > > Hello, > > Several (virtual) servers (Windows 2008 R2) do not show the storage graphs in Observium. On these servers the poller module keeps switching to disabled. The amount of storage used do show up on these servers. > > Other servers, same configuration, do show the storage graphs. On these servers the storage poller module do stay enabled. > > I?ve checked and restarted the SNMP service locally on these servers. > I?ve updated CorreLog (syslog agent) on the servers to the latest version. > Observium is installed on a Ubuntu server. I?ve updated Observium to 0.14.11.5963. > > How can I fix this problem? > > Kind regards, > Richard > ------------------------------ De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, wordt u verzocht de inhoud niet te gebruiken en de afzender direct te informeren door dit bericht te retourneren. Aan de inhoud van deze e-mail kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Incassade staat niet in voor de juistheid en volledigheid van dit e-mailbericht. Niet gegarandeerd kan worden dat dit bericht vrij is van virussen noch dat dit bij de geadresseerde is overgekomen zonder inbreuk of tussenkomst van onbevoegde derden.

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Odd devices
by Morten Guldager 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

'Aloha! I promised you more questions for use in my evaluation process, here comes the next one: Odd devices: besides the 4000 routers and switches in my previous post, our business does a great deal of video transmissions. This is handled with crazy video codec boxes which sometimes have very limited SNMP capabilities. I face two problems: - it cant be autodiscovered; the MIB simply doesn't that. I have a database describing exactly what we have and how it's configured. - it's covered by NDAs, so I cant event tell you much about it. I would like to graph various parameters in these devices using observium, but I guess I will have to implement these myself. (or hire somebody to sign the NDA and hack something together for me). Also, sometimes the concept needing graphing isn't really bound to a single device, but more a collation of multiple states from multiple devices. I understand that observium isn't really meant to be extensible by the end customer (me) by simply tweaking configuration. I read "It's not as simple as "adding the MIB", actual code needs to be written to support the device and its features. You could learn PHP and familiarise yourself with the Observium codebase and write support for it yourself." as a warning, as i'm nowhere a competent PHP hacker. Think the questions are: - is observium at all the right tool for the job? (a goal is to limit the number of tools the NOC has to learn) - can observium live in an non-auto-discovery world? - can observium handle abstract measurements not bound to a specific device? -- /Morten %-)

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No storage graphs and storage module keeps switching to disabled
by Richard Boezerooij 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

Hello, Several (virtual) servers (Windows 2008 R2) do not show the storage graphs in Observium. On these servers the poller module keeps switching to disabled. The amount of storage used do show up on these servers. Other servers, same configuration, do show the storage graphs. On these servers the storage poller module do stay enabled. I've checked and restarted the SNMP service locally on these servers. I've updated CorreLog (syslog agent) on the servers to the latest version. Observium is installed on a Ubuntu server. I've updated Observium to 0.14.11.5963. How can I fix this problem? Kind regards, Richard De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, wordt u verzocht de inhoud niet te gebruiken en de afzender direct te informeren door dit bericht te retourneren. Aan de inhoud van deze e-mail kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Incassade staat niet in voor de juistheid en volledigheid van dit e-mailbericht. Niet gegarandeerd kan worden dat dit bericht vrij is van virussen noch dat dit bij de geadresseerde is overgekomen zonder inbreuk of tussenkomst van onbevoegde derden.

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s/MySQL/MariaDB/ ?
by Xavier Beaudouin 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

Hi, I have tried some times ago to change the MySQL server into MariaDB on my Observium server (community), but it seems that is breaking some parts of Observium and doesn't seems to update things. Anybody here have a good experience about moving MySQL to MariaDB with observium ? Regards, Xavier -- Xavier Beaudouin - Senior Network and System Administrator Infrastructure and network director Horizon Software - http://www.hsoftware.com/ 13 rue La Fayette - 75009 PARIS - France Phone: +33 (0)1 4260 9490 Fax: +33 (0)1 44 56 97 01

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Re: [Observium] san
by Rob VanHooren 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

josh> I have mine on EMC. Does just fine. ditto (iSCSI). VAAI ESXi 55u2 vm's too; noop kernel elevator and etc other tweaks for the guests. one on a Nimble (cached with violin), and another on a QNAP (cached with slc ssd). bonded dual 10gigE +8k jumbo though. probably makes a big difference vs. 2 or 4G FC back-ended with creaky legacy FCAL spinners. ymmv. depends *highly* upon how well the environment is built for i/o ... which is likely why Adam has the wisdom to be wary & prefers DAS on a physical host. Typogaphical errors courtesy of iPhone > On Nov 11, 2014, at 17:45, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > > I have mine on an EMC. Does just fine.

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mysql listed in modules when should be wmi
by Simon Smith 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hi All not sure if this is a bug ive found or simple me being dumb! ive just enabled a 2008r2 server with WMI to monitor it abit more… and ive noticed in the Timing panel of the device its listed the module mssql ? the mssql wasn’t listed before i enabled the WMI module for the device? shouldn’t it read WMI ? ive attached a screenshot showing what i mean Regards Simon

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Interface Uptime as a Percentage
by Bruce Guthrie 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hi, With the information Observium currently collects is it possible to obtain the percentage uptime of a given interface for a day, a week, a month? Thanks and regards, Bruce

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Rancid SVN integration makes apache2 crash
by Ole Hansen 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hi, We're using Observium Subscription-version on a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server. I've configured the Rancid-integration and the basic "show configuration" works, but as soon as i click the button for a previous version Apache restarts with: [Mon Nov 10 10:33:09.544998 2014] [core:notice] [pid 1327] AH00051: child pid 1337 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /tmp/dump I've configured apache to core dump into /tmp/dump and gdb tells me: Core was generated by `/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start'. Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. #0 0x00007f82cbbf0398 in is_numeric_string_ex (allow_errors=-1, oflow_info=0x0, dval=<synthetic pointer>, lval=0x1, length=<optimized out>, str=0x7f82c198cf38 "164") at /build/buildd/php5-5.5.9+dfsg/Zend/zend_operators.h:255 255 /build/buildd/php5-5.5.9+dfsg/Zend/zend_operators.h: No such file or directory. I'm suspecting some svn permissions or likewise, but my www-data user (which runs apache) is a member of the rancid group and should have permission to read the files. Any clues where to look? -- Ole Hansen

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unscribe
by Pierre Menard 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

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Configuring E-mail Alert Settings
by Jacob Chavez 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hello, which file should I edit to configure and enable e-mail notifications for when a device is down? I need assistance configuring the mail backend settings and the alert itself. I was working on config.php, but haven't had success with messages being sent while a device is offline. Below is what I have thus far. // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['descr'] = "Default Email Alert"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['type'] = "email"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['contact'] = "you(a)yourdomain.org"; $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['interval'] = 86400; $config['alerts']['bgp']['whitelist'] = NULL; $config['uptime_warning'] ="84600"; $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['email']['from'] = NULL; $config['email']['default'] = "XXXXX(a)XXXX.com"; $config['email']['default_only'] = FALSE; $config['email']['backend'] = 'mail'; $config['email']['sendmail_path'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['email']['from'] = "Observium <XXXX(a)XXXXX.com>"; $config['email']['smtp_host'] = 'localhost'; $config['email']['smtp_port'] = 25; $config['email']['smtp_timeout'] = 10; $config['email']['smtp_secure'] = NULL; $config['email']['smtp_auth'] = FALSE; $config['email']['smtp_username'] = NULL; $config['email']['smtp_password'] = NULL; // End config.php Thanks! -- *Jacob Chavez - IT Support Technician Traffic Management, Inc. * *Toll Free: *800-763-3999 *Direct: *562-264-2275 *Mobile: *562-537-6205 *Fax: *562-424-0266 www.trafficmanagement.com California - Great Lakes - San Jose California License # 785804, Class C31 - Traffic Control Services - Sales and Rentals - Permits and Consulting - Engineering - Training

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Syslogging & Expansion
by Lane Eckley 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hi Everyone, We are considering the possibility of using Observium's syslog capability to handle the syslog output of 50 machines which will be spitting out roughly 300K lines of log per hour for a grand total in the ball park 360,000,000 log entries per 24 hours. Has anyone used/attempted to handle this volume of logging with Observium in the past? If so, would you mind sharing your experience? I am also looking for feedback on hardware suggestions for both the Observium machine as well for the standalone database server. Any feedback is appreciated! Thanks, -Lane

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Newbie... Cambium PTP wireless sorta contribution
by Ron Marosko 08 Nov '14

08 Nov '14

Greetings, New to the product, new to the list, trying it out to see if this will work for us. and I like what I see so far. I note with glee the upcoming support of the Cambium Canopy products with the patch filed under OBSERVIUM-1055, but also see that it's only for the PMP product line. Now it's important to note I'm a network engineer, not a coder, so I'm not sure how to go about some of the more (heck, even the lesser!) intricate details of PHP programming. I've been able to make it as far as the following for the os.inc.php include, but submission of same for the project. I have no idea how to go about doing, and again I'll point back to not being someone who knows how to write code. Just for testing sake, I put the following stuff into my own installation and tested, the discovery php is properly discovering/classifying the devices, and the poller phps being called are fetching the proper information from the devices. Thus, I submit for further determination for the os.inc.php: // Cambium PTP800 $os = "ptp800"; $config['os'][$os]['text'] = "Cambium PTP800"; $config['os'][$os]['type'] = "wireless"; $config['os'][$os]['icon'] = "cambium"; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.17713.8"; $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "CAMBIUM-PTP800-V2-MIB"; // Cambium PTP400/600 $os = "ptp400"; $config['os'][$os]['text'] = "Cambium PTP400/600"; $config['os'][$os]['type'] = "wireless"; $config['os'][$os]['icon'] = "cambium"; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.17713.1"; $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "MOTOROLA-PTP-MIB"; For the polling/os part, I submit: ptp800.inc.php $version = trim(snmp_get($device, "CAMBIUM-PTP800-MIB::softwareVersion.0", "-OQv"),'"'); $hardware = trim(snmp_get($device, "CAMBIUM-PTP800-MIB::productName.0", "-OQv"),'"'); $serial = trim(snmp_get($device, "CAMBIUM-PTP800-MIB::rFUSerial.0", "-OQv"),'"'); ptp400.inc.php $version = trim(snmp_get($device, "MOTOROLA-PTP-MIB::softwareVersion.0", "-OQv"),'"'); $hardware = trim(snmp_get($device, "MOTOROLA-PTP-MIB::productName.0", "-OQv"),'"'); Now there are a lot of other pollable items in the MIBs, but I have no idea how to integrate any graphs or anything like that... I was looking (or trying to look at) the canopy.inc.php that is part of the -1055 patch, but it looks like a lot of gobbledygook to me.. just like Cisco router/switch configs may look to some of ya'll. Thus, if anyone can help with the PHP side of the stuff, I can handle the networking side. Regards, Ron -- Ron Marosko, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CCIE No. 4526 (R/S), NN5DX Senior Network Engineer DirectBytes, LLC. 1108 West Dickinson Blvd, Suite A Fort Stockton, TX 79735 USA o: +1 432 336 5600 x115 c: +1 432 290 6344 e: ron(a)rjr-services.com pgp pubkey: <http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x778B3B0258AB8B5C> 0x58AB8B5C "To know me is to fly with me."

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hostname underscore
by Rob VanHooren 08 Nov '14

08 Nov '14

<oldgrump> underscore is an illegal character for a hostname, per RFC. you may thank a generation of miseducated Microsoft admins for thinking otherwise & polluting the world's DNS gene pool only to cause such untold suffering as this. dashes are perfectly fine because they're not illegitimate characters wrongly used by people who should have known better. bastards. </oldgrump> cheers, R. typogaphical errors courtesy of iPad. On Nov 7, 2014, at 16:55, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: >> does not show due to the underscore in the name. Not sure >> why. Dashes seem to be fine though.

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smokeping ping tab now showing up on device
by Rory Schramm 07 Nov '14

07 Nov '14

H Guys, I'm having a problem with getting smokeping working with some of my devices. I have smokeping setup and it's working correctly ( I'm able to go to the smokeping cgi and see the graphs, etc). However the ping tab for smokeping isn't showing up for the device in observium. The device name is the same in both observium and smokeping. However, it's working fine for one of my switches but not the rest. I don't beleive it's a permission as I'm able to get it working with one of our switches. I added the following to my config for smokeping: $config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/var/lib/smokeping/";<mailto:observium@observium.org> The device in question is a cisco 3825 router. Observium CE 0.14.4.5229 Apache 2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.15 MySQL 5.5.40-MariaDB SNMP NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3 RRDtool 1.4.7 Thanks, Rory ________________________________ The information contained in this transmission is privileged and/or confidential information intended for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Please contact North Island Credit Union at info(a)myisland.com<mailto:info@myisland.com> if you received this transmission in error.

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SNMP Location string parsing
by Ulrik Ivers 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hi all, We use the geocoding functionality in Observium to place the devices on the front page map. All is working reasonably well. Today we set the SNMP sysLocation field locally in each device to street address ("Street, City, Country") We would like to be able to add "non-Geolocation" information to the sysLocation string without messing up the geolocation functionality. For example, we would like to add "Room 34, Rack 2" to the sysLocation. Is there functionality in Obervium to do this today? E.g. putting the extra information in "()" or other special characters? Regards, /Ulrik Ivers

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Changelog
by Adam Armstrong 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hi Guys, I totally forgot to do the Changelog for the past 2 months, so here it is! http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog adam.

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Rivered Steelhead support
by Colin Stubbs 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hi All Riverbed MIB's are in both Observium stable and trunk... but there's no explicit Riverbed definition in os.inc.php. Was this removed at some point for a reason? Or is someone already working on Riverbed specific discovery and polling code? Thanks -Colin

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